Prayer Request

My good friends Noah and Julie Roberts are expecting their first child on August 6th, next Wednesday. Their little girl, Magdalena Grace, has been diagnosed with Trisomy-18 and will mostly likely not live very long...

Favorite Narnia Moments (6): True Obedience

I used this episode from The Silver Chair as an illustration of the need to obey God even when it doesn’t make sense during a sermon I preached on Genesis 22 (Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac)...

Favorite Narnia Moments (5): Home at Last

This is from the end of The Last Battle and is part of Lewis’ description of heaven. It is as hard to explain how this sunlit land was different from the old Narnia as it...

Favorite Narnia moments (4): The Dwarfs are for the Dwarfs!

Throughout The Last Battle, the dwarfs refuse to fight for either Aslan or Tash. Their rallying cry is, “the dwarfs are for the dwarfs,” and they are cynical about loyalty to any ruling party. Towards...

Another thing I love about summer

Favorite Narnia moments (3): Happy the horse

I like this passage because of the humor in Bree’s humbling, the beauty of Hwin’s response to Aslan, its good theology of the incarnation and fully humanity of Christ, and most of all, Aslan’s profound...

One thing I love about summer

Marsden’s Edwards biography

This past weekend two friends and I traveled from St. Louis to Jacksonville for a wedding, spending a whopping total of 32 hours in the car. Ouch! $4/gallon gas prices didn’t make those hours in...

Favorite Narnia moments (2): Shasta meets Aslan

This is my favorite moment in all the Narnia stories. It occurs in The Horse and His Boy, which is my favorite book in the series. In this scene, the boy Shasta has been left...