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Grand Miracle
writings of C. S. Lewis. I trust that you will find these both troubling and comforting. THE GRAND MIRACLE The Christian story is precisely the story of one grand miracle, the Christian assertion that what is beyond all space and time, what is uncreated, eternal, came into nature, into human nature, descended into His own universe, and rose again, bringing nature up to Him. It is precisely one great miracle. If you take that away there is nothing specifically Christian left. - C. S. Lewis, from GOD IN THE DOCK: ESSAYS ON THEOLOGY AND ETHICS, edited by Walter Hooper. Eerdmans, 1994 reprint. DRAGGING RELIGION INTO CHRISTMAS Just a hurried line . . . to tell a story which puts the contrast between our feast of the Nativity and all this ghastly "Xmas" racket at its lowest. My brother heard a woman on a bus say, as the bus passed a church with a Crib outside it, "Oh Lord! They bring religion into everything. Look - they're dragging it even into Christmas now!" - C. S. Lewis, from LETTERS TO AN AMERICAN LADY, edited by Clyde S. Kilby. Eerdmans, 1986 reprint. [I pray that your Christmas celebration will be not only wonderful, but also full of wonder; and that it will be not only a holiday, but also a holy day.] Have a great week, Chip Stam Director, Institute for Christian Worship School of Church Music and Worship Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Louisville, Kentucky www.carlstam.org www.sbts.edu |