Modern Parables: The Blog

Smallgroupexchange.com

Thomas — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:38:58 +0000

Modern Parables Group Study Set was recently added to Smallgroupexchange.com as a new product. Small Group Exchange is run by BluefishTV, a great video curriculum producer out of Texas. We’re happy to include them as one of our new Affiliates.

MP adds 2 Digital Distributors

Thomas — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:29:41 +0000

Modern Parables has established new digital distribution relationships with Christianity Today’s FaithVisuals and the independent Catholic Media House. We have been pleased with the success of our downloadable studies on our own site and look forward to seeing how they do in these two new venues. Although the media is not yet loaded up on [...]

MP reviewed on Crosswalk.com

Thomas — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:43:01 +0000

Crosswalk.com recently reviewed MP in an article exploring the background of the series, as well as some of the events leading up to its creation. If interested, you can read the article here.

Vos on the Kingdom

Thomas — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:47:44 +0000

Geerhardus Vos (1862-1949) was a Dutch-American theologian who taught Biblical Theology at Princeton. I think he’s one of the most important theologians of the 20th-century and find that he’s highly influenced my views both of scripture and the Kingdom of God. In 1903, he wrote a tract entitled The Teaching of Jesus Regarding the Kingdom [...]

MP featured at Group Life 2008

Thomas — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:24:25 +0000

Willow Creek’s Group Life Conference 2008 has chosen Modern Parables as one of “the best video curriculum available” along with curriculum from three other established companies. Selections from MP films will be shown at the pre-conference film festival in October. It’s a great privilege to be a part of Willow Creek’s conference.

Steve McQueen’s face in Bullitt

Thomas — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:32:44 +0000

Bullitt (1968) is known primarily for its famous San Francisco car chase sequence a little more than mid-way through the film. Even though it’s been copied a thousand times, it’s still a great piece of cinema. But in watching Bullitt the other night, what stood out more was the way director Peter Yates and Steve [...]

Sibelius’ symphonies and the “profound logic”

Thomas — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:25:32 +0000

I recently purchased the Paavo Berglund edition of all of Jean Sibelius’ symphonies and tone poems. (You can buy the 8 CDs here. It is a great deal.) I’ve spent a lot of time listening to the symphonies and they are really magnificent. Sibelius wrote at the early part of the 20th-century, but eschewed a [...]

In Praise of Peter Drucker

Thomas — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:20:39 +0000

I am an inveterate fan of Peter Drucker. I think God gave him one of the extraordinary minds of the 20th-century and that his contribution to the world has not yet been truly calculated. He was a self-designated “social ecologist,” which is a much more accurate descriptive than that of “management guru” or even “father [...]

One Perspective on Using Video in Small Groups

Thomas — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:30:12 +0000

A few months ago, I was asked by smallgroups.com to write a short article on using videos to teach which they published in their e-newsletter. Since it was never added to our site, I thought I’d post it here: My first memory of watching a video in church was in youth group. It was the early [...]

Advertising with HD Trailers

Thomas — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:41:28 +0000

We’ve had a number of people ask us for versions of our trailers that they can use to advertise MP in their churches or classes. We now have them available for free download by clicking here. You can get them in DVD or HD quality in both Quicktime or WMV format.