I’ve stretched out the lessons I noted from watching a low budget film to three posts. We’ve considered the importance of speech, the challenge of natural speech in unnatural circumstances (like preaching), the need for less important lines, and the importance of historical/cultural details in the telling of an historic story. Two more lessons for us, one potentially overwhelming and one hopefully very encouraging! 5. The je ne sais quoi of engaging the audience. What makes the listener or viewer sit forward?
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Final Preaching Lessons from a Low Budget Film
The top eleven religious states were all in the Confederacy.
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Most religious states
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Yesterday I posted a couple of observations made while watching a low budget film this Christmas. Observations that demonstrate I was thinking about this blog while watching a film (which probably gives you opportunity to make an observation about me…) While recognizing the difference between preaching and acting, I noted how actual speech is critical and how it is hard to be natural in an unnatural environment. I’d like to add another speech related lesson, then point out a couple of other lessons that stood out to me. 3
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More Preaching Lessons from a Low Budget Film
Christmas season is good for eating too much chocolate, enjoying family time and watching the odd movie. We watched an odd movie this year – it was a very low budget film produced by folks with little experience of making movies. Actually it was impressive for who produced it, but it struck me that there are lessons to be learned from a low budget film. In the next couple of days I’d like to share some lessons that stood out to me as I was watching the film, obviously recognizing that a film is a different thing to a sermon
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Preaching Lessons From Low Budget Film
There are anagrams for Santa that make Father Christmas more of a bastard child at a family reunion in the minds of fundamental Christians. There are thoughts of the manger that make non-God-fearing folk want to put the holidays out to pasture. And then there are those who love Jesus and celebrate his birth while propagating subterfuge
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Happy Santa-Baby-Jesus Day
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Culhane’s Christmas
After 12 days in India I know much less than when I started. Still, this time of conversation and experiences with friends and with the friends of friends has confirmed for me why it is that I am a Christian. At the same time I am convinced anew that, regarding people of other faiths, we Christians need to listen more and be more open to God’s gracious intent in what has been revealed to other
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Reflections on the Incarnation of God: Christmas with Hindu friends.
The first step in preparing a message is to prayerfully determine the preaching text. It’s important to make sure you are studying a complete unit of thought – a full paragraph, a full narrative, a full poem, a full wisdom saying, etc. But then be sure you have peripheral vision. Make sure you continue to look around and be aware of the context of the passage. Too easily we get blinkered by section headings and forget to see what has preceded and what flows out from the text that we are studying. Everything needs to be seen in context. If you happen to be in a place biblically where context isn’t helpful, you’re in one of only a few places
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Peripheral Vision
Before you know it, 2010 will be here. What do you hope for in terms of your preaching ministry during next year? Do you pray for more opportunities or more help with the preaching in your church? Do you pray for more fruit in the lives of your listeners, or more fruit in your private spiritual walk? Do you pray for one area of your preaching to be strengthened, or for greater consistency in your preparation? Do you pray for fruitful times in the Word, or fruitful pastoral interactions with people in the church? Do you pray for diligence in following through on that training opportunity you are wanting to pursue, or for the courage to follow through on mentoring others? There is a lot that we can pray about in advance of 2010. Of course, praying is vital. But it is worth asking, if you have a specific and tangible goal, what are you going to do to meet it? Prayerfully, of course, but it probably requires something of you too. When January comes everyone goes on about New Year’s resolutions. As a leader you need to be ahead of the game. Perhaps the next few days might give opportunities, moments of respite from seasonal festivities, to prayerfully ponder your preaching ministry in 2010
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Preparing for 2010
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Christmas Me-Be-Gone!
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For unto us a Child is born (Handel)
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Brooks snowball fight
… o the ancient Hellenic Spirit & Culture) uses every mean within politics and religion (judeo-christianism, jehovah, communism, capitalism and more) to accomplish it’s purpose….Also, the main persons in judeo-christianism are jews (christ, marry, joseph, the 12 students – which symbolize the 12 tribes of israel, magdalen etc)….Hellenic Black Metal Front supports the revival of Paganism and the disappearance of judeo-christianism from Hellas and Europe….It is unacceptable and ridiculous the fact that there are still Greek/European Nationalists who worship judeo-christianism while this religion has clearly jewish o rigin and anti-racial content….
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Hellenic Black Metal Front
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Santa politically incorrect, arrested
Morgantown, WV Contact Information Tim Cole, Director of Church Planting (804) 690-7919 tim@velocitychurch.com Position Description tim cole director of church planting virginia evangelizing fellowship 804-690-7919 Position: Church Planter The VEF, with a 20-year track record of planting high-impact, multi-staff new churches, has gathered a partnership of 12 regional churches to plant a dynamic new church in up-and-coming MORGANTOWN, WV. Morgantown is home to West Virginia University which
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I have heard of the pot calling the kettle black, so what in the world does this newly ordained minister for a COGIC church call his followers? Meet Johnny Lee Clary, a good ol’ boy from Oklahoma, proud white boy who is a minister for a black denomination… and oh yeah, a former imperial wizard for
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Former KKK Leader now an ordained COGIC minister
It would be easy to push through this season and then leave Christmas sermons until next year. It would be a wasted opportunity. Just as it can save money to buy next year’s cards right after this year’s Christmas, so it can save time to give some thought to next year’s sermons now.
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Future Christmas Sermons
… t equally very much like they should hold ). people would state Christianism was about love, so if the impotent Luther ramp about Jews, it got to be right someways, b…Christianism, a faith enforced by the fascist, particularly bloody and murderous emperor Constantine, is, course, likelily the most deadly faith that ever was….Hebraism and Christianism hold killed megs….Indeed Islam was obtained by a sequence of mutants from Judaism and Christianism….
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Christianism could be described as “a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, […Christianism is simply Christianity without Jesus….Instead, their leaders encourage them to practice Christianism rather than Christianity….Jesus broke bread with sinners and the poor; Christianism marginalizes them….
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‘Tis the Season of Hallmarkian Joy
I was just writing a mini-article in response to a request. As I was writing it, I came across an article I wrote earlier this year. I’ve linked to it previously, but here it is if you didn’t see it back then – click here . Let me just quote a paragraph: We must preach as those genuinely captivated by the love of God in the Word of God.
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What Will They Copy?
As a preacher studying a passage it is tempting to be purposeful, but ignore the purpose of the passage. So you are studying the passage because you are trying to prepare a sermon, or perhaps because you are intrigued by the theological content of the text, or perhaps because you are pondering whether you should preach that passage at all! It becomes normal for a preacher to look at a Bible text and wonder how they would preach it.
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Ponder the Passage Purpose
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Front lines in War on Christmas
Opening thought : Lottie Moon was one of the most famous of all Southern Baptist missionaries, and her mission carried her to China. She often wrote letters home to her churches asking for prayer and encouraging the people of God to be more involved in missions and evangelism
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Colossians 4:2-6 – Christ’s Mission
While there are many legends of Nicholas, this one is an historically documented account. Approximately 200 years after the birth of Christ, a meeting of the elders of a little monastery church in Myra, Turkey had just been called to order
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St. Nicholas the prayer warrior
Tampa, FL Contact Information Dean Trune (517) 349-7783 dtrune@impactingtheworld.com Position Description Campus Ministry Staff, Impact Ministries International, Tampa, FL. Impact Ministries International, a Christian Church prayer-based campus ministry organization, is planning on planting several campus ministries in five different states over the next two years. Our web site is www.impactingtheworld.com.
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Main Street Christian Church Russiaville, IN Preaching/ Full Time