God at the Box Office: ONCE (March 8)

Ryan will be producing and speaking. This will be a slightly different service than the norm as we will try to convey the major points and themes through the art with short message transitions to help when needed as we move from one art piece to the next. As part of our occasional God at the Box Office Series, this week's focus will be on relationships as seen through the lens of the independent film Once. We want to communicate these ideas through art and experience:

• Everyone feels lonely
• We are designed for community
• God exists in community
• Jesus' teachings on love
  

Opener: Recreate the opening scene of the movie (Song: Say it to Me Now) Have the guy singing and playing (unplugged as background music) on the wall for 15min before the service instead of the regular iTunes playlist and then move forward to the mic with the guitar turned up for the opening scene/song Other Music from the Movie:

• Falling Slowly
• When your Mind’s Made Up
• If You Want Me

Categories
Loneliness

• Slides: Don Astronaut
• Scripture: Not good for man to be alone
• Video: Adaptation – Opening scene Monologue
• Video: American Beauty – The bag-floating scene
• Video: Grey’s Anatomy – Opening Monologue
• Video: The Office – Michael Scott’s wish on TV show as a child
• Video: The Office – Michael’s Dinner party
• Video: The Office – Michael Scott – Blues

Made for Community

• Reading: Soul Cravings by Erwin McManus
• Song: Oil and Water - Incubus

God in Community

• Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12-13
• The Shack – God in community with himself

What is True Love?

• Drama: Blue Like Jazz Scene – Husband Monologue
• Serving and Taking Communion together or serving people and taking together

Worship Song Suggestions

• Your Love is Amazing
• Love Is Here
• Your Love Oh Lord
• Before there Was Time
• Your Love is Extravagant
• Our Love is Loud
• Amazing Love

Visions Series

Visions Series

When Jesus left earth he entrusted his mission to a band of followers who went on to change the world. They went out into the surrounding culture, expressed God’s love, communicated the truth about reality, offered people new life and connected them to God. Damascus Road continues that mission today in Central Tucson. How can we carry out this mission? What does the future hold for us? Visions will give us a glimpse of the dreams God has given us for our community.

Week 1: Visions of a Phoenix Rising
The phoenix is a mythological bird that is immortal. At the end of its life the bird builds a nest and then ignites both the nest and itself. In its death a new phoenix rises from the ashes to begin life again. This bird is an image of the followers of Jesus. When we die to ourselves through embracing Christ we are reborn and rise from the ashes of a life of selfishness to a life defined by service to God and others. As a community we must rise above our past to become living proof to the world around us that transformation is possible and God is real. Through incredible love made tangible to the world we can become an irresistible influence on our neighborhood, community, and world.

Week 2: Visions of a Crashing Rhino
Rhinos can run at thirty miles an hour but can only see thirty feet in front of them. What lurks beyond thirty feet in front of a stampeding crash of rhinos is irrelevant to the rhinos – it better get out of the way. This is what the church should be – an unstoppable force. This force isn’t destructive like the rhinos but rather transformational. This is possible when we see the traction that exists in culture, create momentum as a community of love and become a culture of change while preserving the timeless truth of the Gospel.

Week 3: Visions of a Beautiful Mess
Our world and out lives are a mess. Thankfully we have a savior who loves our beautiful mess and will help our wounds be healed, our sins be forgiven and our messy lives be put back together. This is the dream of the church – not a place where our Sunday morning services run smoothly and our advertisements look slick and our people all smile – but a community of people sharing their real lives and faith with each other and the world – with all the mess that comes with it – because that is the type of community that no one experiences, where mess is on the table, where love is extended regardless and where a group of people are moving towards God and the restoration that is available through Jesus.

For All It's Worth: A Legend In Our Own Time

Our fifth week in the Reading the Bible For All Its Worth series will focus on the Gospels. Brad will do the set-up this week and Ryan will be speaking out of The Gospels, most likely the Nicademus passage from Matthew.

Ideas for Week 5: A Legend in Our Own Time (March 23 - Easter Sunday)

Worship Music
Take My Life – Third Day
Wonderful Cross
Here Am I To Worship
You Have Redeemed My Soul
Happy Day (It’s not as bad as you’re thinking)
In Christ Alone
Prince of Peace (I Will Live My Life)
Every Day
There’s A Stirring (Funeral Dirge)

Other Music
Carry Me (Dead Man) – Jars of Clay
Lightning Crashes – Live
Coming to Life – The Normals
Change for the Better (Song from WICKED) – Might be called “Because I Knew You”
Tonight – Until Tomorrow

Video Clips
The Passion – Jesus walking to Calvary when he quotes revelation – “See mother, I’m making all things new”
Return To Me – Her lover’s heart “returns to her” in the form of the guy who she falls for next
Vertical Limit – Father tells son to cut the rope in order to save himself and his sister
Movies where the Mother dies in childbirth
Big Fish – his father’s death creates a new life for him.
Meet Joe Black – all conversations about death ( he brings back the guy to allow her to have a relationship with him)
End of The Spear – We’re not ready to go yet
Battlestar Galactica – Asian & Blonde Chicks starting a revolution because of their previous lives and rebirth
Rescue Me – Tommy’s daughter mourning her brother “There is no Heaven, There is no God”

Art/Advertising/Images
Things in the room getting darker and darker – ala Maundy Thursday services

For All It's Worth: Spirituality in Every Key

Our fourth week in the Reading the Bible For All Its Worth series will focus on the Psalms. Tim will do the set-up this week and Aaron will be speaking from Psalm 25.

