Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Video: News story for Camp Erin

I produced this video for the 2008 Camp Erin held near Big Bear, CA.  It was picked up by the local news agency Instant Riverside.  I shot it on a Panasonic DVX-100b.  I also wrote and edited it.

Blog: Most Unreached People Groups are Illiterate

Desiring God recently wrote:


Over 70 percent of the world’s population consists of people who are oral learners — people who cannot or do not read. Most of the world’s unreached and unengaged people groups are preliterate. They are primarily oral learners who cannot read or write the language that they speak — often because their language has not yet been reduced to writing. Their lives are lived out in an oral fashion. They learn about events in their world, form their opinions, share knowledge, and entertain one another using only the spoken word.
Conclusion:
Our faithfulness to the Great Commission calls us to learn new ways of communicating the Word that are intelligle to those who sit in darkness. We must love the world's least reached peoples enough to share the gospel with them in ways they can understand. It's then when pagans will be won, believers will be discipled, pastors will be equipped, and the church will expand for the glory of Jesus Christ.

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Article: Take back the liberal arts

Too often, liberal arts courses aren't attuned to undergraduates looking for a broader understanding of the world but toward professor's narrow interests.




Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Video: Harvest Crusade 2011 Promo

I worked as a field producer conducting the interviews you'll see in the first two minutes of this video.  We shot back in March in Venice Beach and Santa Monica.  Our shooters were my brother, Noah, and Chris Banning.  They were shooting with the Canon 5D.

Monday, August 8, 2011

Video: Beautiful Time Lapse Videography of L.A.

My friend Justin Bleeker shared this beautiful time lapse videography on his Facebook page.  I thought you'd enjoy watching it as well.  It was shot on a Canon 5D and 7D.


LA Light from Colin Rich on Vimeo.




Article: Christianity without Christ?

A recent article by the BBC entitled "Dutch rethink Christianity for a doubting world" focused on a pastor in The Netherlands who "can offer his congregation little hope of life after death".  His church is a member of a "mainstream Protestant church" where they sing hymns and read the bible, but he does not believe that "God exists at all as a supernatural thing."  In fact, he believes that Jesus "may never have existed". 

So how can a Christian church teach that there wasn't really a Christ or God?  Perhaps the following quote might help us understand this strange reality.  Another church in Holland is trying to reach young people.  One of it's coordinators says
"The Church has to be alert to what is going on in society," he says. "It has to change to stay Christian. You can't preach heaven in the same way today as you did 2,000 years ago, and we have to think again what it is. We can use the same words and say something totally different."
This is Post-Modern thinking at its best, yet, it is not new thinking.  Paul warned Timothy to stay away from people who "[have] a form of godliness, but [deny] the power thereof: from such turn away."  (2 Timothy 3:5)

You can not have Christianity without a living Christ.  Paul told the Corinthians that "if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain."  (2 Corinthians 15:14)

This biblical truth is contradicted by Dutch pastor Klaas Hendrikse who says, "You don't have to believe that Jesus was physically resurrected".

Christ is the Cornerstone of the Christian faith.  There is no "alternative" way of looking at it.  Believe that Christ lived a perfect life, died on the cross absorbing God's wrath, and rose again conquering death and sin.  Or don't believe it.  If Jesus wasn't the Christ, there is absolutely no point to follow a faith that is based on a fictional or finite character.  As Paul said, it is extremely vain.  There is absolutely no purpose.

Let's pray for the churches in The Netherlands and around the world who deny the living Christ.  May they "see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God."  (2 Corinthians 4:4)

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

BLOG: Naugles Lives On

Naugles Lives On: This fellow blogger shares my passion for good food - especially Mexican food! This particular article is about a restaurant that still uses the original recipes from the old Naugles restaurant.