Now You Can Listen to the Audio from My Red Carpet Interviews with Cast of New Film "Saints & Strangers"

The film “Saints & Strangers,” which airs on National Geographic in two parts beginning Sunday, Nov. 22 9/8c, tells the true story behind Thanksgiving. It chronicles the quest of two groups – the pilgrims and the opportunists on board the Mayflower – who came to the New World under very different pretenses. The film is a thrilling period piece adventure/drama that places a surprising emphasis on the faith of the pilgrims and shows how their reliance on God got them through the hardest of times.

I attended the film’s premiere in Beverly Hills and had the privilege of interviewing the cast and filmmakers – including actors like Ron Livingston (“Office Space”), Anna Camp (“The Help”), and Raoul Truillo (“Apocalypto”). Now, in my latest podcast episode, you can listen to my audio from the red carpet as if you were there by my side:

from Tumblr http://ift.tt/1SHOeDR
via IFTTT

New Podcast Interview with Jordan Feliz (Billboard #1 Artist): When God Calls Us to the Scary Unknown

I had the joy of chatting with Christian singer Jordan Feliz (whose new single “The River” is taking radio stations by storm and topping the charts). I was surprised to learn that he and I have some cool things in common, and I was incredibly inspired by the story of his faith journey – how God called him to dive into the unknown, and the amazing story of how God provided in the midst of the unknown.

Check it out here:

http://ift.tt/1WNmwGT

from Tumblr http://ift.tt/1OAgIBC
via IFTTT

The Emptiness of the World's Pomp and Possessions

Matthew Henry, in his commentary on Daniel 11, says this about Alexander the Great:

Olympias, Alexander’s mother, killed him, and poisoned Alexander’s two sons, Hercules and Alexander. Thus was his family rooted out by its own hands. See what decaying perishing things worldly pomp and possessions are, and the powers by which they are got. Never was the vanity of the world and its greatest things shown more evidently than in the story of Alexander. All is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes makes the same case, though, as Timothy Keller pointed out in one of his sermons, it pertains only to “all that under the sun,” meaning the temporal things of this present world. But there is a different world to come, a “better country, a heavenly country,” as Hebrews 11 says, and a “new heaven and a new earth” as Revelation 21 says.

No wonder the human soul suffers such unbearable emptiness and bottomless cynicism when it looks to this world to fill its ever need. We crave the Bread of Life and the Living Water and don’t even know it.

from Tumblr http://ift.tt/1MqVwag
via IFTTT