New Hosting Schedule

Hey everybody, we've got a slight modification to the locations for our study. Bev Lewis has been gracious enough to extend to us the Privilege of meeting in her home too. So we've modified the schedule accordingly. As you can see, we felt it would be better if we stayed at the same location for more than one week at a time. Bev will be posting directions to her house prior to our November 4th study. Thanks, have a great week, and see you at Paulo and Adrians's on Saturday!

October 7 - @ Wade and Sam’s - Introduction and Letter 1
October 14 - @ Wade and Sam’s - Letter 1
October 21 - @ Paulo and Adriana’s - Letter 2
October 28 - @ Paulo and Adriana’s - Letter 3
November 4 - @ Bev Lewis’ - Letter 4
November 11 - @ Bev Lewis’ - Letter 5
November 18 - @ Wade and Sam’s - Letter 6
November 25 - @ Wade and Sam’s - Letter 7
December 2 - @ Paulo and Adriana’s - Letter 8
December 9 - @ Paulo and Adriana’s - Letter 9
December 16 - @ Paulo and Adriana’s - Christmas Party

December 23 - January 6 - Recess

January 13 - @ Bev Lewis’ - Letter 10
January 20 - @ Bev Lewis’ – Letter 11
January 27 - @ Wade and Sam’s – Letter 12
February 3 - @ Wade and Sam’s – Letter 13

Directions to Meeting Saturday night

Screwtape Letters group at the Paulo & Adriana Ribeiro's house.
7 PM. Directions are:
2626 East Park Avenue
Polos on Park Apartments (on the left side of the road as you are heading east, which is away from campus)
Apt. 4307
Phone 616-826-0147
Turn left just after the gate and park on the top parking space.
The Ribeiros are planning on serving dinner so if you are coming please RSVP to them at
pribeiro@calvin.edu or a3ribeiro@yahoo.com.

Questions to Consider for Letter III

1. How can domestic irritations adversely affect the Christian / prayer life?
2. How does God work to bring a young Christian “under a new standard”
3. Why should we avoid concentrating our minds on the inner life?
4. How should we pray?
5. What are the habits Screwtape wants Wormwood to develop in his “patient” and why are they important?
6. What would be the “neglect of the obvious”?
7. How to combat “double standards”?
8. Considering what Lewis says about the patient’s mother, why are the son’s prayers too “spiritual”?
9. Discuss the problem of jealousy in connection with the reference to the “Enemy’s story” of the prodigal son at the end of the letter.

Questions to Consider for Letter II

1. Define the Church Visible and Invisible (Building, People, Liturgy - Transcendental Body) and what is the impact on our attitude when we focus on the behavior of individuals?
2. How do we differentiate between reality and appearance? Why daily life issues are fertile ground for temptations?
3. How can one avoid the “anticlimax” after a conversion experience?
4. How can we prepare to overcome the disappointments, and the “dry spells” in our Christian Life?
5. Discuss the contrasts of hypocrisy and humility.
6. How do we respond to God’s love?
7. Are Christians better than other people in any sense?
8. What is the common component of “free lovers and servants” and do you agree that God lets us "do it on our own?"
9. How can we learn to control our emotions and why can trained emotions can be a source of joy not a step towards hypocrisy?
10. Discuss the importance of habits (discipline): mentally and bodily (and their role in the sanctification process)

For Further Reading and Reflection: The Weight of Glory..

Our First Meeting - Discussions and Questions

The discussions revolved around the pressures of the ordinary and how distractions interfere with our relationship to eternal matters.

Schedule for the Fall

October 7 - @ Wade and Sam - Introduction and Letter 1
October 14 - @ Wade and Sam - Letter 2
October 21 - @ Paulo and Adriana - Letter 3
October 28 - @ Paulo and Adriana - Letter 4
November 4 - @ Wade and Sam - Letter 5
November 11 - @ Paulo and Adriana - Letter 6
November 18 - @ Wade and Sam - Letter 7
November 25 - @ Paulo and Adriana - Letter 8
December 2 - @ Wade and Adriana - Letter 9
December 9 - @ Wade and Sam - Letter 10
December 16 - @ Paulo and Adriana - Christmas Party
December 23 - January 6 - Recess
January 13 - @ Paulo and Adriana - Letter 11

Questions to Consider for Letter I

1. How enslaved are we to chronological snobbery?
2. How can we use reasoning to grow spiritually?
3. How enslaved are we to the pressures of the ordinary?
4. How can argument and reason bring us close to God? (God’s ways are not our ways, but should we use our God given intellect?)
5. Is science (real science) a help or a threat to our understanding of God?
6. How do these issues affect my spiritual life, vocational plans and goals?

Dear WarmBlogger

Are you ready for this challenge?
The stakes are high , but the rewards are eternal.
Hope to see you on line!
Yours affectionately,
Vander Cybers

Hi Everyone

This is the first posting of many which we hope will shed light into the difficult issues of life and how to avoid temptations by the evil one.
This study group is an initiative of the IVF Graduate Christian Fellowship at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.
We hope you will share your perspectives and insights with the group as we study together this classical of the Christian literature.
First Meeting: October 7, at Wade and Samantha's Place
Paulo and Adriana

From Sea to Shining Sea - A Trip Across the US on the Dawn Treader - June - July 2005

This was a 12,000 mile trip across the US. We hope to repeat that soon.
What a great time we had.

Narnia

Hi Everyone,
This is our new blog.
We will be posting family news regularly.
Paulo and Adriana