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Question & Thought for September 4th, 2016!!!

Question & Thought for September 4th, 2016!!!
Good Sunday Morning!
1. Question – What are you turning yourself into?
2. Thought – I would much rather say that every time you make a choice you are turning that central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different than what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature that is in harmony with God, and with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow creatures, and with itself. To be the one kind of creature is heaven: that is, it is joy and peace and knowledge and power. To be the other means madness, horror, idiocy, rage, impotence, and eternal loneliness. Each of us at each moment is progressing to the one state or the other. (Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis)
rem – Have gratitude, do good, and don’t be consumed by life’s commotion.
Question & Thought & ANDs.

Question & Thought for September 2nd, 2016!

Question & Thought for September 2nd, 2016!
Good Friday Morning!
1. Question – Are YOU being good for God or are you good because of GOD?
2. Thought – That is why the Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if there is one; or-if they think there is not – at least they hope to deserve approval from good men. But the Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life inside of him. He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it. (Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis)
“How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different the saints.” (C.S. Lewis)
Have a safe weekend. Don’t text and drive. Read! Lewis maybe? Habakkuk? The Constitution? Just read and encourage others as well!
rem – Have gratitude, do good, and don’t be consumed by life’s commotion.
Question & Thought & ANDs.

Question & Thought for 22 August 2016!

Question & Thought for 22 August 2016!
Good Monday Morning!
1. Question – Do you think it would be more difficult to be rescued if everyone was nice to each other and all had plenty to eat than to be a depraved world in need of rescue? Just thinking here!
2. Thought – ‘Niceness’ – wholesome, integrated personality – is an excellent thing. We must try by every medical, educational, economic, and political means in our power to produce a world where as many people as possible grow up ‘nice’; just as we must try to produce a world where all have plenty to eat. But we must not suppose that even if we succeeded in making everyone nice we should of saved their souls. A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world – and might even be more difficult to save. (Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis)
When I put my political eyeglasses on, I see this perfect social world that Bernie and Hillary think probable. Sorry. I’d rather compete.
“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” (Vince Lombardi)
rem – I had no knowledge that I had no knowledge.
Question & Thought & ANDs.

Question & Thought for August 7th, 2016!!!

Question & Thought for August 7th, 2016!!!
Good Sunday Morning!
1. Question – After some Christians read The Great Divorce, they have concluded that we will have a “second chance” after death to be saved. Do you think this is so?
2. Thought – The problem here is that we don’t really understand what eternity means. To say the God lives outside of time is to say that he experiences all time as a single unity: God does not foresee the future; he sees it as we see the present. Although Lewis’s theology is fully congruent with evangelical thought, he is not a Calvinist. In contrast to Calvinism, Lewis argues that God’s foreknowledge of an event does not necessitate his predestining of that event.
My seeing of a present event does not determine it; why then should God’s eternally present seeing of a future event (future to us) determine its outcome? Because God’s knowledge is ever and always a present knowledge of our present choice, our freedom is not violated; past and future don’t exist in heaven. Just so, the choices the damned souls make are eternal ones that surpass (and, thus, include) the past; as eternal states, heaven and hell work backwards. The souls that reject the offer to stay will find that they have always been in hell, while those that choose to stay will feel that heaven alone has been their home. (The Life and Writings of C. S. Lewis by Louis Markos)
“Worldviews are perceptual frameworks. They are ways of seeing… Our worldview determines our values. It helps us interpret the world around us. It sorts out what is important from what is not, what is of highest vale from what is least. A worldview then provides a model of the world which guides its adherents in the world.” (The Transforming Vision by Brian Walsh & J. Richard Middleton)
Question for you: Are you in hell right now or do you believe you are in a tiny slice of heaven?
rem – I had no knowledge that I had no knowledge.
Question & Thought & ANDs.