Link of the Week #15

If you haven't read C.S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters, you should. Of all the helpful, and wonderful, things that came from the pen of Lewis The Screwtape Letters may be among the most helpful in the day-to-day life of the average Christian.

The premise of the book is simple: Screwtape (a senior demon) writes to his young, and often inexperienced, nephew Wormtongue counseling him on how best to deal with his "patient." As you can imagine, the demon's patients are us. Their job, as Screwtape puts it, is to "fuddle him." The brilliance of Lewis's work is that as we see the strategies and tactics of the devil explicitly explained we are taught in reverse. It's much the same approach taken by the great Puritan Thomas Brooks in his very helpful work "Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices" Sin shrivels in the open, and when we understand how Satan's attacks work they often lose much of their former power. For this week's link we'd like to highlight an article, instead of our normal audio lecture/sermon. Blogger, writer, and Pastor Kevin DeYoung has recently written an additional letter for Lewis's classic book. He's called it "A Lost Letter to Wormwood" and we trust that you will find it helpful and encouraging!

To read this week's link go here.