From Your Peak Life Now: How to Face Career Decline with Grace and Faith, by Michele Van Loon, posted July 24, 2019, at: http://www.christianitytoday.com . Van Loon is an author and speaker. Her book Becoming Sage: Cultivating Meaning, Purpose, and Spirituality at Midlife releases next spring from Moody Publishers.    (…continued) While Qohelet urges […]
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    (…continued) Even C.S. Lewis—so brilliant and so wise in the faith—could be devastated to the point where he felt he had lost God.  Even Jeremiah—who at times spoke to God and heard God’s voice—could at times in this world feel lost and without God. Certainly we too will have those times when God seems
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   (…continued) In another passage from A Grief Observed (the book C.S. Lewis wrote after his wife died), Lewis describes how God seemed so far away, even absent, after his “house of cards” faith collapsed: Meanwhile, where is God? This is one of the most disquieting symptoms. When you are happy, so happy that
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    Shadowlands is a 1993 British film that tells the story of the doomed love affair between the 20th century’s most popular Christian author (and my favorite) C. S. Lewis, and Joy Gresham, a divorced American poet. The movie contains no car crashes, shootings, nudity, or crude language, so it was not a huge money
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These two readings are from the conclusion to sermon preached by C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford, England on October 22, 1939, just as World War II was beginning.  The title of the sermon was “Learning in War-Time.”  It is found in Lewis’s book The Weight of Glory and
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“My Dad is Finally Celebrating Easter Sunday” by Joshua Rogers, posted March 31, 2018 at http://www.joshuarogers.com ——————————    I have a brother and sister who died in a plane crash when they were 10 and 14 years old. Although I only have one memory of them, I definitely felt their absence growing up. I
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Above: Duke Ellington (1899-1974) —————————- From yesterday’s Ash Wednesday sermon —————-    Yesterday was Fat Tuesday in New Orleans, the last day of the Mardi Gras Carnival. Mardi Gras is several days, even weeks, of increasingly wild partying and celebrating in that city known for its wild partying. The hooting and hollering, the overindulging,
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By Kathryn Butler is a trauma and critical care surgeon. Her book on end-of-life medical care through a Christian lens is anticipated in 2019 (Crossway). She writes at Oceans Rise. ——————-    Weeks of chemotherapy eroded the lining of her mouth, mangled her immune system, and culminated in an hours-long surgery to carve out a tumor the
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By Lee Strobel, reprinted from: http://www.biblegateway.com    Sometimes I think back to the days when I was convinced there was no God. I would lie awake at night and think about the ultimate hopelessness of life. I believed that when we die, that’s it.  Lights out. There’s nothing more.    That’s a terrifying thought,
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By Chris Brekke    Sometimes a person will get to the point where they are not sure whether it’s better to live or to die.  On most of our pleasant and prosperous days in this blessed nation, we just cruise on with life.  With little depth of awareness, we will often go about our
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