1510) Now or Later?

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…

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1275) The Temptations of Middle-age

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…

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983) Advice From the Devil

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…

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719) “Fencing In” Our Sins

------------------------------- 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.’…

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439) False Security

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…

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