I’m a friend to and huge support of Lee McDerment. I think he’s the most gifted, creative and innovative worship leader in the country. I absolutely love when he leads worship (he’s the one on piano in the video). Here’s NewSpring’s video opener for their Christmas Eve services.
Christmas Opener: Just Come Home from NewSpring Production on Vimeo.
I know for many of you, dear friends in ministry, this is an extremely busy time of year. I pray that you would be able to enjoy Christmas, enjoy your families and get refreshed between Christmas and the new year. Get some rest, friends. I’m taking the rest of the week off.
Below is a picture of my precious family taken this week. I’d appreciate your continued prayers for my wife.
Anyone using visual media in church should know the answer to this question (WHY?) if they are to be effective.
Come and be part of the discussion that is shaping the philosophy and vision of visual media in the modern Church. Engage with visual worship leaders and ministry staff from across the country in this roundtable forum. VisualWorship2010 was launched to be a catalyst for visual worshipers and the Church to discover what God has in store for us.
Check it out!
After two years of creating quality content as eight20eight, they decided to change their name. Now known as Soul Refinery, they will continue to create quality media that they hope will ignite the heart and refine the soul.
To celebrate the change and launch of soulrefinery.com, they are giving away two free Christmas motion loops.
While you can find their content wherever quality videos are sold, they hope you’ll consider supporting us directly by visiting soulrefinery.com. There you’ll find their entire collection, including films that feature stars from hit TV shows as The Offce, Community, Reno 911, Saturday Night Life, and others.
They also now offer the entire motion loop and countdown library that they recently purchased from our friends at Eleven72 — revamped and available in HD!
Please visit their new site today and let them know if you have any questions or comments. CLICK HERE TO ADD FREE LOOPS TO YOUR CART
You must know that 24 is one of my all-time favorite TV shows and I think Jack Bauer is the man. Enjoy.
I stand corrected… I love Invictus and think it is an outstanding story and movie, but after recently seeing Avatar, I think it will win Best Picture and James Cameron will beat out Clint Eastwood for Best Director.
Creative teams: listen to me. Go see this with your team and be inspired. The world that James Cameron creates is simply breathtaking. See it in 3D.
I’m currently booking secret shopper visits for January, February and March. I’ve got one scheduled (at a secret location) for January 24th, but all my other Sundays are free so far. I hope you’ll budget to bring me in this new year and let me help you do what you do better.
This weekend I saw Clint Eastwood’s new movie Invitus (twice). “Invictus tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s rugby team (Matt Damon) to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa’s underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.”
I blog about movies that move and inspire me. I’m a movie-guy and God speaks to me through movies. I saw Crash and instantly knew it would win an Academy Award. I saw Slumdog Millionaire and instantly knew it would win an Academy Award and blogged about it on here.
Earlier this year, I blogged about Jamie Foxx and his performance in The Soloist. I think it’s an amazing movie, so I’m currently torn. I think Clint Eastwood should win Best Director for Invictus. I think Morgan Freeman will be fighting hard against Jamie Foxx for Best Actor and it will come down to these 2 movies for Best Picture. Matt Damon also ought to be up for an Oscar.
You heard it here first. 
Now go see the movie. It’s a powerful story of forgiveness and reconciliation.
My friends at Igniter Media have produced a new Christmas media piece for your Christmas service this year. I think it’s a great video and I’m also very proud of them for offering it in Spanish, too!
Tuesday we met with a surgeon at UT Southwestern and praise God, he doesn’t want to do surgery, yet. He wants to watch things for 3 months and then do more testing then. So for now, we’re not having surgery and there’s always still hope for healing.
IF YOU’RE IN DFW:
We’re having a prayer, worship and healing service this Friday night (tomorrow) at 7pm at Fellowship Dallas. If you’re in the Dallas area, you’re welcome to join us. If not, just pray from where you are. Thanks!
IN OTHER NEWS:
YouVersion launched http://onebillionminutes.com to celebrate people reading over a Billion minutes of the Bible on the JUST the YouVersion mobile apps. Pretty crazy to think how engaged people are in the Bible through their phone!
