Category Archives: Random Thoughts

You would think that an honest look at ourselves and at our condition would make us all humble. But there is something in our hearts that still rises up in self-focused, self-justifying, other-comparing pride. If the "fear of the Lord … Continue reading →

Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. (Psalm 42:5) Sometimes the difficulties, pressures, and sorrows of life put us in … Continue reading →

I love sports. I remember one of the first NFL games that I watched as a child. I don't recall anything about the game but I loved the team with the "twirly helmets." I became a Los Angeles Rams fan … Continue reading →

We have become an angry culture. Just watch the news, follow social media, or read the comments that follow just about any article online. It seems everyone is offended about something and eager to tell the world about it. Certainly … Continue reading →

Interesting quote from Ernest Becker's "The Denial of Death" (1973): The Russians could not let go of Lenin even in death and so have entombed him as a permanent immortality-symbol. Here is a supposedly 'secular' society that holds pilgrimages to … Continue reading →