Lessons from The Screwtape Letters—Lesson 18
Sunday, December 20th, 2009 : By Hugh Williams
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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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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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