Sermon Visuals

Recently, one of my desires has been to take the next step in our church services through sermon visuals. If you recall, this was the tip of the week two weeks ago. I've looked around at various websites observing the "Basic, but Free" on CreationSwap, the "Average, but Cheap" on ShareFaith, and the "Awesome, but Expensive" on Graceway Media. I have to say, Graceway Media highly impresses me. Most of their stuff looks amazing. It's everything the church media guy would hope to be able to do. Well I told myself that I could probably do some of the more basic things that they can and I gave it a whirl. My beginning tests worked out so well that I asked my good friend, missionary Steven Maldoff of Murray River Baptist Church, if he'd like me to design something for him. So this week was our first week of doing that. If you check out Tip of the Week #2 you will see the initial test design that I sent him called The Greatest Thing About Heaven. Below I have included this week's design (Making the Most of Mealtime Conversations).

 

I'm not a magician, and I have no problem sharing my secrets. They aren't really secrets at all. I got the backgrounds for both from the free place I named earlier, CreationSwap. They've got a lot of really great free downloads in terms of backgrounds and stock images. Then all it takes is a little bit of Photoshop know-how to change or add text. For this weeks design, I took the stock image, changed the fonts to make them look more professional, use font sizes to emphasize word hierarchy (adding in a little word design), and added some flare to make the background less boring and plain. The second design is essentially the same thing, except it's entirely from scratch, no stock image except the background. I really like that design, so Murray River Baptist Church, if you see this design on your wall in the future with some different text, it's because I didn't want to let it go to waste as just being a sample.

Now, a little more about this week's Sermon Visual. Last week you may recall the church bulletin cover for Murray River Baptist Church about hosting a Matthew Meal. Pastor Maldoff encouraged his congregation to invite their unsaved friends, relatives, neighbors, and coworkers over to their house for dinner. In the process, they would look for opportunities to talk to them about Jesus Christ. This is, in a sense, bringing your friends to meet Jesus like Matthew did in Luke 5:27-32. Well this week's sermon is a follow-up to last weeks. Now Pastor Maldoff is encouraging the people to make the most of those mealtime conversations. Don't just have the people over to eat, and then not tell them about Jesus. If you would like to check out the sermon you can listen to it on Sermon Audio by going to: http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=42912040171.

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