Things sounded rather well for Screwtape and Wormwood at the end of the first letter.
Letter #2 doesn’t start quite so well. Not well at all – from their point of view.
Screwtape Letter #2 – Discussion Guide More
Things sounded rather well for Screwtape and Wormwood at the end of the first letter.
Letter #2 doesn’t start quite so well. Not well at all – from their point of view.
Screwtape Letter #2 – Questions More
And so it begins, but notice that it’s not at the beginning. Screwtape is responding to a letter that Wormwood wrote – but we don’t get to read. In fact – we never get to read what Wormwood writes – much as we never really get to “hear” what Satan “says” to us.
Screwtape Letter #1 – Questions More
Well – I’d think that opening would get some interest! One way or another, people seem to be on all sides of this issue – and apparently even those on the same side have a hard time getting along with each other!
It is possible to have what you need be the same as what you want, and end up with more than you ever thought possible, more than what you need and what you want combined.
Maybe this is why some people think there won’t be sports in Heaven. Others say there won’t be sports in Heaven because it’ll be boring. Everyone will be perfectly good at playing whatever sport they’re in, so why bother? But why should Heaven be like here on earth?
We now have –
The last verse –
and maybe the most difficult one –
of The Lord’s Prayer –
For yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
What’s so hard about praying this verse?
Plenty!!
For Yours is … (everything) More
I was captured – then I was told to lay down & I was shot. I remember thinking – “This is starting to hurt” – as the bullet hit me. … But before the thought even finished – there was no more pain at all – and I was in Heaven.
Has the Easter Bunny messed up our concept of Easter so much that even Christians don’t really know what it’s about?
Apparently, the answer, in too many cases, is an astounding YES!
There is, of course, a catch here. We never know when the last moment will come. I was in a car accident a couple years ago where I had less than a second before knowing I was going to be hit. “Life”, in the traditional sense, could end at any time.
I’m proud of you, you know … More
