Knowing & Doing

Lynne Kohm asks, “How does your sexuality affect your witness as a Christian?” In this article, she argues that living and communicating a genuinely biblical view of sexuality is a most powerful apologetic today. Show Notes: To read the article: please visit: https://www.cslewisinstitute.org/Sexuality_as_an_Apologetic Todd A. Wilson,  Mere Sexuality: Rediscovering the Christian Vision of Sexuality...

According to William Fullilove, one of the joys of the past twenty years has been seeing a renewed emphasis on the doctrine of vocation in many Protestant churches—the understanding that God is pleased when each man and woman pursues his or her calling, whether that is to religious or “secular” work. He argues, however, that this has led to some unintended consequences. In this article, Fullilove...

Andy Bannister challenges the prevailing naturalistic worldview around us that insists that people are merely animals. The wide gap between our Biblical perspective – that people are unique, eternally valuable, and created in the image of God – and the dehumanizing trends in our world today are shown to be as dramatic as can be. Show Notes: Dignity and Destiny: Humanity in the Image of God by John...

Dan Osborn dares to wonder why some prominent Christians don’t persevere. As painful as the topic is, he rightly warns us not to ignore it. He also shares biblical insights as to how we can avoid the same tragic mistakes.

Jana Harmon interviewed fifty former atheists who had come to saving faith in Jesus as Lord and Savior. She tells us what she learned in the process, both from what her conversation partners said and how they told their remarkable stories. Full Article URL: https://www.cslewisinstitute.org/Surprised_by_God_Reaching_the_Resistant

Childlike faith is relevant not only to mature believers in their walk with the Lord, but also in the workplace, especially in terms of how we lead, interact with others, and make decisions.   Show Notes: To read the full article  https://www.cslewisinstitute.org/The_Importance_of_Childlike_Faith_in_the_Workplace

In this last of his series of four articles written to help people read God’s Word with profit, Bill Kynes considers the questions: What can we expect the Bible to do for us? What is it for? He explains that the end or goal of the wisdom the Bible gives us is our “salvation” and offers practical advice for how to read the Bible with this in mind. READ : https://www.cslewisinstitute.org/How_to_Read...

Bill Kynes continues his series on how to read the Bible by zeroing in on the task of interpretation. He rightly reminds us that Jesus is the center of all of Scripture and any effort to interpret a part of the Bible without remembering that bigger picture is doomed to failure.

So you want to read the Bible, but you’re not sure how to do it well. What does it really mean? How is the Bible understood?” As  Bill Kynes addresses these questions in this article, he emphasizes that “[t]o read the Bible rightly, one must submit to the Master, who alone holds the key to meaning. Jesus Christ and His gospel must guide our understanding of the Bible, even as our reading of the Bi...

Bill Kynes begins a four part series that considers how to read, study, and meditate on the Bible. He begins with a reminder that the Bible’s overall storyline must be the context in which we examine any specific passage.     Show Notes: To read the full article click here:   https://www.cslewisinstitute.org/How_to_Read_the_Bible_Part1   Recommended Reading: Trent Hunter and Stephen Wellum,  Chris...

Randy Newman shares an excerpt from his recent book Unlikely Converts: Improbable Stories of Faith and What They Teach Us About Evangelism that emphasizes the many ways Scripture talks about the Gospel. It’s not just about forgiveness (although that certainly is central and non-negotiable).   Show Notes:   To read the article: https://www.cslewisinstitute.org/A_Multifaceted_Gospel_for_Multifaceted...

In this article, Corey Latta addresses how C.S. Lewis wrote about emotion, and shares about what Lewis’s books have meant to him in his life.

Two themes that surface in Augustine’s sermons that may be helpful for our discipleship: understanding (1) salvation as primarily a process, a pilgrimage that is completed only in the future at our final destination, heaven, and (2) future rewards as a motivating factor for present godliness. Show notes:  To read the article go to https://www.cslewisinstitute.org/Augustine_on_Heaven_and_Rewards_pa...

The metaphor of birth provides a helpful way of understanding fuller implications of what it means to know God and to grow in that relationship. Just as a human being is physically born into the world and moves through a developmental cycle from infant to child to adolescent to adult, so a child of God is born spiritually and is called to move through a similar developmental cycle.  To read the fu...

Lewis believed that a vigorous supernaturalism was essential to understanding Christianity. Central to Lewis’s supernaturalism was an unapologetic belief in heaven and hell. In this article, Eyre discusses heaven and hell in the writings of C.S Lewis.   Show notes: For a printed copy of this article go to https://www.cslewisinstitute.org/CS_Lewis_on_Heaven_and_Hell_FullArticle Recommended Reading:...