Tag Archives: obedience

IN TOUCH DAILY: JANUARY 15

Posted on January 15, 2020 by glsociety-admin

The Joy of Obedience Luke 5:1-11 We read in Luke 5 that Peter had spent his night as he usually did—fishing—but didn’t catch anything. He was surely tired, frustrated, and ready to go home. However, Jesus asked to borrow his … Continue reading →

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IN TOUCH DAILY: JANUARY 9

Posted on January 9, 2020 by glsociety-admin

Doing God’s Work God’s Way Zechariah 4:5-7 Zechariah 4 speaks of an approach to serving that will never become stale: All kingdom work that the Father considers valuable takes place through His Holy Spirit—not by means of human power or … Continue reading →

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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: DECEMBER 24

Posted on December 24, 2019 by glsociety-admin

When human souls have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch. For … Continue reading →

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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: NOVEMBER 24

Posted on November 24, 2019 by glsociety-admin

On worship He demands our worship, our obedience, our prostration. Do we suppose that they can do Him any good, or fear, like the chorus in Milton, that human irreverence can bring about “His glory’s diminution”? A man can no … Continue reading →

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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: NOVEMBER 13

Posted on November 13, 2019 by glsociety-admin

On goodness It has sometimes been asked whether God commands certain things because they are right, or whether certain things are right because God commands them. . . I emphatically embrace the first alternative. The second might lead to the … Continue reading →

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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: OCTOBER 5

Posted on October 5, 2019 by glsociety-admin

TO RHONA BODLE, who had written Lewis of her upcoming confirmation: On not expecting remarkable sensations connected to holy activities. 9 November 1949 Congratulations. You are daily in my prayers. Caveat [let her beware!]—don’t count on any remarkable sensations, either … Continue reading →

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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: AUGUST 27

Posted on August 27, 2019 by glsociety-admin

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 →

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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JULY 12

Posted on July 12, 2019 by glsociety-admin

Those Divine demands which sound to our natural ears most like those of a despot and least like those of a lover, in fact marshal us where we should want to go if we knew what we wanted. He demands … Continue reading →

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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JUNE 8

Posted on June 8, 2019 by glsociety-admin

On obedience In obeying, a rational creature consciously enacts its creaturely role, reverses the act by which we fell, treads Adam’s dance backward and returns. From The Problem of Pain Compiled in Words to Live By

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C. S. LEWIS DAILY: APRIL 28

Posted on April 28, 2019 by glsociety-admin

On hell There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than this, if it lay in my power. But it has the full support of Scripture and, specially, of Our Lord’s own words; it has always … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: obedience

IN TOUCH DAILY: JANUARY 15

IN TOUCH DAILY: JANUARY 9

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: DECEMBER 24

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: NOVEMBER 24

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: NOVEMBER 13

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: OCTOBER 5

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: AUGUST 27

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JULY 12

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JUNE 8

C. S. LEWIS DAILY: APRIL 28

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