Week in Review: Week #11, February 10, 2009
Mythbusters: Water's Edge
Weekend Teaching Series: Mythbusters: Water’s Edge
Message Title: Myth #4: All You Gotta Do is Believe
Sermon in a Sentence: Biblical faith moves from mental assent, to trust, to obedience, and ultimately to an experience of God’s grace.
Text(s): Genesis 15:6; John 3:36, 6:29; Acts 8;Romans 5:1; 2 Corinthians 1:22; Ephesians 2:8-9
Weekend Scale of Difficulty: 6 of 10 Yeah, we did another custom video (see below) but that’s nothing new. The only “new” thing was having to convert a Quicktime video clip from wingclips.com so it would play in EasyWorship. (We use Super for video conversions. I thoroughly recommend it. I do not, however, necessarily recommend EasyWorship. It has some real plusses, but also some significant drawbacks.)
Message Summary:
The message this week focused on what exactly the Bible means by “Faith.”
We started off talking about the “power of positive thinking.” Showed a quick video clip from the movie Paul Blart: Mall Cop from wingclips.com. If you haven’t checked them out yet, I’d strongly recommend it. They have a detailed and current index of movie clips. What is more, you can get the clips directly from them, including clips from movies that are in theaters right now, like Mall Cop. Seeing a clip from an “In Theaters” movie instantly got students attention. Next time it might not, but for the first time we’ve used Wingclips, it was an instant attention getter.
The clip we showed featured Paul Blart (Kevin James) explaining that “the mind is the only weapon that doesn’t need a holster.”
