Save the Daylight…

Each year there are many different countries that are faced with the challenge of Daylight saving time (DST). This year, the Media Design team came up with a interesting way to communicate DST to our church. Check it out now:
http://www.youtube.com/v/bw96oBPvIfQ&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&border=1

If you are a church and would like to have a full resolution version of this video, we have made it available to you via our Open website. You can link directly to the footage here: http://open.lifechurch.tv/tools/3440

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“It” is Now On Video

I am extremely grateful that God is using my latest book, It, to impact church leaders around the world. The book is currently in its 7th printing.

A lot of churches are purchasing books for their staff and leaders to read. If you’d like to buy 12 or more for 50% off the cover, please contact Sarah.

“It” is now on video. You can purchase it here or find more information here.  We produced nine different videos that are available on one dvd. The video above is a sample.

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I Love My Church: Invasion

We’re in the middle of a two-part series called I Love My Church: Invasion.  In the messages, we illustrate the vision of the church through the stories of people whose lives have been changed.  We had people nominate people and we showed up unannounced to capture them on camera.  I wanted to share one that we did this last weekend with you all.  We’ll be wrapping up the series this weekend with four more stories and if you’d like to check it out, there are multiple opportunities to join us for an internet campus experience including 6:30 pm CST Saturday, several times on Sunday, as well as 12:00 pm and 8:00 pm CST Tuesday.

Tags: video illustration

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LIVE NOW FROM NEW YORK CITY!

Craig, Mark and I are in New York City right now shooting video for Craig’s One Prayer message.

You can watch it here live or go here to watch and chat live!

Also…if you are one of the churches submitting a video for One Prayer, the deadline for those submissions is May 12. However, if you can get it in sooner, we would really appreciate it!

(If I am “LIVE” it will say “LIVE” in green on the video. If I am offline, it will show the most recent video).

Tags: one prayer, Travel

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Stay tuned…Live video feed!

Tomorrow, Craig, Mark, and I will be traveling to an undisclosed location and filming for Craig’s One Prayer message…and I will be broadcasting it live on the internet via my mobile phone’s live video.

Follow me on Twitter or check back on Swerve throughout the day tomorrow for the link when it goes live!

Tags: one prayer, Travel, video

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Hostage - Sneak Preview

We are starting a great series this weekend called Hostage.  In the series, we are going to address  how to break free from several things that can hold us hostage like fear, pride, anger and jealousy.

I wanted to show you all a video that we will be using in the message this weekend as a lead-in to Craig’s message about how bitterness can hold us hostage.  I think the team did a great job with the video and thought you might be interested in seeing it in advance.  Let me know what you think.  It will be available on OPEN after the series is over if you’d like to use it in your church.

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Satan Uses TurboTax

Here’s a video illustration we used this past weekend in our experiences. I thought you’d enjoy it!

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Apple TV Take 2

Macworld is this week and though there have been several new products introduced there is at least one announcement that is worthy of pointing you to.

Last year, I did an experiment for a couple of months where I only watched downloaded content at home using a couple of Apple TV devices. I talked about it in these posts.

This week Apple announced a major upgrade for the Apple TV (for both new and existing customers). You can now access, movies, tv shows, podcasts, music, YouTube videos, flickr photos and more from an Apple TV…AND…you don’t have to use a computer. You can do it all from your TV.

Some of you might be saying “cool”… others “finally!”…and the rest of you might be saying “who cares?” Here’s why I think it can be important.

The move helps to propel the convergence of the Internet and television. This move makes it much easier and very cost effective for churches (or individuals) to deliver content to the living room. It is pretty much free to build and deliver a video and/or audio podcast of your church’s teaching. Now, someone with an Apple TV can browse to your podcast in iTunes and begin watching it from their television. Oh…and it doesn’t have to be a low-quality web video either….it can be in HD if you want.

Think small group video distribution, think missionaries, think house churches, think shut-ins, think just about anything you want to think…now, what do you think?

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