IF YOU LOVE JESUS YOU WILL LOVE HIS WORD It is a sad reflection on the state of evangelical Christianity that few Christians regularly read the Scriptures and even fewer have read through, even once, the entire Bible. Let me not sound sanctimonious, I know that there are parts of the Scriptures, especially in the Old Testament that are tough going, but even in these parts, if we prevail, we will find nuggets of encouragement. A familiar little chorus, as I was growing up was

C.S. Lewis was a remarkable man and a Christian. He grew up with a formal religion, praying and reading the Bible but he didn’t really know God in a personal way. As he passed through some dark and difficult passages in his life he gradually peeled God away from his life, thinking he was to be measured only in pleasant circumstance terms. Arriving at Oxford as an active but confused atheist (he sometimes expressed anger at God not existing!), he plunged into the academic worl