My friend, Toby Cavanaugh, shared an outstanding message to our staff, pastors, and leaders at Elim Fellowship on Persistent Prayer a while back. I was so impressed I decided to share the wealth. I know this message will inspire and challenge you in the area of prayer. It might also be a great video to consider sharing with your leaders at some point! Enjoy.
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I stumbled across another great video resource for the local church today. Hopefully, you’re already aware of the growing list of great video resource sites like www.sermonspice.com and www.worshiphousemedia.com. This new site includes some great clips which would be particularly relevant this Easter. Additionally, the owner is offering a page full of some free video’s as well! Finally, if you have any ‘up and coming’ video experts in your church (like some of those teens/young adults), you will find several well made tutorials meant to help the aspiring video experts excel in what they do.
Where could you use these short 2-4 minute clips?
These clips are worth watching more than once. You might consider showing them pre-service, post-service, during the offering, or just prior to the Sunday message.
Check out Dan Stevers at www.danstevers.com!
(and look over his free ‘Sermon Graphics Bundle’ right here)
I ran across this great little video today (90 seconds) that challenges us to include social media and the internet in our creative outreach strategies. How about your church? How’s your website look to guests and those in your community? If you’d like some genuine, unbiased feedback, send me an email. I’ll look it over and give you some thoughts to consider.
You also might want to check out this article by the good people over at Willowcreek entitled, “Your Digital Front Door“.
Internet: A Mission Field from Resolute Creative on Vimeo.
Check out this totally awesome Rap promoting “Back To Church Sunday”. Awesome.
Learn more about Back To Church Sunday and all of their available resources at their website: www.backtochurch.com.
I ran across this great 4 minute video over on epicparent.tv the other day and just had to share it. Powerful and relevant. Hopefully, this doesn’t hit too close to home. Whether it does or not, it would be a great opener to a message on parenting. Enjoy.
The people talked about in this video are famous. You probably know every one of them. They were also failures at one time or another. Like you and I, they failed, but their failures didn’t define them, they just refined them. I hope I can one day be added to this list of famous failures! How about you?
My sister shared this 2 minute video with me this morning, and I just had to spread the wealth. It’s from the Thrive Conference in 2011. Wow. Cool. Powerful!
I love to hear stories of people who know how to engage in creative thinking. Creative thinking is a very important ingredient in a thriving, growing and culturally relevant organization. One of the important questions creative thinkers will eventually ask is, “Why?”. (Note: check out my eBook, ‘Thinking for a Change‘ to learn more about the critical thinking process.)
This 2 minute clip by Pixar Studio’s vividly captures what the creative process can look like, and how it can lead to simple solutions and great ideas (even if the finding the solutions weren’t that simple).
Watch these two great clips on failure and be inspired to try, fail, learn, adjust and try again!
This short video clip (3:30) by the people over at Youth Specialties does a fabulous job of telling a story that is engaging and moving. The story happens all the time in ministry (or it should). Little touch points here and there that eventually lead to a powerful and transforming God moment.
So often we don’t even realize how often we are touching another’s life. We reach out, speak kind words, say a prayer, and then move on. It can be easy to forget how much God uses each and every one of those moments. What a great privilege and responsibility we have!
The closing line in this video sums it up great – “I Love What I Get To Do!” I hope you do!