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Tag Archives: CS Lewis
Relational Polarity of God
A key difference between the Age of Decay and the Age to Come are their relational polarities. CS Lewis in Mere Christianity talks about how God brings us into his very own life. It’s hard to figure out what that … Continue reading
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Why "balance" isn't the right word in measuring preaching on justification and sanctification
This is a repost from Jan 2007. I think it might be something I wrote for CRC-Voices. This phrase of yours caught my attention: All good preaching and leading will have the blessed balance of both content and process because … Continue reading
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Why Jesus was indirect with "sinners" and direct with the "righteous"
This is a repost from June 2007 This was from a Voices discussion about sin and church discipline. 1. The gravity of sin. It is hard to overstate the calamity, devastation, and bondage that sin is. In my Synoptic Gospels … Continue reading
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On lying vs. being wrong
Words matter and the current lack of restraint (by both sides of our political binary system) of the word “lie” troubles me. To be wrong, in error, or deceived is to not speak the truth. To lie is to intentionally … Continue reading
CS Lewis on our problem being that we desire too little
From “The Weight of Glory” Chapter 1, Paragraph 1: If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly to hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I submit that … Continue reading
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CS Lewis on Pantheism: God as hunter, king, husband
One of my favorite quotes from CS Lewis on Pantheism from his book Miracles Men are reluctant to pass over from the notion of an abstract and negative deity to the living God. I do not wonder. Here lies the … Continue reading
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Why we love Rocky from the first movie
Everyone knows the first Rocky movie was the best of the bunch for lots of reasons. Rocky in that movie exhibits a quality which we recognize but don’t wish for ourselves. Rocky can endure. He says of himself that he … Continue reading
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Of God and Tyrants
This is a repost from January 2005 All tyrants want to be in some respect like God. They want to be all knowing, so they establish secret police and spy on people. They want to be all powerful, to control … Continue reading
How we instinctively define God's goodness
“What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, “What does it matter so long as they are contented?” We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as … Continue reading
God can even change the past
I have too often said “even God can’t change the past”. Now I’m not so sure. I read Mark 7 for family devotions to the kids. The chapter ends with Jesus healing a deaf man. The text talks about the … Continue reading
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