Sublime

This is a man who never presented himself as any kind of psychologist and yet now is thought of as a man who understood human thinking and humanity better than any other writer of his time. This is a man who never imagined himself to be a biblical scholar and yet who read and memorised a chapter of the Bible every single day.

Every challenge he will face from Genesis 13 forward will be met by being willing to subjugate his own needs to another’s. Exalting what others need or desire above your own is the motivation behind every act of godly giving.

If you will commit to fulfilling your mission in life no matter what it costs, you will experience the blessing of God in ways that few people ever experience. There is almost nothing God won’t do for the man or woman who is committed to serving the kingdom of God. Jesus has promised, “[God] will give you all you need from day to day if you live fo

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should be economists and statesmen, and that all economists and statesmen should be Christians, and that their whole efforts in politics and economics should be directed to putting ‘Do as you would be done by’ into action. If that happened, and if we others were really ready to take it, then we should find the Christian solution for our own social

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen not only because I see it but because by it I see everything else.”5 Lewis believed that the Bible does not close the minds of its readers. On the contrary, it opens them up to the presence and wonder of God as He has displayed His glory everywhere.

12. To serve is to be free. One of the prayers from the Book of Common Prayer says that to serve God is “perfect freedom.” While this may seem counterintuitive in our contemporary age, we see its truth beautifully played out in the life of Jesus, who came among us as a servant. In his generous and glad service to the world, which he performed in equall

Jesus as a “teacher” is much safer than Jesus as the gospels actually present him. Most Christians today would, I suspect, see straight through that reductionism. But would they know what to put in its place? Or would they simply substitute some version of the first answer, that Jesus came to enable us to go to heaven?