Saturday…

It’s Saturday.  I love Saturdays, except for one thing. When I speak on Sunday mornings, I don’t use notes.  There are a variety of reasons I do that.  But not using notes on Sunday means that I have to “internalize” my message on Saturday.  I’ll read it through several times, making sure it’s settled in…

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Intellectual Dishonesty

One thing that drives me nuts is when someone makes an argument, but isn’t intellectually honest about it… For instance, there’s a conservative, legalistic Christian radio host who plays sermons on his show and rips them apart for being too “liberal.”  He’s done this with my sermons, which is fine.  But he carefully picks them…

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Best Actor

With the Academy Awards this week, I thought I’d have the audacity to tell you who should win if they gave acting awards for all the movies (well, all the movies I’ve seen and can remember) from 1980 to 2010.  Last, the Best Actor: Honorable Mention:  Philip Seymore Hoffman in Capote, Jack Nicholson in About…

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Best Actress

With the Academy Awards this week, I thought I’d have the audacity to tell you who should win if they gave acting awards for all the movies (well, all the movies I’ve seen and can remember) from 1980 to 2010.  This time, the Best Actress: Honorable Mention:  Hillary Swank in Million Dollar Baby, Juliet Binoche…

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Best Supporting Actor

With the Academy Awards this week, I thought I’d have the audacity to tell you who should win if they gave acting awards for all the movies (well, all the movies I’ve seen and can remember) from 1980 to 2010.  This time, the Best Supporting Actor (which, by the way, is the most difficult to…

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