Kitsch
BW Animations is a goofy little YouTube channel. They make old school, stop – motion animations. Mostly they use Lego and action figures and I know it sounds silly. But my kids like silly. And how many kids watch and re – watch Bible stories on their own these days? Trust me. They have a pretty good Lego Easter video that’s well worth sharing with young kids. It might also be a good discussion starter for Sunday school.
Music
I love the band Third Day. They’ve got a ‘70s country – rock feel that gets my American bones all nostalgic about the decade I lived in for a few months before my first birthday. Anyhoo, I have thoroughly enjoyed every single album they have put out and their new one is no exception. Just released on March 3, Lead Us Back: Songs of Worship is the band’s 12th studio album. It’s a two disc set (if you are still into old technology) and is available for download right off the website. Sample every song for free and see what you think. Father of Lights and Lead us Back are certainly worth a listen.
Find it @ thirdday.com.
An Old Favourite
Many moons ago I came across this odd posting of a voicemail. It was left on a church answering machine. The man leaving the message identifies himself as a “preacher and a minister and an evangelist and what else… composer of music, and I also wrote a book about the 1,400 things the Lord told me.” So why did he call the church? Well, it’s all about a woman in the choir “wiggling her butt back and forth and side to side” in the worship service. When I first heard this guy, I couldn’t stop listening to him. I just kept listening to it over and over. And as luck would have it, I’ve stumbled onto it again and with it a few old laughs. Oh, and there is also a song “remix” of it now, too! I love Christians! We are a colourful group of weirdoes sometimes.
Find it @ tatumweb.com/blog/2005/11/15/when-worship-goes-awry
Discipleship
Special thanks to Rev. Miller for this one! Right Now Media is a video library with more than 3,500 short films categorized into groups like Counselling, Youth Groups, Small Groups, Bible Studies (there are 1,000 of these), Personal Devotionals, Sunday School and a whole lot more. It’s video curriculum for any and every possible person or group in your church. It has wonderful leaders like Tim Keller and Max Lucado and many more. It is like having a giant church library minus all the dust and organizing. It’s about $1,000 for a year depending upon the size of your congregation but for that price it can replace your entire curriculum for every group. And here is the best part. Everyone in the church can use it—at church, at home, anywhere and anytime. Anyone! It’s “Right Now” media after all.
Find it @ rightnowmedia.org.
