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Irresistible Grace

n his book, C.S. Lewis describes an insight about divine mercy that particularly resonates with my own experience. I suspect it may also resonate with yours. Stories of how people come to Christ are as unique as the individuals that tell them. But they have this in common: they witness to the infinite kindness of the Lord, often in a quite paradoxical way! Lewis writes, "the words ... compel them to come in ... properly understood, plumb the depths of the divine mercy. The hardness of God is kinder than

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