Forget all those worship/sermon video sites…
There are a growing number of sites providing video for sermon illustration and worship. The one I have used and actually parted with money on is SermonSpice.com. There are plenty of others too, but it constantly puzzles me why so many resources in the Christian world, price smaller, poorer congregations out of participation. Open Source has revolutionised the secular world of software development. To me it is a concept that is very gospel-like, hence the name of this blog. And yet in the Christian world, and particularly the Christian technology world, we have been very reluctant to embrace this kingdom concept. Just think of all the different projection software products you can buy – all of them are over-priced and most of them do not come close to modern software and user-interface standards. Thankfully there are one or two open source projects. But shouldn’t the default pattern for Christian software be open source? Yes people need to survive and feed the family, which is why you should hit the "donate" button when you see one!
Anyway I’m ranting now, perhaps I’ll reflect more on this idea later. I’d be interested to know what you think. I started this morning wanting to show you this…
I just stumbled across the BBC’s Motion Gallery. featured on Greg Atkinson’s blog. 500 million feet of film, 400,000 hours of video, covering 8 million subject categories – all searchable and downloadable in Windows Media or QuickTime format.
You have to see this, to beleive it. This is a huge collection of short video clips that have been catalogued by the BBC and made available for film makers. Try it out - your sermons will never be the same again!
I visited the search page and typed in the keyword "Jesus" and found hundreds of clips like this one. Then I hit the Ideas page to find clips related to hundreds of concepts & ideas. For example, click on "Age" and you find clips like the one below. Then there is the showreel page which are longer videos they have put together.
I’m waiting on a response from the BBC regarding typical costs to download fully licensed versions, and on useage in churches but for now you just have to put up with the watermarked versions.
Of course youTube and Google Video are other growing sources of free sermon illustrations (but watch out for the garbbage!).
Sing it, brother! We are a new church plant counting every penny and can’t afford the sermon illustrations at these Christian video sites. Fortunately, there are some who are making their great videos available. for free. Lifechurch.tv is one that comes to mind.
Check this program out – I have been working on this for my Church and have open sourced it. http://sourceforge.net/projects/lyricsmystro/
Have fun!
~TK
Is there really a need for another program that does this? What will it do differently than the ones listed here.
Hey, you need to visit this site. More free high quality stuff than you can beleive. No strings. It’s aimed at youth and young adults, but as a church plant, I guarantee we will be using a lot of it.
http://vineresources.com/
God bless them for putting it up!