January 12, 2012 by tim.

Indiana State Senator Dennis Kruse has introduced state Senate Bill 0089 that would require the teaching of creation science alongside other origin theories in public schools.  As a resident of Indiana, I contacted Senator Kruse to offer my support.  He has asked me to testify before the education board on January 25^th.  I have accepted.  I will be presenting a 5-10 minute testimony followed by a possible Q&A time. 

I understand this bill has a tough uphill battle to climb.  My hope rests in the fact that Senator Kruse is the chairman of the education committee, and that the house/senate and governor’s office is all republican controlled.  Even if passed, the bill faces major legal hurdles as the Supreme Court has already determined that the teaching of creation science in public school is unconstitutional.  By Indiana passing this legislation it will send a message to other states that we do not agree.

I have not finalized my message yet, but I do know that it will be on the major differences between observational science (modern, testable, repeatable) and historical science (assumptions about the past).  After I deliver the testimony, I will publish it here, and keep you updated.  Please join me in prayer and support of this bill.

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December 21, 2011 by tim.

This has been a slower year for TMG Productions projects-wise due to Tim going back to school at Liberty University Online full time working towards his masters degree in professional counseling.  Tim has completed 10 classes this year maintaining a 3.2 GPA.  He has 12 more classes plus an internship to complete before he graduates. 

Despite the time commitment that school brought, TMG Productions released its first worldwide commercial release Unity’s debut full-length CD ‘What You Choose to Follow’.  Tim and his wife Marcy formed their music ministry Unity in 2009 and worked 3 years on this project.  The CD is available for purchase through iTunes, Amazon, CDbaby, and other digital retailers as well as physical copies at live Unity concerts.   The CD is a unique experience that chronologically lays out the 12-steps that each Christian experience in their walk with God, starting with the latest single and music video “Parable of the Seeds”.  Unity performed 8 shows this year in support of the project.

Inspired by a family trip to the Creation Museum and the Answers in Genesis ministry, in July TMG Productions launched a new blog called ‘Grace With Salt’.  We have formed this ministry to combat modern secularist tendencies to pull people (often times including Christians) away from the accurate original Biblical message.  The blog discusses hot topics ranging from creation vs. evolution, homosexuality, abortion, modern politics, the supposed separation of church and state, often-cited inaccuracies in the Scriptures, end times, and much more.  The blog has amassed over 4000 hits in less than six months and unending discussion on the popular site reddit.

The Gilleand Brothers reunited this summer to film a new full-length mockumentary “Buck and Drake III: Buck to the Future”.  This is a sequel to their 2010 Buck and Drake movie “The Search for Spooks”.  The GBs decided to film the third movie in the trilogy prior to the second due to budgeting and to fit the time-travel model better – a feat never before accomplished.  The movie is currently in post-production and will be released in 2012.  You can see the full trailer here.

GB,inc. was also involved in two smaller projects this year.  Tim’s oldest son Michael debuted his first short film “Monster in the Woods”, and the brothers created a new “Christmas Special” featuring several holiday-themed spoofs of their previous films.

Looking forward to 2012…  Expect a new extended short film-style music video from Unity to their song “Beauty for Ashley”.   Expect “Buck to the Future” to be released.   And of course, many more surprises to be announced!  Stay tuned.

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December 20, 2011 by tim.

The Gilleand Brothers have released a 2nd Christmas Special!  This 30-minute extravaganza is hosted by The World According to Me and includes holiday-themed spoofs of previous GB films The Matrix Revealed and Buck and Drake, as well as a new Winter Paradise rap video, and a David PSA.  Enjoy below!

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September 5, 2011 by tim.

Tim and David have produced a new short film written by and starring Tim’s 7-year-old son Michael called “Monster in the Woods”.  Check out the film below:

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July 22, 2011 by tim.

TMG Productions is proud to announce that Tim has formed a new apologetics ministry called “Grace With Salt“, a weblog tackling the controversial Christian topics of the day.

From www.gracewithsalt.com -

Our mission stems from the verse found in Colossians 4:6 (NIV) – “Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.” We have formed this ministry to combat modern secularist tendencies to pull people (often times including Christians) away from the accurate original Biblical message. We will discuss hot topics ranging from creation vs. evolution, homosexuality, abortion, modern politics, the supposed separation of church and state, often-cited inaccuracies in the Scriptures, end times, and much more.  We aim to make our posts informative, researched from both sides of the aisle, and considerate of opposing views (grace) but firm in our stance (salt).

