A Leadership-Defined Community (February 14)

A Mile in His Shoes

Nehemiah had every reason on earth to lose hope and give up, but he didn’t. He trusted God and had access to every resource in heaven to combat his earthly crises. Nehemiah persevered to become one of the Bible’s greatest leaders.

February 14: A Leadership-Defined Community

Too often community is defined by a group consensus or a vote. Biblical community is defined by being part of the body of Christ. This kind of community cannot happen without a leader defining and defending it.

Producer: Tim Suddarth
Set-up: Caty Berry
Speaker: Ryan Miller
Music Leader: Joshua Nedrud, Kris Shermer & Dave Chojnacki
Sound Tech: Ken Kim
Keynote Tech: Mark Dominguez
Pickup: Mark Dominguez & Joshua Nedrud
Nursery: Erica Chojnacki
Greeters: Ingrid Sam & Isaac Benson-White.

Music

Like A Boss – Andy Sandberg (A drastically rewritten version)
Brick by Boring Brick – Paramore
Dare You to Move – Switchfoot
"Schism" – Tool
Typical – Mute Math
Purpose – Cloud Cult
You Get What You Give – New Radicals
Uprise – Muse
What You Give Up To Get It – Derek Webb
*Again – Flyleaf
Great Expectations – Gaslight Anthem

Video

Dead Poets’ Society – Inspiring people to greatness
Miracle – The team being inspired by the coach
Flight of the Conchords – Murry is detrimental to the band (pretty much any band meeting)
Braveheart – pretty much anything that
Field of Dreams – If you build it will come
Batman Begins – It’s not who you are on the inside that defines you
Kid Nation – have to set up their own leadership
Dark Knight – two ferries voting on who lives and who doesn’t
Remember the Titans – Main black and white players talk about Attitude Reflects Leadership Captain Denzel’s main speech at the beginning of the movie
Life of Brian – debating and voting as they are taking away
LOTR – When they are debating on who should take the ring and Frodo steps up
LOST – Jack in the first season has to step up and take leadership

Drama / Original Video

Flight of the Conchords – Murry is detrimental to the band (pretty much any band meeting) (McInnis as Murray, Colter & Mitch reprising their roles)

Other Concepts

Lord of the Flies
Video Team filmed Announcements
Countdown video with announcements

Take-Home Items

Take Communion from someone on staff or one of the interns
Lego bricks
Something with the number 52 (Days it took Nehemiah to rebuild the wall)

A Work Repurposed (February 7)

A Mile in His Shoes

Nehemiah had every reason on earth to lose hope and give up, but he didn’t. He trusted God and had access to every resource in heaven to combat his earthly crises. Nehemiah persevered to become one of the Bible’s greatest leaders.

February 7: A Work Repurposed

Our jobs should be about much more than just getting a paycheck. Let’s explore how God has called us to serve him in specific ways through our occupations by looking at Nehemiah’s role in service of the King.

Producer: Caty Berry
Set-up: Tim Suddarth
Speaker: Rachael Suddarth
Worship Leader: Aaron & Renay Burger
Sound Tech: Mitch Peterson & Josh McInnes
Keynote Tech: Tyler Stibrich
Pickup: Aaron Burger & Ben Phillips
Nursery: Kati Wint
Greeters: Mark Dominguez & Josh McInnes

What we want people thinking after the message: Are you waiting on God, looking for the unique mission only you complete?