Ideas for Week 4: Spirituality in Every Key (March 16)

Same passage presented in a different way
-Visual – collage over cardboard
- Musical – a musical rendition of the psalm
-Reading – A reading of the Psalm

Personal anecdote – sophomore year of college – Valley of the shadow Dealing with depression and anxiety – how God used the Psalms to help him through the year

Quote from book by Dan Mann – God using the scripture to bring him through the dark times from when he first became a believer

Possible quote from Blue Like Jazz

Commentary on the passage


What we’d like to have them thinking beforehand:
During your hard times how do you deal with your grief anxiety and depression what tools do you employ to connect to go d during these rough spots?


If they only remember one thing, it should be:
The Psalms (musical poetic expression) can be used by believers to express ourselves to God in an appropriate and emotive fashion

For All It's Worth: How a Smart Man Becomes Wise

Our third week in the Reading the Bible For All Its Worth series will focus on the Old Testament Wisdom Literature. Ryan will do the set-up this week and Brad will be speaking out of The Proverbs.

Ideas for Week 3: How a Smart Man Becomes Wise (March 9)

Worship Music
My Glorious
Awesome God
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
The Fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom
Be Thou My Vision
How Deep The Father’s Love for Us
Holiness – Third Day

Other Music
Where You There – Todd Agnew
Say I Am – Satellite Soul

Drama Idea
A dramatic reading of the “He’s not a tame Lion” passage from Chronicles of Narnia
Reading the passage Brad is speaking out of in a unique and different way to (scripture reading, song, children’s book, VeggieTales)

Video Clips “He’s not a tame Lion” – Chronicles of Narnia
Bruce Almighty clips
Aladdin – “Phenomenal Cosmic Powers – itty bitty living space
“Be afraid, be very afraid” – whatever movie this is from
God is bigger than the boogieman
Hercules clip – Zeus is a God you’re afraid
Over the Hedge – Afraid of what you don’t understand – they decide to name the hedge “Steve”
Finding Nemo – Animated short with fuzzy, man-eating creatures that are befriended and protect their friend
300 – Dude thinks he is a God
A Montage of views of God

Art/Advertising/Images
A Big Chasm – You can jump in it – Is there a bottom? – I don’t know, I don’t know

Other
Baseball analogy – The batter is fearful of the ball in a respecting way
Commercial Spoofs:

• The More You Know – in the spirit of the office cast
• Stephen Colbert’s Threatdown
• Insurance commercials – Door getting ripped off, boulder crushing car

For All It's Worth: Don't Make Me Come Down There

Our second week in the Reading the Bible For All Its Worth series will focus on the Old Testament Law. Rachael will do the set-up this week and Tim will be speaking out of Deuteronomy (The Jubilee Year passage).

Ideas for Week 2: Don’t Make Me Come Down There(March 2)

Worship Music
Let Justice Roll
A Waterdeep song

Other Music
A New Law – Derek Webb
I Fought the Law & the Law Won (Maybe use as an opener and play it on Rock Band)

Drama Idea
A dramatic reading of the passage of scripture

Video Clips
The Office Opener – Rule
Video Clips from People’s Court and whatnot.
Clips from Arrested Development Courtroom scenes

Art/Advertising/Images
Images of the old laws – Hammurabi's code, Ten Commandments, etc.

Other
PSAs (The More You Know…) dietary laws, clothing, women, etc.
Rules – Pharisees created more and more (Jesus said we didn’t need them)
During communion talking about the parallels between OT Laws and communion

For All It's Worth: The Old, Old Story

February 24 begins our new series: Reading the Bible for all It's Worth. This series is designed to introduce people to the different types of literature in the Bible and learn how to read/understand each type.

General Ideas for the series:
The set-up each week will be a mini-message that explains the principles of how to read that type of literature.
Psalm 119 – a different section used each week as a reading (focused on the Bible, 22 sections)
Reading the story each week – use different ways to present it (scripture reading, song, children’s book, VeggieTales)
Igniter Video Vol 3 – “I Believe”
Small Groups – 1-week delay (Each week we'll receive another Bible passage of the same type of literature and uses our new skills to read it for the next week)

Week one will focus on Old Testament Narratives. Tim will do the Set-up (explaining how to read them) and Rachael will do the message.

