Long live the weekend! I hope you’re enjoying some quiet moments and rest. This week I added a video to my 3 Things, so please let me know if you like it.
Here are some interesting place I landed on the web this week and a poem about.
1. New era for Bible films
It’s here. The much anticipated House of David series dropped its first 3 episodes on Prime.
I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet, because I was on the road this week. I happened to be at NRB in Dallas, where the series was featured heavily. The trailer and poster and branding was everywhere.
But I have heard from friends and family, and on the internet how excited people are. This is a big moment for films and series based on beloved bible stories and bible characters.
Amazon-MGM’s multi-year, multi-million dollar commitment to be the home of the new series was a landmark moment in 2024. A signal that faith and film fit and that audiences are hungry for it. People want scripture-based content.
It’s an exciting time for value-driven, faith-focused audiences and content makers.
As a filmmaker I’m encouraged. Over at
we’re bringing the story of Daniel to life this year and we’re in pre-production. It’s a big effort to bring a story like this to life, and seeing stories like House of David land on platforms and have buzz is really energizing.2. Those Mark Carney memes
Have you been catching all the memes about Mark Carney this week all over the internet? I’m definitely here for it.
Mark Carney, former Governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, has become the unlikely star of a meme surge on social media as he campaigns for the Liberal Party of Canada leadership.
A trend on X is to call him out for his dishonesty and poke a little fun at how he puffed up or flat out fibbed about his own bio.
I jumped in on the fun.
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Tweaking like Megyn Kelly
If you create content, have you thought about ways you can re-use existing content or even your notes to serve your audience? If not, take a page out of Megyn Kelly's recent playbook. She expanded her popular podcast to include her new AM minute.
What’s cool about it is that this new feature came out of a desire to serve her audience and it also is content that her team realized they could repurpose. Since it’s launch, has already had millions of downloads and views, in less than 2 weeks since its launch.
Each night she gets a packet of all the news of the day to best prepare her for the interviews she does on the following day’s show. And The team realized they had a daily segment of content that could serve an audience hungry for information in a media environment that’s heavy on punditry and opinion, but short on straight up news.
I thought this was a really interesting addition and it’s great lesson for content creators. What’s in your hand? What can you reuse, repurpose or recycle to bring value to your audience?
A poem
I was reminded of this poem this week. I wrote it when I lived in Malaysia for a few years and studied then served in the School of Biblical studies, YWAM’s famous 9-month verse-by-verse scriptural intensive.
There was a road near the campus that I walked morning and night after long days of intense study. I called it my runway.
my runway
The inlaid flecks of glass sparkle a few steps ahead as I walk beside the painted lines of the pavement towards the hills and their silhouette in the velvet blueblack sky
with their stars who also speak to me that wink at a distance
I reach for them but they remain untouched
The street lamp casts me two shadows with its faint din
one small the other stretches out ahead always
bigger unable to match its size symbolic
of all I have to grow into
The air is fresh and touches my skin I am to slow to breath it in and it is gone
to linger elsewhere for a time
I turn back along the strip only one shadow now
first beside me now in front always
getting longer as I walk between lampposts until
it disappears waiting for the light to fade so it can walk with me again.
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