Advice: Easier to give it,
than to live it! -eab
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Advice
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Christ and Wood
Posted in Jesus Christ, poem, uncategorized, tagged 1982, ancient day, Christ Church - Bible Methodist, cursed, dried up, frame, Friendsville, fruitless old olive, infamous, oaken grain, preached, shavings, smell, smell of cedar, TN, tree, wooden cross, wooden manger, wooden sailboat, Zacchaeus on November 22, 2008| Leave a Comment »
He was laid in a wooden manger.
Played with shavings from the plane;
Knew the smell of cedar – sawn,
Could distinguish the oaken grain.
He preached from a wooden sailboat.
Called down Zacchaeus from a tree;
He cursed the fruitless old olive,
And, it dried up thoroughly.
He carried a wooden cross.
Than another shouldered the frame.
And since that infamous, ancient day,
Wood, crosses, haven’t been the same. –eab, 10/82
Written while I pastored Christ Church – Bible Methodist, Friendsville, TN
C. S. Lewis – death, Nov. 22, 1963
Posted in philosophy, QQQuaint Quality Quotes, today in history, uncategorized, tagged 1945, 1963, be hatched or go bad, begets, Belfast, Beyond Personality, bird, born 11/29/1898, C S Lewis, Cambridge, Clive Staples Lewis, convert rebellious wills, converted to Jesus Christ, creates, died, died today, egg, God, history, indefinitely, Ireland, jolly sight, Macmillan, Mere Christianity, Miracles, NY, ordinary decent egg, Oxford, perfect, Screwtape Letters, taught, The Chronicles of Narnia, the crucifixion, today in history, utterly real on November 22, 2008| Leave a Comment »
What God begets is God…What God creates is not God.
– C. S. Lewis, Beyond Personality (NY: Macmillan, 1945), 5.
…God has no history. He is too completely and utterly real to have one.
– C. S. Lewis, Beyond Personality (NY: Macmillan, 1945), 17.
When He said, “Be perfect,” He meant it…It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go in indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
– C. S. Lewis, Beyond Personality (NY: Macmillan, 1945), 42.
It cost God nothing, as far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him the crucifixion.
– C. S. Lewis, Beyond Personality (NY: Macmillan, 1945), 55.
Clive Staples Lewis died this date. He had taught at Oxford (1924-1954) and Cambridge (1954-1963) universities. In his early thirties, Lewis was converted to Jesus Christ. He is best known for his children’s classic The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956), and for Screwtape Letters, Miracles,and Mere Christianity. Lewis was born 11/29/1898, Belfast, Ireland.
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