Sunday, July 21, 2013

Eye on the Kingdom or Double Vision

Pastor Linda Warren preaches on Matthew 6:19-24. Bill H. opens, and Pastor Linda prays over Pastor Joyce and Rich Swingle.



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Sunday, July 14, 2013

Treasure in Heaven or Treasure on Earth

Pastor Jim Warren preached on Matthew 6:19-24. Rich Swingle brought the MasterWorks theatre department to the service after they closed Twelve Angry Jurors in an Off-Broadway theatre: MasterWorksFestival.org/NYC. They all sang in the service, led by Robyn Haley. Josh Knox performed excerpts from Freud's Last Session with Rich. The piece shows an imaginary conversation between CS Lewis and Sigmund Freud. After their performance (not included in the recording due to copyright restrictions) Rich talks about how he and Josh performed it the night before for one of Rich's grad school professors who had CS Lewis as his advisor at Oxford. He met with Lewis for an hour every week.



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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

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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Sunday, June 16, 2013

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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Sunday, June 9, 2013

Today's Worship

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

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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

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 TelferWho 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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