Here is our series of Advent Reflections with C. S. Lewis. We offer a pithy quote, the reference for you to read more, and, even more importantly, two Scripture passages, one being verses from Psalms. We hope it will edify you as we prepare our hearts to celebrate the Incarnation. If you want to join us on Facebook under the flag, “The Official C.S. Lewis Group”, we’re a bustling crew of 72,000 plus people and you are more than invited. Click here
“You ask me . . . ‘Surely God has always been the same loving and heavenly Father and it was the interpretation of God that Christ revealed.’ I see what you mean but the question is to me very difficult to answer. On the one hand something really new did happen at Bethlehem: not an interpretation but an event. God became Man. On the other hand there must be a sense in which God, being outside time, is changeless and nothing ever ‘happens’ to Him. I think I should reply that the event at Bethlehem was a novelty, a change to the maximum extent to which any event is a novelty or change: but that all time and all events in it, if we could see them all at once and fully understand them, are a definition or diagram of what God eternally is.” - Collected Letters, Dec. 26, 1945, to Arthur Greeves
Day 24
Scripture readings: Psalm 5:7-12; Revelation 22:12-16
C.S. Lewis quote: Mere Christianity, Chapter 8
DAY 23
Scripture readings: Psalm 147:1-11; Philippians 2:1-11
C.S. Lewis quote: The Weight of Glory, “Is Theology Poetry”
DAY 22
Scripture readings: Psalm 147:12-20; Luke 2:21-39
C.S. Lewis quote: Mere Christianity, Chapter 5
DAY 21
Scripture readings: Psalm 102:18-28; Luke 2:1-20
C.S. Lewis quote: Miracles, Chapter 14
DAY 20
Scripture readings: Psalm 102:12-17; Isaiah 9:2-7
C. S. Lewis quote: Poems
DAY 19
Scripture readings: Psalm 102:1-11; John 1:1-14
C. S. Lewis quote: Letters to Malcolm, 13-14
DAY 18
Scripture readings: Psalm 98:1-3; Luke 1:46-55
C. S. Lewis quote: Miracles, Chapter 14
DAY 17
Scripture readings: Psalm 97:1-7; Luke 1:1-25
C. S. Lewis quote: The Problem of Pain, Chapter 1
DAY 16
Scripture readings: Psalm 97:8-12; Luke 1:26-45
C. S. Lewis quote: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Chapter 10
DAY 15
Scripture readings: Psalm 68:32-35; Isaiah 59:1-8
C. S. Lewis quote: Mere Christianity, Chapter 4
DAY 14
Scripture readings: Psalm 68:19-27; Isaiah 55:6-13
C. S. Lewis quote: Mere Christianity, Chapter 4
DAY 13
Scripture readings: Psalm 75:1-10; Isaiah 55:1-6
C. S. Lewis quote: The World’s Last Night, Chapter 7
DAY 12
Scripture readings: Psalm 74:12-23; Galatians 3:26-4:7
C. S. Lewis quote: The Problem of Pain, Chapter 3
DAY 11
Scripture readings: Psalm 74:2-11; I John 1:1-10
C. S. Lewis quote: Mere Christianity, Chapter 1
DAY 10
Scripture readings: Psalm 18:1-6; Deuteronomy 10:12-22
C. S. Lewis quote: Letters to Malcolm, 4
DAY 9
Scripture readings: Psalm 96:7-13; 2 John 4-11
C. S. Lewis quote: Reflection on the Psalms
DAY 8
Scripture readings: Psalm 15:1-5; John 3:1-21
C. S. Lewis quote: The Problem of Pain, Chapter 3
DAY 7
Scripture readings: Psalm 33:13-22; Hebrews 2:8-13
C. S. Lewis quote: The Four Loves, Chapter 6
DAY 6
Scripture readings: Psalm 33:8-12; Isaiah 40:25-31
C. S. Lewis quote: The Weight of Glory, “Transposition”
DAY 5
Scripture readings: Psalm 33:1-7; Isaiah 40:12-24
C. S. Lewis quote: Miracles, Chapter 10
DAY 4
Scripture readings: Psalm 16:7-11; Isaiah 40:1-11
C. S. Lewis quote: God in the Dock, “The Decline of Religion”
DAY 3
Scripture readings: Psalm 16:1-6; Isaiah 35:5-10
C.S. Lewis quote: The World’s Last Night, Chapter 6
DAY 2
Scripture readings: Psalm 20:1-9; Isaiah 35:1-4
C. S. Lewis quote: Miracles, Chapter 14
DAY 1
Scripture readings: Psalm 24:1-10; Isaiah 7:14-25
C. S. Lewis quote: Mere Christianity, Chapter 5