Humans are emotional beings.
What makes movies appealing is that they appeal to the emotions.
A great script uses plot twists and character development to engage the viewers.
You need to understand feelings at all phases including
script writing
casting
rehearsing
shooting
editing
promoting
Emotions or feelings can point toward the truth of the Bible and the gospel message.
Every day every person experiences emotions.
These emotions occur internally with possible external expressions.
Our em…
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Added by John Oliver on December 15, 2009 at 5:00pm —
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Three Requests for Me
1. Holy Spirit keeps prompting me back to Psalm 119 to read aloud and meditate on it. May His Word minister deeply to me.
2. My personal prayer life needs improvement again. May I pray better and more.
3. I admit that I am powerless over budgeting my personal finances. I have fumbled in this area over the years. God have mercy on me.
Four Requests for the Ministry
1. May God help me in using a new online tool for balancing the short term daily tasks with the long term stra…
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Added by John Oliver on December 15, 2009 at 5:54am —
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Here is a resource could greatly help many that serve in the name of Jesus.
This includes pastors, missionaries, church platers, outreach workers, cell group leaders and lay counselors.
Free online ebook
Billy Graham Christian Worker's Handbook
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Added by John Oliver on December 6, 2009 at 7:16pm —
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Seven Monday Requests
--- Your prayers will be joined with other intercessors.
--- Agreed prayers will provide the spiritual support for launching the ministry.
--- You can learn more about Our Stewardship Community (OSC) here
www.OSClaunch.org
Three Requests for Me
1. Ask God for wisdom and insights about how to effectively use my time throughout the week.
2. Lord Jesus help me in developing suitable goals with challenging deadlines.
3. Go…
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Added by John Oliver on November 30, 2009 at 6:37pm —
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You can become used by God to open the eyes of many people.
Your video can wake people up to the facts about the world.
This can spark people to do the following.
-- Become more thankful to God for what they have
-- Pray for missions better
-- Appreciate differences
-- Give more to mission
-- Get involved in community outreach.
A few times a year I get an email forwarded to me about the global village.
Surely you to too.
Each one is different.
Some are just text.
Some have photos or graphics
Yo…
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Added by John Oliver on November 26, 2009 at 8:00pm —
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This is a critical time in my life.
I need prayers.
Your prayers will make a big difference.
Your prayers will be added to the prayers of many others.
I have been praying, planning and preparing for years.
This is the season to launch the ministry.
The name is Our Stewardship Community.
People give to nonprofits in December more than any other month.
I need prayers to face my fears and meet with prospective donors.
When I have gotten in to the habit of presenting then
I am enrolling more than…
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Added by John Oliver on November 23, 2009 at 5:37pm —
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Maybe you feel like there is too much to do and not enough time.
Perhaps every year your life seems to get more complicated.
It could be that you do not have a way to balance short term and long term.
I have typical time management challenges
Plus I have been in the process of researching, planning and organizing a ministry.
These tools have helped me with time management.
Seven Habits of Effective People
By Stephen Covey…
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Added by John Oliver on November 20, 2009 at 4:30pm —
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Addiction to pornography is impacting men and marriages.
It is a rapidly growing industry globally.
The messages of pornography promote fornication and adultery indirectly.
The sanctity of the covenant of marriage is assaulted.
Personal holiness just for the sake of a righteous walk with Christ is attacked.
Getting ensnared is easy due to the Internet.
Getting free is difficult but there are proven pathways.
Sadly studies indicate that women are getting more involved in this kind of spiritual…
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Added by John Oliver on October 19, 2009 at 5:30am —
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One big challenge for any minister is how, when and where are they spiritually fed.
Those in this Ning community are by nature givers who could easily dry up.
There is no local pastor that can be excellent in all areas of Christianity.
SO we have need of others all over the WWW.
Use these to 24-7 to refresh your soul.
great online Christian videos
http://www.dod.org/Departments/Viewable-Programs.aspx
many…
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Added by John Oliver on October 11, 2009 at 12:00am —
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Can a born again believer have eternal security?
There is much talk about assurance of salvation.
