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Swingles on Resurrection Day

A blessed Resurrection Day to all!


Here's my report after my Broadway debut...

And here's one of the complete services:

Also, today, Joyce brought the Resurrection Day message at Westchester Chapel, from from Isaiah 52:13-53

04.20.25 05:12 PM - Comment(s)
My Broadway Debut…

On Good Friday and Resurrection Day, at Times Square Church, I’ll be playing Cleopas, telling about  the walk back to Emmaus the third day after the crucifixion of Jesus. It will be on TSC's Broadway stage and live streamed.               

This is a...
04.12.25 03:57 PM - Comment(s)
We'll Go Anywhere!

I was so very blessed to serve as a guest director for Snow White, a production for fifth graders at Knox Academy in Central Point, Oregon. 


That was Monday morning, and in the afternoon I shared my one-man play Beyond the Chariots and then shared stories from our performances in Paris...

04.02.25 07:32 PM - Comment(s)
Successful Governance

I performed in the re-creation of a scene described in today’s devotion at www.PresidentialPrayerTeam.org.


The writer described the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when our founders were trying to find a way to balance power betwe...

03.27.25 05:49 PM - Comment(s)
Jordan

I recently met a gentleman from Jordan, so I pulled together photos from our trip to his nation in 2014. Click the photo below to see the album...


I was blessed to perform with a man who was in a film that was translated to Arabic. Click here to watch for free.

03.10.25 01:29 AM - Comment(s)
Filled with Blessing
Joyce continues the Westchester Chapel series A Prophet's Life: Lessons Learned From Those Called to Communicate God's Truth with a message from Daniel 1:17-21.
02.04.25 07:49 PM - Comment(s)
The Christmas Episode
Janet Porter released our Christmas episode of What's a Girl to Do? I play Wesley, and this is my favorite of all our episodes so far...
12.25.24 04:07 PM - Comment(s)
Jesus Is the Name that Saves

I was so blessed to open tonight's Christmas Eve service for Westchester Chapel by inviting people to call out what they think of when they hear the name Jesus. Our congregation was so creative and deep. It was a beautiful, holy moment. Then I did a dramatic...

12.24.24 11:46 PM - Comment(s)
Merry Christmas!

We hope you're enjoying this Holy Season! We both had opportunities to dramatize the Christmas story this year, and we hope they both bless you...


Joyce appears as the Shepherd's Daughter, who remembers the night the angels appear to the shepherds as found in Luke 2:8-20.

12.17.24 10:17 PM - Comment(s)
A Few Highlights of the Year
Here are some highlights from this year I realized I never posted about when they happened...
12.17.24 09:52 PM - Comment(s)
Average Joe

The film Average Joe is now available on DVD and on many streaming platforms. Here's the article I wrote when it was in theaters nationwide:

"Average Joe Brings Extraordinary Hope"

Lord, thank You for inspiring world-class filmmakers to tell the story of Joe and Denise Kennedy and ...

11.30.24 01:04 PM - Comment(s)
Have a Blessed Thanksgiving!

Joyce and I used Psalm 118 to lead Westchester Chapel in celebrating our gratitude for our country, community, and Christ:

11.27.24 09:25 PM - Comment(s)
"Evan Roberts Returns to Wales"

We just did an exploratory trip to Wales to re-dig the wells of the Revival that took place there in 1904 and 1905. We prayed alongside Dick and Gladys Funnell, who have been missionaries totally focused on praying for another Welsh Revival. People from 47 nations have joined them over the last two ...

10.27.24 04:34 PM - Comment(s)
Mac Nelson

I recently ran into a friend from the '90s and asked if I'd sent him the recording of the memorial service of Mac Nelson, whom we both knew back in those days when all three of us attended The Lamb's Church of the Nazarene on Times Square.  


Mac and I met soon after I moved from a 70-acre f...

09.21.24 11:14 PM - Comment(s)
Be Ready

On May 29 I did this teaching on 2 Timothy 4:1-4 from North Carolina. I didn't have time to post it at the time, but it came up several times when we were in Europe: A new friend from Northern Ireland sent me a post referencing it with a story about John Wayne saying, "...John Wayne g...

09.03.24 08:48 PM - Comment(s)
Where Is Your Hope?

Joyce had a new epiphany while digging into her life verse, which became our marriage verse: Jeremiah 29:11. This morning at Westchester Chapel she covered verses 5-14. It's a great word to everyone in this volatile season. 

09.01.24 10:45 PM - Comment(s)
Prayer for True Triumph in Paris
We were in downtown Paris today to meet her royal highness, Princess Anne, the patron of The Eric Liddell 100. More on that soon, but while we were there we took a moment to pray for the Christian athletes before tonight's opening ceremonies.
07.26.24 05:07 PM - Comment(s)
The Night Before Noisy
We set things up for tomorrow's performance at l'Eglise Evangélique Baptiste Vie Nouvelle, and we were so excited by all they're doing to prepare! You can hear an interview (in French) with the visionary behind tomorrow night's performance...
07.23.24 04:48 PM - Comment(s)
Another 100th Anniversary

... you know Eric Liddell refused to run the 100m because one of the heats would be run on a Sunday. Instead he preached in the Scots Kirk Paris, where I performed my one-man play about him 100 years later


What you may not know is that there were other races he wouldn't run because a heat woul...

07.13.24 06:10 PM - Comment(s)
The Missing Scene

If you've watched my performance of Beyond the Chariots at the Singapore Expo it's missing one of my favorite scenes. We had to trim the play to fit a larger service, and we needed to do that again at Summer Madness in Northern Ireland at the end of June. This time I got to perform the scene separat...

07.09.24 08:15 PM - Comment(s)

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