I’m treading on dangerous ground here, but I think C. S. Lewis has something wrong. In The Weight of Glory we come across this passage, which also appears as an excerpt in the Wikipedia deinition of Sehnsucht.
In speaking of this desire for our own faroff country, which we find in ourselves even now, I feel [...]
This line of speculation started a while back when a friend posted a Quick Faith Quiz on his blog, wherein he asked:
When Jesus talks about “faith like a child,” what does he have in mind?
Is “child-like faith” different from [...]
I’ve been making a point in this last year to be more transparent. There is a tendency among people and particularly among Christians, to pretend that all is well. That joy means happiness, that peace means a life without conflict. We all have problems, we all have conflict, joy is from knowing that these conflicts [...]
A friend of mine ranted eloquently about skepticism and the inescapable nature of bias, and it got me to thinking about faith.
While skepticism is a good starting point for coming to truth, it must ultimately give way to faith. The committed skeptic quickly becomes the man who believes nothing, who trusts nothing, who sees nothing, [...]
nothing new or revolutionary here, just some thoughts I had
I came upon two roads
but disinclined to follow
I made my own and found,
that there is no lack of paths
that make their way to hell.
Over at Bittersweet Life, Ariel is conducting a little quiz on faith. I have a few questions of my own. Consider this story:
A man calls his son and says to him: Son, I am getting old and I will die soon. One of your mother’s greatest pleasures is sitting in her chair on the porch [...]
Continuing on in the theme of love, here’s a challenge. Write down your simplest definition of love. Then read John 3:16:
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Now, here’s the challenge, examine your definition and see if [...]
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