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Tag Archives: addiction
Use Me
“When you’re drowning and someone is reaching down from a rock and says, ‘Grab my hand!’ you do it! That’s when it’s all right to use someone, Alec, because that’s how they got there. That’s how I did. I mean, … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged addiction, gospel, Healing River, helping others, hope, Matthew 10:8, salvation
10 Comments
Why (at Least Some) Bad Things Happen
I don’t often get a sense of “why bad things happen.” You know, the “senseless” stuff we didn’t plan on—illness, lost income, the death of a friend. But a few years back, while writing the screenplay for my movie Healing … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes
Tagged addiction, bad things, car accident, God, Healing River, purpose, reasons, why
54 Comments
Radical Forgiveness!
More Rave Reviews for Healing River! The trailer has been seen and shared by thousands. From multiple true events, including my own near-death encounter with a heroin-addicted driver, I created a story of “impossible” forgiveness that both challenged and moved … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Movies, Popular Culture & Entertainment, Videos
Tagged addiction, death, feature film, forgiveness, love, trailer
37 Comments
A Filmmaker’s Journal
My Feature Film is Finally Being Released! I’ve been updating readers for years about my first feature film as a writer-director, Over-the-Rhine. So I’m beyond thrilled to announce that it’s finally being released! And that its name has been changed … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, For Pastors and Teachers, Movies, Story Power, Writing
Tagged addiction, Amazon Prime, film, forgiveness, Healing River, Over-the-Rhine
131 Comments
Are Christians Hypocrites?
“I don’t go to church because churches are full of hypocrites!” This is an increasingly common sentiment. But is it true? Are churches full of hypocrites? Duh. Are AA meetings full of alcoholics? I’m a Christian, though I rarely use … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Humor, Memoir, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged addiction, alcoholics anonymous, Christians, church, hypocrisy
100 Comments
A Filmmaker’s Journal
Originally posted on Mitch Teemley:
Something Real “Faith-based” movies are in the toddler stage. Hollywood only began to realize there was a large audience for such films when The Passion of the Christ sold massive numbers of tickets to churchgoers in…
Posted in Culture, For Pastors and Teachers, Movies, Popular Culture & Entertainment, Religion/Faith, Writing
Tagged addiction, forgiveness, novel, Over-the-Rhine
16 Comments
Rootbound
Trees that outgrow their planters (and plants that outgrow their pots) become rootbound–strangled by their own roots. Unable to grow. Unable to take in nutrients. What to do? First, remove the plant from its too-small container. Second, trim away the … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged addiction, alchoholism, drugs, family, God, hope, Jeremiah 17:8
32 Comments
A Filmmaker’s Journal
Turmen Alley A major publisher is considering publishing my novelization of the screenplay for my feature film Over-the-Rhine. Hence I’ve been working on that and had no blog posts planned for today (I sent it to the publisher just minutes … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Movies, Story Power, Writing
Tagged addiction, drugs, forgiveness, heroin, novel, publishing
17 Comments
A Filmmaker’s Journal
He killed her only son… My feature film Over-the-Rhine will have its West Coast Premiere at the Burbank International Film Festival on Saturday, September 9th, 2017. And I’ve just learned that we have been nominated for a major award! Categories … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Popular Culture & Entertainment
Tagged addiction, award, drama, drugs, feature film, forgiveness, nominee, Over-the-Rhine
25 Comments