Is Christianity hard or easy?
The almost impossibly hard thing is to hand over your whole self to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is remain what we call...
View ArticleCS Lewis on why God won’t just let you get on with you life
Providence is mysterious, God wants to keep it that way and I guess we need to get used to it. If you’re looking for a definition here’s one from the Heidelberg Catechism; Providence is “the almighty...
View ArticleGod loves you too much than to give you what you want
I’ve just returned from a walk listening to a Tim Keller sermon on the jealousy of God from 2011 in which he offers this extensive quote from CS Lewis’s Problem of Pain, chapter3: You asked for a...
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CS Lewis’s 7 greatest ideas
A very helpful essay by Dr. Art Lindsley of seven insights that CS Lewis shared with the world They are Chronological Snobbery Desire Imagination Objective Values vs. Relativism Myth Immortality...
View ArticleThe Christian way is different: harder, and easier.
Struck again by this remarkable section from CS Lewis’s Mere Christianity; “The Christian way is different: harder, and easier. Christ says “Give me All. I don’t want so much of your time and so much...
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What are we meant to learn from the London Olympics?
That the closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympic games included John Lennon’s Imagine was no real surprise. There is nothing in the world capable of uniting humanity like sport and nowhere is that more...
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In our ‘search for God’ maybe God is the very last person we are looking for
The Pantheist’s God does nothing, demands nothing. He is there if you wish for Him, like a book on a shelf. He will not pursue you. There is no danger that at any time heaven and earth should flee away...
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All change please? Tolkien and Lewis on the great myth of social progress
When leaders of our society (political and intellectual) urge us to embrace social changes designed to promote social transformation their main argument is that such change is a mark of social...
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Jesus isn’t superman
My son asked me a really good question after a great sermon on Sunday evening. The preacher pointed out that there are things God cannot do; he cannot lie for example and he cannot be tempted either....
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How Patricia Machin came to forgive the man who killed her husband
Today’s Telegraph contains the moving story of how Patricia Machin forgave the man whose crime of careless driving killed her husband. Ruth Dudley Edwards reports Mrs Machin wrote Williamson a letter...
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When God takes you where you don’t want to go
Pete Wilson, in his book Plan B, puts his finger on the dilemma modern, western Christians face: Whatever you wanted for your life, if you’re a Christian, you may well have assumed God want it for you...
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On the 50th anniversary of their deaths, what JFK & CS Lewis thought of human...
Justin Taylor & Joe Rigney remember the day JFK and CS Lewis died in this piece for Religion News Service
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God, why did you create a world with so much misery?
Over Christmas 2015 at City Church Birmingham we invited those who visited our Carol services to take part in a poll to identify the three most important questions that we would like to ask...
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