August 2009
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Cover Story
Easy Worship
By An Interview with Paul Constable
Considering the readership of Christian Video Magazine, I realize that I am “preaching to the choir” when I point out the advantages of using multimedia in worship. However, as I travel across the nation, I find that many churches that are just now beginning to use projection as a part of their worship service, seem to start with PowerPoint. In most cases, it is because they didn’t know there was anything else. It is always great to share with them that there are specific programs designed for a church’s unique needs in the area of multimedia worship.
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Editorial
Christian Video Mag (CVMag) Enhances Their Website
By Steve Hewitt
We have added some new functionality to our website (www.christianvideomag.com). Our readers have told us on many occasions that they love the magazine distributed in PDF format. However, this format has limits when it comes to online search engines. Now our new Website has the solution!
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Article
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark – Accessing the Power of God
By Martin Baggs
August is the height of summer. And summer spells “b-l-o-c-k-b-u-s-t-e-r” in the movie industry. So, it’s appropriate to soak in a rip-roaring adventure, none being better than Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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Article
“Hollywood” Productions on a “Home Depot” Budget
By Jay M. Delp
Ever since the prehistoric days of media ministry (circa. 1986) the universal “mantra” has been “cheap is good; but FREE is even better.” When it comes to using today’s video and media technologies in our ministries it doesn’t take long to ring up a hefty “grand total’ at the BEST BUY check out counter eating up your entire year’s tech budget. But tapping into video tools & techniques need not break your ministry budget or max out your church’s credit card. Sometimes replacing that technology entirely with a readily-available “low-tech” substitute can be your budget-saving ticket to once again experiencing that warm & fuzzy “financial afterglow” when you realize you just saved an offering-plate-load of $’s with your “bargain basement” smarts.
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Article
Reflections on Dan in Real Life
By Mark Carroll
Summertime is wonderful fodder for Hollywood movies. Growing up, everyone has their favorite memories filled with sounds of amusements parks, attending baseball games, BBQs by the lake, camping out in the backyard, and of course the most vivid memories of all: family outings with the relatives.
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Greg’s Tool Kit
Interview of CIY’s MD Neely
By Gregory Fish
Here’s an interview that I conducted with MD Neely from Christ In Youth, which is based out of my old stomping grounds in Joplin, Missouri. I think I moved away from Joplin before MD moved there, but we have made an acquaintance through our mutual friends and through the networking power of the internet. CIY’s videos, like mine are available for download on SermonSpice – http://sermonspice.com/producers/profile/1680. MD offers us all some great comments for our own filmmaking endeavors. Here’s what I asked him:
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Article
Why Short Films Don’t Work in Church
By Stewart H. Redwine
For most of our lives, almost every American has been part of an enormous classical conditioning experiment. We have learned how to view, appreciate, and enjoy watching TV and movies. I’m not talking about the types of programs we watch, but rather the way they are delivered to us. Whether we know it or not, we expect a television show to be 30-60 minutes in duration, with commercial breaks; and, a feature film to be somewhere between 1-3 hours in length. Like Pavlov’s famous dogs salivating at the sound of a bell whether there was food or not, once a short film starts playing in a Church service, powerful conditioned responses kick in.
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