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Our contemporary worship service as well as our traditional service follow the lectionary. The lectionary usually provides four different scriptures for each Sunday that follow a theme. In the traditional service we have typically used one for the main scripture the sermon is based on, and then [...]
This was my first attempt to do one of those cool fast forward time lapse videos you see around. I took a camera and set it on top of our china hutch before we ate our Christmas Dinner. Then I took the video and used Windows Movie Maker to speed up the footage. Cut it [...]
In June Apple introduced their iPhone applications store. Since that time I have gone downloaded at least 100 applications that do different things. Here are my first three of the top 10 applications, free and paid, that I use on a regular basis in my ministry.
Guitar toolkit- Guitar toolkit features many tools that I need [...]
We were sitting in our living room watching the Polar Express on tv. The part came up where one of the characters was having his beard pulled and he sounded like a Caribou. 3 of our dogs could care less.. but one dog was at least a little curious.
Curious Dog from russell martin on Vimeo.
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It seems that whenever we are constantly being reminded to turn off our cell phones when we go to public places like movie theaters, schools, and church. This weekend at National Youth Workers Convention at one of our general sessions we were asked to do exactly the opposite. There were several times that we were [...]
Last night we held our Xperience Night of Worship. We wanted a chance to play out of the usual Sunday Morning setting so we worked up all original tunes written by both myself and Kerri Crocker. We hope in the future to invite other artists, and or take our group and visit other churches. Included [...]
Cat and Dog from russell martin on Vimeo.
I was going to put this video up as an example of how even though we are different we can still put aside our differences and get along. My wife told me that I shouldn’t do that because they are fighting with each other and that’s not an [...]
“Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.” Galatians 6:4-5 The Message
Yesterday after work my [...]
Today I was reading a post from Jan Owen about something the did at their church. They had people share their testimonies but instead of one or two people standing with a microphone saying the testimony, they had many people write a cardboard testimony. They took a piece of cardboard and on one side wrote [...]
Ode To Joy from Beaker on Vimeo.
I found this video while I was reading through some of my favorite worship blogs and came across this from Consuming Worship. I watched the video and laughed… then I thought. Do I look like that when something goes wrong during worship? When the slides get behind, or the [...]
