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The Actor's Question for People in Pain
Love or power. Which will it be? This is the real question, however much Hamlet may protest. Love and power are the two fundamental motivations in any human interaction — at least according to my acting teacher, Deb. She trained with some big names in NYC back in the day, and I like the idea of these celebrities (before they were stars) asking this question in the utter blankness of a backbox theater: does my character want to get love right now, or acquire power? Or do I want to give love, or empower someone else?
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Religiously Hybridized America
Christian pollster George Barna has uncovered another shocking statistic. Previously, he found that only 4% of people in America hold a consistent biblical worldview. This statistic tells us a lot about the state of the church in America, but it also leaves a lot unsaid.
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Promoting Adultery in America
What Christians consider to be sexual immorality used to be the common definition for all of American society. It is not that people didn’t engage in sexually immoral behavior, but even those who participated did it knowing it was wrong.
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Crypts, Chandeliers, and a Door Cracked Open
The chandeliers dangled mere yards from the crypt. They hung from branches draped over a courtyard, with a view of vineyards beyond. A little stone wall ran a circle around what would become a grand al fresco dining room and then, in its final encore, a dance floor.
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When Being Real Means Looking Dead
When you have a chronic “thorn,” you also have a chronic comparison problem.I did, at least.The worst comparison I made during that time, however, was the one I kept making to…myself. My former self. That self that was just out of earshot. We had left her back around the corner and up the hill, but she was close. I could still remember what she looked like and smelled like, how she talked about things, like the future. I remembered all the things that were just so easy for her, like walking
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Comparing the Secular All-Time Best-Selling Book, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, with the Bible
Foreward “One of the most influential books of all time in pointing the way to personal achievement—to financial independence and to riches of the spirit beyond measurement in money.”