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July 13, 2011 by tim.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9eI0qFh-l8

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July 13, 2011 by tim.

DISCLAIMER:   This is not meant to be the start of a debate.  The debate has been on-going for ages.  This is to prove that creationists who accept the Bible first have a logical basis for accepting the Bible and a literal 6-day creation.  This puts the Bible’s claims to the test versus the evidence.          

When a scientist digs up a dinosaur bone it does not have a nametag on it saying “65 million years old”.  Scientists use the best information available to them to make educated guesses about the past.  In fact, creationists and evolutionists have the same evidence.  We have the same fossils, the same rocks, the same laws of science.  Where we differ is our starting point. 

Evolutionists believe they start unbiased, but this is impossible.  Scientists come up with a hypothesis and then collect information to either validate or dismiss that claim.  But have they already assumed an old-earth during their research?  Are they encouraged to prove their finding financially?  These lead to bias and presumptions before the research even begins.  How about leaving out a crucial piece of evidence… the Bible.

 Most scientists will not use the Bible as historical evidence because of popular belief that it is such an ancient document it cannot be trusted, without even researching that position.  Current Biblical translations can be compared to much older original manuscripts, and it still holds up.  A study of the real processes involved in Biblical translation is awe-inspiring.  Scribes would destroy entire hand written scrolls if they misspelled one word.  And how about over one hundred Biblical characters verified outside of the Bible itself?  How about archeological evidence pointing to physical locations and characters in the Bible?  How about the fact that it is a collection of 66 books, written by over 40 authors, on 3 continents, over 1500 years, yet telling a cohesive prophetic non-contradicting story?  How about the fact that it’s principles and promises have been tested time and time again by billions of believers and proven to be reliable?  What we have is a historical written account of thousands of eye-witness testimony verified over and over again.

Now let me ask you this… how do you know the U.S. Revolutionary War happened?  Were you there?  Did you see it happen?  What kind of proof do you have?  Well, we have written documents, eye-witness testimony, and archeological evidence.  The same things we have in the Bible.  Why now, can we not use the Bible as a historical, reliable document?  If we can’t, does that mean that people a thousand years from now may doubt the Revolutionary War happened, just because of time?  That’s absurd isn’t it.

The Bible is unique because it claims to be the inspired word of God, written down by His appointed followers.  There is actually a way to test this.  In Genesis, the Bible makes a lot of bold claims about historical events: a 6-day creation, an originally perfect world made corrupt, a worldwide flood, people groups created at the tower of Babel.  Now, if we look at the evidence science has collected through a Biblical worldview – does it still hold up?

The Bible (and Jesus himself) claims over and over that the world as we know it was created in six literal days.  Many Christians have re-interpreted the Genesis account to fit into modern old-earth theories, but this doesn’t hold up with further scriptures that talk about taking a Sabbath day once a week because God only took six days to create the entire world and rested on the seventh.  The original Hebrew word for ‘day’ in Genesis in ‘yom’ which always means a literal 24-hour day, especially when combined with the phrasing of ‘evening, then morning, the next day’.  Any other understanding of the creation story requires us to re-interpret what is plainly written.  This becomes very dangerous for a Christian.  If we re-write this part of scripture, what stops us from re-writing any part that doesn’t fit our opinions?

Well then, why do we supposedly have so much evidence for an old earth?  There are actually several explanations for this.  Radiometric dating of rocks makes several critical assumptions before they even begin their dating methods.  They assume original and ongoing conditions of the rock have remained unchanged and uninterrupted.  But the Bible tells us there was a worldwide flood that would have disrupted the genetic makeup of every rock on the planet.  But if we assume the Bible is correct, when God created the world he would not have created it in an infant stage.  The animals and the people would have had no one to raise them.  If the plants and world was in an infant stage, there would have been nothing to eat, or insufficient air to breathe.  God had to have created everything in that week in its adult stage, therefore inferring age.  We would have looked at a plant, or tree, or animal and seen many years, but in actuality they would have only been minutes old.  Therefore when modern scientists use presumptive dating methods and see an older earth than it really is, this is actually what they should be seeing without the information the Bible adds to the equation.

But couldn’t have God just used evolution to do his creation?  No.  With millions of years of creatures living and dying before man is even “created”, we’ve undermined and destroyed the doctrine of sin, and ultimately Jesus’s reason for dying.  The Bible teaches that our world was created perfectly and when sin entered the world through Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, death was introduced for the first time and the land was cursed.  This is contrary to millions of years of things dying before humans were even around. 