Ideas for Week 1: The Old, Old Story (February 24)
Rachael will be speaking out of Judges (Possibly the Ehud story)
Reference Hebrews 11

Worship Music
Before There Were Time

Other Music
Not Perfect – Church of Rhythm
This Beautiful Mess – Sixpence None The Richer

Drama Idea
A dramatic reading of the passage of scripture

Video Clips
Leftorium Episode of Simpsons

Art/Advertising/Images
Graphs and charts and maps and ruins of buildings

Other
Communion – Drape in a tent like fashion for Old Testament

Brainstorming Ideas for SPENDING A DAY WITH GOD

This Service will feature a video message by John Ortberg

Video
Bruce Almighty – Him on side of the road
Evan Almighty
Keeping the Faith
Dogma
Patch Adams

Drama/Reading
First chapter of “Life You’ve always Wanted”
All the different times God says he will be with us
Psalms – when David talks about feeling far from God

Songs
Breathing – Lifehouse
Meant to Live – Switchfoot
Dare You To Move – Switchfoot
Deliver Me – David Crowder
Coming to Life – Normals
Life Wasted – Pearl Jam
Even When – Seven Places
Long Long Way – Smalltown Poetss

Worship
Sit Awhile/Stand In Awe/Be Still
40
Unveil (Speak To Me Lord)
Only You (David Crowder)
When You Pass Through the water



Communion
The Baptist Way

Other
A Written Summary of what Ortberg says (recommendations of how to make it real in their lives

Planner as PowerPoint background and Median
Notes side needs to be broken down by hour or half hour

Magazine Clippings of “the American Dream” (big homes, big cars, etc.) scrolling on powerpoint

Brainstorming Ideas for GIFTS - 12/9/07

This Week is the last week in our "Pull of Pride" Series.

We'll be looking at Generosity this week and why we have such a hard time parting ways with the things we have.

Worship Music
Blessed be Your Name
Revolution Cry
Everything

Other Music
Everything (Apron Full of Stains) – Normals

Drama Idea
Reading from Irresistible Revolution
Fictional Job book/Movie

Movies/Videos Clips
People Being Generous
Liberty Mutual Commercials
The Ultimate Gift
Pay it Forward
Chocolat / Babbete’s Feast

People Not Being Generous
Arrested Development – TBA
Fundraiser Truth Commercial (company donated $ and then spent three times as much telling us about it)
Simpsons – Mr. Burns
The Office – Fundraiser (Michael sponsors $20)/Meredith B’day

Other
Simple Living – (If I’m Adding To The Noise)
Generous Christmas -
Local or Global – Tie to Offering

Communion
Serving the person next to you

Brainstorming Ideas for STUFF

This Week is the third week in our "Pull of Pride" Series.

We'll be looking at Materialism this week and why we have such a desire to get more stuff.

Worship Music
Enough
Wonderful Cross

Other Music
What You Own – RENT
Throw It All Away – Toad The Wet Sprocket
Rich Young Ruler – Derek Webb
Jesus Land – Ben Folds
Beautiful America – Five Iron Frenzy

Movies/Videos Clips
Fight Club – Catalog scene
Commercials – the psychology of large kitchens used to sell cleaning products
Wall Street – Greed is Good
Mr Deeds
OC
Gossip Girl – guy leaves culture of excess
My Super Sweet 16
Mean Girls
Survivor
Kid Nation
My Name is Earl – Christian Slater Episode
The Apprentice
The Simple Life
Tiny Toons
Music Video: Money – That’s What I want
It’s a Mall World
Arrested Development – Lindsey
Marie Antoinette
Castaway
LOST

Other
Greed is Good clips intertwined with quotes from Jesus on money

Communion Ideas
Staff serves individually
Pass with wood trays

Brainstorming Ideas for RICH

Submit your ideas to go along with the Nooma video "Rich" as part of worship Thanksgiving Sunday.

Worship Music
Let The River Flow

Movies/Videos Clips
Baraka
DuckTales – Swimming in Money clip
Dave Chapelle Cribs spoof
My Super Sweet 16

Other
Discussion of video
Pearl of Great Price
Write down what you consider “rich”
New Delhi Shantytown article in National Geographic

Brainstorming Ideas for THANKS

Speaker: Ryan

Leave any additional suggestions as comments!

