... flower-power” 60s, the comic book hero “Batman” was reborn as a classic, “high-camp,” tongue-in-cheek, fun-to-watch TV show. Even the comic book “balloon” commentaries, “bam!,” “whoosh!,” “bash!,” “bop!,” decorated the fight scenes of the Adam West/Burt Ward weekly Batman show. It was fun. It was silly. The good guys were funny-good. The bad guys were funny-bad. The music was staccato-silly. Both Batman and Robin looked like they were wearing outfits that were made for someone ...
... the mirror because of the way they accumulated their wealth. There was a movie many years ago, The Sweet Smell of Success with Burt Lancaster. Lancaster played J. J. Hunsecker, a powerful and disreputable New York gossip columnist. What he puts in his columns can make a ... caused him to realize that “conversely, many successful business people have everything, so what do they need God for?” Ward realized that many of us have everything, so we don’t feel a need for God’s provision. (3) But there ...
Churches are funny places. Have you ever noticed that? Burt Kettinger tells about a small church in Rocky River, Ohio, just west of Cleveland where he grew up. This church ... They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer . . .” That is why you came to this place today. Henry Ward Beecher once said, “The church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians but a school for the education of imperfect ones.” So we keep coming back ...
