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St. Augustine admited that his self-image as a seeker after spiritual truth was not match by his indulgent life style.Augustine and his friends fancied themselves on an untiring search for truth.  But he wrote: "It never occurred to us to stop doing the things that contradicted our search for truth or that a connection mightContinueContinue reading “Are you honest about your motives?”

Among the prayers that I try and pray each morning is this one: Almighty and eternal God, so draw my heart to you, so guide my mind, so fill my imagination, and so control my will, that I may be wholly yours, utterly dedicated unto you; and then use me, as you will, and alwaysContinueContinue reading “A prayer of Self-dedication”

With more and more people choosing to be cremated, people increasingly will get a chance to see what humans are made of — Dust!  This morning one of the interns from the Vineyard accompanied me as I drove to a cemetery near Mansfield, Illinois, where I performed a graveside service for an 85-year-0ld woman IContinueContinue reading “From Dust to Dust”

As you know, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was created to provide greater security for the U.S. citizenry.  This week Brian Doyle, 55, a deputy press secretary for the department was charged with using a computer to seduce a child after authorities said he struck up sexual conversations with an undercover detective posing asContinueContinue reading “The villain is from what country?”

Missionary Fred Mitchell said, "We live our lives under the discipline of uncertainty.  We never know the emergencies, temptations and opportunities ready to spring unawares."So I will keep hanging my hat with the prayer of Moses in Psalm 90:12: "Teach us to make the most of our time, so that we may grow in wisdom."

I appreciate my education.  The ability to read books, which I so enjoy, and to even be able to write these words, is of incalculable worth to me.Education, though wonderful, is limited.  Quite frankly, the older I get the more I realize how little I know about anything.  That may sound trite to you, butContinueContinue reading “Oh the value of being at peace!”

This morning I was reading the obituary of Slobodan Milosevic in the New York Times.  Milosevic died a few days back at age 64 of an apparent heart attack.  He was a prisoner at the Hague, on trial for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.  Milosevic served as President of Serbia from 1989 toContinueContinue reading “Enough despair to go around”

Good for the movie Crash.  Last night it won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2005 at the Academy Awards.  When I saw crash almost a year ago, I found it gripping.  In a Christianity Today poll I participated in last December, I voted Crash as the best film for 2005.If you want to seeContinueContinue reading “Crash deserved it!”