Hope & Faith

Psalm 66:8-20
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised (NRSVA)

8 Bless our God, O peoples,
let the sound of his praise be heard,
9 who has kept us among the living,
and has not let our feet slip.
10 For you, O God, have tested us;
you have tried us as silver is tried.
11 You brought us into the net;
you laid burdens on our backs;
12 you let people ride over our heads;
we went through fire and through water;
yet you have brought us out to a spacious place.[a]

13 I will come into your house with burnt-offerings;
I will pay you my vows,
14 those that my lips uttered
and my mouth promised when I was in trouble.
15 I will offer to you burnt-offerings of fatlings,
with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams;
I will make an offering of bulls and goats.Selah

16 Come and hear, all you who fear God,
and I will tell what he has done for me.
17 I cried aloud to him,
and he was extolled with my tongue.
18 If I had cherished iniquity in my heart,
the Lord would not have listened.
19 But truly God has listened;
he has given heed to the words of my prayer.

20 Blessed be God,
because he has not rejected my prayer
or removed his steadfast love from me.

Sean Trank Response to "I Am an Atheist" by Emily Galiette | jaclynglenn atheist in the closet challenge.

This is a response to this video from Emi Galiette https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-9rrj2zl8c
Titled: I Am an Atheist
Length: 10:32
Release Date: Apr 24, 2014

You can see more about my story and what I believe on my website https://seantrank.com

Thanks for watching and listening to my story. I pray that God will meet you in your search for truth.

Jaclyn if you are seeing this, I am praying for you too.

The reality we live in and how to meet the Father of all things.

Cancer and complete loss of household income all at the same time. Only trust and faith in God to sustain, yet it was more than enough.

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." Psalm 23:4

Video produced by Cornerstone Chapel, Leesburg Virginia (cornerstonechapel.net)

Every day we have opportunities to share the gospel with those around us. This powerful video inspires and motivates us to speak up for Jesus. - See more at: https://www.sermonspice.com/product/59551/now-or-never

I never expected God to save me. Nick became the young man that every parent wants to see their child become. Nick was saved by God's grace, love and mercy just 3 months before he left this world. Although he was an inspiration to those who knew him; his kindness, work ethic and fun loving spirit... in his last months; God laid me on his heart. Here is the last text that I ever received from Nick...: "April and I are getting baptized next Sunday and our church is praying for you; we love you and you can start denying yourself and get back to Gods plan for you, it's never too late."... It didn't even register in my mind, (at the time) that Nick had just told me he had been saved... I had lost my way and my feet had taken me places I never dreamed that I'd find myself. After Nick's death in an auto accident, I had a choice to make; self-destruction or surrender my life into the hands of our Savior Jesus Christ. I chose the latter; or should I say... the Holy Spirit reached out to me and drew me to the Heavenly Father through Christ. Now, Jesus has changed my life and my family's forever.. He paid a debt that I never could and has brought Hope and Healing beyond what I could have ever of expected. See ya in Heaven Nikki-boy and thanks for your prayers and all the great memories we will all cherish for the rest of our days.

I was delivered from evil!

Maharlika Christian Fellowship helping those who are in need.

This could be used as shown for offering or other transitions; or without sound while words guide vocal reading.

Insight: With passages from Psalm 55, elemental ripples and reflections introduce photos of a stream as it flows under a bridge where pigeons take shelter from the weather and traffic above. They emerge into the air as the water also flows into the landscape. Just past the shadows, the stream fills a sunny quiet pool, but you cannot see the pool unless you pass through the tunnel. The contrasting surroundings on the 2 sides of the bridge is a contemporary interpretation of the verse about the dove flying into the peace of the wilderness.

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Insight: Verses from Psalm 33 are illustrated by space dust transforming into an imaginary celestial body, which then appears as a moon in a forest wetland setting.

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Insight: This video quotes the verse in Revelation, which could be a sermon theme, but the stream photos included also allude to consciousness itself and exploration of the submerged versus visible in ourselves...as well as absolution and renewal. The water and rocks shape each other and such stones could be obstacles or help (as when David searched for just the right ones to defeat the giant). The pastor may want to explain the appearance of a Greek word and how it and others meaning forgiveness are used in various references, also the role of white and black stones in ancient trials.

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Insight: These verses have a theme of seeking God, through a visual symbol of entering a gate, then seeing partially through the thorny grate of our imperfections, to views beyond representing the peace and bounty we are reaching for through obedience. There is a brief pause, then closure with a verse also beseeching God to search for us, with pastures and animal scenes to show how the psalmist felt we must appear in His eyes.

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Insight: The parable of the seed falling into various conditions is interpreted using an example of sunflowers. They are a useful and familiar crop to people, but they are also related to the thistles in the parable. Both are in the same family of plants, and both feed birds and insects. While a part of the sermon might mention that no part of nature is actually bad, Jesus is pointing out the risks along the way to growing what is most valuable - or intentional- inside of us.

his video could be used as shown for offering or other transitions; or without sound while words guide vocal reading. The visual theme is the spring and growing season (emphasis).

Graduating student gave commencement address at a public university, giving glory to Jesus Christ. When the student thanked Jesus, the packed arena of thousands of people gave the most resounding response. This is encouraging that even at a public institution, people appreciate when God is given the glory. Many people have said how inspired and encouraged they were that a student gave a speech going back to traditional, family values, and turning it back to God--which is refreshing, especially in today's day and age.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLhyR_pyfgA

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Insight: From the sermon on the mount, there is a quote where Jesus shows his crowds the abundance of God's provisions in illustrating that they need to temper the human tendency of being overly worried about the future. It is believed by botanists that the flowers may have been more like red anemones, certainly not our familiar white cultivated Easter lilies. This short visualization uses abstract colors of nature at the beginning and switches to wild day lilies to combine the language of our translations with the colors that probably were in the fields of scripture.

This features some well known and lesser known quotations related to following the guidance of God, using changing forms of mountains for visual background. Mountains are not only settings for many special biblical events that could be a sermon theme (ie. transfiguration, Sermon on the Mount) but they change over time from the power of God. Lightening is used to represent His creative energy behind all we see. We continue to speak of the "peaks and valleys" in our own lives to this day. The loop uses subtle colors and should work in any season for any portion or all of the length, on a main or side projector, with or without your own music. Designed to loop.

This consists of nature images in colleges with various morphing effects in a sequence over a golden light effect, with psalm quotes.

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Insight: The words of psalm 98 praise the creation, and scenes from coastlines are included as a setting where sea, hills and rivers come together, to reflect the images in the lines of the psalm.

I'm on the listening board for the SongDiscovery sampler CD that comes with Worship Leader Magazine. I get to hear lots of fresh new music. Most of it never makes it to mainstream Christian radio, which is a shame, since it's every bit as good. Here's a video I made for a song off of Volume 116 of SongDiscovery. It's by a band named River City Hymnal, from Richmond, VA. It's about how we, even as broken sinners, can offer ourselves up to be His vessels. From their EP titled "Wonders".

Here's a little background on the group, from their Facebook page:

River City Hymnal is a collective of friends and musicians writing and playing songs for our faith community in Richmond, VA. We come from a variety of musical backgrounds, pulling influences from Tom Petty, Wilco, The Head and the Heart, Gustavo Holst, and more. Our goal is to connect people to God and each other through our lyrics and sounds.

You can purchase the "Wonders" EP here:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/wonders-single/id700973855