Nathan William – Direct / Shoot / Edit
Columbus, Ohio Creative Video Production Company & Web Design
Love Letters
January 12th, 2012
(Verse 1)
There’s a boy running from life
Drinks away the shame from ex-wives
Knows the truth but made friends with the lies
The loss wells up in his mind
(Chorus)
We are love letters
Scribbled in ink
Stories of glory
Too far gone to read
(Verse 2)
There’s a girl who thinks hope is a joke
When he left she raised all five alone
Wraps her fear like chains ’round her own
She is more than all that she’s known
(Chorus)
We are love letters
Scribbled in ink
Stories of glory
Too far gone to read
(Bridge x2)
Have you heard the story of man?
It’s a tragedy
We were meant for more than this
To live, to live, to live
(Chorus)
We are love letters
Scribbled in ink
Stories of glory
Too far gone to read
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Israel Video Journal #1
February 17th, 2011
In June of 2007 I first landed in Jerusalem, Israel. It was a totally a surreal experience. I had been out of the country a few times for short ten day trips and such, but being in Israel, and knowing that I was living there for six months was just crazy, and foreign, and challenging, and changing, and wonderful, and I am so grateful for it! During the time of this video journal I had no idea the three years of Israel life I had ahead and all the insane experiences and education I would go through. For me this is such a fascinatingly reminiscent point in my life.
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5000 anit-LDS DVD’s sent to Arazona town
January 19th, 2011
Hey all, I just got word that a ton of copies of the extremely controversial DVD “The Bible vs. Joseph Smith,” which I spent six months working on with my really close friend Joel Kramer, were recently distributed to a town in Arizona which is super highly populated with Mormons. The documentary is centered around an interview with Joel (Christian) and Greg (Mormon) in which Joel basically confronts Greg throughout the film with evidence supporting the authenticity of the Bible, and at the same time, evidence against the validity of the Book of Mormon. Check out the article below to read about the mass distribution. I also highly encourage you to watch the film! And dare I say, give it to a Mormon… You can order it for cheap at www.sourceflix.com.
5,000 anti-LDS DVD sent to town in Arizona
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Phillip Fox What Cancer Cannot Do
January 16th, 2011
Phillip Fox performing “What Cancer Cannot Do.”
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2010 Christmas letter
January 8th, 2011
If I had to sum up this past year in one word it would be, “holy crap.” It is absolutely insane to think that last January Whit and I were sending you our Christmas blog/letter from Jerusalem, and now just a year later we are back in Columbus, Ohio, I have my own company doing video production and web design stuff, and we have a three and a half month old daughter! We’ve litterally crammed a handful of major life seasons into just twelve months!
Last January we were shocked to find that we were pregnant and over the following months we wrestled with the decision to come back to the states, and in the end we came back, as is evidenced by our occasional guest appearances around Columbus. We arrived state-side at the end of June and I immediately picked up some work doing websites and videos for local people and businesses. At the beginning of September we moved into our very first apartment of our own! A quiet two bedroom on the north side of the city, and we absolutely love it. Once moved in we took time to prepare a place for our rapidly approaching child of whom we did not know the gender. Then, September 23rd, Ruthie Elyse Lundquist came crashing into this world… and I say “crashing” for a reason… in some ways she’s still slowing down from the initial impact.
When Ruthie was about a month old she was diagnosed with a rare liver disease called, “Biliary Atresia.” A disease in which her liver is basically dammed up. Immediately Ruthie had major surgery and her digestive system was jerry-rigged into a new order to cope with her liver’s problem. She will always need medications and regular visits to the hospital to keep an eye on things, and it’s somewhat likely that she will need a liver transplant at some point, but for now she is doing well and she is very happy. And we are inexpressibly grateful… the surgery literally saved her life.
Currently we are all home and very happy about it. Altogether we lived for over a month in the hospital and we’ve actually only been home from our 5th admission for one full day as I write this. In thinking back on this year we Lunkies would love to leave you with one small item of great significance that has brought us through the highs, and particularly the lows, with growth. It is this seemingly obscure reality from the Proverbs of the Bible: “The father who hates his son spares the rod” meaning that the father who doesn’t give a care about his child, won’t discipline him. Ruthie has been an unimaginable joy to us since she was born, and because of that, what she has gone through has tried us harder and pushed us to deeper lows than we’ve ever experienced, by a long shot. And in this we’ve grasped for understanding to allow us to process the pain, and we’ve taken real and great comfort in the fact that God, because he loves us, allows us to go through really crappy circumstances to be disciplined, so we can grow, and become bettered by it. We firmly believe that if God hated us, he would give us everything we ever wanted, right when we wanted it. It would be just such a thing that would turn us into filthy rotten people. So we’ve considered this all joy that God loves us enough to put us to the test and grow us so we can be changed and refined. Ruthie has been the best gift we’ve received, liver disease and all. And I made a few videos just to share the wealth. Below is a recent one of her at three and a half months. And if you’ve never seen her short film birth announcement, you should probably go and do that now —> watch now!
Merry belated Christmas!
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Interview with a Rabbi
June 14th, 2010
Recently we interviewed an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi at The Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, but what we didn’t know was that he was interviewing us also. He had wired up his own mic under his shirt, and had his own camera guy hanging around who also filmed the entire interview. The above video is what he posted on YouTube from what his camera guy captured.
