Jesus Loves

Pastor Joyce Swingle led the lunch devotional today at The MasterWorks Festival, teaching on Mark 9:33-37 and Mark 10:13-16. Intro by the Festival's Artistic Director, Dr. Patrick Kavanaugh.



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Praying to be Heard or Praying to be Seen

Pastor Randy Solomon preached on Matthew 6:5-6.



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Choose to Change

Pastor Joyce Swingle opened the MasterWorks Festival speaking on Psalm 62:5-8 (read by Rich Swingle) and Matthew 3:1-12 (read by Barbara Kavanaugh). Opening and prayer by Festival Artistic Director Dr. Patrick Kavanaugh. Testimony, song and prayer by Arturo Osorio. Violin solo by Gert Kumi: Allemande by Johann Sebastian Bach.



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Unrecorded because of timing and/or copyright restraints: Daniel Paul Horn and Lori Rhoden.


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Today's Worship

Though today's service wasn't recorded, we put together the worship set...


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Questions answered after Indescribable

After we showed Indescribable at Westchester Chapel Rich Swingle, who plays Fredrick Lehman in the film, fielded questions about the production. You can hear his answers here:



Prayer by Pastor Jim Warren.

Here are links to some of the things that he mentioned:

Trailers: 
Treasure Seekers
For the Glory
Compassion
Grace to the Nations

MasterWorks Festival
Our performances in an Off-Broadway theatre: MasterWorksFestivalTheatre.org/NYC

IndescribableTheMovie.com
Like our Facebook page
and our page on IMDb.com

Cast we mentioned
Rebekah Cook (played one of our daughters and was the way I found out about the film)
The Fantastic Four:
  Blynn
  Fern
  Susannah
  Donald
Walter
Stacie Graber (Director)
Joseph Graber (Producer)
  The Grabers made the film shortly after getting married!
Bessie, Stacie's first film

NotTodayTheMovie.com (The film playing on Times Square right now that exposes sexual slavery in India)

Ted Baer's MovieGuide.org
Ted Baer's TheCultureWatch.com

I (Rich) mentioned that PG films always do better at the box office than R-rated films. Here are the statistics for 2009, the most recent that I could find in a quick search. It's courtesy of Camelot Entertainment Group:

There were 558 feature films released in 2009, down from 633 in 2008. 28%, or 158, of those were released by the major studios. 400, or 72%, were released by independent distributors. Of the top 25 films in 2009, 1 movie earned more than $400,000,000 at the U.S./Canadian box office in 2009; 1 movie earned more than $300,000,000; 5 earned between $200,000,000 and $300,000,000, and 18 earned between $100,000,000 and $199,000,000. PG-13 films continue to dominate the top 25, with 13 films in the top 25. 9 films were rated PG and 3 films were rated R. Overall, approximately 50% of all movies released theatrically were rated PG-13. 30% were rated PG, 15% were rated R and 5% were rated G.

While I was doing that research I happened upon a fascinating article by Ted Baer backing up a lecture we heard at the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival and a talk from one of last year's MasterWorks guest artists, Philip Telfer: Who Stole Our Culture? It outlines how the wrenching of our society from it's Christian moorings is actually a well-documented "long march" toward Marxism.

Someone asked how they could give toward the distribution of Christian films. If you'd like to give toward the film that I mentioned (live only). You can give here: RichDrama.com/Donate. We're looking into whether or not you can receive a tax deduction, so check back here (RichDrama.com/FilmProject) to see if that is possible.

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Loving or Hating Your Enemies

Pastor Joyce Swingle continues the Choices Series on the Sermon on the Mount, illuminating Matthew 5:43-48. Pastor Randy Solomon opens with prayer. Pastor Linda Warren prays over Rich and Pastor Joyce Swingle as they prepare to serve at the MasterWorks Festival as director of the theatre program and pastoral care/counseling respectively. Musical interludes by Samhill Road. 

For information on the MasterWorks Festival Theatre performances visit MasterWorksFestival.org/NYC. The event on July 10 will include comedy improv by the MasterWorks MasterWits, Jeannie Ortega, singing and telling her testimony about performing with Rihanna before finding the Lord, and Broadway performer Stephen Trafton sharing his one-man play on the book of Philippians.

When Joyce and I (Rich) were in Hong Kong we met James Hudson Taylor III, the great-grandson of Hudson Taylor, who made great inroads into sharing the Good News in China. Jamie, as everyone called him, told us about a ceremony the Chinese held at the 60th Anniversary of the liberation of the internment camp in Weihsien, where he and Eric Liddell were imprisoned during World War II. Jamie told us how "Uncle Eric" challenged the students to consider Matthew 5:43-48, the passage in today's sermon: If Jesus says we should love our enemies, shouldn't we love the Japanese? Most of the students were shocked that he would suggest that they love their captors, but a young man named Stephen Metcalf began to pray for the Japanese. In Olympic Hero in China, a documentary I helped create about Eric Liddell, Stephen says about his prayers, "I found that it didn't change the Japanese, but it did change me." He went on to be a missionary to Japan for 40 years. He was asked to speak at the 60th Anniversary ceremony, but his speech had to be cleared by Chinese officials. You can read that speech here.

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