It’s an old cliché for an actor to ask “What’s my motivation?” But it is an important question. An actor may read lines and think his character is angry, while the director may believe the character to be exaggerating or making a joke or something else entirely. Here’s your question of the day: WHAT ISContinue reading “What’s My Motivation? Ezekiel 36:22-23.”
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JOE’S CANCER STICKS. Ezekiel 11:19-20; Colossians 2:6.
Joe attended the college department at FBC. I was working at another church, but kept running into Joe at FBC events I was able to attend—Bible studies on unusual days of the week, scavenger hunts on Saturday nights, etc. Joe and I became friends. One night the two of us went on “visitation” together, drivingContinue reading “JOE’S CANCER STICKS. Ezekiel 11:19-20; Colossians 2:6.”
STREET THEATER 3: Runaway Scrape. Ezekiel 11:19-20; 12:2-5, 10-13.
Trump gets Covid-19 one month before the election. Coincidence or sign from God? I don’t know. But in November of 2020, EVERYONE was talking about it! If it had happened in ancient Israel, people would have SCRUTINIZED this thing with a jeweler’s loop trying to figure out what it means. People in pre-enlightenment cultures consideredContinue reading “STREET THEATER 3: Runaway Scrape. Ezekiel 11:19-20; 12:2-5, 10-13.”
THE FROG IN THE POT, Part Two.
Have you memorized your favorite temperature setting? Do you find yourself adjusting the thermostat over and over, all day long? Do you run the heat at night and the air conditioner the very next day—every day? Some people are more sensitive to temperature changes than others. Some notice the slightest deviation, while others—like the proverbialContinue reading “THE FROG IN THE POT, Part Two.”
THE FROG IN THE POT, Part One.
I mentioned the “frog in the pot story” recently. Al Gore once told the story this way: “If a frog jumps into a pot of boiling water, it jumps right out again because it senses the danger. But if the very same frog jumps into a pot of lukewarm water that is slowly brought toContinue reading “THE FROG IN THE POT, Part One.”