George Macdonald wrote a number of books that explore the imaginative ways of expressing Christian truths. Most notable among these are At the Back of the North Wind, Phantastes and Lilith. C.S. Lewis was profoundly influenced by Phantastes, which he described as baptising his imagination. According to Lewis, it gave him a new way to perceive the world. He wrote:
It can be very easy to begin to think that salvation is cheap, or even that it is deserved. “Well, of course a loving God should save people.” Indeed, often the question that is asked is why God doesn’t save everyone. There’s a lovely passage from Piers Plowman that begins to capture the impossibility of salvation:
I particularly enjoy my periodic visits to Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. The preaching is solidly based on the Bible and the church family is warm and welcoming. The senior pastor at CHBC, Mark Dever, is well-connected with the church in England, having spent some time in Cambridge while taking his doctorate.
