We are coming off of our national conference which was dedicated to the life and legacy

of C.S. Lewis who died 50 years ago this fall.

It was a great time with a lot of helpful messages shared and all of those messages are now

online at desiringgod.org.

And one of the big themes of the conference centered on the imagination and how faith and

theology require the use of our imaginations.

Pastor John, do you have any takeaways from the conference or things you're thinking

about post-conference on the imagination?

Yeah, a lot, a lot was said in the conference on Lewis about the imagination.

What is it?

And so on.

One feature it seems to me of imagination is the ability to seize a value or the wonder

or the glory of things for what they are.

Which is see ordinary things for the wonder that they are.

Which means that in a sense maybe that shouldn't be called imagination.

We usually think of imagination as thinking of ways of describing things that are different

from what they are.

And that's true.

I made a case for that.

But because of the fall, Clyde Kilby, my teacher of literature in college, he said one

of the saddest effects of the fall is that we get tired of things.

So we go to the Alps, see him for the first time, we're stunned, speechless.

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