By Rick Warren, at his Daily Hope blog, May 28, 2017 (www.pastorrick.com/devotional) --------------------------- We rarely evaluate our values or question our perceptions until we have a crisis. Once…
Screwtape ------------- C. S. Lewis's classic book The Screwtape Letters is an imaginative and powerful look at temptation. Lewis creates two characters, Screwtape and Wormwood, who are demons in the service of…
C. S. Lewis on resisting temptation in Mere Christianity: You may remember I said that the first step towards humility was to realize that one is proud. I…
One of the great Christian classics of the 20th century is The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis (1942). Published over seventy years ago, it continues to sell well and…
-------------- From The Last Word, by William Willimon, pages 119-121. In one of my congregations, we decided that we needed to grow. We voted to launch a program of…
------------------------------- Matthew 5:21-22a...27-30 -- (Jesus said), "You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘You shall not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’…
MARK 1:21-28: They went to Capernaum; and when the Sabbath came, Jesus entered the synagogue and taught. They were astounded at his teaching, for he taught them as one having…
(…continued) The devil will probably not be appearing to you to make the kind of all or nothing offer that he made to Dr. Faust. But…
Faust considering the offer of Mephistopheles (the devil) ------------------- One of the greatest works in the history of German literature is the play Faust,…
By Johann Gerhard (1582-1637), a German Lutheran pastor and professor of theology. He wrote dozens of books, including Sacred Meditations, a collection of 51 meditations published in 1606. This piece was…