Lead:

Today a shorty bio on CS Lewis, including a couple factoids you might not have known!

Intro:

So…not only do we not really know who wrote Hebrews, it’s also odd in that we don’t really know the audience. We might presume that it’s Jewish Christians, though, given that the author is addressing an audience he expects to relate to all the references to the Hebrew Scriptures. Yesterday we heard the argument that boldly began by talking about something we shouldn’t overlook — that in the past that God revealed Himself in various ways, times, and people, but that all that has culminated in His final and full revelation in His Son. And then he tells us that that Son is supreme…over angels. Talk about making a claim that would have been, to this audience, a completely revolutionary and upside-down narrative.

But it gets bigger and better. Today the writer continues…God’s Son is supreme over Moses, over the Law given through Moses, over Joshua, and in the coming days we’ll hear him talk about the Son greater than the Law’s high priest, Aaron.

Today be sure to listen for the problem that Jesus solves, once and for all, because of this superiority.

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Bible:

Passage: Hebrews 3-5:10
Translation: NASB (New American Standard Bible)
Verses: 45
Words: ~1020

All Our Minds:

Notable Christian Apologist: C. S. Lewis by Ted Cabal
Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) enjoyed a distinguished career at Oxford and Cambridge. He was also a notable literary critic and author of science fiction and children’s literature (including the Chronicles of Narnia). In addition, Lewis was arguably the most influential Christian apologist of the twentieth century. Remarkably, he was a committed atheist before his conversion to Christ in 1929.
Lewis authored a number of important apologetic works, such as Miracles, The Problem of Pain, God in the Dock, and The Abolition of Man. In his most famous work, Mere Christianity, Lewis presented powerful arguments for the truth of the Christian faith. Originally broadcast as several BBC talks during World War II, Mere Christianity notes that even people who deny objective right and wrong cannot refrain from believing in them. Moreover, people are unable to live out the moral law they know they should. Lewis argued that this moral law, coupled with humanity’s inability to fulfill it, allows Christianity to begin to “talk.” The forgiveness God offers in Christ makes sense in the real world.
Lewis also maintained that Jesus Christ claimed to be God, undercutting popular notions that Jesus was something like a good teacher. Either He was who He claimed, or else He was a liar or lunatic. But the life of Jesus does not betray the character of a liar or the mentality of a lunatic. Lewis contended that the most reasonable understanding of Jesus is that He is the Lord.(1)

Wisdom:

Passage: Proverbs 17:10-18:5
Translation: NASB (New American Standard Bible)
Verses: 23
Words: ~368

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-R

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Sources and resources:

(1) Ted Cabal, “Notable Christian Apologist: C. S. Lewis,” in The Apologetics Study Bible: Real Questions, Straight Answers, Stronger Faith, ed. Chad Owen Brand et al. (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2007), 1827.

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