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Wisdom – 36 Parables Monthly Newsletter – November 2009

One of the many beautiful threads weaving the Old and New Testaments together is wisdom. Simply put, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom”(Proverbs 9:10). If you fear the Lord you will listen to Him, love others, and in doing so put yourself last (Dueteronomy 6:1-9, Mark 12:28-34 ). Throughout the Book [...]
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The Five C’s of Cinematography by Joseph V. Mascelli – Christian Video Magazine – November 2009

In the technological Xanadu we video producers know as the present day it is easy for outsiders, and some insiders, to forget the person telling the story and somehow think that the camera being used impacts the quality of the story being told. Recently, someone who had seen the short film content produced by Christ [...]
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‘Yule Tide Treasure – Christian Video Magazine – October 2009

The 2010 Holiday Season is almost upon us and the demands are growing higher as SermonSpice.com and other sites provide downloadable sermon content. That means more video producers competing to put out the very best holiday themed content for pastors to download. Can you feel it? That is the pressure of a free market. SermonSpice.com [...]
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The Service Industry – Christian Video Magazine – September 2009

There are countless opinions concerning set etiquette. Some people insist the camera person must call out “Set” once they’re ready to go, followed by the 1st AD’s “Roll Camera”, to which the camera person responds “Camera Speeds”, and finally the Director bellows the all important, “Action!”. Others just hope the camera person knows where the [...]
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Together

This month I finished reading John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Though the story deals with the migration of Okies to the west coast during the first great depression, I couldn’t help but see the obvious parallels to the present. The book revolves around the journey of the Joad family from Oklahoma to Southern California [...]
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Victims

Victim. Definition: one that is acted on and usually adversely affected by a force or agent. That definition includes everyone who has ever lived on the planet Earth. We’re all victims. Some people have no trouble admitting this. Life has been hard on them and they can’t see any way things could have worked out [...]
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