I found out about Vintage Books through a tutoring event that my work hosted and Vintage Books had donated some books for people to take home with them. On Friday I finally had a chance to check them out for myself. I fell in love with this place immediately. It has a very strange and appealing charm to it that captivated me and made me not want to leave. I scored two books from Vintage books for only $3.79! So fortunately for me, one of those books was "The Screwtape Letters" by C. S. Lewis! The particular copy that I bought was printed in 1970 and on the inside actually has someone's name in it and is dated 1972. I find these books to be such a treasure; its a strange phenomenon that just by holding a book you can feel part of another time period. I would encourage all of you to visit this local book shop...keep them open! Here is a link to their site where you can find their address: http://www.vintage-books.com/
Last Sunday's youth sermon was truly convicting. And not just a "yeah, that was important" type of convicting, but really a "wow, I need to change my whole perspective and really hit the root issue here, truly repent and ask God to change my heart in this regard" type of convicting. The whole time I felt as though the sermon had been specially crafted for me- to really get me to analyze my own heart and realize how little I love the people that are truly my brothers and sisters. By nature I love to critique everything- I always thought it would be awesome to have a career where I get to criticize companies or stores and tell them what they are doing wrong. Unfortunately my sinful nature brings this into the way I deal with people. As I was listening to the sermon I realized that judging people was just my default setting. In my own head, to myself, I always concealed this as honest assessment or analyzing- instead of downright, sinful judging. When I would be c