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This past weekend at Eastbrook, we continued our preaching series entitled "Living the Creed: Connecting Life and Faith in the Apostles’ Creed." This series walks through the Apostles Creed as a basic summary of our faith but also as a way to live our faith out with God in the world. Each weekend of this …
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One of my favorite works by C. S. Lewis is The Great Divorce, which is awkwardly billed on the paperback cover as "a fantastic bus ride from hell to heaven—a roundtrip for some but not for others." Lewis' conviction in that book, which he expresses elsewhere, is that hell is the self-conscious decision to resist heaven …
Here is W. H. Auden in his introduction to Charles Williams' The Descent of the Dove: The popular notion of Hell is morally revolting and intellectually incredible because it is conceived of in terms of human criminal law, as a torture imposed upon the sinner against his will by an all-powerful God. Charles Williams succeeds, where …
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Matthew Erickson 