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12 Short Videos for Easter 2015

Increasingly many churches and individuals are putting time and energy into making creative film pieces for the Easter season, whether to be played at church services, events, or to be shared online. Here’s a list of 12 that I’ve come across.

1. Good Friday: Live! – Christians in Sport

Clever retelling of the events of Good Friday through imagined live scrolling web-based news reporting.

2. Cannonball – Speak Life feat. Guvna B

A visual/lyrical/musical feast, from the team at Speak Life, including Guvna B on vocals. Writer Glen Scrivener has also put together a short explanation.

3. I’m Full Cos It Was Empty – Spoken Truth

Dai Woolridge doing what he does really well.

4. Egg

Any video that manages to begin with the line “Consider the egg…” and still stays classy is clearly a good egg, ahem. Dave Crofts cleverly and gently uses something so often bound up with defining Easter as a provoking picture of bigger things.

5. Dead Come Alive – Full of Eyes

Powerful visual story-telling.

6. Bread of Heaven – Glen Scrivener

Taking up the theme of Passover and Jesus’ body being broken for us, using a child’s voice and drawings, painting the Bible’ grand-narrative and re-setting Jesus’ death and resurrection within its bigger story.

7. What do you think Easter is all about? – UCCF

A simple two-minute video, using pictures to accompany someone probing the question as to what Easter is about, before putting forward some of the evidence for Jesus’ resurrection.

8. That’s Easter: Death to Life – St Helen’s

Short presentation featuring biblical scholars speaking on the reliability of the gospel accounts.

9 & 10. Lego Easter Story – Richard Case/BW Animations

Two takes on the same idea, one apparently a ten-year old’s school art homework project, and the other a more in-depth take.

11. How Deep The Father’s Love – Page CXVI

Page CXVI reworking a song that captures the heart of the Easter message.

12. The Stone – The Gray Havens

Lyric video to accompany an original Easter track.

Know of any other videos? Share the love and drop them in the comments below.

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You may have seen another visually stunning Easter video, called ‘Because He Lives‘, which has been getting quite a lot of online attention at the moment. It’s worth pointing out that this film is actually part of a major social media campaign run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, aka, the Mormons, hence the reason why I’ve not included it. Although the video speaks of Jesus Christ and looks pretty similar to something you might find in a Christian church, once you dig into Mormonism you see that it’s a completely different ball-game to Christianity. Ultimately Mormons have a different understanding of God, of the divine authority and sufficiency of the Bible, and of the power and sufficiency of Jesus’ death. This is a helpful summary article to find out more about these substantial differences, explaining why I think Mormonism is better seen as a 19th century distortion of Christianity (and ultimately a distortion of the goodness of the gospel), rather than a subset within Christianity.

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March 30, 2015by Robin Ham
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15 excellent videos for Christmas & Advent 2014

** Click here to read my 2015 list. **

Increasingly many churches and individuals are putting time and energy into making creative film pieces for the Christmas season, whether to be played at Carol Services and the like, or shared online. After last year’s collection, here’s my 2014 list:

If you know of any others that are worth sharing, do pop them in the comments below.

1. Santa vs Jesus – Glen Scrivener

Thought-provoking spoken-word piece taking a look at popular conceptions of God.

2. God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman – Beat Convention (Andy Dykes)

Andy Dykes is church mission worker in Carlisle who has put together a new twist to this traditional Christmas carol.

3. Come Home for Christmas – UCCF

Spoken word piece musing on the idea of ‘going home for Christmas’. Often ‘going home’ doesn’t live up to expectations, or just isn’t an option for some of us. What if there was another home we can go to?

4. Joseph – Spoken Truth 

Dai Woolridge’s 2013 piece – I really enjoyed this. He’s also got the Christmas Chord – both available here.

5. The Christmas Story – Children from St Paul’s, Auckland.

Very cute and fun – I can imagine using this in family events. If you’re a big fan of Flight of the Conchords you’ll probably particularly enjoy it…

6. Christmas in a Nutshell – Dan Stevers

Dan has a number of visual text pieces set to music, including this one. More available here.

7. Christmas in Dark Places – Glen Scrivener

Glen’s 2013 piece takes seriously the fact that sometimes Christmas just doesn’t feel that merry.

8. Mary, Did You Know? – Pentatonix

Stunning acapella version of another Christmas classic that leaves you with the resounding question, ‘Who is Jesus?’

9 & 10. Mikey the Penguin & Tommy the Tiger – St Andrew’s the Great, Cambridge & St Thomas’ Norwich

You’ve got to be pretty speedy to do a carol service promo video based on the John Lewis advert, so well done StAG and St Thomas’!

11. That’s Christmas – St Helen’s, Bishopsgate

A stimulating piece filmed on the streets of London, from a few years ago.

12. The Power of Love – Christmas Starts With Christ

A short and simple, but clever and thought-provoking film.

As Steve Clifford from CSWC says, the film is a response to the various supermarket Christmas ads: “Each ad is trying to claim they have the ‘magic’ of Christmas and that if you shop with them then you will experience it. But it is not celebrities singing about turkeys, nostalgic chocolate bars or happy penguins that lie at the heart of Christmas.”

13 & 14. Hallelujah & Go, Tell It On the Mountain – Cloverton

Cloverton have a habit of impromptu coffee shop Christmassy gigs, and here’s their popular reworked version of the Leonard Cohen classic Hallulujah from 2013, with new lyrics, and this year’s Go, Tell it on the Mountain.

15. The Story of Trees – Dave Crofts

Spoken-word piece from Dave Crofts & Christ Church Central, telling the story of Christianity, the story of Christmas, through the story of trees. Bet you didn’t see that coming!

 

Let me know in the comments below if you’re aware of others that should make the list!

For a few more short films, check out my list from 2013.

On a similar vein, check out Christmas Carols Radio, a great online radio station playing carols interspersed with encouraging Christmas Bible readings and reflections. More on that later!

 

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November 27, 2014by Robin Ham
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If I Should Die Think Only This

Another excellent spoken word short-film from Glen Scrivener, this time for Remembrance Day.

For more info see here.

 

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November 4, 2014by Robin Ham
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