Where All the Beauty Comes From: A Sermon That Revealed My Soul

Sermons shape souls.Some do so the same way rain and snow carve a landscape over long decades. Others fall more like Noah’s flood, a cataclysmic event that leaves the topography of a soul forever changed.C.S. Lewis’s “The Weight of Glory” was the latter for me. Lewis gave me categories I never had before and now cannot do without. Though Lewis delivered it almost five decades before I was born, and I’ve never heard it preached aloud (except by my own voice, when I memorized and recited it over a