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Heroes
It must have been January last year, because when I pulled up to the church around 6:00 AM the air was cold enough to wake up my coffee. That morning the men’s group watched one video from a series discussing manhood. I felt well prepared for the course because the month or two before I [...]
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Why Short Films Don’t Work in Church – Christian Video Magazine – August 2009
For most of our lives, almost every American has been part of an enormous classical conditioning experiment. We have learned how to view, appreciate, and enjoy watching TV and movies. I’m not talking about the types of programs we watch, but rather the way they are delivered to us. Whether we know it or not, [...]
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Why Production Value is NEVER the Benchmark for Success – Christian Video Magazine – July 2009
There is a way to objectively measure the success of the videos you produce for your church or ministry, and it is NOT production value. This point was driven home for me recently when a friend of mine sent over a video she produced and qualified it as “amateur”. The video is BE STILL by [...]
Eyes Fixed on the Horizon
I was running in the middle of the day like I usually do. The summer heat and Ozark Country hills delivering a worthy work out. What caught my eye was all the trash on the side of the road. First I picked up a piece of plastic and kept running along, like I was helping [...]
Themes in Parables
In his book Kingdom, Grace, and Judgment Robert Farrar Capon fits all of Jesus’ parables into one of those three categories. Jesus began His ministry by preaching about the Kingdom of God and then shifted His emphasis to Grace. As the time of the crucifixion grew near His parables were predominately focused on Judgment. Though [...]
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