Music

Purpose – Avenue Q
Seven Dwarves song – Hi Ho
Going the Distance – Cake
Going the Distance – from Disney’s Hercules
*Work – Jars of Clay
Work – Jimmy Eat World
Taking Care of Business
Works Hard for the Money
Shake What Your Momma Gave Ya
Where Are You Going? – Dave Matthews Band
All The Plans – Starsailor
The Middle- Jimmy Eat World
Better than This – Keane
Brick by Boring Brick – Paramore
Be Yourself – Audioslave
I Don’t Want to Be – Gavin Degraw
Help, I’m Alive – Metric
*Butterflies & Hurricanes – Muse
Working for a Living – Huey Lewis & the News
Life Wasted – Pearl Jam
All My Life – Foo Fighters
Typical – Mute Math
Bright Future In Sales – Fountains of Wayne
Finest Work Song – R.E.M.
Give It Away – Red Hot Chili Peppers

Worship

Love is Here

Video

HIMYM - Barney’s job/versus what he actually does (mice in a box, etc.) & bringing Marshall into his insanity
The Big Kahuna
Picture Perfect – Jennifer Aniston’s Character
Jerry McGuire – he felt called to do something more than just working his job
Wanted – talking about his job
Office Space – pretty much any part
Fight Club – conversation with Lady on Airplane
The Office – Middle Management
Dirty Jobs (A&E)
Deadliest Catch
Ice Road Truckers
Axe Men
Borat – at the end “Sometimes it’s right in your front yard” he missed the opportunity

Drama / Original Video

Ben & Brad – office space remake wherein they develop things inspired by the clearly recognizable Office Space counterparts.
First Job – being the boss of some corporation and showing people using the exact knowledge or skills they were taught in class (ie Colter figuring out an economics problem, Caty's entire company depending on her ability to figure out a complex math problem, Ryan only being able to get a deal through because he is able to discuss the positive and negative influences on Oscar Wilde or Erica only being able to accomplish her task because she knows the exact ramifications of presidential decisions made during WWI & WWII)
Um … shadow puppets?

Other Concepts

My Story – Share their specific stories (similar to the Transparency service from last semester)
Tim Tebow – University of Florida Quarterback Heisman winner, Testimony
This American Life – possible story from radio or TV show

Take-Home Items

Red staplers
Pieces of a copy machine
*Pieces of flair

A Mountain-Moving Prayer (January 31)

A Mile in His Shoes
Nehemiah had every reason on earth to lose hope and give up, but he didn’t. He trusted God and had access to every resource in heaven to combat his earthly crises. Nehemiah persevered to become one of the Bible’s greatest leaders. Following Nehemiah’s example of prayer and perseverance, we too can achieve what might seem impossible.
Producer: Rachael Suddarth & Ben Phillips
Set-up: Rachael Suddarth
Speaker: Kris Shermer
Worship Leader: Colter Bloxom, David Meyer & Kati Wint
Sound Tech: TBA
Keynote Tech: TBA

Music
Eye of the Tiger – Survivor
Pressing On – Reliant K
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Don’t Stop Me Now – Queen
Don’t Stop Believing – Journey
Don’t Stop – Jars of Clay
Don’t Stop ‘til You Get Enough – Michael Jackson
Welcome to the Black Parade – My Chemical Romance
Carry On My Wayward Son – Kansas
I will Survive – Cake
Sweet Surrender – Colter’s High School Band
I Will Trust in You – Jeremy Camp
Waiting – Sum41
Headstrong – Trapt
Climbing Uphill – The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown
Drive – Incubus

Worship
Blessed be Your Name
Everything
I will not Forget you
Love is Here
Song of Hope
Amazing Grace My Chains are Gone
Marvelous light
We Will Overcome

Video
Princess Bride – killed my father, climbing the cliffs, the Dread Pirate: I’ll most likely kill you in the morning.
Pursuit of Happyness – perseverance
Frodo & Sam
Rocky
Galaxy Quest – "Never give up, never surrender"
O Brother, Where Art Thou - At the end of the movie
Catch Me if You ca
Gatoraide – is it in you
Hitch – Smith’s character defines perseverance

Drama
Psalms Reading
LOTR – Sam & Frodo Drama
Esther
David vs. Saul
Fairy Tales
Little Engine that Could
Greek rock hill Myth Sisyphus
Job
Everything Musical Drama

