I'm back....for now!

Well, I haven't been here for a month and it feels good. Having a life, instead of writing on a "blog", is quite nice. I guess we should all try it sometime. Just to keep you updated, here are the fun facts that have been happening in my little world.

1. I got married
2. I went on a honeymoon.
3. I had a blast!
4. I finished my final paper for seminary.
5. My favorite soccer team, Manchester United, is on the verge of winning both their domestic title, as well as the UEFA Champions League.
6. I have been observing and pondering some interesting thoughts on modern Christianity. It don't look good.
7. I got married.

I don't have much more to write right now, because I have to get ready for class. I will try to post some new stuff here soon, as my schedule might clear up a little bit.

Until then...

My Last Week of Freedom

Well, let me first say that I apologize for the long absence. My life these past few weeks (perhaps, months would be more accurate) have been filled with going from doing one thing to another. You see, I'm getting married next week so I have been running around like crazy trying to get stuff done for the wedding, finishing work in advance here at work, as well as getting my school work done. Thus, I have had no time for writing on here.

As far as the the promised posting by Lewis, I will try to make those up here shortly. If I can pop on here before I leave for the wedding, then I will do so. However, it probably doesn't look like it is going to happen before I get back.

I'm excited about marriage and becoming one with the woman of my dreams. God has been so good to me throughout my entire life and has given me one more reason to praise Him. I know marriage is going to be tough at times, but I am aware that it is going to be so rewarding too. I look forward to being in the warm sun of the caribbean next week!

Great Insight from Lewis

In the next few posts, I am going to be putting up various quotes by C.S. Lewis in his great work, Mere Christianity, that show his great insights and wisdom.  I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. 

 

All I am doing is to ask people to face the facts--to understand the questions which Christianity claims to answer.  And they are very terrifying facts.  I wish it was possible to say something more agreeable.  But I must say what I think true.  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 the 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 and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.  Most of us have got over the pre-war wishful thinking about international politics.  It is time we did the same about religion.

Lewis, C.S. Mere Christianity (San Francisco:  HarperSanFrancisco, 2001), 32.

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Ravi on Apologetics

"Apologetics is a subject that ends up defending itself. The one who argues against apologetics ends up using argument to denounce argument. The one who says apologetics is a matter of pride ends up proudly defending one's own impoverishment. The one who says conversion is a matter of the heart and not the intellect ends up presenting intellectual arguments to convince others of this position. So goes the process of self-contradiction. "I am convinced, in the words of C. S. Lewis—who in my estimation is probably the greatest Christian apologist in recent memory—that the question of being an apologist is not so much whether you use an apologetic in answering someone's question, but whether the apologetic you already use is a good one."

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Are You Paying For Atheism?

"Children spend the majority of their waking hours in school. Parents invest a good portion of their life savings in college education and entrust their offspring to people who are supposed to educate them. Isn’t it wonderful that educators have figured out a way to make parents the instruments of their own undoing? Isn’t it brilliant that they have persuaded Christian moms and dads to finance the destruction of their own beliefs and values? Who said atheists aren’t clever?"

Dinesh D'Souza
What's So Great About Christianity