My buddy Joe Kesselhon sent me this great link to a news video about his sister-in-law’s battle with cancer and their family’s choice to put LIFE first and trust God with their whole-selves.
Check out WDIO’s news story about Lora Kesselhon.
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Shaun King – pastor at Courageous Church in Atlanta, GA just recently launched their new church and instead of spending their “promotions budget” on billboards, flyers, etc., they invested in providing a free breakfast to anyone who wanted it! No strings attached!
Sound familiar? I posted about this idea thanks to Shaun and others’ talking about it a few weeks ago!
This video speaks volumes of their first go at becoming FreeBreakfastChurch!
Check out FreeBreakfastChurch.com for more information and follow their progress of Loving God! Loving People! And Proving It!
By now, most of the world has read about the church shooting in Maryville, IL where a man opened fire on Rev. Fred Winters at the First Baptist Church.
I caught wind of the news just after our morning services on Sunday (thanks to Twitter) and we paused to pray about the situation and those involved before our evening Bible study at our church that same evening. Today, too, after my meeting with Pastor Tim, we spent time together praying for those involved.
The tragic event has been on my mind almost constantly since Sunday afternoon. I have had a range of emotion and a range of thoughts about “what I would do” in a similar situation.
By Monday I was already reading ministry-posts about “protection”, “safety”, and having “escape routes” planned and such.
It seems that most-people are revolving their thoughts around what they would do in a similar situation. Would they shoot-to-kill to protect their pastor?
My question: How does Jesus want us to respond in situations like this?
My thoughts are jumbled but include the following: should Christians be armed to protect themselves in situations like this? Should one protect oneself even in the case of religious persecution? Where does “protecting one’s family” interfere with the testing of our faith that God always provides? Could a weapon be that “providential provision”? How does shooting a perpetrator fit with “turning the other cheek” as Jesus teaches?
Anyone else wrestle with these thoughts?
I know I will be trying this in the near future!
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After watching the latest churchmediadesign.tv podcast and Brad’s interview with Brent Gudgel, I spent some time over at deidox.com – a new website featuring digital short-films that are some of the most powerful, moving testimonies I’ve seen available.
I love the ministry-philosophy of Brent and Dave (Director and Producer, respectively) that while trying to make money with this project their ultimate goal is to get these “God Stories” into the hands of as many people as possible. Their “pay what you want” feature is proof of their desire to reach as wide an audience as possible.
I have purchased and shown both of their current videos, “Lindsay” and “Robert” to our youth group during my LGLP series over the last few weeks. At $19.99/ea., the videos are comparable to most online short-form illustrative video price-wise, but I dare you to compare the quality. These are by-far some of the best-produced media for the Christian-community out there. I agree with my buddy Brad who says they rival even Nooma’s production-value.
Since investigating Deidox a bit more today I have uncovered some other projects their company has worked on and I have also purchased a DVD-copy of Dear Francis – a documentary they made in 2006 covering the AIDS crisis in Swaziland. I plan to use the film for an upcoming “movie night” in our youth ministry.
Here is a preview-trailer of Deidox’s short-form videos, “Lindsay”, “Robert”, and “Deon”:
Deidox from Chronicle Project on Vimeo.
