New Christians

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

To novices it is a beginning; to those who are advancing, an increase; to those who are concluding, a confirmation.

As a newborn baby breathes and cries, so the signs of life in a newborn Christian are faith and repentance, inhaling the love of God and exhaling an initial cry of distress. And at that point what God...

In this short excerpt from C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters, the fictional demon Wormwood instructs his apprentice Screwtape to build on the doubts that often occur once the initial spiritual and emo...