Rabbi Locks has a bizzar theology where, “everything is God, including me.” He also believes that if you are a good person, you’ll go to heaven, and if you are a bad person, you’ll go to hell. And from my experience, that seems to be the basic “doctrine” of salvation for many Jews. Of course, the question then is, “how good is good enough?” And how do you even determine what a good person is? The idea that good people go to heaven and bad people go to hell is a very juvenile theology, it breaks down very rapidly when you actually think about it.
Heaven is where God is, and imperfection cannot co-exist with God, so for us to be with him in Heaven, we must not be good, but perfect, and no one is perfect. That is the simple gospel, that God came to us in the form of a man (Jesus) took our imperfection from us, destroyed it, and covered us over with his perfection so we can be with him in heaven. It’s an amazing deal, the best, in fact.
Note: Rabbi Locks says all kinds of things in this video, and if you are at all interested in hearing some Christian objections to the Jewish rejection of Jesus (or Yishke as Locks calls him) check out Dr. Micheal Brown, he is a Jewish Christian who debates Jews about Jesus.
Check out the book, “How good is good enough?”
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Gettin’ dirty with some smart people…
June 3rd, 2010
Over the last couple days Whit and I made the early morning trip north and into the west bank to Kirbet El-Maqatir where Dr. Bryant Wood is currently excavating a site that he believes is Ai from Joshua’s conquest into Canaan. Many of the artifacts being found Wood believes correspond to what the Bible says happened at Ai roughly 3,500 years ago.
During the days Whit and I were digging a full pot was excavated out of the dig square. This was a pretty big deal around site because pottery helps Archaeologists date what they are finding. In the ancient world, pottery changed in style over time, like cars do now. So when Archaeologists find pottery in a layer of dirt, they can determine based on the pottery what time period that layer of dirt is from. I took a time lapse of the pot being dug out of the square, you can see it below.
Whit and I were also blessed to rub dirt-covered shoulders with some very respected men in the academic world, namely Dr. Bryant Wood and Dr. Eugene Merill. Thanks to all the guys at Associates for Biblical Research for being so dang cool and enjoyable to dig with! And for letting Whit and I help out a bit.
If you or anyone you know would be interested in flying to Israel and digging here, go to www.biblearchaeology.org and contact them. They are amazing guys to get to dig with and they could use all the help they can get!
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Israel —> Goodbye For Now
May 29th, 2010
Due to a certain joyous and unforeseen event (pregnancy) we are coming back to the States. And that can only mean one thing, we get to eat Chipotle again!!! (That big silver turd up above is a Chipotle burrito for those of you sorry folk who don’t know).
So, in the end, the ministry we are with here in Israel couldn’t afford the needs we would have with a baby added to our family, so we are headed back to the states to be embedded in friends and family as we transition into parent-hood (grandmothers unite!). Hopefully at some point the ministry will be able to afford to bring us back to Israel with our needs provided for, we’ll see what happens, it’s in God’s hands.
At first when this decision was presented to us, it was hard to work through in our hearts because we love being here. But since then we’ve thought through more of what it will mean to be state-side as we become parents and we’ve really seen the wisdom in this decision, and in the end, we are actually very excited to come back.
I (Nathan) am planning on starting my own production company, hence a lot of what you see on this website. That being said, if you or anyone you know needs photography work, website design, or more than anything, video work, let me know. I’ll be in Columbus starting June 25th and I’m ready to hit the ground running.
Whit will obviously be postponing her language studies to become a Momma, but what a worthy cause to put off school for! She is very excited to be a Momma and she is going to be awesome! The baby is kicking quite often and Whit is frequently expressing how she just wants the little thing to be on the outside rather than the inside. I tend to argue the case for the baby being easier to manage inside… and much quieter. But anyway, we are very excited to see what God has for us in the coming months and years.
Thanks for all the support you’ve given us as we’ve ventured over seas. We love you and we can’t wait to see many of you when we get back. Also, if you want to see our most recent Ultrasound, you can check it out here.
Love,
Nate, Whit, & So and So
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The Ultrasound
May 26th, 2010
This Ultrasound was done at the 5 month mark. This one is for all you state-siders!
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Jerusalem Test Footage
March 4th, 2010
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Just when you think you’re not pregnant…
February 17th, 2010
Well, God is hilarious. Two days after we sent out the mass email correcting all of your legitimately assumed misconceptions about how many people were in our family, Whit started to feel a bit nauseous… Then, in thinking that it could potentially be something else, we waited a few days to see if it would pass, and it didn’t. Sooooo, we then took a pregnancy test, and BOOM!!! Two pink lines. Like this —> I I
This means that from now on when I go to film an interview with a renown archaeologist or linguist, I will be simultaneously trying to quiet the screaming child in my backpack and run the camera. And Whit of course will have her first Hebrew and Greek student attending classes a little earlier than planned :) So, what I am saying is that we are planning on staying here in Israel and raising our little Lunkie here in the Holy Land (for as long as we are here, of course). And there is a good chance “So-and-so” (as Whit and I have been so fondly referring to our little fetus) will be born in the legendary town of Bethlehem because there happens to be a United States supplied and funded maternity hospital there about 500 yards from where Jesus was born… Pretty sweet…
According to Dr. Saba Abu Farha of the Holy Family Hospital in Bethlehem, Whit’s about 7 and a half weeks pregnant and she’s due on September 30th. Also, for those of you wondering, our child will be a United States citizen only.
So, all that said — Wow! This is crazy! We will keep you all posted as things progress. Thank you for all your love and support!
Love,
Nathan, Whitney, and So-and-so (the little olive on the ultrasound)
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