Video
Simpsons – Homer buys Marge a bowling ball with his name on it
A Christmas Story – Pink Bunny Suit
Family Stone – Thanksgiving
Charlie & Chocolate Factory (new one) – Other kids not thankful
Heroes – Nathan (not using the gift he’s been given)
Happy Gilmore – Use your gift
Any movie where people share what they’re thankful for around the Thanksgiving Table
Les Miserable – Candlesticks
Simpson’s Episode – Rosebud
Coming To America
Trading Places
Wall Street – Martin Sheen tells Charlie to be grateful for his people
Family Man –
Scrooged –

Drama/Reading
The New Kid on The Block – book of poems
The Giving Tree

Songs
Thankful – Caedmon’s Call
Thank You Alanis Morrisette
If It Makes You Happy – Sheryl Crow

Worship
I Will Not Forget You
Come Fall On Us
Amazing Love
In Christ Alone
Wonderful Cross

Communion
Serve People the Elements

Designer Sex: Sex & the Single Person

This week we'll be looking at the topic of singleness. Specifically, we're looking for ideas that are related to the idea of being "created for community" or loneliness, specifically: Staying with someone out of a fear of loneliness.

Music
Heartbreak Hotel – Elvis
Worst is My Being Alone – Don Chaffer
One (Is the Loneliest Number) – Three Dog Night
One (Is the Loneliest Number) – Filter
Work - Jars of Clay


Video
Wedding Singer
Jerry McGuire – Breakup Fight & Complete Me
I Think I Love My Wife
Under the Tucson Sun
Unfinished Life
Friday Night Lights – Mom can’t make it without her boyfriend
The Last Kiss
Enough

Other Ideas
Blue Like Jazz

Designer Sex: Lust Control

Music
Bad Touch – Bloodhound Gang
F**k You Like An Animal – 9” Nails
I’m Too Sexy – Right Said Fred
Independent Woman – Destiny’s Child
I Will Survive – Cake
Survivor – Destiny’s Child
Miss Independence – Kelly Clarkson
Girlfriend – Pussycat Dolls
Piece of Glass – Caedmon’s Call
Most Beautiful Girl in the Room – Flight of The Conchords

Drama/Readings
Hot or Not Website
Rating People
The Smell of Sin – the pluck out your eye part

Video
Family Guy – Chris discovers art talent, but Peter sells his art
Diet Coke Commercial with the office women lusting after the Coke delivery guy
Chevy HHR Commercial – Homely Guys Stripping
Rock of Love
Next
The Bachelor
Doritos 3-D Commercial
Clueless
Mean Girls
40 Days
What Women Want
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Bridget Jones’ Diary – Creepy Guy
Entourage
Flight of the Conchords – Brett’s Body Issues
Axe Body Spray Commercials

Movement into Life

Here is the description of the fourth week of our Movement series:

Everyone wants to live. It is basic human nature. The desire triggers the fight or flight rush of adrenaline when we sense danger - this desire drives much of who we are. When someone is killed we mourn for the loss of life. When murder is done we punish the perpetrator. When someone takes their own live we are confused and saddened. We all desperately want to live, but are we living lives that are worth living? Are we fully alive? Do we really know what it means to be human - or more importantly - what it means to be made in the image of God? When Jesus was on earth he told us that he was where true life was found and that to find life we first had to die. In the death to the old, selfish way of life we discover the freedom in the life lived for God and for others. Jesus came to offer us true life, abundant life, and this is exactly what we should be offering to the world around. As we live lives that are fully alive we show the truth that others can live this same way to, both now and in eternity.

Brainstormed Art Ideas:

Movie Clips:

Lady in the Water – Paul Giamatti's character at the beginning

The Weather Man – Choices clip with Nick Cage

Chariots of Fire – I Feel God’s Pleasure

The Lion King

Superhero Movies – Superman, Spider Man 3, The Incredibles, Mystery Men

K-PAX

Awakenings – Robin Williams

Harry Potter – Dumbledore –it’s your choices Harry…

Mr. Holland’s Opus

Freedom Writers – Dead Poet’s Society – Mona Lisa Smile -

Batman Begins - It’s your actions that define you

My Life – the video for his children

Final Cut - Obituaries

Stranger Than Fiction – The Final Scene where he chooses to save

Braveheart – Every man dies – not every man really lives

Gladiator

Saving Private Ryan – Why are we going to save him? And Cemetery scenes – did I live a life worth their sacrifice

TV:

Life - TV show

Robot Chicken Sketch Revolving Around the Life Board Game

Smallville – references purpose in life a lot

24 – choice clip

Simpsons Episode where Homer realizes he hasn’t done anything in life

Music:

This is Your Life – Switchfoot

Life – Our Lady Peace

100 Years – Five for Fighting

Things I Prayed For – Eli

I Just Wanna Live – Good Charlotte

Bring Me to Life – Evanescense

So Alive – Ryan Adams

Teaching Myself How to Grow Old – Ryan Adams

Alive – P.O.D.

Take Me As I Am - Tonic

Art:

The Game of Life – game pieces

Quotes – from John Eldridge Books

Art Installation – quotes hanging from the ceiling – pieces of wood

"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."

--Macbeth (V, v, 19)