-
Encouraging Message Series for Young Believers
-
Tag Archives: lord
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: OCTOBER 7
WORMWOOD Thou only art alternative to God, oh, dark And burning island among spirits, tenth hierarch, Wormwood, immortal Satan, Ahriman, alone Second to Him to whom no second else were known, Being essential fire, sprung of His fire, but bound … Continue reading
Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions
Tagged ahriman, burning island, c s lewis, dark, desire, earth, essential fire, eternal love, Father, fire, flame, God, God is, heat, heaven, hell, illusion, immortal, infernal, lightless, lord, lust, molten, opaque, poems, power, rage, satan, spirits, starving, temperance, unstained, venus, weak, weak eyes, white light, wishful heart, wormwood
Leave a comment
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: AUGUST 27
TO GENIA GOELZ, who had asked Lewis for a prayer in her struggle to believe: Lewis’s prayer for a daily increase in obedience and faith. 18 March 1952 Don’t bother at all about that question of a person being ‘made … Continue reading
Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions
Tagged baptism, beliefs, believe, bible, c s lewis, christian, doctrines, faith, Father of lights, genia goelz, God, grace, Holy Word, i believe, Jesus, Jesus Christ, lord, obedience, prayer, struggle, struggling, unbelief, understanding
Leave a comment
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JUNE 23
TO EDWARD LOFSTROM: A letter of great encouragement for someone who had been struggling with excessive self-awareness. 10 June 1962 You are of course perfectly right in defining your problem (which is also mine and everyone’s) as ‘excessive selfness’. But … Continue reading
Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions
Tagged acting, awake, building a bridge, c s lewis, charm, chasm, defining, disease, dreaming, duties, edward lofstrom, egocentric, excessive selfness, forgiveness, God, heart, hypnotised, illusion, lord, painted, pray, prayer, self knowledge, self regard, self-awareness, struggling, unselfishness, wake up, walk
Leave a comment
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: APRIL 14
TO MARY WILLIS SHELBURNE: On the very comforting fact that Jesus was afraid. 2 April 1955 In great haste. I hope your next letter will bring me news that the operation has gone swimmingly. Fear is horrid, but there’s no … Continue reading
Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions
Tagged afraid, ashamed, c s lewis, comforting, fear, gethsemane, Jesus, lord, mary willis shelbourne
Leave a comment
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: APRIL 10
TO MARY WILLIS SHELBURNE: On keeping to a regular pattern of religious life during the storms of life. 9 November 1955 I agree: the only thing one can usually change in one’s situation is oneself. And yet one can’t change … Continue reading
Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions
Tagged c s lewis, change, life, lord, mary willis shelbourne, ordinary, prayers, religious life, sacraments, st francis de sales, storms, storms of life
Leave a comment
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: MARCH 5
If you asked twenty good men today what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you had asked almost any of the great Christians of old, he would have replied, Love. You … Continue reading
Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions
Tagged abstinence, ambition, c s lewis, Christ, christian faith, christians, creatures, crosses, deny ourselves, desire, desires, drink, enjoyment, follow Christ, good men, good things, gospels, half hearted, happiness, kant, lord, love, modern minds, new testament, reward, self-denial, sex, stoics, strong, the weight of glory, unselfishness, virtues, weak
Leave a comment