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

September 29 11The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.” Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind.  After the wind there … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion

September 24 5He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars-if indeed you can count them.”  Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” 6Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.  (Genesis 15:5, 6) Hello friends.  This is a very special post.  … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion

September 18 I hope no reader will suppose that ‘mere’ Christianity is here put forward as an alternative to the creeds of the existing communions-as if a man could adopt it in preference to Congregationalism or Greek Orthodoxy or anything else.  It is more like a hall out of which doors open into several rooms.  … More Common Sense REBORN Devotion