Lessons from The Screwtape Letters—Lesson 13
Sunday, November 8th, 2009 : By Hugh Williams
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Lessons from The Screwtape Letters—Lesson 12
Sunday, November 1st, 2009 : By Hugh Williams
Martin Luther: “Far From Being Sorry”
Saturday, October 31st, 2009 : By Hugh Williams
Martin Luther:
I have indeed inveighed sharply against impious doctrines, and I have not been slack to censure my adversaries on account, not of their bad morals, but of their impiety. And for this I am so far from being sorry that I have brought my mind to despise the judgments of men and to persevere in this vehement zeal, according to the example of Christ, who, in His zeal, calls His adversaries a generation of vipers, blind, hypocrites, and children of the devil. Paul, too, charges the sorcerer with being a child of the devil, full of all subtlety and all malice; and defames certain persons as evil workers, dogs, and deceivers. In the opinion of those delicate-eared persons, nothing
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Lessons from The Screwtape Letters—Lesson 11
Sunday, October 25th, 2009 : By Hugh Williams
My Soul is Getting Cavities
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 : By Hugh Williams
My recent post about Christian bookstores really got started several months ago, but the spark came Friday from Tim Brister. He posted a series of tweets last week on his “journey into a Christian bookstore”—with graphic imagery—that made me cringe.
Consider this picture… Does this make you want to:
On Christian Bookstores
Monday, October 19th, 2009 : By Hugh Williams
You wake up in the morning, greeted by a welcome aroma.
It’s bacon.
Next, you discover it’s accompanied by the wonderful smell of coffee, inviting you to join the land of the living. You are now standing up and out of bed.
Making your way through your bedroom door, you become aware of an entire bouquet of wonderful fragrances: Waffles. Eggs. Cinnamon rolls. French toast. English muffins. Sausages. Pancakes. Hash browns. Krispy Kremes—hot. (Did I mention bacon?)
Approaching the kitchen, you inhale deeply and find a sweet surprise: there’s cantaloupe in there. You love cantaloupe. You just couldn’t smell it through the bacon. And where there’s cantaloupe, there is sure to be honeydew. That probably means strawberries, grapes, and all your other favorite fruits.
This …
Lessons from The Screwtape Letters—Lesson 10
Sunday, October 18th, 2009 : By Hugh Williams
God Checkmates C.S. Lewis
Sunday, October 11th, 2009 : By Hugh Williams
What follows are selected exceprts from Chapter XIV, “Checkmate,” in Surprised by Joy, pp. 216-229.
All over the board my pieces were in the most disadvantageous positions. Soon I could no longer cherish even the illusion that the initiative lay with me. My Adversary began to make His final moves.
[With] the first Move… I was overwhelmed. There was a transitional moment of delicious uneasiness, and then — instantaneously — the long inhibition was over, the dry desert lay behind, I was off once more into the land of longing, my heart at once broken and exalted as it had never been since the old days at Bookham. There was nothing whatever to do about it; no question of returning to
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Did C.S. Lewis Make a Decision for Christ?
Sunday, October 11th, 2009 : By Hugh Williams
The following comes from Cross-Examination, an interview with C.S. Lewis, held on the 7th May 1963 in Lewis’s rooms in Magdalene College, Cambridge. The interviewer is Mr. Sheldon E. Wirt of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Ltd. The interview can be found in its entirety in God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics.
Mr Wirt:
In your book Surprised by Joy you remark that you were brought into the Faith kicking and struggling and resentful, with eyes darting in every direction looking for an escape. You suggest that you were compelled, as it were, to become a Christian. Do you feel that you made a decision at the time of your conversion?
Lewis:
I would not put it that way.
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Lessons from The Screwtape Letters—Lesson 9
Sunday, October 11th, 2009 : By Hugh Williams
About The Author
Hugh Williams is one of the Connections teachers at Grace Fellowship and is also one of the webmasters for the forGodsfame.org website. You may notice him playing bass with the music team on Sunday mornings, too, when he works hard on smiling while reading music and keeping rhythm at the same time. A native of the New York City area, Hugh and his wife, Krista, have lived in the Atlanta area since 1997.
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