How often do you use these five little words? I’ve begun to hate them. Rarely do they signal incoming encouragement or a kind intent. Think about it. If someone wants you to know something for no better reason than that they WANT you to know, do you think it something that you should actually know?… Read More Just wanted you to know…
Is your effort at looking good helping or hindering the spread of the gospel? Do you work as hard at being nice as looking nice? … Read More When does Vanity become Vain?
The Bible hints at Jesus’ irresistible attraction in its stories of huge crowds and loyal followers. Throw in superhuman powers and God-like charisma to the mix of easy-to-be-around righteousness, and you have an “idol” worth worshiping. The crowds, who due to the constraints of time and place, could never know him intimately. Yet they glimpsed his unique appeal and flocked in droves to be near him. What lucky people! To be near the heartbeat of God! To look into the eyes of eternal compassion! To be invited, as is the temptation of lovers, to eat and drink him up!… Read More The Perfect Man: How cool is that?
My directing professor in film school, Dr. Katherine Stenholm, taught me three lessons I’ll never forget. One was that people like what they know, so the more you learn, the more you enjoy the world. One had to do with a “red thread”; and any student lucky enough to sit under Dr. Stenholm reading this, just imagined… Read More Worst Case Scenario
“These are the times in which a genius would wish to live,” wrote Abigail Adams to young John Quincy at the close of the War for Independence. “It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are… Read More Prepare Your Sons for Pain
Kay Bonikowsky 