Lord, Help Me Be Kind When I Don’t Want To!

Be kind! Especially when everything in you screams to react in anger, be kind. Ask yourself, what is lying behind that internal outrage?

Years ago, while helping to lead a children’s outreach with Youth With a Mission, I learned a children’s chorus based on Ephesians 4:31-32 (KJV). “Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, […]

The Dark Side of YouTube

There is a dark side to YouTube and TikTok where manipulation reigns and where creators and followers create a toxic environment. Be a light.

There is a dark side to social media, especially on YouTube and TikTok. A toxic culture arises when the creator and viewer feed off each other. If a creator has a leaning toward narcissistic behaviour, they will give their followers a false impression that they are in their inner circle, that somehow they made it […]