In ch. 11 of How To Pray, we move from letters written by a devil to Lewis’ kind and personal letters to “an American lady.” The Editor, Zack Kincaid, pieces together selections from Letters to an American Lady, and arranges them in a manner that works well. By this time in Lewis’s life – he was […]
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How To Pray, ch. 10 – Watch your state of mind…
“Consider the lilies of the field….” We have now come to the fourth and final excerpt from the Screwtape Letters in the new HarperOne book, How To Pray, this being from Letter 6. We could say that these three paragraphs are about “states of mind” (p. 86). There are primarily two involved. First, we should […]
Pray About Present Problems: ch. 9 of How To Pray by CS Lewis
As we end the Christmas season today, let’s reflect on the blessed privilege of being able to cast all our cares upon our Lord. This ninth chapter in the new book, How To Pray by C. S. Lewis, is comprised of 4 out of the 5 paragraphs from number 27 of The Screwtape Letters. It […]
How To Pray, ch 8: Danger of Drifting
Chapter 8 of How To Pray, pp. 74-79, is the second of four excerpts from The Screwtape Letters. This one is from Letter 12. The chapter follows up well from the last, which was about our wish to live truly in the presence of God, as he knows himself to be – not what we […]
How to Pray, ch. 7: Think and Pray
Chapter 7 of the new book, How to Pray from HarperOne, begins four chapters that are excerpts from C. S. Lewis’s famous book, The Screwtape Letters. Prayer is such an important part of the Christian life that it is obvious the devil would want to hinder it or spoil it. In the process of evaluating […]