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The season of Lent is meant to include self-examination. I have found the Southwell Litany to be an excellent help in doing so. I include it as a resource that can be used at any time. It is an antidote to the kind of self-righteousness that accuses others for our...
WHAT IS YOUR PURPOSE IN LIFE?
One of the most frequent questions I get from strangers is, “Where are you from?” My accent betrays my origins. If we want to get to know people we inquire about their origins, where they were raised. We carry our origins throughout our lives. They form us, they...
GENESIS AND SCIENCE
The book of Genesis is a divinely inspired collection of ancient writings that provide a remarkable narrative of primeval history. It is not a scientific dissertation in which one academic speaks only to another academic about his research. Instead it reflects the...
ECCLESIASTES 6 – MONEY
“Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. This too is meaningless. As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owner except to feast his eyes on them. I have seen a...
WHO AM I?
One of the biggest questions of life has to do with human identity: Who am I? Are we merely animals or do we have a unique nature and destiny? What is our value and significance? John Cottingham in his philosophical essay, IN SEARCH OF THE SOUL, reviews all that has...
ECCLESIASTES 5 – OPPRESSION, ENVY AND LONELINESS
“Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place: I saw all the tears of the oppressed – and they have no comforter; power was on the side of their oppressors. And I saw that all labor and all achievement spring from man’s envy of his neighbor. Again I...
THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
“Evil is one of the deepest and most central problems of human existence.” Peter Vardy and Julie Arliss in The Thinker’s Guide to Evil, analyze various sources of evil. They focus on three areas of concern. The freedom of human beings to choose to be selfish,...
SURVIVING HURRICANES
On the evening of September 5, 2004, my wife and I were watching the progress of Hurricane Frances on the television in our home when the power failed. Left in the darkness we listened to the wind roaring over us, the trees thudding against the roof, and the crack of...
ECCLESIASTES 4 – TIME
In 1977 I attended a two day Managing Your Time conference led by Ted Engstrom and Ed Dayton of World Vision. It was one of the most effective seminars I have ever participated in teaching me how to set objectives, goals and to measure my time and life. Ephesians 5:16...
ECCLESIASTES 3 – WORK
Work? You either love it or you hate it. For Ecclesiastes there is an ambivalence (read 2:17 and 24). You can either dread it or find satisfaction in it. I grew up in a family whose life was their work. We lived in the business and we worked from the time we got up in...
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