Kids Worship artist Brent Weber is the focus of our Wednesday Give Away this month. Brent is kind enough to give away 2 of his worship DVDs. They are:
Two lucky people will win (1 DVD per winner). Here’s how to enter:
Next Wednesday, I’ll randomly choose two lucky winners from all the entries. One entry per person.
Here’s two audio Bible tools for you. Interestingly, they are both called “Pod Bibles.” The first is a Podcast, but you can listen to the Scriptures from their site. Play these during teaching times to add a new dimension to the Scriptures.
The second is a readable Bible for your iPod. It uses the “Notes” portion of the iPod firmware. Read it on the train, in a plane, in the car (while not driving), in the bathroom (don’t drop it in), use with an impromptu devotion at camp…whatever!
Christianaudio.com provides a free book download per month. They are usually pretty good. Check them out and grow your walk!
I love music. Since I miss a great deal of worship services, I worship at many other times aside from Sunday mornings. One of the tools I use in the office each week is a site called Grooveshark. You can listen (not necessarily download) virtually any song you can think of. It is a free, internet-based music service. You can purchase a membership with them in order to listen to music in more versatile ways as well.
A couple of years ago, a friend let me know about a unique ministry called Talks for Growing Christians. This site has some very straightforward Bible teachings which can be streamed or downloaded. I also like that they provide lesson notes and questions to consider as you listen along. You could easily turn this into your daily Bible study.
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This week, I am beginning an 8 post series about how we who lead children can keep our spiritual focus. I will highlight various resources that help put a spark in your spirit! This will go for 3 straight weeks, aside from a Wednesday Give Away next week. One thing that is critical for every believer is sitting under the authority of God’s Word. We certainly need to be in personal Bible study every day, but there is something about the preaching of God’s Word that motivates our spirit to be disciples who walk more closely to Jesus. I have not sat through an entire Sunday worship service in close to a year. I’m sure that many of you are in the same boat. Both of my children’s worship services take place during the two adult worship services and I feel a strong calling as the Pastor to Kids, that I need to be the one preaching to them. I can not contract that out.
I work around this by listening to sermons in the car and while working out. I wanted to compile a list of notable places to listen to or download free, Bible based messages. I hope you may find some of these helpful, they are in no particular order.
Please feel free to comment on any other places you have found dynamic bible based teachings!
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If you are not familiar with Skype, it is a free computer to computer/phone line calling software. Computer phone systems have not quite taken the country by storm, but at this point they do have some special abilities, and yes, for the sake of my site, Skype is free (for the basic features and computer to computer calling).
This Sunday, I will be calling a family from our church who is serving in East Asia during both children’s worship services. I’ll project their video call on the screen and the computer will emit sound through the sound system so that all the kids in the worship can take part. We will hear them share their heart for missions and using a web cam in the worship room, we will allow some children to ask the missionary children questions.
We have done this once before and it was a success. You do have to beware that the video and sound could be choppy and it may take a few tries when the other person is in a country with poor internet infrastructure. But overall, it’s a good way to expose kids to missions work.
Well, this is our last day of the “Freed Up” Ministry series. I hope that you have gotten some great resources over the last several weeks.
Today, I think you need to check out the Seeds Family Worship YouTube channel. Seeds Family Worship has some great free music videos that you can easily use as worship videos or intro music to events. Check out:
You may recall a previous post here about how Seeds gives away the guitar chords for every one of their songs. I love to hear of organizations like this, willing to give of the resources God has given them.
Download these videos through a website such as Vixy, Gazzump, or Media Converter.
In the future, be on the look out for :
Open Church Resources is a budding blog with logos, motion backgrounds, videos, sermons, graphics, and invite cards. You can probably find a few handy things on their site.
I found a very nice child dedication video here. (scroll to the bottom).
Don’t forget to get your name in the raffle for free Leadership CD’s featuring Jim Wideman!
I guess I’ve been on an audio kick. I promise that the next several posts will not deal with audio! If you would like some Christ-centered audio regarding church leadership, leadership within the home, and a whole host of other leadership topics, you can find them at Leader Source.
Go here to find more info regarding teachings covering a wide variety of topcis. Leader Source is an interesting organization. Check them out.
