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Encouraging Message Series for Young Believers
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Tag Archives: man
IN TOUCH DAILY: OCTOBER 15
The Burden of False Guilt Galatians 1:10 Guilt is an emotional response to wrongdoing. We should feel the Lord’s conviction when we disobey His commandments, or even when we break civil laws that do not contradict God’s laws. But … Continue reading
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Tagged burden, charles stanley, Christ, christians, church, civil laws, conviction, disobey, emotional, failures, False Guilt, forgive, God, God's commandments, God's laws, guilt, home, ideal, in touch, keep the rules, kindness, Legalism, live for Christ, lord, love, man, man-made rules, Perfectionism, please God, please people, power, religion, rules, salvation, school, self-made standards, solution, standards, transformation, workplace, wrongdoing
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: OCTOBER 29
On The Fall The doctrine of the Fall (both of man and of some “gods,” “eldils” or “angels”) is the only satisfactory explanation. Evil begins, in a universe where all was good, from free will, which was permitted because it … Continue reading
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Tagged angels, bad characters, black fire, c s lewis, choice, choosing, committed, corruption, creature, eldils, evil, free will, freedom, God, gods, good, good characters, greatest good, happily ever after, heaven, hell, infinite, irrevocable, lesser good, man, physicists, preferring, pride, real, self, self imprisonment, sinner, the fall, unalterable, union with God, universe, willed
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: OCTOBER 26
When any man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those things which seemed to make him so different from all the men of other times, or even from his … Continue reading
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Tagged bliss, business of life, c s lewis, complexity, different, divide, fallen, first man, flee away, God, God in the dock, heaven, hide, horror, life, man, naked, presence of God, self, the business of heaven, universe, vanish
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: OCTOBER 18
‘Niceness’—wholesome, integrated personality—is an excellent thing. We must try by every medical, educational, economic, and political means in our power to produce a world where as many people as possible grow up ‘nice’; just as we must try to produce … Continue reading
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Tagged better men, c s lewis, creatures, difficult, God, horse, improvement, man, mere Christianity, miserable world, new man, nice, nice people, niceness, personality, redemption, salvation, save, saved, sons, souls, wholesome, winged creature, winged horse, wings
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: OCTOBER 15
There are three kinds of people in the world. The first class is of those who live simply for their own sake and pleasure, regarding Man and Nature as so much raw material to be cut up into whatever shape … Continue reading
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Tagged c s lewis, Christ, divided, egoist, God, life, man, nature, present concerns, self, serve, society, st. paul, surrender, tax, tiresome, will, will of Christ, will of God
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: OCTOBER 14
I have heard some people complain that if Jesus was God as well as man, then His sufferings and death lose all value in their eyes, ‘because it must have been so easy for Him’. Others may (very rightly) rebuke … Continue reading
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Tagged advantage, c s lewis, complain, death, drowning, easier, easy, God, help, ingratitude, Jesus, man, mere Christianity, misunderstanding, objection, perfect death, perfect submission, perfect suffering, possible, stronger, sufferings, unfair, ungraciousness, value
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: OCTOBER 3
On Easter Tomorrow we shall celebrate the glorious Resurrection of Christ. I shall be remembering you in the Holy communion. Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the … Continue reading
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Tagged angels, c s lewis, Christ, creature, easter, envy, eternal Godhead, fears, heaven, Holy Communion, man, miserable, resurrection, resurrection of Christ, tears, troubles, united, wedlock
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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: SEPTEMBER 16
I admit that some writers have told me for the first time of heavens and hells I never met before; but many, equally great or greater, have told me only of those we all have to bear whether we choose … Continue reading
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Tagged arrogance, comedy, common men, common things, fellow creatures, heavens, hells, humility, irreligious, man, naturalistic doctrine, poets, shakespeare, the personal heresy, tolkien, tragedies, tragedy, unbearable, unpoetic, World, writers
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