couple of weeks ago I preached a sermon on the Apostle Paul's description of how we should use our gifts in love to build one another up. What I thought would be an easy passage to preach, quickly confronted my own uncharitable attitudes and ambitions. Without love, we are nothing, we gain nothing, we waste our lives. Here's the full…...
Read MoreERE'S your Weekend Worldview Reader with links to articles, essays, reviews, and videos that I consider to be interesting or important from a biblical worldview perspective. Any work that I point to is not an endorsement, but rather an invitation for you to think deeply about your faith and the world around you. (more…)...
Read MoreHow are we to make sense of humanity in our day? Neuroscientists often reduce humans to brains, leaving no room for personhood. Philosophers regularly deny the will, rejecting the idea that humans can make real, meaningful decisions, and thus have moral accountability. Scientists often discount immaterial human values and regard them as illusions. No wonder the humanities are in the…...
Read MoreN July of 1963 C.S. Lewis was in a coma for abour twenty-four hours. It looked as though he might die. "I can't help feeling it was rather a pity I did revive in July," Lewis wrote his best friend Arthur Greeves, "I mean, having been glided so painlessly up to the Gate it seems hard to have it shut…...
Read MoreELL, at any rate, we now have less chance of dying of cancer," quipped C. S. Lewis in response to learning of Hitler's invasion of Poland, knowing that his own country was on the brink of joining the war. As a World War I veteran, he knew the ugliness of combat. And for a man seldom without a pipe or…...
Read MoreG. Wells and G. K. Chesterton were dear friends despite their categorically different worldviews. After Chesterton’s death, Wells said, “From first to last he and I were very close friends . . . I never knew anyone so steadily true to form as G.K.C.†They maintained a love and respect for one another even as they often challenged one another…...
Read More wish your project heartily well," wrote C. S. Lewis to Christianity Today, "but can't write you articles." Carl F. H. Henry, founding editor of the magazine, had in 1955 invited Lewis to contribute to the magazine's first issue. Lewis declined. Henry was not, as the saying goes, "a day late and a dollar short." He was over a decade late,…...
Read MoreERE'S your Weekend Worldview Reader with links to articles, essays, reviews, and videos that I consider to be interesting or important from a biblical worldview perspective. Any work that I point to is not an endorsement, but rather an invitation for you to think deeply about your faith and the world around you. (more…)...
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