The Broken Voices Blog

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We have three things to tell you that you simply must know today.

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Check in with us for the Monday update on all things Broken Voices!

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When life becomes difficult you often hear the charge to, “have faith.” I’m coming to see that everyone has faith. We are all believing and trusting in someone or something. Who are you trusting today?  The battle for my faith and trust is between me and God. And the crazy thing is, I am the only one fighting. God is just being who He always has been while I spin my wheels like I know what I’m doing. 

God is faithful. I know this. I can see that in the scriptures. I’ve seen His faithfulness in my own life many times. Do I believe God is faithful and trustworthy? I think so. Do I live like God is faithful? Not very often. 

When push comes to shove I allow my faith to drift, from a confidence in who God is and who He has promised to be, to faith in my own abilities to take control. I believe I can fix things. I live like I can manage life to go my way. When things settle back down I allow God to take back over. 

God has been using my involvement in Broken Voices to change my life. Having a faith that is alive and moving can’t be something that resides in my head. I’m seeing more and more that my faith in God must be an active conviction, something that connects down to the deepest fibers of who I am. He’s causing me to believe and live out things that I have known for a very long time. It’s exciting. It’s scary. I hope it’s the way I choose to live the rest of my life. I hope and pray that you will live your days believing there is a God who is not only worthy of your complete trust but who is also walking with you every step of the way. 

God used some young ladies in St. Louis to challenge my faith in a really cool way. In another raw clip from Anthem you are going to meet Allyson and Kelli. Every week they get together with a group of friends to work on a project that is so cool! You’ll hear all about their project in the film, but in the meantime enjoy this clip from a group of girls who know, believe, and live like there is a God worth trusting. 

Matt & the BV Team

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Good morning! I hope Tuesday or whatever day you read this is treating you well. I know we promised you something special today but some plans changed. So you all get this super special blog post instead. We were going to be in the studio with some musicians recording music for the Anthem soundtrack. Our plan was to bring you a “live from the studio” podcast but we moved some things around and sadly no studio videos today…

Work on the film continues. To say we are getting more and more excited about it would be an understatement. It’s tedious work we are in these next couple of weeks, but we are already seeing the story emerge and come together in a beautiful way. Continue to pray as we are working hard on the fundraising side as well. Ask the same God who created these dreams and ideas to continue to provide. Thanks to many of you who responded to the last podcast and are helping us out, that means the world to us. Check back Friday for a podcast, thanks again!

Andrew and the BV team

Here are some pictures from our time in Austin & Dallas, Texas. While you watch, you can groove to a tune from our composer, Brent Johnson. Enjoy! We’ll be back with something special some time on Tuesday.

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We have spent this week watching and digitizing a lot of footage from Anthem. As Andrew would say, he works hard all day while I sit around and watch TV. Ha! It’s been a tiring week working through hours and hours of footage, yet it is so exciting to hear the stories again. 

Today we wanted to give you the first sneak peak into one of our interviews. It’s a raw unedited clip, but something that God has been using to move and challenge me.

In the clip you are going to see Tim Brosnan who lives with his family in Austin, Texas. Tim runs a really cool organization called People Not Profit. Tim’s organization is doing some really amazing things in Austin and around the world. The stuff that has been striking me though, is how committed Tim and his wife are to following Jesus in their everyday life. They are doing some really simple yet powerful things in their neighborhood and it was incredibly inspiring to see it firsthand! 

Enjoy the first clip from Anthem…

Matt & the BV Team

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Hey guys welcome back to the Broken Voices blog! We hope you’re doing well. As always, thank you so much for walking this journey with us. We are starting another week still hard at work on cutting Anthem. We’re more grateful than ever to be a part of what is happening here. Please, continue to ask God to give us His eyes and ideas for the story as we shape and mold it this week. It’s amazing as we look through the footage to think through how much God did in our lives personally during our time in production.

Job 42:5 says “My ears had heard of you, but now my eyes have seen you.”

Recently God had slipped into someone I heard about, not someone I personally knew. In the process of making this film, He has revealed himself in fresh ways that I am still taking in, and I am seeing first hand what I have only heard of him doing before. The challenging part for me is wondering what changed, the work He was doing all around me or my ability and desire to take notice.

I hope wherever you find yourself this week, you could experience the true and living God. I am praying that we would be people truly falling more in love with God, not just knowing about Him or hearing of Him. Furthermore, that in the process we would begin using our lives to make known the loving king and perfect savior to a broken world who has never needed him more.

Thank you for your prayer and belief in this God and in us. Moving forward to what lies ahead…

Andrew and the BV Team

We will be updating the blog every Monday and Friday. As we are working through post production on Anthem, we want to give you some sneak peak looks into things we experienced. We will also continue to inform you on the latest Broken Voices news. Enjoy this look back into our time in New Orleans.

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