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
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
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
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 VideoClips 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
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
Lightning Crashes – Live 
