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William Law Continues… If our common life is not a common course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians. A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life Here Law lists off a few virtues of Christianity, virtues that cannot be…
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I, along with a close friend, will be preparing a 5-part sermon series on the Book of 1 John over the next few months. We would both covet your prayers during this time as this is a task neither of us have tackled before. I will begin the series on June 29, and the other…
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If we are to be in Christ new creatures, we must show that we are so, by having new ways of living in the world. If we are to follow Christ, it must be in our common way of spending every day. William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life If I…
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Just like Eustace, we are all dragons in need of a good skin shedding. We are all selfish and spoiled at times and are in need of Christ’s help to remove that old skin, for we can not remove it ourselves. Our attempts to remove the old are futile and only work backwards. When we…
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In the book “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, a spoiled little boy named Eustace is turned into a creature that resembled very much his own character, a dragon. Of course, he is devastated, but over time, he finds uses for becoming a dragon. Eustace begins to help people. The Dawn Treader is in need…
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It’s not a question of God “sending” us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud. C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock I get so tired of people talking about how God can’t be a God of love if…
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If we should not allow God’s hand to guide us, and continue to try on our own, He will attempt to show us what it is really like without His guidance by removing His hand completely. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His…
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From Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis When you teach a child writing, you hold its hand while it forms the letters: that is, it forms the letters because you are forming them. We love and reason because God loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it. There can be no love, no…
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This is absolutely astounding, from C.S Lewis’s Case for Christ by Art Lindsley, P. 19. Once when I was invited to his rooms after dinner for a glass of beer, he played a game. He directed, ‘Give me a number from one to forty.’ I said, ‘thirty’. He acknowledged, ‘Right, go to the thirtieth shelf…
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It was an unusual Easter Church Service. The service was certainly focused on Christ, however, Revelation was used as the main text in order to focus our minds on the Glory of the Risen One. Revelation is a book of prophecy, however what is more important than knowing what will happen in the end, is…
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William Knelsen
As I Wait in Hope for the Lord