The Christ Centred Cosmic Civilisation

• Episode 119e - Discipleship in the Dark: Truth, Bondage, and Perseverance

  Send us a textA lamp is not a sun—and yet in the dark, it’s tempting to believe the smaller light. We journey through The Silver Chair to face the ways enchantment works on the mind and how memory, obedience, and courage break its spell. With Eustace and Jill, we track Aslan’s four signs from an easy beginning to a decisive act, showing how spiritual growth moves from encouragement to direction, from perspective to bold obedience. Along the way we meet Puddleglum, whose brave, foot-scorching stomp and stubborn speech model how to live by the truer story when the false one feels closer.We dig into the heart of captivity through Prince Rillian’s nightly bondage, exploring sin as deception and slavery rather than mere bad behaviour. When the cry comes “in Aslan’s name,” we see why delayed obedience keeps the chains tight—and why cutting the ropes is both terrifying and freeing. We link this to Ephesians 4’s call to put off the old self and be renewed in the mind, grounding Narnian drama in the lived practice of Christian discipleship. From the ruins in the north to the underworld’s suffocating room, we unpack how environments can make truth feel implausible and how rehearsing the word restores sight.We also sit with Aslan’s fierce mercy at the stream—“There is no other stream”—and with Peter’s response to Jesus’ hard sayings: where else could we go? The thread tying it all together is perseverance: walking by faith when sight is thin, keeping to the last clear instruction, and surrounding ourselves with people who will stamp out our soothing lies when we cannot. If you’re navigating doubt, craving freedom, or trying to remember what’s real, this conversation offers practical handles and deep comfort. Subscribe, share with a friend who loves Narnia or needs courage today, and leave a review to help others find the show. Where do you most feel the underworld tug—and which sign will you rehearse tonight? The theme music is "Wager with Angels" by Nathan Moore

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• Episode 119d - Dragon Skin and Sweet Seas

  Send us a textA painting becomes a portal, a ship cuts the waves, and suddenly we’re charting a voyage that maps the soul as much as the sea. We stay with Caspian, Edmund, Lucy, and Eustace, but our real subject is the inner life: transformation that costs, temptations that reveal, and a homesickness for a country where the sea grows sweet. This is a story about sanctification that refuses to be cosmetic—because dragon skin doesn’t peel off with effort—and a pilgrimage that doesn’t mistake arrival for starting well.We dive deep into Eustace’s unforgettable turning: greed made visible, self-help exhausted, and Aslan’s claws cutting to heal. From the Lone Islands to Deathwater, the Dark Island to Ramandu’s shore, each stop becomes a mirror that shows us pride, fear, vanity, and desire in a harsher light. Reepicheep’s holy restlessness pushes the question further: what does it mean to live as if the far country is more real than the deck beneath our feet? Along the way, we draw on Scripture’s language of exile and promise, and the wisdom of saints and mystics who insisted that the Spirit offers not only a verdict of righteousness but a tasted presence that pulls us onward.By the time the water sweetens and the light gathers, the lesson is clear: temptation isn’t a detour from discipleship; it is the place where discipleship happens. Transformation is Christ’s work, not ours, yet our consent matters—standing still while the lion tears away what we cannot keep so we can receive what we cannot lose. We close with an invitation to read Dawn Treader as your own map: name your islands, notice your companions, and keep your eyes on the horizon where longing and courage meet.If this voyage stirred your hunger for the far country, share the episode with a friend, leave a review to help others find the show, and subscribe so you won’t miss our journey into The Silver Chair next. Where are you on the map today? The theme music is "Wager with Angels" by Nathan Moore

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• Episode 119c - Recovering Aslan: Faith When the World Forgets

