I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him:
- 'I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.'
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic ... or else he would be the Devil of Hell.
You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse.
You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher.
He has not left that open to us.
He did not intend to.
… C. S. Lewis
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You are my pastor.
I was thinking about that last night, Joanie, you really have a flock, and I, for one, always look forward to your wisdom.
Thanks,
Mike
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Meaning, you're somewhat the spiritual leader here, and it is some comfort in this storm.
Thank you Joanie. All the best to you and yours on this Easter weekend.
Happy Easter to you and Rick and your children Joanie!
Happy Easter to you, Joanie, and thank you for keeping this excellent blog running. It's an oasis.
Thank you for the powerful reminder Joanie and have a happy Easter!
Thank you Joanie and a very happy Easter to you and your family.
C. S. Lewis's "The Screwtape Letters" is a classic and this set is amazing:
http://www.amazon.com/Lewis-Signature-Classics-Christianity-Screwtape/dp/0060653027/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206193308&sr=8-2
Happy Easter to all.
C S Lewis’ radio broadcasts during World War II were famous. Today he would be looked at as a radical because of his strong Christianity, but many a person was affected by his words of hope and inspiration during that terrible time.
Happy Easter to you and your family. Joanie!
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'
-- from "The Weight of Glory"
Another powerful C. S. Lewis thought.
A very true statement by Mr. Lewis. Thank you for posting it.
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wsj.com
"War and Forgiveness"
March 25, 2008
Jacob DeShazer, veteran of the Doolitte raid on Tokyo, August 1942, has passed. He was 95 years old.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120640512680161037.html
[EXCERPT:]
"DeShazer was taken prisoner, and was starved, beaten and tortured by his Japanese captors... In 1948, he returned as a Christian missionary to the country that had nearly killed him, and he would continue his ministry in Japan for 30 years."
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