Other concepts
Spiritual Practice Prayer thing
P.U.S.H. – Pray Until Something Happens (use something with this on it as a take-away, bookmark or something)
Old-school Mario brothers – 1 to a million odds, needed persistence to win these games
Scripture: Story of the unjust Judge

Accumulation: How Much Is Enough? – Luke 12:13-34 (January 24)

Producer: Ryan Miller
Set-up:
Speaker: Colter Bloxom
Worship Leader:

Description:
Every commercial and ad that we see is designed to create dissatisfaction in our lives. The things that we own aren’t the newest or best and our culture tells us that if we could just purchase the bright, shiny My Life Is Perfect 3000 we would be content. That is, until the My Life Is Perfect 4000 comes out and the cycle starts all over again. How much stuff is enough? Can accumulating possessions provide satisfaction in life? We’ll explore what Jesus had to say about the difference between what we want and what we need and how to find contentment.

Music
Money That’s What I Want – Barrett Strong/Flaming Lizards
Money – Pink Floyd
Satisfied – Jeff Buckley
Too Much is Never Enough – Firewater
Satisfy – Vedera
Rockstar – Nickelback
Girls & Boys – Good Charlotte
Rich Young Ruler – Derek Webb
Too Much – Dave Matthews Band
Never is Enough – BNL
If I had a Million Dollars – BNL
Your Rock and Roll Lifestyle – Cake
You Part the Waters – Cake
ShopVac – Jonathan Colton
Gold, Guns, Girls – Metric
Material Girl - Madonna
Gold Digger – Kanye
When I Grow Up – Pussycat Dolls
All About the Benjamins – Puff Daddy
New Shoes – Paolo Nutini
Man Who Sold the World
Mo Money, Mo Problems – Biggie, Puffy & Mase
For the Love of Money – The Ojays
Money, Money, Money – Abba
Big Casino – Jimmy Eat World

Video
Fight Club
Mad Men
Wall-E
Idiocracy
What Would Jesus Buy
South Park Margarittaville
Team America: World Police
Envy
SNL – don’t Buy What You Can’t Afford
Citizen Kane
The Jerk
Wedding / Sweet 16 shows
A Christmas Story
Second-hand Lions
Hoarders – A&E
Funny People
Capitalism – A Love Story
Seinfeld – Elaine’s Business Charges
Kickball
Montage of useful to useless products through advertisers

Drama
Girls Shopping
College Kids as Elementary kids –> I’m faster than you because I have new shoes – you’re jealous, right?

Other concepts
On Earth as it is in advertising – Doug Van Pelt
Blue Like Jazz – Scene where he talks about wanting to buy an extension 
The Story of King Midas
Candide – Voltaire
This American Life – Lewis & Clark

Ownership: Who Really Owns My Stuff? (January 17)

Speaker: Josh Schaa
Producers: Ryan Miller
Set-up: TBA
Worship Leader: TBA

Description:
One of the first words that children learn is “mine”. They may not understand the concept of ownership yet but they certainly have a desire to own things. With kids it’s often everything. We like to think that we grow out of that mentality but if we’re honest we’re still not very good at sharing or giving – which are parents try to teach us as soon as we start saying “mine”. How can we overcome our obsession with ownership and begin to view our possessions as gifts from God who owns everything? Finding financial freedom is hopeless until we begin to change our minds about what is really ours.

Music
What You Own – RENT
Say – One Republic
Green Disease – Pearl Jam
If I Had it All – Dave Matthews Band
Vultures – Five Iron Frenzy
Beautiful America – Five Iron Frenzy

Worship
Enough
Everything

Video
Fight Club – Your stuff
Finding Nemo – Seagulls “Mine, mine, mine!”
Family Guy – any time that Lois has to be the adult to Peter acting like a kid
Fun with Dick and Jane
HIMYM – Lilly’s class learns a lesson that the gang learns it too
Wall Street – “Greed is good!”
Mr. Deeds
Scrooge McDuck
Envy
SpongeBob – Mr Crabbs always wanting to hold onto his money
Pirates of the Caribbean – Talking to Elizabeth on Black Pearl Barbosa says they were first compelled by their greed then consumed by it.
Don’t buy things You can’t afford – SNL skit

