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  • Screwtape Letters (Part 6)

    C. S. Lewis My dear Wormwood, Obviously you are making excellent progress. My only fear is lest in attempting to hurry the patient you awaken him to a sense of his real position. For you and I, who see that position as it really is, must never forget how totally different it ought to appear…

  • Screwtape Letters (Part 5)

    C. S. Lewis My dear Wormwood, I was delighted to hear from Triptweeze that your patient has made some very desirable new aquaintances and that you seem to have used this event in a really promising manner. I gather that the middle-aged married couple who called at his office are just the sort of people…

  • Screwtape Letters (Part 4)

    C. S. Lewis My dear Wormwood, So you ‘have great hopes that the patient’s religious phase is dying away’, have you? I always thought the Training College had gone to pieces since they put old Slubgob at the head of it, and now I am sure. Has no one ever told you about the law…

  • Screwtape Letters (Part 3)

    C. S. Lewis My dear Wormwood, I am delighted to hear that your patient’s age and profession make it possible, but by no means certain, that he will be called up for military service. We want him to be in the maximum uncertainty, so that his mind will be filled with contradictory pictures of the…

  • Screwtape Letters (Part 2)

    C. S. Lewis My dear Wormwood, I am very pleased by what you tell me about this man’s relations with his mother. But you must press your advantage. The Enemy will be working from the centre outwards, gradually bringing more and more of the patient’s conduct under the new standard, and may reach his behavior…

  • Screwtape Letters (Part 1)

    C. S. Lewis PREFACE I have no intention of explaining how the correspondence which I now offer to the public fell into my hands. There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel…

  • The Excellency of Christ (Part 4)

    Jonathan Edwards SECTION 2To show how this comparison of Christ’s excellencies appears in Christ’s life. APPLICATION 2. What is there that you can want in a savior that Christ does not have? Could you even desire a savior that would be different from Christ? What could Christ possibly be missing? What is there that is…

  • Christians – A Chosen Generation, A Royal Priesthood, A Holy Nation, A Peculiar People (Part 3)

    Jonathan Edwards SECTION 2True Christians – A Royal Priesthood (Cont’d) Second, when a Christian offers his heart to God, it is flaming with love. The sacrifice of old was not only slain, but also burned on the altar. it was to ascend in flame and smoke as a sweet savor and offering to God. The…

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  • Morning and Evening

    The glorified weep no more, for all outward causes of grief are gone. There are no broken friendships, nor blighted prospects in heaven. Poverty, famine, peril, persecution, and slander, are unknown there. No pain distresses, no thought of death or bereavement saddens. They weep no more, for they are perfectly sanctified. No “evil heart of…