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Actor Peter Sellers played so many roles that he sometimes seemed unsure of his own identity. When a fan asked, “Are you Peter…
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The Ghosts Who Prefer Their Own Misery
The Great Divorce – C.S. Lewis
In *The Great Divorce*, Lewis imagines a busload of ghosts from the “grey town” (a picture of hell or purgatory) who are invited to visit the foothills of heaven. Most of them ultimately choose to return. They prefer the familiar misery of self-centeredness to the painful joy of reality and surrender. One of the key insights is that hell is not so much a place God sends people as the result of people insisting on their own way until they can no longer desire anything else.
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Powerful imaginative illustration for sermons on the human heart’s resistance to God, the nature of hell, or the cost of clinging to self.
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