Monday in the 3rd Week of Lent: Letter 15
Letter 15 Notes (Monday in Lent 3) The Scripture Lessons for today are HERE! In Letter 15, Screwtape returns to the War that had caused so much anxiety and fear for the Patient in Letter #6. There is a lull in the fighting which would naturally lead to a lull in the Patient’s concern over whether or not he will be drafted. From here Screwtape advises his nephew to keep pressing the issue of time – most notably the future. We’ve all heard the TV preachers who preach week after week on the 2 nd Coming. You would think the book of Revelation is the whole Bible. However, the Bible is far more concerned about how we live in the present and uses the past as a guide. In our Gospel reading for today from Luke chapter 4, Jesus does exactly that. Teaching in the synagogue at Nazareth he uses the Old Testament stories of the Widow of Zarephath from 1st Kings and Naaman the Syrian from 2nd Kings to make his point....