Tilt Shift Wins First Place at ICVM Crown Awards

We won! Tilt Shift wins the ICVM gold crown award.

On February 21, the International Christian Visual Media Crown Awards were held during the National Religious Broadcasters convention in Nashville. The ICVM website states that the awards ceremony is about “Honoring the Best in Indie Christian Film.” I am very pleased to announce that Tilt Shift won first place, the gold crown, for best Christian talk show.

A little over three years ago, my wife and I had an idea to create a movie review show that analyzed the philosophies and worldviews being promoted through Hollywood films. I asked my friend and colleague, Bryan Osborne, to cohost the show with me. It would be another year before we came up with a name for the show and filmed our first season. Special thanks to the A/V crew at Answers in Genesis for suggesting the name of the show and for doing such an awesome job on the production side of things.

I can honestly say that I never imagined that the show would win an award like this because I didn’t even know the ICVM existed until someone told us in November that Tilt Shift had been nominated and was one of five finalists for best Christian talk show. I am grateful for the honor of winning this award, and even though the idea started in my house, it takes a great team of people to bring a show from concept to reality. So, I’d like to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone involved in working on the show from the producers to the directors, camera crew, audio techs, reviewers, and editors.

Answers.tv director Bryan Eckardt received Tilt Shift’s gold crown award. Fun fact: Bryan is also the somewhat snarky narrator of Tilt Shift’s introduction.

We have had so much fun filming the episodes, and probably a little too much fun filming the promos. While it’s time consuming to do all the preparation and post-production, I have been very pleased with the result and encouraged by so many people who have reached out with positive feedback about the show. I am particularly grateful for those who tell me that it has helped them grow in their faith.

We recently wrapped up filming season three and will be working through post-production for a few months. The episodes will likely start to drop in August or September. For more details about the concept and development of Tilt Shift, check out this post I wrote when our first episode aired on Answers.tv. If you haven’t watched the show yet, go to Answers.tv and sign up for a free seven-day trial to binge watch Tilt Shift and some of the other great programs on the platform. Then sign up for an entire year for just over $3 per month so you can continue watching. Two other Answers.tv programs were also finalists for awards this year (Lily’s Lab and Kashtan’s Wildlife in the Zoo).

Here is a list of the movies we’ve covered so far on Tilt Shift:

Season 1:

  • Free Guy
  • A Quiet Place
  • Ghostbusters: Afterlife
  • Beauty and the Beast (1991 vs. 2017)
  • Woke Women vs. Strong Women
  • The Last Jedi (my all-time most hated film)
  • Jurassic Park Trilogy
  • Avengers Endgame

Season 2:

  • The Bad Guys
  • Godzilla: King of Monsters
  • Harry Potter series (two episodes)
  • Top Gun Maverick
  • Avatar
  • Jurassic World Trilogy
  • Spider-Man: No Way Home

Here’s one of the promos we shot for the Harry Potter episodes in season 2.

Season 3:

I’ll wait a little longer to announce the films we covered for the upcoming season, but I will say that one of them had a lot of pink in it and was last year’s highest grossing film.

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Fallen Enters Amazon’s Best Sellers Rankings

My book, Fallen: The Sons of God and the Nephilim, is now available from my online store and Amazon.

It has taken a little while, but my book Fallen: The Sons of God and the Nephilim has reached the top 10 in both of its categories on Amazon. As of my latest check, it was ranked #9 in Christian Angelology and Demonology and #6 in Old Testament Bible Study (Books). This is thanks in large part to two strong months of sales following several interviews I have done (details below).

Fallen addresses that strange and controversial passage in Genesis 6:1–4. Historically, there have been three major interpretations regarding the identity of the “sons of God” in this passage, and there are a few less common interpretations as well. My book offers a detailed analysis of this passage and the three major views while demonstrating how only one of these positions properly explains the text, makes sense of the context, fits the narrative of Scripture, and adequately addresses all objections. The best arguments for each view are examined and then analyzed in light of Scripture and history. All of the objections raised against each position are also given space and examined to see whether one of the views withstands scrutiny.

While the first 16 chapters of Fallen focus on the identity of the sons of God, much of the second half of the book studies the subject of the Nephilim (“giants” in many Bibles). Many people conflate these two groups, but a careful reading of the text shows that the Nephilim were on the earth because of what the sons of God did.

There is significant interest in this topic. I often have people approach me after a presentation on a different subject, and they want to ask me about this passage. Numerous books have been written on the topic as well, but a large percentage of them emphasize some of the sensationalism that is often associated with this topic. My goal was to write the most detailed Bible study on the topic that has been done to this point and avoid the sensationalism. After completing my ThM thesis on the subject in 2011, I spent eight more years studying and writing on the topic before Fallen was published. At just under 500 pages, I believe I have accomplished my goal of producing the most in-depth (yet largely easy to follow) book on the sons of God and the Nephilim available anywhere. One may disagree with my conclusions, but he or she will undoubtedly gain a deeper understanding of this passage while reading the book.

The Interviews

Since August 2023, I have taken part in several interviews with hosts who have sizeable followings. Please note that I do not come up with the names of the programs—they are often chosen for better rankings in web search results. Here are the links:

Fallen Angels and the Nephilim—Prophecy Watchers (w/ Mondo Gonzalez)

 

The Bloodline of Giants (ft. Tim Chaffey)—The Week in Bible Prophecy (w/ Gary Stearman)

 

The Sons of God and the Nephilim: Interview with Tim Chaffey—Remnant Radio (w/ Joshua Lewis and Michael Miller)

 

Origin of the Nephilim—3 Primary Views—Right Response Ministries – Part 1 (w/ Joel Webbon)

 

How Did the Nephilim Survive the Flood? with Dr. Tim Chaffey—Right Response Ministries – Part 2 (w/ Joel Webbon)

 

How Fallen Angels Biologically Engineered the Giants with Dr. Tim Chaffey—Right Response Ministries – Part 3 (w/ Joel Webbon)

Can Angels Procreate with Women? with Dr. Tim Chaffey—Right Response Ministries – Part 4 (w/ Joel Webbon)

I have a couple more interviews that will air in the next few weeks, so I will post those links here when they are available.

If you have watched/listened to any of these and found them helpful, leave a comment below and share your thoughts. Also, if you’ve read Fallen, please consider taking a couple minutes to leave a positive rating/review on Amazon.

Thanks for reading!