Okay, parents. It’s time to be honest with ourselves. The Bible is boring! At least, it is for our kids… or is it?
Let’s face it: getting kids interested in scripture and keeping that attention can be like pushing a boulder uphill with one hand. But it doesn’t have to be that way. You need the best kids Bible for your kids.
Do you ever feel intimidated or distracted when reading the Bible? All the verse and chapter breaks, footnotes and study notes, margins, colors, and cross-references?
Or maybe you’ve wondered why reading the Bible can’t be as simple as reading a novel and just enjoying the story? Well, maybe you need a Reader’s Bible.
I’m excited to talk about this chapter because I have such experience with it’s subject matter.
Up to now we’ve talked about demonic influence on someone’s thoughts and habits, but now we begin to explore in more detail how relationships are brought into the mix. Spiritual warfare in relationships is no joke.
A few nights ago on Omegle I ran into an Islamic Egyptian and we had quite a riveting conversation about faith and culture. I got to hear from a man following Islam in a war-torn country, and he got to peer into the twisted psyche of the comfortable Western world.
The previous (first) letter from Screwtape was sort of an introduction to demonic influence on human life and behavior. It seems, then, Screwtape Letter 2 is an expounding work about guarding a new “convert” from saving faith or at least meaningful growth in their faith.
I intend to get into each of these commentaries without too much fluff, so let’s just get started with a quick summary of the first letter. Chapter 1 sets the stage for the rest of the letters through Screwtape giving his nephew Wormwood some general advice on guiding human thought. If you haven’t yet., be sure to read my introduction to the Screwtape Letters.
Since I’m on a CS Lewis kick and some friends, my wife, and I are going through the Screwtape Letters week by week, I decided to begin a blog series on it. I’ll be mostly offering commentary and observations based on my own experience, and maybe some scripture references.
This first post is sort of an introduction to the Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis. Here I will be talking about the book as a whole and go over the preface written by Lewis himself. Lewis was a long-winded intellectual, you see, and even his remarks on his own works are interesting.
If God’s Not Dead was a bombastic and propaganda-like approach at addressing the issue of institutional higher learning’s hostility to religion, then the documentary Expelled by Ben Stein is the studied, calm, and level-headed version of that same presentation.
This is part 2 of a very summarized version of my mother-in-law’s autobiography. Make sure to read part 1 first.
At the end of part 1 Susan had graduated from a life of order and discipline at a Catholic school. But the trials still didn’t stop there…
If you’ve ever been Bible shopping you might have heard of the term “reading Bible.” But what does that mean? Of course