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Upcoming Series: Just Jesus
Jun. 17, 2007 Dave BarnhartHi, everyone! I’m looking forward to our first Sunday together with me as your regular preaching guy. I’m excited about the upcoming sermon series called Just Jesus, and I wanted to give you some links that might help stimulate some discussion. The first sermon will be on Sunday, June 17 (which is also Father’s Day), and it is called A Picture of Jesus.
This link is to a whole gallery of images of Jesus at Rejesus. Which one looks like the Jesus you imagine?
This link is to lyrics to a song by Ben Harper, called “Picture of Jesus.” Read the lyrics and see if they speak to you.
Peace.
Your Comments
The mural is wonderful! They really did a fabulous job. Thanks for sharing their work.
July 04, 2007
Dave,
Your sermon series sounds very interesting. The 4th and 5th graders at Trinity recently painted the 3rd mural for their gathering room on the 1st floor. (Camp Can-Do) I know you went with them to Sand Mountain. It was such a meaningful experience for them.
Since the 1st two were stories from the Old Testament, they decided to look at stories from the New Testament to illustrate this time.
I thought their expressions of the way Jesus looked to them were wonderful.
The stories they chose to illustrate were Jesus’s birth, Jesus as a child at the temple, Jesus when he said “Let the children come to me.”, John baptizing Jesus, Jesus calming the waters in the storm, making fishers of men, casting the nets, Jesus riding on a donkey into Jeruselum, Jesus’s death on the cross, and his ressurection.
The mural is 16’ long and 4’ wide painted on masonite that they primed.If you haven’t seen it yet, go take a look.
Illustrating stories from the Bible really helps the message come alive. The children had to think about atmosphere, landscape, what the people wore, and as they painted faces, what the people felt.
I loved that their expressions of ethnic origin were varied.
I hope that the children who painted will have an opportunity to hear your sermons.
Janet Holloway
June 22, 2007