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Lessons from The Screwtape Letters—Lesson 18

Sunday, December 20th, 2009 : By Hugh Williams

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Lessons from The Screwtape Letters—Lesson 17

Sunday, December 13th, 2009 : By Hugh Williams

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Lessons from The Screwtape Letters—Lesson 16

Sunday, December 6th, 2009 : By Ken Rutherford

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Lessons from The Screwtape Letters—Lesson 15

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 : By Ken Rutherford

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Lessons from The Screwtape Letters—Lesson 14

Sunday, November 15th, 2009 : By Ken Rutherford

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Lessons from The Screwtape Letters—Lesson 12

Sunday, November 1st, 2009 : By Hugh Williams

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Lessons from The Screwtape Letters—Lesson 11

Sunday, October 25th, 2009 : By Hugh Williams

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Lessons from The Screwtape Letters—Lesson 10

Sunday, October 18th, 2009 : By Hugh Williams

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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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