remains a reminder that this life is not the end of the story but only the beginning. He encouraged Christians not to dwell on what is but on the city that is to come. Augustine couldn’t stop the Visigoths, but he could focus Christian minds on something greater than what they were losing. Augustine penned other works, over one hundred books, five hundred sermons, and two hundred letters. Like many of the great church leaders, he changed the world of his time and the world to come through his writing.