Go in Peace to Where?

In tomorrow's Gospel reading, Jesus is at the home of a Pharisee for a dinner when Luke's Gospel recounts,

a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having learned that he was eating in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment. She stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to bathe his feet with her tears and to dry them with her hair. Then she continued kissing his feet and anointing them with the ointment. Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, "If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him—that she is a sinner.

I preached a first-person sermon on this text found here: Go in Peace, to Where? The sermon is dramatized in the video below created by Brandon Watson with Craig Wells playing the role of the Pharisee. For those seeing this blog in Facebook, the video is found here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WaNXiW11uc.

WWJT - What Would Jesus Tweet?

The video above was created by the Anglican Church in Canada for its own context. For those seeing this blog on Facebook, the video is online here: Catch the Buzz.

I share it here in hopes of hearing what others think of it. I kinda like it, and think it leans once more toward the church as non-profit working on social services. The church may do many things to live into its faith that do have us caring directly for those most in need, but this is our way of incarnating (making real) the Gospel in our lives. This is a natural outgrowth of worship and so a byproduct of our purpose, which is a good way of seeing the fruit of our worship life. But divorced from the Gospel (they don't go that far, and yet...) and the worship life of a community of Christians, the works we do would be as dead as faith without works. That's my rant. What's yours?

peace,
Frank+
The Rev. Frank Logue, Video Critic

Stations of the Cross

Yes, I know that we are just on the other side of the fifty-day season of Eastertide and no where near Lent when the Stations are more common, but Father Matthew's latest video is one on the Stations of the Cross filmed on his recent trip to Israel.

For those who see this post at Facebook rather than as originally posted at the Irenic Thoughts blog, the YouTube video linked above is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ol1VWqC7M.

Were You There?

Those seeing this note in Facebook need to go to this YouTube link to see and hear this video.

Stations of the Cross
Victoria and I wrote meditations and prayers for a Stations of the Cross service a few years ago. It is available onlie as an Adobe PDF file. Print pages 2,4,6 on the back of pages 1,3,5 and you will be able to collate, fold and have a booklet of your own: Stations of the Cross Booklet.

Dream Video - Jesus Said...Love

I was awakened this morning from a dream in which I was creating a short video contrasting things Jesus never said with what Jesus did say. The video was fairly fully formed, ready to go and so I got out of bed and made the video. Within a couple of hours, it was done. It was an intriguing experience to say the least. The 30-second video is above. Enjoy!

What I Love About King of Peace Is...

Answers to the question vary from "diversity" to "swordfighting."

A Vital Congregation

Doritos and the Resurrection?

Mosaic Church, a Los Angeles church of 3,000 members, is competing in the Super Bowl. The church created an ad called "casket" which they entered in the Doritos "Crash the Super Bowl" contest which will air one of the contest entries as their Super Bowl ad. According to news reports, Erwin McManus, Mosaic's lead pastor, sees the contest as an opportunity to make his faith relevant to one of the largest TV audiences in the nation when viewers least expect it — and are least likely to tune out.

The ad above has great production values and a fun punchline, but does it make the resurrection relevant? I'm not knocking their effort. After all, I think any ad which actually did deal more directly with faith would not have made the cut for the 30-second spot. Perhaps what their contest entry really did was get the word out about the California congregation itself and at that, the publicity about their video has done great job. What do you think?

Go in Peace to Where?

Brandon made this video with Craig a while back, but it was only on Facebook, and not available via YouTube. Now it has been recut into a 9:59 minute version so that it can be offered via YouTube.

Where is God in the Haitian Earthquake?

It's a but rough at the start, but I hope offering a respectful response to Pat Robertson's comments on Haiti from a bibical perspective will be helpful.

peace,
Frank+
The Rev. Frank Logue, Pastor

Advent Meditation

Waiting

On Pearl Harbor Day, perhaps it is all the more important to recall that we are waiting for the Kingdom of God to come into its fullness. Waiting does not come easy to us. Watch the video above which meditates briefly on this.

Welcoming the Next Generation

This video was created created by young adult and Youth Ministries Coordinator Lydia Kelsey of the Diocese of Iowa.


Father Matthew Presents "How to Become a Saint"

Trunk or Treat Video

Episconinjas!

The Episcopal Church created a short video on Who We Are and posted it online here. Brandon Watson wrote his take on answering the same question and posted it on Facebook. So I took Brandon's text and created the video above using someof his footage and various photos of Episcopal Churches from here and there on the web. Enjoy!

With a larger budget for dynamite, chariots and tigers, it would have been more impressive, but with a budget the above video was created without going over its $0 budget.

peace,
Frank+
The Rev. Frank Logue, Vicar

We didn't start the fire

The Rev. John Pearce, the Lutheran Pastor who serves at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Woodbine, shares this video of 21 centuries of church history in four minutes. Nice summary. Catchy tune.

To the Glory of God

If you are going to create a building dedicated to God, you need to REALLY use the building. I made this short video for/at The Episcopal Church's Plant My Church to give an idea of the variety of things that all happen within the relatively small space of King of Peace's building. There are other ways of using the space that could have been fit in, but this gives a thumbnail view.

Make Room for Silence

Above is the latest Father Matthew Presents video. This is on centering prayer. If interested in finding out more, in the King of Peace archives, we have the related sermon Make Room for Silence and a Brochure on Centering Prayer in PDF format.

As long as we are sharing a YouTube video, those who haven't seen it will want to check out Brandon's latest video posted to the King of Peace's YouTube Channel:

God and Dog

This charming little video was shared with me by Dr. Stephen Cook, professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Virginia Theological Seminary. As he put it

Once you get into the video a bit, you can't help but be warmed a little by the message of God's unconditional love. Far from the complete scope of the Gospel, but certainly a part of it...

Danse Macabre

Not my favorite Father Matthew Presents video, but it is worth watching to hear how he does the voices from this medieval painting, and it is interesting.