Rachab, the spirit of wasting is not hard to overcome if you've first mastered the spirit of rejection. However, she's not going to take defeat quietly, so she marshals the other threshold guardians in a combined assault. Their primary agenda is to ensure we're tied up in an unbreakable double bind.
As we examine Scripture, we'll note that the double binds mentioned there always involve denial of access to the atonement. We can't lose our salvation, but we can lose some of its temporal benefits. Even Jesus didn't find dismantling such double binds easy, but He provides us with a way forward.
For twenty years, I was the coordinator of an annual camp for children based around The Chronicles of Narnia. That experience shaped a lot of my thinking about how readers enjoy fantasy.
Like CS Lewis, my fantasy story Many-Coloured Realm began with a picture in my mind's eye: a boy without arms floating in a field of stars and faced with an impossible choice.
My non-fiction series beginning with God's Poetry can be traced back to the observation that Lewis comes from the Welsh word for lion. The discovery of name covenants led to the discovery of threshold covenants, as well as many other long-forgotten aspects of our Judeo-Christian heritage.
I love exploring words, mathematics and names. All of these combine in my books, whether they are fiction or non-fiction, or whether they're for adults or children, whether they're academic in tone or primarily devotional. I hope my readers always come away from my books with a renewed delight for the world around us and a child-like wonder for its awesome aspects.