Boy, I read this quote by C.S. Lewis through a couple times and still have a big question mark. Then I read the meditation that came with it… and I’m still scratching my head. Anybody out there have any thoughts? “If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it … Read more
For me, there’s something about poetic verse that adds significantly to my walk with Him. I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent Are quiet trees and the green, listening sod; Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent; The hills are mute: yet, how they speak of God! … Charles … Read more
“We are frequently advised to read the Bible with our own personal needs in mind, and to look for answers to our own private questions. That is good, as far as it goes… But better still is the advice to study the Bible objectively, … without regard, first of all, to our own subjective needs. … Read more
I like the phrase Lewis uses: “except for those who go to it for something quite different.” That is powerful. “In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with ‘Thus saith the Lord’. It is… not merely a sacred book but a book so remorselessly and continuously sacred that it does … Read more