Oppressive Government theme:
City of Ember – The governor
Equilibrium – when they’re breaking all that art stuff?
V for Vendetta – News Director’s treasures

Drama
2 Adults – one gets something new and is showing it to the other and they get more and more infantile

Other concepts
Repo – the Genetic Opera
Stats about ownership versus possession (I posses this car, but the bank actually owns it)

Take home
Chocolate coins
Great Big Green Dollars that say “In God We Trust”
Tag Cars
Property of DR
Property of Jesus

Relational Gift (December 15)

Speaker: Ryan Miller

Producers: Ryan & Mitch

Worship Leaders: Aaron & Renay

Description:

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Video

Shawshank Redemption

LIFE

How I met your mother - Cupcake gift package

Jewelry Commercials

The Office – White Elephant

Family Guy – 3 Wise Men

It’s a Wonderful Life

TV Funhouse – Charlie Brown

Island of Misfit Toys

Bill Engvall Show

Modern Family – Bad gift

The Simpsons – Bowling Ball gift

Gladiator

Finding Nemo

House – Mos Def

Schiendler’s List

Worship

You Are Here – Need To Breathe

Song of Hope

Freedom 96 – Robbie Williams

One Small Child

O Holy Night

I Wonder as I Wander

Drama

Reenact Family Guy 3 Wise Men Skit

Boyfriend/Girlfriend

Other ideas

Gift of the Magi

Article – Comatose Man who was really paralyzed

Brainstorming Ideas for the Dec 6 Service

MUSIC

I Would Walk 500 Miles – The Proclaimers

Aint no mountain high enough

12 Days of Christmas

Goo Goo Dolls – Better Days

I Celebrate The Day – Relient K

We Three Kings

WORSHIP SONGS

Here I am to Worship

DRAMA

Parent Talking about a child

Going off to college

VIDEO

Family Guy – Three Kings Walking

People Talking about why they do what they do

A Time To Kill

Man on Fire

Flight of the Conchords – Bret song for Coco scene

Rat Race

Indiana Jones

The Patriot

Legends of the Fall

Lord of the Rings

Seven Pounds

Star Trek

Superman Movies – Brando Monologue

Family Guy – Peter does everything better than Chris

Modern Family – Couple race, she lets him win

Scrubs – Private Dancer

The Nativity Story

California Raisins

OTHER

Special Offering Video

Worship Brainstorming Ideas for the Nov 29 service

Advent Conspiracy 1 (Colter)

MUSIC
Under the Tree – Until Tomorrow
Derek Webb
If I had a Million Dollars - BNL
You can’t always get what you want
Better Days – Goo Goo Dolls
Golddigger – Kanye West
Succexy - Metric
DRAMA
Calls up bank (overspending)
Sky Mall Commercial
Stupid Gifts

VIDEO
Scrooge
Charlie Brown Xmas
Statistics video
Pay It Forward
Parks & Rec – Leslie Knope calls credit card company
The Office – I Declare Bankruptcy
Veggie Tales – Maddam Blueberry
What Would Jesus Buy?
Biblical Literalism
Home Alone 2
Jingle All The Way
Jim Gaffigan – Gift giving
South Park – Margaritaville
SNL – Don’t buy things you can’t afford

MISC
Spending statistics
Give as a church (Hiefer Int)
Top Selling Gifts past 10 years
Buy Nothing Day

WORSHIP
I will not forget you
Lead me to the cross
You are so good to me
I cannot hide m love
Everything

Practicing Spiritual Life: Slowing - Ideas for November 22

Producers: Caty Berry and Kris Shermer

Description:
In today’s speeded-up ways of working and living, slowing down is an important spiritual discipline. In the modern world we are conditioned to live faster and faster with no time for inner reflection or sensitivity to others. Jesus was often busy but he was never hurried. Being busy is an outer condition; being hurried is a sickness of the soul. Jesus never went about the busyness of his ministry in a way that severed the life-giving connection between himself and his Father. He never did it in a way that interfered with his ability to give love when that was what was called for. Through slowing the sacrament of the present moment is tasted to the full.