Death is the result of separation from God.  God left our physical presence in the garden.  Ever since then our world has been gradually degrading.  This is evident in our current social relative morality decline, the increasing amount of disease and sicknesses, mental illnesses, anxiety, wars, and famine.  Natural selection is actually a testament to the fall as well.  Every mutation we have studied in a laboratory has always turned out to be a loss of DNA information, never an increase.  There is some re-arranging of information, and sometimes physical characteristics have adapted to the environment around them – but it is always a result of a loss of irrecoverable information.  This is the exact opposite of evolution.  Scientists have this evidence, they know this.   What is represented is that species develop within their own kind, but do not change into another species, exactly what the Bible tells us.  Again, with a Biblical worldview, these occurrences start to make sense as should be expected in a fallen and gradually declining world that the Bible describes.

The next fantastic claim the Bible makes is that God destroyed the world through a worldwide flood, saving only two of each animal, Noah, and his family.  Does the evidence make sense of this?  Absolutely.  In fact, the evidence is overwhelming, it’s practically everywhere you look.  Rock layers all over the world that stretch continents, canyon layers laid down rapidly from massive water flow, a fossil record of millions of animals killed instantaneously, polar ice caps, and the fact that the earth is still two-thirds water.  Evolutionists make the claim that because animals are in the fossil layer before humans, then animals came first.  But according to the Bible, all animals were created on day five, and two humans on day six.  That’s a big outnumbering of animals.  Therefore in the first 1500 years of existence before the flood, the animals would have reproduced in much greater quantities than humans. The animal to human ratio would have been astronomical.  So again, animals in the fossil record (laid down by the flood) before humans make sense according to what the Bible tells us.

The final topic I will tackle today in the story of the Tower of Babel.  After the ark, humans were encouraged to spread out and populate the earth.  They did not listen.  They stayed together and rebelled against God.  At this point God decided to confuse their languages as to separate them out.  This is what caused all the different “races” we see today.  But according to the Bible, we all come from Adam and Eve.  This would make us genetically only one race.  The Human Genome Project confirmed that there is only one race – the human race.  This is another example of different kinds within a species, but only one species, one race.  This is consistent with what the Bible teaches.

In these few short paragraphs I have presented a basic defense of using the Bible as a reliable historical document, a literal 6-day creation, the fall of man, a worldwide flood, and the Tower of Babel; and that each of these accounts align perfectly with the evidence of the world when properly interpreted.  Creationists do have logical reasons for believing what they believe.  We can debate the various issues, but classifying creationists as illogical is a horribly flawed argument.  In fact does logic and science make sense outside a God-created world?  In a completely random universe how would science and logic work?  Wouldn’t they be constantly changing and unreliable?  I am not claiming that my accounts are hole-proof, but I’ve obviously displayed that neither are the secularist’s claims.  Choose for yourself.  Man’s word or God’s word.  It’s up to you.

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June 9, 2011 by tim.

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May 17, 2011 by tim.

Tim and Marcy’s Christian music group UNITY has released their debut full album online!  “What You Choose to Follow” is now available worldwide through various digital distributors such as iTunes, Amazon MP3, CDbaby, and more!

UNITY celebrated the release at the official CD release party on Sunday May 15th at Sonlight Fellowship Wesleyan Church in South Bend, Indiana.  Several friends, family, and fans gathered together to celebrate with Tim & Marcy.

Coming soon, UNITY will release their music video to their current single “Parable of the Seeds”.

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April 18, 2011 by tim.

The Gilleand Brothers are currently in the pre-production stages of their next full-length feature, the follow-up on Buck and Drake: The Search for Spooks.  Entitled Buck and Drake III: Buck to the Future.

The third film in the franchise will be shot next month and edited shortly thereafter, and you can be sure to see it soon! Yes there was no second film, which doesn’t mean the second one will never be made, this is not the case.

They still plan to film the second film at some point, quite possibly in 2012. Though the second one requires a significant amount of funding in order to take place.  Also, the third film is about time travel, and what better way to make a film than to release the third before the second when it is about time travel?

A Sequel Through Time…

Over a long discussion, the Gilleand Brothers finally agreed on a plotline that would both work well on its own, and as a sequel to the second-currently unmade film.  Stay tuned for more information, as well as a description of the plot.

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