... in every thing we do? That’s embarrassingly simple. But if I read the Bible correctly, that’s what it’s all about. This sermon began forming in my heart and mind several years ago when I first saw the movie, “Wit,” a Mike Nichols film, starring Emma Thompson. A great movie, not so much entertaining as disturbingly thought provoking. The movie is about Dr. Vivian Bearing, a first rate scholar, specializing in 17th century English literature, especially the poetry of John Donne. She had a biting wit ...
... begins to live in light of Christ’s model.3 True conversion results in profound change, including a change in relationship to past sin and to one’s possessions. All people need to turn to Jesus and be saved. Film: Regarding Henry, directed by Mike Nichols. This 1991 film shows how a person can completely reform his or her life when shocked into awareness, a metaphor for what this passage is saying. Henry is an ambitious, self-focused, arrogant, even ruthless, highly successful Manhattan lawyer who has a ...
... ’t hurt her. At first she didn’t know who her assailant was, but when he took off his hat, she recognized him from a news report. He was Brian Nichols. Brian Nichols was a prisoner brought to court for the retrial of a rape conviction. When he arrived at the courtroom he overtook his guard. In the melee he took her gun and ... , Thank God It’s Monday! (Nashville, TN: Everywhere Press, 1998, p. 32). 4. Craddock Stories, Mike Graves and Richard F. Ward, eds. (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2001), pp. 125-126.
