When speaking of prodigals, Augustine once said, “You never depart from us, but yet, only with difficulties do we return to You.” If there is a truth God that has been teaching me this week as I’ve been preparing for this Sunday it’s this, God doesn’t do anything or allow anything without eternity in mind.…
“Why can’t you two just get along?”… “I can’t understand why he treats me that way”… “Why can’t she just apologize and move on?”… ever catch yourself saying these things? Conflict can be brutal. In C.S. Lewis’ book, The Problem of Pain, he said, “The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender…
In his classic, Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis said, “Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.” This week in…