Devin
@dberickson.bsky.social
Father, Husband, Engineer, Science Nerd, SciFi Geek, and most importantly a follower/servant of Jesus
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“There are three images in my mind which I must continually forsake and replace by better ones: the false image of God, the false image of my neighbours, and the false images of myself”
Source: Lewis wrote to Joy Davidman Gresham in an autographed copy of his book, The Great Divorce
Source: Lewis wrote to Joy Davidman Gresham in an autographed copy of his book, The Great Divorce
December 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
“There are three images in my mind which I must continually forsake and replace by better ones: the false image of God, the false image of my neighbours, and the false images of myself”
Source: Lewis wrote to Joy Davidman Gresham in an autographed copy of his book, The Great Divorce
Source: Lewis wrote to Joy Davidman Gresham in an autographed copy of his book, The Great Divorce
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“The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God”
Source: Mere Christianity
Source: Mere Christianity
December 25, 2025 at 4:43 AM
“The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God”
Source: Mere Christianity
Source: Mere Christianity
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“We treat God as the police treat a man when he is arrested; whatever He does will be used in evidence against Him”
Source: God in the Dock
Source: God in the Dock
December 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
“We treat God as the police treat a man when he is arrested; whatever He does will be used in evidence against Him”
Source: God in the Dock
Source: God in the Dock
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“The better you know that two and two make four, the better you know that two and three don’t”
Source: Miracles
Source: Miracles
December 22, 2025 at 6:37 AM
“The better you know that two and two make four, the better you know that two and three don’t”
Source: Miracles
Source: Miracles
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"What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring”
Source: The Pilgrim's Regress
Source: The Pilgrim's Regress
December 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
"What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring”
Source: The Pilgrim's Regress
Source: The Pilgrim's Regress
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“In our world too, a stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world”
Queen Lucy in ‘The Last Battle’
Queen Lucy in ‘The Last Battle’
December 18, 2025 at 6:33 AM
“In our world too, a stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world”
Queen Lucy in ‘The Last Battle’
Queen Lucy in ‘The Last Battle’
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“Men of sensibility look up on the night sky with awe: brutal and stupid men do not”
Source: Miracles
Source: Miracles
December 21, 2025 at 6:48 AM
“Men of sensibility look up on the night sky with awe: brutal and stupid men do not”
Source: Miracles
Source: Miracles
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it but because by it I see everything else”
Source: Paper given to the Oxford Socratic Club, entitled, ‘Is Theology Poetry?’
Source: Paper given to the Oxford Socratic Club, entitled, ‘Is Theology Poetry?’
December 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it but because by it I see everything else”
Source: Paper given to the Oxford Socratic Club, entitled, ‘Is Theology Poetry?’
Source: Paper given to the Oxford Socratic Club, entitled, ‘Is Theology Poetry?’
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Mortgage rates are dropping, but here's the catch: they're falling because we're already in a deep recession. Fed rate cuts aren't helping homebuyers—they're bailing out commercial property owners. Trump's talking points have collapsed.
Watch the full video: youtu.be/XHUN6f37yEg
Watch the full video: youtu.be/XHUN6f37yEg
December 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Mortgage rates are dropping, but here's the catch: they're falling because we're already in a deep recession. Fed rate cuts aren't helping homebuyers—they're bailing out commercial property owners. Trump's talking points have collapsed.
Watch the full video: youtu.be/XHUN6f37yEg
Watch the full video: youtu.be/XHUN6f37yEg
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Trump claims he's the "President of Peace" while Congress just handed him a record-breaking $900B military budget—$8B more than he even asked for. Meanwhile, he's prosecuting regime change in Venezuela and bombing the Caribbean. Some peacemaker.
The latest from @rashedmian.bsky.social for #UNFTR.
The latest from @rashedmian.bsky.social for #UNFTR.
NDAA Breaks Another Funding Record As Trump Masquerades as Peacemaker
Trump, who has openly petitioned for a Nobel Peace Prize, will soon get his hands on the largest military budget in history.
www.unftr.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Trump claims he's the "President of Peace" while Congress just handed him a record-breaking $900B military budget—$8B more than he even asked for. Meanwhile, he's prosecuting regime change in Venezuela and bombing the Caribbean. Some peacemaker.
The latest from @rashedmian.bsky.social for #UNFTR.
The latest from @rashedmian.bsky.social for #UNFTR.
