Living Open Source

They may think that I have completely lost the plot this Sunday if I show a clip from Cloudy with a chance of meat balls in church.  Hamburgers dropping from the sky or a net bursting, haul of fish – what’s the difference?

Trying to think through how to present the story of Job in the context of an all-age service, I came across the Brick Testament – an amazing collection of illustrations of Bible stories done with Lego bricks!

This was a bit of an experiment with some motion type after viewing some of the cool stuff on the vimeo Nice Type channel.

This week’s Old Testament lectionary reading in Amos 7 includes the wonderful plumbline illustration. I felt it could be brought up to date a little.

It is interesting that later manuscript copyists felt it necessary to take Mark’s version of Easter morning beyond verse 8. Perhaps we share their concerns for the need for nice neat, happy endings.

I‘m not preaching the lectionary this week, as I’m preaching away from home. I thought I’d use the story of Jonah for which there seem to be endless animated versions of the story, like this one.

In preaching class at college, we were told to look for the problem in the text. I was never very good at it but I think I found one this week. Jesus bunks off to pray, then leaves town, while a queue of the lame and looney stands hoping he comes back!