A great devotional to check out.

I read a great devotional based on Tozer's writings today. http://www.cmalliance.org/devotions/tozer/tozer.jsp?id=545 The verse reference has to do with the impossibility of serving two masters. Tozers's writings focus on the need to eliminate the bad in our life in conjunction with receiving the good.
I particularly like the illustration of breathing that Tozer uses. He states "Exhalation is as necessary to life as inhalation. " Like our need to eliminate carbon dioxide from our body in conjunction with breathing in oxygen, we need to breath out all things contrary to Christ as we breath in the goodness that He brings.
May this reality be so in my life and in the message I share with others.

Thoughts on the Future

As I was at a prayer meeting at one of the churches near here tonight I spent some time reflecting on the future for our society. The prayer guide that we were using started with a time of prayer for our leaders, both political and spiritual.

I'm not typically a doom and gloom prophetic type of person, but I could not help but think that we may be on the brink of a catastrophe in our culture. I've often had this feeling that we are overdue for a collapse. It's not just the easy to identify sins of sexual immorality, drugs, abortion, and violence that lead me to this conclusion. We've also created an environment of self-centeredness, greed, and materialism. These are much more subtle traps and some day we will have to give account as a people for what we have done with our many blessings.

This is a scary thought as the father of three small children. I identify with the sentiments of Mark Heard in Satellite Sky:

I want to dance with my children.
I want the spark to ignite,
Before they find out what it's like
To be born into this time.