The Deal:
We'll have a handful of stations to help people practice the art of slowing. Ideas for stations are helpful as are any ideas to flesh out or modify station ideas already listed.

Station Ideas
Taking a section from Passion of the Christ or something similar and slowing down the visual element (perhaps in conjunction with communion)
Journal station – things that incite you to go faster instead of slowing down.
A Focus on how to take a Sabbath
Relevant article on how the Sabbath is actually a very important thing
A video where it pops up a single word at a time as you consider something (communion elements)
Walking around the mall with a narrated tour.
Boom Box with a recorded “guided tour” in a slow voice
Informational stuff about slowing
Tai Chi  or Yoga stretching exercises – diagrams hung up on wall  and a mental direction to slow them down (ex. Singing twinkle, twinkle, little start twice before finishing)
A breathing pattern station that makes people feel panicky and not slowed down
Hang butcher paper and give people space to respond creatively
Build something in a very tedious way that will allow them to focus on God (a physical manifestation of the mental practice)
An acoustic set of songs – not worship, but instrumental, slow music to allow people to focus on God.
Planning station – what will I do this week (maybe picking from a longer list)
Setting up a metronome on a particularly slow setting.
Time lapse photography of a flower blooming or something similar.
Napping station

Take Home
Slow music as a download from the website or as a take-home CDs
Little Beach balls

Music
Unknown Caller – U2
In A Hurry – Alabama
Busy Man – Steven Curtis Chapman

That Looks Weird (Ideas for November 15)

Speaker: Josh Schaa
Producers: Ryan & Mitch
Worship Leaders: Joshua Nedrud

Description:
We expect that if God is going to move among us, his voice will sound reasonable and the wind of his Spirit will blow in conventional directions. That is a decidedly unbiblical assumption. It seems that God doesn’t always honor our sense of dignity or our rigorous education. He doesn’t mind those attributes in someone with enough maturity to realize how much he or she doesn’t need them. “Weird” is not a valid test of whether something is Godly or not, it’s often God’s preferred mode of conversation.

Video
Signs – conversations about faith and
Fight Club – when they’re standing outside the house and the guy yells at them, but they stay there
LOST – Locke being willing to talk with Jack’s Dad
LOST – when they decide to take over the pushing the button
LOST – Locke-centric episode when the creepy orderly (don’t tell me what I can’t do)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade – only a leap from the lion’s head will prove your worth
V (new one) – Aliens claim to be awesome, but they are not awesome
Firefly – When River is “correcting” the Bible and the shepherd character explains the idea of faith
Dollhouse – A character that they thought was crazy, but really isn’t.
Castle – A character that they thought was crazy, but really isn’t.
Burn Notice – A character that they thought was crazy, but really isn’t.
Eli Stone – All the crazy crap he is expected to do.
Friends – Mr. Heckles not believing in evolution and Ross freaking out
Evan Almighty
A Few Good Men – They believe their supervisor is telling them the right thing to do.
Grey’s Anatomy – one of the voice-overs that talks about faith
Psych – everyone believes him, but he’s lying to them
Video Idea where we have people doing trust falls and a background song (Fall Back Down – Rancid)
Video idea where we find crazy things people did in the Bible and recreate them on campus somewhere.

