Daily Devotional:
Success = Envy and Ambition?
"But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth." (James 3:14)How do you define success in life? That's the giant question James is…
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The PlanetWisdom Blog:
Ten Minute Poem Winners!
So I have been busier than normal. Sorry for not announcing these sooner! My bad.
I asked several friends to help me judge the entries by submitting poems they liked. Then one pushed back with a good point. The idea wasn't to make a great poem, but simply to write a poem in 10 minutes! In other words, you get an "A" just for participating.
So what to do to find the winners?…
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Book Review:
Always Watching
Always Watching is the first book of the new Christian mystery series called The Rayne Tour. The Rayne Tour books relate the adventures of 16-year-old Shaley O’Connor as she travels on tour with her rock star mom, Rayne. In Always Watching, Shaley stumbles upon the dead body of her best friend, Tom, backstage ...
Movie Review:
My Sister’s Keeper
If a movie can make you cry repeatedly, does that make it good? The answer probably depends on the viewer. If you love crying movies, “My Sister’s Keeper” will make your Hall of Fame. If not, ask your mom and your sister to drop you off at a movie with lots of explosions. And then ask them not to tell you about it later.
See Also: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, The Proposal, Year One
Music Review:
Kid Cudi: "Day ‘N’ Nite"
“Day ‘N’ Nite” is a tranquil song about the life and times of a pothead. The song has a sweet spacey piano riff, and Kid Cudi’s rap is incredibly mellow. The beat is understated but fits the song well. Songs about marijuana are a dime a dozen, anymore, from Tom Petty’s “Last Chance for Mary Jane” to Afroman’s bluntly truthful “Because I Got High.” The message that sets “Day ‘N’ Nite” apart from the run of the mill pro-drug song is that it focuses on some of the reasons why someone smokes weed.
