Tag Archives: CS Lewis

CS Lewis: The Inner Ring

Posted on November 29, 2013 by PaulVK

CS Lewis Society of California The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surprising result will follow. If in your working hours you make the work your end, … Continue reading →

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CS Lewis Quote on God’s Intent for Us

Posted on June 15, 2012 by PaulVK

The command Be ye perfect is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He is going to make us into creatures that can obey that command. He said (in the Bible) that we were ‘gods’ … Continue reading →

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Notes from Tim Keller’s Sermon “Joy”

Posted on April 4, 2012 by PaulVK

This was part of Keller’s series on the fruit of the Spirit entitled “Real Signs of the Spirit”. This sermon was on Joy and was preached on April 18, 2010. The text was Romans 5:1-11 Series Review: One of the … Continue reading →

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CS Lewis, Tim Keller, and the Sex Therapist

Posted on February 7, 2012 by PaulVK

Intimacy and Desire by David Schnarch is the most helpful book I’ve read on theological anthropology in a long time. That may sound strange because the book is written by a secular sex therapist who bases his findings on science … Continue reading →

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How we become more Spiritual and Religious because we are becoming more Secular

Posted on October 17, 2011 by PaulVK

One of the things I ponder regularly is the relationship between what seems to be contradictory movements between secularism and rampant spiritual experimentation. On one hand I hear groups regularly pushing the idea that the advance of scientific learning pushes … Continue reading →

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CS Lewis’ House Illustration from Mere Christianity

Posted on April 8, 2011 by PaulVK

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you … Continue reading →

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Rob Bell’s “Love Wins” Review, Chapter 3b: The Love of God

Posted on April 4, 2011 by PaulVK

A large part of the Rob Bell discussion on the Internet has focused on labels. Is Bell a universalist? Is Bell an evangelical? Is Bell orthodox? I’ll hazard my own label for Bell, he’s part of the emergent church movement … Continue reading →

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Rob Bell’s “Love Wins”, Review, Pt. 3, Chapter on Hell, part 1

Posted on March 31, 2011 by PaulVK

In JI Packer’s piece “Still Surprised by Lewis” he finds the secret to CS Lewis’ contribution to be his blend of logic and imagination. In processing Bell’s third chapter on Hell, I find the Bell trying to follow Lewis’ imagination … Continue reading →

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CS Lewis Sneaking Purgatory into the Evangelical tent?

Posted on March 29, 2011 by PaulVK

From a CRC-Voices post As I read it, most evangelicals have simply assumed that at death or the second coming we are “translated”, morally perfected. I never heard much said about it. The older I get the more I appreciate … Continue reading →

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Screwtape Letters 23

Posted on March 21, 2011 by PaulVK

Uncle Screwtape is schooling young Wormwood in how to trip up Christian. How to make him unfruitful. Chapter 23 goes on about distracting the patient in the question for a true biography of Jesus. Then he finishes it off with … Continue reading →

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