dual personalities

It’s been a long week. And I am ready for the weekend–the last weekend in August! Can you believe it? The summer is just about over. Where did it go?

Today is National Red Wine Day and we will toast the awesome Shania Twain on her birthday (August 28, 1965). We can all use a little Shania, can’t we?

It is also the feast day of Augustine of Hippo (November 13, 354 – August 28, 430 AD) who is recognized as a saint in the Anglican Communion. Many Protestants, especially Calvinists and Lutherans, consider him one of the theological fathers of the Protestant Reformation due to his teachings on salvation and divine grace. 

Lord God, the light of the minds that know thee, the life of the souls that love thee, and the strength of the hearts that serve thee: Help us, following the example of thy servant, Augustine of Hippo, so to know thee that we may truly love thee, and so to love thee that we may fully serve thee, whose service is perfect freedom; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

BCP, Collect for Augustine of Hippo, Bishop and Theologian

If you have 20 minutes, here’s a lecture by R.C. Sproul about the influence of Augustine.

And here’s an interesting article about the riots in Minneapolis just blocks from John Piper’s neighborhood. No one in my denomination walks the walk like John Piper. Not by a long shot.

Well, enjoy the tail end of August–four months until Christmas! Zut alors–are you kidding me?