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“Joy is the serious business of heaven”
Source: Letters to Malcolm
Source: Letters to Malcolm
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 AM
“Joy is the serious business of heaven”
Source: Letters to Malcolm
Source: Letters to Malcolm
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"I do not maintain that God's creation of Nature can be proved as rigorously as God's existence, but it seems to me overwhelmingly probable, so probable that no one who approached the question with an open mind would very seriously entertain any other hypothesis”
Source: Miracles
Source: Miracles
December 15, 2025 at 6:20 AM
"I do not maintain that God's creation of Nature can be proved as rigorously as God's existence, but it seems to me overwhelmingly probable, so probable that no one who approached the question with an open mind would very seriously entertain any other hypothesis”
Source: Miracles
Source: Miracles
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“We really don’t know much about loving until we’re in touch with love Himself”
Source: The Anvil
(BBC Radio Broadcast aired 7/22/1943)
Source: The Anvil
(BBC Radio Broadcast aired 7/22/1943)
December 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
“We really don’t know much about loving until we’re in touch with love Himself”
Source: The Anvil
(BBC Radio Broadcast aired 7/22/1943)
Source: The Anvil
(BBC Radio Broadcast aired 7/22/1943)
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"Our leisure, even our play, is a matter of serious concern. There is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan”
Source: Christian Reflections
Source: Christian Reflections
December 13, 2025 at 6:11 AM
"Our leisure, even our play, is a matter of serious concern. There is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counterclaimed by Satan”
Source: Christian Reflections
Source: Christian Reflections
I just backed Elements of Truth by Veritasium on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ele...
Elements of Truth by Veritasium
The tabletop trivia game
www.kickstarter.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I just backed Elements of Truth by Veritasium on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ele...
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"For God is not merely mending, not simply restoring a status quo. Redeemed humanity is to be something more glorious than unfallen humanity”
Source: Miracles
Source: Miracles
December 11, 2025 at 7:19 AM
"For God is not merely mending, not simply restoring a status quo. Redeemed humanity is to be something more glorious than unfallen humanity”
Source: Miracles
Source: Miracles
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“[T]he essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind”
Source: Mere Christianity
Source: Mere Christianity
December 10, 2025 at 6:45 AM
“[T]he essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind”
Source: Mere Christianity
Source: Mere Christianity
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“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?”
Source: Mere Christianity
Source: Mere Christianity
December 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?”
Source: Mere Christianity
Source: Mere Christianity
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“No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice"
Source: The Magician's Nephew
Source: The Magician's Nephew
December 8, 2025 at 7:37 AM
“No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice"
Source: The Magician's Nephew
Source: The Magician's Nephew
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Brooke Fraser and the Auckland Philharmonia perform “C.S. Lewis Song” live at Spark Arena on June 22, 2024
youtu.be/KZnb1a3YOkg?...
youtu.be/KZnb1a3YOkg?...
“C.S. Lewis Song” Live at Spark Arena
YouTube video by Brooke Fraser
youtu.be
December 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Brooke Fraser and the Auckland Philharmonia perform “C.S. Lewis Song” live at Spark Arena on June 22, 2024
youtu.be/KZnb1a3YOkg?...
youtu.be/KZnb1a3YOkg?...
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“A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion: to ignore the subject may be fatal cowardice for the one as for the other”
Source: The Weight of Glory
Source: The Weight of Glory
December 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM
“A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion: to ignore the subject may be fatal cowardice for the one as for the other”
Source: The Weight of Glory
Source: The Weight of Glory
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"Amiable agnostics will talk cheerfully about 'man's search for God.' To me, as then I was, they might as well have talked about the mouse's search for the cat”
Source: Surprised by Joy
Source: Surprised by Joy
December 6, 2025 at 6:20 AM
"Amiable agnostics will talk cheerfully about 'man's search for God.' To me, as then I was, they might as well have talked about the mouse's search for the cat”
Source: Surprised by Joy
Source: Surprised by Joy
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“‘If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God, it will make in the end no difference what you have chosen instead.’ Those are hard words to take. Will it really make no difference whether it was women or patriotism, cocaine or art, whisky or a seat in the Cabinet, money or science? …”
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December 3, 2025 at 5:45 AM
“‘If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God, it will make in the end no difference what you have chosen instead.’ Those are hard words to take. Will it really make no difference whether it was women or patriotism, cocaine or art, whisky or a seat in the Cabinet, money or science? …”
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“For He claims all, because He is love and must bless. He cannot bless us unless He has us. [...] Therefore, in love, He claims all. There’s no bargaining with Him”
Source: Sermon preached on January 29, 1956
Source: Sermon preached on January 29, 1956
December 2, 2025 at 5:58 AM
“For He claims all, because He is love and must bless. He cannot bless us unless He has us. [...] Therefore, in love, He claims all. There’s no bargaining with Him”
Source: Sermon preached on January 29, 1956
Source: Sermon preached on January 29, 1956
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“Joy is the serious business of heaven”
Source: Letters to Malcolm
Source: Letters to Malcolm
December 1, 2025 at 10:27 AM
“Joy is the serious business of heaven”
Source: Letters to Malcolm
Source: Letters to Malcolm