The Gospel According to Yeeks

"Even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you . I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save ." (Isaiah 46:4)

Keep me always in the understanding   that saints mourn more for sin than other men,   for when they see how great is thy wrath against sin,   and how Christ's death alone pacified that wrath,   that makes them mourn the more. A Puritan prayer

I have created a new " Writings " page for this blog, mainly as a depository for some writing projects that I have taken on. The main bulk of this material will be recent contributions that I have made to my church's quarterly newsletter. I have received rather encouraging feedback from the editors of the newsletter and this looks set to be a regular thing. I am grateful for their encouragement as well as their editing feedback to polish these raw writings. It has been a pleasure working with them. Perhaps one day I will embark on a book project.

"God is the only comfort. He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from. He is our only possible ally, and we have made ourselves His enemies. Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion. Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger—according to the way you react to it. And we have reacted the wrong way. . . . Of course, I quite agree that the Christian religion is, in the long run, a thing of unspeakable comfort. But it does not begin in comfort; it begins in the dismay I have been describing, and it is no use at all trying to go on to that comfort without first going through that dismay. In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth—only soft soap

"Now the whole offer which Christianity makes is this: that we can, if we let God have His way, come to share in the life of Christ. If we do, we shall then be sharing a life which was begotten, not made, which always has existed and always will exist. Christ is the Son of God. If we share in this kind of life we also shall be sons of God. We shall love the Father as He does and the Holy Ghost will arise in us. He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of life He has—by what I call ‘good infection’. Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else." - C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity