OH NO YOU DIDN’T!

Have you ever gotten to a point in life where you wanted to throw everything down and just walk away from an appointed task? It does not matter if you have the biggest job in the town; or a church leader or even the head of a home. There comes a breaking point where even the best of us may have had it and even wanted to throw the towel. Sometimes a person can give and give and give, see no gratitude and in fact, you may see the opposite – complaining, whining and no concept of the grander picture at all, just incredulous commentary. If you feel that way, you will not have been the first.

Moses would not have been the first leader of a congregation, nation, even a family to want to pack it in and walk away. Fortunately he had the greatest Listener for what burdened his heart – the Lord God of Heaven!What had set him off was the entire group of ingrates whom God had liberated from 400 years of brutal oppression in a godless, hot and evil land of Egypt. Yet, they incredibly spit in the proverbial Eye of God by saying the following… CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

FAITH-BASED MOVIE REVIEW

There have been wonderful faith-based movies made by African-American producers like Tyler Perry, T.D. Jakes and others. However “Love Different” is a body of work by Producer/Director Anthony Hackett which defies a label and even a category. It is so woven with continuously flowing themes of humor, love, faith and human interaction that 94 minutes go by without you noticing.  “Love Different” tells the tale of a young Iowa born and bred woman (expertly portrayed by Christian actress Jenn Gotzonas Lindsay Walker) who accepts a job at an all-black consulting firm in Maryland.  Right off the bat, we know where this is heading. The humor and cultural clash immediately become evident, fueled by some excellent writing by Anthony Hackett and his team.

The head of the consulting firm, the affable Mr. Chamberlain, assigns his best consultant – JonNeque (Neque) Campbell to come alongside Lindsay Walker in order to give her a two day crash course in “Black Culture” after discerning that his new consultant may be unable to relate to her prospective new clientele! The humorous crash course in the culture fall under the rubric of “don’t try this at home, folks”. READ MORE HERE….