Creation Station: The Aye Aye and God’s Love

The latest video from my new VBS Curriculum Creation Station. This one is about God’s love. I’d love to bring Creation Station to your church in 2014. For more information contact me at AMOKArts@aol.com.

Best of …3

I’ll be away for the next few days on a little anniversary trip so I thought rather than go completely silent, I’d share three of my favorite videos that I have done, in hopes that they will trigger your creativity.

Best of … 2

I’ll be away for the next few days on a little anniversary trip so I thought rather than go completely silent, I’d share three of my favorite videos that I have done, in hopes that they will trigger your creativity.

Best of…1

I’ll be away for the next few days on a little anniversary trip so I thought rather than go completely silent, I’d share three of my favorite videos that I have done, in hopes that they will trigger your creativity.

The Real World

The clip you just watched is one of the most inspirational clips I’ve ever seen. It’s from the movie Facing the Giants, which I watched the movie last night. I had forgotten how good that movie actually was. What’s even more amazing is it was made by a church! The movie was made by Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany Georgia (for more on the movie click here.) I love to see the church take on projects like this. Talk about using your gifts to serve others.

Now once upon a time I was asked to preview this film with a group of other ministry types for inclusion in a ministry resource. The consensus of the group was that it wouldn’t work for the audience of the resource because things were a little too neatly wrapped in the end. “That’s not how it is in the real world…” I was not part of that consensus. Oh I agree that things don’t always work out as perfectly as they do for the coach in this flick, but there’s more to it than that. Is it a perfect movie? No, but that doesn’t stop it from being immensely inspirational and compelling. And as to how things are in the “real” world? Well that’s debatable.

Today we celebrate Easter, or if you prefer, Resurrection Sunday and that’s not very real world either. The Son of God comes to earth, manages to live a perfect life here in our “real world,” gets killed for his trouble, dies for our sins, and then does something totally unreal… He rises from the dead! Not very real world and yet totally true and that same Jesus intervenes in our lives, giving us results that are sometimes unreal in the best sense of the word. Beyond that, every believer in Christ is promised a future that is out of this world.

So maybe the question to ask is “What is the real world?” This seventy to 100 years we get to spend in this place full of sin and pain and testing or the eternity we spend beyond it. And if it seems like the eternal realm is more important than this temporary realm, then what’s actually real in this world are the supernatural things going on all around us. I’m of the opinion that this “real world” is largely the test for the actual real world beyond, that the choices we make here, especially the choice of Jesus, determines our place in the real world to come. Oh and by the way, when we come to Jesus the life we get in His part of the real, “real world” truly is perfect.

Jesus is risen, and because of that those who believe will also rise, to a perfect world for all eternity. Thank you Jesus!

By the way if you want to see Facing the Giants, a really feel good, inspirational movie,perfect for this day, you can watch it below.

Happy Easter!

Creative Worship…

I saw this video and thin it makes some great points.
What do you think?

The Need for Unity…

I did this video some time ago but I think it bears repeating. There are a lot of times in the church where we butt heads. Now I’m not talking about heresy and some of the negative, idolatry things that are out there, I’m talking about the stuff that needlessly divides us. We can find a lot of things that we could part ways over, but there is something, someOne who is bigger than all of that and if we are truly seeking Him He can unite us.

We need to unite in Christ if we want to he the body He created us to be.

Another Creation Station Video

A lot of my creative time recently has been consumed in creating pieces of art for my Creation Station Vacation Bible School curriculum. Here’s how the program came about… Some church leader friends I know have decided to give their VBS teachers a little break this year, so they’re having me come in and do the opening, closing and tag team with the pastor to do the teaching station, the teachers will be working with the students and taking them from station to station. There will be a teaching station, a snack station, a craft station and a recreation station. I’m really excited about this project. The theme of the teaching for this evening is God made you special. Each session uses a different animal (one of God’s creations) to make the point and this one uses the Zebra. The video will show you why. The opening each night will include a live painting of that animal.

How would you teach a child about his or her own “specialness”? The memory verse for this night is Ephesians 2:10. That may be a good place to start.

I plan on doing this VBS as a presentation is churches on 2014. If you would like to bring me in to teach your VBS, contact me at amokarts@aol.com.

The Christmas Story

If you’ver ever struggled to tell the story of Jesus and what that story means to us, you might want to show them this video.

To learn more about this artist and his ministry, click here.

Wonderful Christmas Painting Video…

Submitted to trigger your imagination in this most blessed of seasons!