Other Music
Faith, Hope, Love - Starsailor
Faith – George Michael/Limp Bizkit
Faith Enough – Jars of Clay
Carry On My Wayward Son – Kansas
By Your Side – Tenth Avenue North
Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For – U2
Turn it Off – Paramore
Unknown Caller – U2
Moment of Surrender – U2
Back to the Middle – Verdera
Move Forward – Verdera

Worship
Jesus, I Lift My Eyes – Jars of Clay
Abandon – Jason Morant

Drama
Ideas from the book

Other ideas
Hebrews 11 – Hall of Faith
Someone being Ezekiel and just laying on their side
Trust Falls – Hearing one person close and then move away

That Smells Fishy - Ideas for November 8

Speaker: Kris
Producers: Ken & Tim
Worship Leaders: Aaron & Renay

We'll decide art for this service on October 28th at Arts and Production.

Description:
It should be profoundly comforting that the heroes of scripture were perceived as weird, flawed, incompetent, foolish, and even less than pure. That makes any of us eminently qualified to fulfill God’s purposes. The amazing thing about their lives was what God did in them, not what they did themselves. Sometimes humility, honesty, and desperate faith were all they had to offer, but those are priceless commodities in the economy of God. We don’t treasure them as much as he does, but we should. He has proven again and again that he wants us to come to him on those very simple but uncomfortable terms.


Video
Joan of Arcadia
TMNT – Raphael gets kidnapped & it seems fishy (seems like something they aren’t)
LOST – Mr Ecko
American History X – trying to help rehabilitate people
Forest Gump – He does all of these great things while being
Avatar – Zuko
Les Mis – Showing the second chance the priest gives him and what becomes of him (what he does with it) later in life
Alias – roommate suspects boyfriend of cheating, but he’s practicing to be a singer
Veronica Mars – A client suspects her fiancé of just marrying her for her money, but it turns out that he is loaded and trying to hide it.

Music
Viva La Vida – Coldplay
Suspicious Minds – Elvis Presley
Jars of Clay Songs
Broken – Evanescence feat Seether
Whatever You Want (Something Heavenly) – Sanctus Real
I’m Not Alright – Santucs
Somewhere in the Middle – Casting Crowns
Playing God - Paramore

Drama
Awesome Drama – Church staff meeting, modernized version of Paul.
Someone sees a Christian coming out of a weird place and makes assumptions

Other ideas
SonicFlood embezzlement
Amy Grant’s Divorce
Dr. Dobson’s conversation with Jeffery Dahmer
Displays of several psalms around the room for people to consider what the psalms actually say.
This American Life – “I’ve Got You Pegged” – Cop story from the Moth
Chuck Colson – Jailed because of Watergate, he founded a successful prison ministry
Oscar Wilde and Jesus book
My Story – Josh McInnes talking about his Dad
College Friend of Ryan’s who lead 3 people to Jesus
Junior High Ministers & Child Predators – Same steps to contact work

That Seems Sinful - Ideas for November 1

Speaker: Tim
Producers: Kris & Caty
Worship Leaders: David & Colter

We'll decide art for this service on October 21st at Arts & Production.

Description:
One of the primary reasons the scribes and priests of Jesus’ day rejected his teachings and claims was that they were in the context of what looked like sin. He seemed disobedient, he ignored a lot of the rules -- he preferred the company of sinners to the most upstanding members of society. And because of the lenses through which they viewed the bible, they were completely blinded to the righteousness of the Son of God. He was the only human being ever to live a sinless life, and they called him a sinner (John 9:24). Do we do the same thing? What looks sinful to our “righteous” eyes can be the work of God. That may sound like an offensive charge, but the Pharisees were offended too, and their offense was no indicator that they were right. God’s ways aren’t always palatable to religious minds.

The Deal:
The service will be divided into different sections based on each of the following Bible characters and will be thematically put together in a dramatic/MC'd presentation.

Abraham
Video: Year One – scene with Abraham
Video: BSG – always talking about whether or not something is a test from God
Music: The Rake Song – Decembersists (Dad killing his children)
Video: Ryan Gosling Movies – United States of Leland?
Video: Air Bud – being mean to make him go away
Video: Harry and the Hendersons – being mean to make him go away
Music: Faith My Eyes – Caedmon’s Call ( about the idea of following God and leaving home to do it.)

