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Lewis on the Christian Life: Becoming Truly Human in the Presence of God is unavailable, but you can change that!

C. S. Lewis excelled at plumbing the depths of the human heart, both the good and the bad, the beautiful and the corrupt. From science fiction and fantasy to essays, letters, and works of apologetics, Lewis has offered a wealth of insight into how to live the Christian life. In this book, Rigney explores the center of Lewis’s vision for the Christian life—the personal encounter between the human...

“enormous prayers which heaven in vengeance grants.”20 We acknowledge that we are not God, that we do not know what is best for us, and we willingly place ourselves in his hands and leave it to his wisdom and goodness to grant us what is best for us. While Lewis describes his festoons in relation to the Lord’s Prayer, in principle one could festoon any biblical prayer. In fact, this is precisely how I often make use of Paul’s prayers in my own devotional life. For example, I use Philippians 1:9–11
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