Background

My ministry vision for some time now has been encouraging Christian young adults to produce video and other media, as well as some other creative ideas to let our culture know about Christ. People are increasingly living as though God doesn't exist, and the New Atheists are gaining a lot of ground. I believe the way to counter this is to encourage young adults to live their faith, promote sound doctrine, show that faith is reasonable, and show how exciting the truths about God really are.

The greatness of the God of the Bible -- the triune God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit -- cannot be overstated. He created the universe, holds it in His hands, and guides history with sovereignty. He is powerful enough to provide for all of our needs. He is loving enough to sacrifice Himself so that we as sinners have the opportunity to live with Him. If you think about it, you can realize that He truly has the answer to every single earthly problem.

Why doesn't everyone know that? What a tragedy it is to ignore Him!

This video will proclaim that in a way that is compelling and as artfully done as possible on a limited budget.

A major open question, that will need to be one of the first things decided, is the general "feel" or genre of the film. I definitely want to see some action, but will it be fully acted or will it be more like a "normal" documentary where there are a lot of narrative roles? If I write it, it will be mostly the latter, but the former would be more engaging, which is why I am opening up this project so much. I'm sure there are many, many people with better ideas than I have for how to present these truths.

These chapters of Isaiah contain much scientific content, and it gives us the opportunity to delve into how science corroborates what the Bible says about God's incredible wisdom in designing the earth and the universe. The question is, how much do we want to get into that? If the film does convey scientific concepts, I promise that it will be real science and not young earth "creation science." This will be opposed by some Christians. Furthermore, does getting into science take the spotlight off the cross of Jesus Christ? Nevertheless there is enough good stuff out there that I will likely want to incorporate some of it in a limited way.

Above all we need prayer warriors. Nothing can be accomplished for God's kingdom unless it is accompanied by prayer. Pray that the Lord is in this at every step. Specifically:

• That He will lead the right people to become involved and keep them dedicated to the end
• That He will guide the writing of the script so that it contains the exact message He wants to convey
• That He will provide all the equipment needed to do a first class job
• Most importantly, that the finished product will powerfully show many people how loving and following God makes sense

After that, first we simply need creative thinkers to figure out what the film should be like and to write its script.

Some point down the road we will need actors, musicians, and other artful people.

We will also need film equipment and props. I intend to largely finance this myself, but there may be need of something that someone has and would be willing to lend to the project -- that would be most welcome. We will get to that in time. I have a Christianbook.com affiliate link below. Any procedes received from there will help defray the costs of camera equipment. I do not intend to ask for direct donations of equipment or money.

There are two organizations I want to link to because they have profoundly impacted my view of God and are largely responsible for some of the thinking that led to the idea of this film.