Do you have a problem with pain? You might say C.S. Lewis had such a problem with it that he wrote a book about it!
No one really enjoys suffering. Whenever possible you try to avoid it. What if someone asked you, as was the case with Lewis, to write on the subject? He felt, at first, that if he really said what he thought about pain he’d prefer to write it anonymously.
How many Narnian years passed between The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Silver Chair?
The seventh Screwtape letter was published today in The Guardian in 1941. Mentions “Materialist Magician.”
(Screwtape Advises Wormwood:)
“All extremes, except extreme devotion to the Enemy [i.e., God], are to be encouraged.”
The Screwtape Letters – VII
(first published in The Guardian on 6/13/1941)
“…Good images of what we really desire…the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.”
The Weight of Glory
(First preached as a sermon on 6/8/1941)
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“Woe to you if you ____ _____ _____ .”
Highlights for the period of June 12th – 19th include: the birthday of his closest friend, beginning his longest employment and an explanation of “an old textbook method” that the devils use.
Lewis was the youngest in his family. His only sibling was his brother, Warren who was nearly three-and-half years older. Born on
“The War of Deliverance” is the name given to the conflict between Miraz and Caspian and the Old Narnians.
LISTEN TO AUDIO/PODCAST VERSION C.S. Lewis has influenced countless individuals…but do you know who affected him so much that a book by that author baptized Lewis’ imagination? There are many authors that C.S. Lewis enjoyed from an earlier age, but one that stayed with him and had the greatest impact is a Congregational minister named …
“If we are made for heaven, the desire for our proper place will be already in us, but not yet attached to the true object, and will even appear as the rival of that object.”
The Weight of Glory
(First preached as a sermon on 6/8/1941)
