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I got to preach on Acts 10 at Westchester Chapel, and I discovered a truly remarkable parallel story about Will Ford and Matt Lockett. They both had dreams that led them to a prayer gathering at the Lincoln Memorial on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, where they met. What has come out of that Divine...
08.02.20 06:18 PM - Comment(s)

It was such an incredible blessing to take part in this year's Lamplighter Guild for Creative Disciplines! It was all based on the theme "Facing Fear with Faith," and what an appropriate theme for this year marked by so many things we could be afraid of. 

I taught voice acting and...
07.29.20 07:27 PM - Comment(s)
At the Rocky Mountain Christian Filmmakers Camp last month we filmed three projects, and the first was just released today:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/CGqIBd_Tt0M

Our students did everything on both sides of the camera...except play the interrogator and the guard. Zack Lawrence plays the first, ...
07.06.20 03:29 PM - Comment(s)
Joyce teaches on Acts 8:26-40, Philip and the Ethiopian, at Westchester Chapel. She points out how Philip's obedience to leave a thriving ministry to talk to an Ethiopian on a desert road resulted in a nation today that is 60% Christian, and they know his name: Simeon Bachos.

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07.05.20 08:20 PM - Comment(s)
This photo has all of our acting students, but two of the
filmmaking students left before this photo was taken.
Photo courtesy of Pete P.
We had what we as faculty thought was our smoothest Rocky Mountain Christian Filmmakers Camp to date! This was the 12th year of Film Camp, and I've taught there ...
06.25.20 08:17 PM - Comment(s)
My friends and colleagues Joseph Holmes and Nathan Clarkson are running an amazing podcast called The Overthinkers.

It's a very thoughtful deep dive on various topics at the intersection of Christian faith and culture.

Below I talk briefly about my favorite episode so far...

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05.30.20 06:03 PM - Comment(s)
I was interviewed on The Gate Radio by my friend George Flores. I let him know that I'd released the scene about Pentecost from my one-man play The Acts, and he invited me to talk about that and several of my other projects as well.

It will was aired at various times between May 29 and June 1 on...
05.29.20 08:44 PM - Comment(s)
Pentecost

Since 1991 I've been performing one-man plays in theatres, schools and churches. Since no one's been bringing me into their communities lately due to the pandemic, I felt led to start making some scenes from my plays available for churches to stream for their online services and in their s...

05.21.20 05:36 PM - Comment(s)
One of my heroes passed away today. Ravi Zacharias was a profound apologist for the Gospel. He was always so gentle, always honored those asking questions, but he was always as sharp as a tack. Having been raised Hindu, his observations of how Christianity compares to other faiths was always insigh...
05.19.20 09:43 PM - Comment(s)
Whenever I hear people say all religions are the same I think of all the religious practices we've come across on our journeys to six continents and about 40 nations, living in NYC where every nation on earth is represented, and just observing the world:
• In Israel we encountered the Druze. Their...
05.19.20 09:33 PM - Comment(s)
Joyce and I were guest presenters on this morning's Zoom service for Hope Community Church of the Nazarene. I performed "The Potter" from my one-man play Big Fish Little Worm, and Joyce taught on our marriage verse: Jeremiah 29:11. She frames up ways to hope in the Lord during this strang...
05.17.20 06:57 PM - Comment(s)
I submitted a short film to The Quarantine Film Festival with two minutes to spare! It's an adaptation from my one-man play The Acts.

I ended up reshooting it and it's now available to watch at home and for your church through www.RichDrama.com/Pentecost.

If your church is interested in showing ...
05.01.20 03:06 AM - Comment(s)
I got to play Job in this livestream reading of The Book of Job, considered by some to be the oldest play in history...

https://www.youtube.com/embed/kCHRs8UelyA


I Dreamed I Was Free tells the story of Quaker abolitionist John Woolman, who spoke against slavery a century be...
05.01.20 12:46 AM - Comment(s)
Tonight I got to encourage Westchester Chapel to keep their eyes on Jesus -- not on the storm or fear around them -- as I illustrated  Matthew 14: 22-33 with a video reenactment of Peter walking on the water. 

The video was shot in Israel in 2011 while on the Sea of Galilee. You can see ...
04.30.20 01:29 AM - Comment(s)
Joyce and I were delighted to be in a roundtable discussion with other creatives over video conference called  Stirred but not Shaken: Focus and Influence in Crisis

It was posted to www.LivingArtsTabernacle.com.




See the rest of Olympic champion Eric Liddell's Chari...
04.29.20 03:03 PM - Comment(s)
This was a fun interview Joyce and I did with our friends John and Paula Kasica, who run Creative Arts Fellowship in St. Louis.

If you're reading this in an email you can watch at www.Blog.RichDrama.com (4/27).

04.28.20 12:06 AM - Comment(s)
Joyce shares from Acts 1 how the disciples used their time of sheltering in place to prepare through prayer, fellowship and organizational healing.  She encourages the congregants to use this sacred time of sheltering to prepare as persons and as a people for the mission of building God's Kin...
04.26.20 06:54 PM - Comment(s)
It was nice to meet you at the " For The Glory" filming! Your acting skills are extraordinary! You sort of remind me of Jim Carrey
04.13.20 09:46 PM - Comment(s)
I got to open this morning's service at Westchester Chapel with a dramatic reading of Matthew 27:45-54Dr. Linda Warren brings the Resurrection Day teaching from Matthew 27:45-54 and 28:1-10.

Pastor Jim Warren in his
Easter best... a few years
ago.
Have a blessed Resurrection Day, everyone!

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04.12.20 10:35 PM - Comment(s)

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