But there is not much biblical understanding.
God can use you to sow good seeds on this topic.
You can use your video talents to reach many.
The truth will set the captives free.
Here are links to fuel your research.
Chafer
The Riches of Grace in Christ Jesus
(33 Divine Accomplishments in and for the Sinner
upon Believing on the Lord Jesus Christ)
http://www.wholesomewords.org/etexts/chafer/saved…
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Added by John Oliver on October 1, 2009 at 10:30pm —
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Spiritual warfare is biblical and it is real.
Most Christians ignore the subject while others distort it.
You can be used by God to bring a biblical and balanced perspective.
Battle Focused
http://www.battlefocused.org/ is a website to include in your research.
It was made by a man that trained soldiers and is an evangelist.
Go to Battle Focused
http:/…
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Added by John Oliver on October 1, 2009 at 8:51pm —
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I posted this here because I need prayers.
And a big part of the prayers is for me to start three ning communities.
Sorry this message is so long.
All of it is important.
God will use your prayers to make big changes.
Your prayers will help me to help many people.
Mayday! Mayday!
That is the universal distress call for radio operators.
I used that when I was the skipper of a large sailboat in the Bahamas.
The sailing club of Georgia Tech had chartered five boats.
The steering cable had sud…
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Added by John Oliver on September 8, 2009 at 3:48pm —
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This post is included here for two reasons.
1) I need the faith filled prayers of the saints.
2) And my path includes many short videos I will publish here.
Been feeling depressed.
Sleeping more than needed.
Trying to escape into dreamland.
Money challenges loom large.
Need grace and mercy from Jesus.
Previously sent out prayer requests about this.
God answered prayers in amazing ways.
For weeks creditors were calling often.
Now the past due bills are caught up thankfully.
I got behind due…
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Added by John Oliver on August 29, 2009 at 12:37pm —
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Here is a best practices way to harness video technology to communicate the eternal Word of God in an engaging manner.
This is the first in a series
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYlkDeQwhUQ
Other videos in this series and more videos by Doug Whitley
http://www.youtube.com/user/PreachersofthePast
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Added by John Oliver on July 26, 2009 at 10:06pm —
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The HOT TOPIC in the forums is ALWAYS evolution and creation.
There is much interest and lots of confusion.
Believers and unbelievers are interested in this subject.
Evolution is presented as scientific fact in the public schools and media.
Creationism is viewed as religious myths.
Intelligent Design seeks to establish that nature requires an intelligent designer.
That undermines the premise of evolution that random chance plus time resulted in nature.
Thankfully there are some excellent site…
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Added by John Oliver on July 13, 2009 at 9:00am —
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This short online article goes over the essentials in an easy to understand way.
The article is oriented to writing for text publication but the concepts can be adapted writing a script for you future videos.
This article is on a GIANT online community named Learn Hub that I recently discovered. I plan to use that as the base to share the dozens of short lessons I hope to publish online before the end of 2009.…
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Added by John Oliver on July 6, 2009 at 10:00pm —
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This is audio yet it can fuel your thinking about video.
I do not advocate plagiarism.
Instead consider how you can start with a typical bedtime Bible story or VBS story.
Then tell the familiar material from a different angle in your future video.
http://www.ptmin.org/Dallas2008.mp3
On this site you will find lots of inspiration for your stories.
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Added by John Oliver on July 5, 2009 at 2:00pm —
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Years ago I took a audio visual course.
It quickly gave an overview of the many ways to use communication media.
The final exam was a five minute presentation using what had been learned.
That was a great combination of theory and application.
These four videos are like that as the students produce a work that will be published.
These videos relate to this Visual Story Network.
They explore the processes of creativity and collaboration.
They demonstrate how artists of different disciplines can…
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Added by John Oliver on July 4, 2009 at 7:48pm —
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This company is using story telling in the business setting
and here is a link to the collection of the demos of work
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Added by John Oliver on July 2, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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I bumped into this lesson while attempting to recall the URL for this Ning network.
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Added by John Oliver on July 1, 2009 at 4:00pm —
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