20th Century Fox Recently I invited my good friend, Calix Lewis Reneau, a fellow Christian, filmmaker, and author, to write a devotional just for you about the power of telling stories and why we as humans need stories. Over the years I've watched Calix talk about this subject and I really think he's gotten a real nugget of truth regarding the importance of stories to all of humanity. It's why I believe more and more that Christian filmmakers need to focus less on crafting a great message and start focusing more on crafting a great story. I believe in this devotional Calix gets to the heart of what audiences who watch movies really are longing for and what they need. I'm more convinced than ever before that why people love to watch films is because at its essence it's rooted in the need of people to experience a good story which brings order to the chaos in our broken world. And it has something to do with a deeper thing God is doing corp...