Shawn C. Branch

Category: resources

10 Finger Plagues?

10plaguespuppets Are you planning on teaching or speaking on the 10 Plagues?  Remember when Moses was trying to get Pharoah to release the Jews from captivity?  Remember the plagues that the Egyptians endured because of Pharoah’s disobedience to God?

A resource is available to you — The 10 Plagues Finger Puppets!  That’s right…all 10 plagues, for your fingers.

Happy Shopping!

A Lenten Devotional

Journeyaddate Looking for a devotional to follow for Lent?  Try this: Journey to the Cross: Online Lenten Devotional.  It includes: music; Scripture; a medition and prayers each day throughout Lent.

Click here for Journey to the Cross

Into the Wardrobe

I’ve just returned from watching The Lion, the Witch & The Wardrobe and the movie ROCKED!!!  I can’t get over how well done the movie is!

I went into the theater wanting to watch it with out any preconceived ideas or thoughts in my head, especially since there has been so much buzz and talk about how wonderful a tool this movie is for evangelism.  I have to admit that either I couldn’t separate that from my mind or there is clearly some Christian subtext.

When I was in grade 6, my teacher (Mrs Fyffe) would read us a chapter each day from The Chronicles of Narnia and I would sit there listening, trying to imagine the story unfolding in my mind…I didn’t even come close!  The battle between good and evil is clear and flows through the Aslanstory; Edmond’s fall into temptation after the witch suggests the possibility of one day inheriting the land of Narnia; Aslan offering himself as a sacrifice for the betrayal and breaking the laws of Narnia committed by Edmond; Aslan rising up in victory and destroying the place of sacrifices and in the end conquering the powers of evil.

Man, this movie was great!  Whether or not C.S. Lewis intended to share the Gospel message through these books, I’ll never know — what I do know is that he did it, brilliantly!  Another thing that struck was the child-like faith…always believing and hoping as Lucy did.  No matter the circumstance, no matter who believed or didn’t believe, her belief never wavered.

School’s Out

On Saturday afternoon, our last class was held for Warm Bodies & Willing Hearts.  We had a good wrap-up of the previous 9 sessions and all that was missing was the band playing "Pomp and Circumstance."

The idea for these sessions came a little over a year ago, to provide an opportunity for people wanting to know more about youth ministry and all of the joys and stresses that come with it.  We had a great turn out for the 9 session course.  Our topics ranged from studying Scripture to basic evangelism and discipleship.  For the last session looked at Current Issues in Youth Ministry, which covered a broad spectrum of issues — from drugs & alcohol, sex and the occult.

In the new year, I won’t be repeating the same program, instead we’ll have quarterly workshops or mini-conferences throughout 2006.  Stay turned for the written version of the WBWH course, to be released when the book is finished.

Advent Resources

An Advent Cartoon Blog from the Cartoon Church (there’s a new one each day)

A group of bloggers have teamed up to Hopeful Imagination (an Advent blog)

Feeling creative?  Why not make your own Advent wreath?  Click here for instructions

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