Hosea
Reading: Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
Music: Baby Please Come Home – Anberlin
Music: Wedding Dress – Derek Webb
Music: The Bird and The Worm – Owl City

Ruth
Video: Saved! – Girl thinks that God needs her to sleep with her boyfriend to “ungay-i-fy
Music: She-Wolf – Shakira
Music: Hoping & Praying – Oldies Song
Video: Forrest Gump – Momma sleeps with the principle to get him into school.
Video: Erin Brokovich

Mary
Video: Picket Fences – claims immaculate conception.
Music: Mary Did You Know
Reading: Max Lucado Book
Video: Law & Order Episodes where someone is wrongfully accused
Reading: News stories about prisoners who are released years later when DNA evidence clears them
Video: Shawshank redemption – He didn’t do it

Jesus
Video: Big Lebowski – “The Jesus”
Music: Secret Ambition – Michael W. Smith
Video: The Life of Brian – Monty Python
Music: My Jesus – Todd Agnew
Music: Resistance – Muse

Other ideas
Video: Joan of Arcadia
Video: Saving Grace
Music: The Cost – The Frames
Video: Kingdom of Heaven (People saying “God wills it”)
Music: Playing God – Paramore
Music: Reach – Collective Soul

That Sounds Deceptive - Ideas for October 25

Speaker: Rachael
Producer: Rachael
Worship Leaders: Ryan and Mitch

We'll decide art for this service on October 14th at Arts and Production.

Description
Discernment is a vital aspect of being a Christian, but what if our discernment is based on the wrong criteria? What if our zeal for the details of scripture causes us to miss the big picture? What if our theological arguments have become the very kind of deceptive talk we’re trying to avoid? That can happen when a relationship with God turns into a religion about God. The standards of our discernment don’t always line up with the standards God applied to the people in the Bible – and they aren’t the product of living in his presence. The result is that God’s voice sometimes sounds deceptive to our ears.

Music
We Are Not As Strong As We Think We Are – Rich Mullens
Unpredictable (?) – Nicole Nordeman
To Know You – Nicole Nordeman
All the Plans – Starsailor
Word of God Speak – Mercy Me
Epic – By Some Worship Guy up in Phoenix
Abandon – By Some Guy Nedrud would know

Video
Bruce Almighty or Evan Almighty
Louie Giglio – The Massiveness of God
Rob Bell – Everything is Spiritual
What Dreams May Come
Life or Something Like it – crazy homeless guy
Star Wars – Obi Wan struck down & Luke freaks out
Shaun of the Dead – Comes up with a plan, implements the plan, and the plan doesn’t come through
Grey’s Anatomy – Dealing with tragedy
The Office – Michael’s plans go array
LOST – Locke is so obsessed with his “destiny” he’s willing to let someone die or the scene where he’s beating on the hatch talking about his destiny and then the light comes on or something with Mr. Ekco

Drama
Erwin McManus (Barbarian Way) – If God really loves me, it’ll snow. And other stories like that told as if they were our own
Play – Waiting for Godot – 2 dudes waiting for God
Someone who follows the rules to the letter, but misses the intent. (Maybe we’ll have the rules up on Keynote so people can see what they are)

Other concepts
5 crosses made out of different items to use as reflection
Descent book – find original artwork
Ryan & Liz’s crucifix & wooden cross
One made out of large nails
One made out of the tiles
Origami boxes

Communion Songs
The plan is to have an extended communion time with worship through music along with it. Specifically we’re looking for music with strong lyrics that is not usually heard at Damascus Road.
Lead Me to The Cross – Hillsong – Brooke Fraiser
How Deep the Father’s Love for Us
Holy Communion – Cliff and Danielle Young
Restore to Me – Glory Revealed CD
You Are Here – Need To Breathe
Beautiful, Scandalous Night
Revelation Song – Hillsong

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
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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