December 14 And now we begin to see what it is that the New Testament is always talking about.  It talks about Christians ‘being born again’; it talks about them ‘putting on Christ’; about Christ ‘being formed in us’; about our coming to ‘have the mind of Christ’. Put right out of your head the … More Common Sense REBORN Devotional

December 9 And now, what does it all matter?  It matters more than anything else in the world.  The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this three-Personal life is to be played out in each one of us:  or (putting it the other way round) each one of us has got to enter that … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion

December 5 And that is how Theology started.  People already knew about God in a vague way.  Then came a man who claimed to be God; and yet He was not the sort of man you could dismiss as a lunatic.  He made them believe Him.  They met Him again after they had seen Him … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion

November 24 In a way I quite understand why some people are put off by Theology.  I remember once when I had been giving a talk to the R.A.F., an old, hard-bitten officer got up and said, ‘I’ve no use for all that stuff.  But, mind you, I’m a religious man too.  I know there’s … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion

November 23 There are two parodies of the truth which different sets of Christians have, in the past, been accused by other Christians of believing:  perhaps they may make the truth clearer.  One set were accused of saying, ‘Good actions are all that matters.  The best good action is charity.  The best kind of charity … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion

November 22 Now, once again, what God cares about is not exactly our actions.  What he cares about is that we should be creatures of a certain kind or quality-the kind of creatures He intended us to be-creatures related to Himself in a certain way.  I do not add ‘and related to one another in … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion

November 12 A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later.  That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness.  They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.  We never find out the strength of … More Common Sense REBORN Devotional

October 27 One of the things that surprised me when I first read the New Testament seriously was that it talked so much about a Dark Power in the universe-a mighty evil spirit who was held to be the Power behind death and disease, and sin.  The difference is that Christianity thinks this Dark Power … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion

October 26 It begins to look as if we shall have to admit that there is more than one kind of reality; that, in this particular case, there is something above and beyond the ordinary facts of men’s behaviour, and yet quite definitely real-a real law, which none of us made, but which we find … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion

October 13 These, then, are the two points I wanted to make.  First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it.  Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way.  They know the Law … More Common Sense REBORN Daily Devotion