  Send us a textWhat if you returned to a place you loved and found its heart deleted? We step into Prince Caspian to explore how a culture forgets its stories, how power polices memory, and why the ache for wonder is really a longing for the true king. From the ruins of Cair Paravel to the whispers that awaken a young prince, we follow the thread of worship, memory, and courage—and ask what it means for our own disenchanted age.We dig into the Bible’s rhythm of nearness and neglect—Exodus fire, promised‑land faithfulness, and the long slide into exile—and map it onto the Telmarine strategy of erasing Aslan’s name. Along the way, we talk about the most dangerous counterfeit: a “flat” Christianity reduced to social optics that inoculates seekers against the real thing. The remedy is older and simpler than it sounds: Scripture as our counter‑memory, worship that expects presence, and communities that become living signs of another kingdom. Caspian’s conversion, shaped by forbidden stories and faithful mentors, offers a model for awakening; Lucy’s clear sight shows the cost and beauty of trusting when consensus prefers a safer path.When Aslan returns, everything changes scale—trees wake, rivers dance, and crowns are set under a higher authority. That vision reframes leadership, politics, and hope itself, echoing Romans 8’s promise that creation will be set free from decay. If you’re a doubter, a seeker, or someone who feels the silence of God, this conversation is a horn in the woods: remember what is true, walk the ancient paths, and let your life make the rumour credible. If this resonates, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs courage, and leave a review so more listeners can find their way back to the story. The theme music is "Wager with Angels" by Nathan Moore

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• Episode 119b - From Wardrobe to World: Lewis, Myth, and the Gospel Made Visible

  Send us a textA lamppost in snow. A wooden door that shouldn’t be a doorway. A world frozen under the words “always winter, never Christmas.” We step through the wardrobe to explore why The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe still feels like a living parable—one that sneaks past our watchful dragons and ignites a deeper hunger for grace.We start with the mythic power Lewis wields so well: ordinary objects as sacraments, a lamplight as a promise, and a season turned into theology. From wartime England to a house full of secrets, we trace Lucy’s wonder and Edmund’s weakness—how a sweet temptation exposes the moral fabric Lewis calls the deep magic. That fabric requires justice, not as punishment-for-punishment’s sake, but as reality snapping back into place. Then comes the turning point: Aslan’s quiet choice to take Edmund’s place. We sit with the stone table, the shaming, the silence, and the weight of substitution that even a child can feel without a footnote.But the table cracks at dawn. Love proves older than law as the deeper magic wakes, and death begins to work backwards. We talk about resurrection not as a legal line item but as laughter, movement, and breath—Aslan running, Lucy and Susan rejoicing, the Witch’s power unravelling. And the thaw doesn’t stop at one forgiven boy; it spills across the land. Rivers loosen, statues breathe, and creation joins the chorus—echoes of Isaiah’s singing hills and Romans 8’s groaning world finally set free. Along the way, we surface often-missed facets of the gospel that Lewis braids together: victory over the devil, the healing of shame, the renewal of all things, and the invitation to meet grace through ordinary doors.If Narnia first taught you to hope, or if you’re ready to see why this story still melts cynicism like frost in sunlight, press play. Subscribe, share this with a friend who loves Lewis, and leave a review to tell us the moment the deeper magic found you. The theme music is "Wager with Angels" by Nathan Moore

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• Episode 119a - Narnia at 75 - Myth as the isthmus back to reality

  Send us a textA wardrobe opened 75 years ago, and the way we see reality has never been quite the same. We’re pausing our current theology series to celebrate Narnia’s diamond milestone and to ask a bigger question: why does C. S. Lewis’s world still captivate believers, skeptics, and the just-plain-curious? We dig into Lewis’s own view of fairy stories and myth—not as childish diversions but as serious vehicles of truth that awaken sehnsucht, the deep longing for more than the surface of things.Together we follow the thread from myth to meaning: how Lewis saw myth as an isthmus connecting our narrowed, modern peninsula of thought to the continent of reality we truly belong to. We unpack his bold claim that Christianity is “the myth that became fact,” and how that conviction quietly powers the Chronicles—especially in the figure of Aslan, the lion who is not safe but good. Expect a frank look at moral clarity with human complexity, why redemption matters for characters like Edmund, and how the stories recover our sense of an enchanted world without asking us to park our minds at the door.We also map the seven-book arc as a pilgrimage: creation and fall, providence in absence, temptation and transformation, courage under pressure, and the hope of judgment and renewal. Whether you first met Narnia on the page, the radio, or the screen, consider this a fresh invitation to read the books as windows into reality, not escape from it—to let your imagination be baptised and your longing reawakened. If this conversation stirs something in you, follow the series, share it with a friend who loves Lewis, and leave a review so more readers can find the wardrobe door too. The theme music is "Wager with Angels" by Nathan Moore

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