How terrifying to shut the door to God from the inside (as C.S. Lewis describes hell). But all of us can be so fickle—thinking we are serving God when we’ve cleverly twisted it into serving ourselves. May God grant us true conversion of heart and the humility to know the Lord as our one and only Lord, working out our salvation with “fear and trembling” as St. Paul says in the second chapter of Philippians.
Wow this post was so good! I'm definitely going to have to get a copy of The Man Born to Be King!
When I was in Nashville this past December I got to join in a dramatic reading of Dorothy Sayer's play about Jesus' birth, Herod, and the Magi, and it was such an incredible experience! One of the highlights of my year, in all honesty (though that was largely because it was such a lovely group of people).
That sounds wonderful! That sounds like the first play of The Man Born to Be King, actually--Kings in Judea? I've yet to find a completely faithful performance of it (most will adapt a few things here and there, which bothers me because the original is genius and genius does not need adaption 😂), so one very far-off dream is to arrange a recording of it sometime myself.
How terrifying to shut the door to God from the inside (as C.S. Lewis describes hell). But all of us can be so fickle—thinking we are serving God when we’ve cleverly twisted it into serving ourselves. May God grant us true conversion of heart and the humility to know the Lord as our one and only Lord, working out our salvation with “fear and trembling” as St. Paul says in the second chapter of Philippians.
Amen.
Wow this post was so good! I'm definitely going to have to get a copy of The Man Born to Be King!
When I was in Nashville this past December I got to join in a dramatic reading of Dorothy Sayer's play about Jesus' birth, Herod, and the Magi, and it was such an incredible experience! One of the highlights of my year, in all honesty (though that was largely because it was such a lovely group of people).
That sounds wonderful! That sounds like the first play of The Man Born to Be King, actually--Kings in Judea? I've yet to find a completely faithful performance of it (most will adapt a few things here and there, which bothers me because the original is genius and genius does not need adaption 😂), so one very far-off dream is to arrange a recording of it sometime myself.
Yes! It was Kings of Judea! It was very thought-provoking and powerful!