This little film has continued to have a lot of personal connections for me. After shooting it, I continued to stay in touch with the lead actor, Josh Childs, a neat and talented guy who also has a desire to produce and write faith-based films. The other connection is the baby in the film: I continue to see her regularly, except that now she’s three and sits in a chair next to me at breakfast eating pancakes. (Read the original in Matthew 13:44 or watch the full film online for free.)
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When we first shot this film, I believe Tim Keller was still working on his book The Prodigal God. I heard through a close friend of mine who knows him that this was his favorite parable, so I listened to one of his sermons on it. Alongside the work of Kenneth Bailey, his view of the relationship of the two brothers was a strong influence on my understanding of the parable. (Read the original in Luke 15:11-32 or watch the full film online for free.
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This is the only documentary in the Modern Parables series thus far, and in a sense it paved the way for our doing the Seek Social Justice series. Just the other day I was reading through Mark with my daughters and we came to this passage, and I realized how much my understanding of it had changed since working on this film. (Read the original in Matthew 13:1-22 or watch the full film online for free.)
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