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Rich Swingle was my drama teacher one year at National music camp. He is a man of passion and a man of perservence. He loves what he does and he loves his life. I am not much of an actor at all, but he believed in me, in my abilities, and was an encouraging voice. When we went deeper in rehear...
01.23.12 06:58 PM - Comment(s)

This sermon goes into more depth on John 2, the passage to which I alluded last week. It also has a powerful close by my bride, Pastor Joyce. This also has an interview with the brother of one of my MasterWorks students who inspired the Giants to be "All In".

Call to worship and prayer ...
01.23.12 01:52 AM - Comment(s)
This powerfully shows the heroic efforts of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty to save thousands of Jewish and Allied targets from the Nazis of occupied Rome.

It was made for television before there was a rating system. In theatres it would probably receive a PG rating today because of its subject matter, ...
01.17.12 12:36 AM - Comment(s)
Opening story by Rachel L.

http://www.archive.org/embed/RachelsReport

Rich Swingle preaches on  John 4:1-26.

http://www.archive.org/embed/UnityInWorship_789

The song referenced at the beginning of the sermon is Come, Now Is the Time to Worship.

For more details on John 4 review A Samarit...
01.16.12 02:02 AM - Comment(s)
Pastor Joyce Swingle launches our Unity Series preaching on Psalm 133. She discovered the key to the passage is that our unity must come from submission to the Father.

 Closing comments by Pastor Rachel Taylor.

 

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01.09.12 12:24 AM - Comment(s)


This is my audition for the upcoming film, Mighty Abraham. For more details about my personal connection to this story and how my grandfather came back from the dead visit Blog.RichDrama.com (1/2/12).

 The production team is wanting to use the casting process to start a buzz, so I'd be gratef...
01.06.12 01:41 AM - Comment(s)
In 1942 my grandfather, Jimmy Ostema, the first husband of my grandma, Hilda Triezenberg, had taken a trip to Chicago, which was almost 200 miles away from their home in Charleston, Illinois, to show off his newborn baby, my mom, Judy, to friends and relatives. On that trip he got sick, and his temp...
01.03.12 01:53 AM - Comment(s)
This New Year's Day service concludes Rich Swingle's Views of the Manger Series with "The New King". Pastor Joyce Swingle preaches on Psalm 90 and then leads in communion.

 

This service is available for download free on iTunes, where you can also subscribe to our podcast. Search f...
01.02.12 12:28 AM - Comment(s)
Pastor Randy Solomon preaches on Luke 2:1-20.

 Pastoral prayer by Linda Warren

Additional comments by Claude Chew.

 "Harvey Silverstein" by Mac Nelson is performed by Rich Swingle.  Thomas Tornado Tinglehoop (mentioned in this version of the sketch)...
12.25.11 05:56 PM - Comment(s)
Pastor Linda with the
painting to which she
refers in her sermon.
Painting: "Father's Prize"
by Pastor Linda's mother,
Edith DeCecca.
Pastor Linda Warren preaches on Isaiah 11:1-10.

 Call to worship by Rich Swingle.

 Scripture reading by Chris L. and Tamara W. (NI...
12.25.11 01:54 AM - Comment(s)

As I was getting on a connecting flight in Charlotte I saw a fellow wearing a Beijing Olympics sweatshirt. I found out he competed there for Kazakhstan, so I told him "Salamatzas ba" (hello in Kazakh) and we chatted until they called my boarding zone. As I was on the phone telling Joyce a...
12.23.11 04:34 PM - Comment(s)
Some of you will see this in your inbox, but this happened in 2011: Joyce and I attended a Christmas concert at Carnegie Hall, and the choir was led by our friend Arlene Nembhard. She had invited me to perform with her choir, but that season was just too full. Nonetheless it was thrilling to sing f...
12.23.11 02:41 AM - Comment(s)
Joyce preaches on Matthew 1:18-24, and I continue my piece "What!?" from my play, Views of the Manger. Additional prayers and comments by Bill Huisman and Pastors Linda Warren and Randy Solomon at Westchester Chapel.



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12.22.11 08:37 PM - Comment(s)

This is one of five poems by George Herbert that I performed at The Kennedy Center in 2002.  It was hanging on the wall in the room where I stayed while in Chicago with the father of Melissa Lorraine, who performs the one-woman play,  Juliet: A Dialogue About Love.

Wheaton Co...
12.22.11 12:12 PM - Comment(s)
Joyce performed this piece that she wrote in the Shepherds' Cave of Bethlehem during our trip to Jordan and Israel through CITA to the Nations.

Have a blessed Christmas: www.RichDrama.com/blog/post/Christmas

12.21.11 12:13 AM - Comment(s)
I ran into Margot Morrell tonight at MasterMedia's Christmas party. She's written books on Ronald Reagan and Sir Ernest Shackleton, who led his crew of 27 through the frigid wasteland of Antarctica. She encouraged me to turn them both into one-man plays. I'm intrigued...
12.15.11 02:06 AM - Comment(s)
Rachel Taylor preaches on Mark 1: 1-8 after Rich Swingle's performance of the first half of "What!?", a sketch from his one-man play Views of the Manger.

 

 This service is available for download free on iTunes, where you can also subscribe to our podcast. Search for "Wes...
12.12.11 12:44 AM - Comment(s)
Here's my interview with Donald James Parker on his show Wielding the Sword of the Spirit:


Listen to internet radio with Donald James Parker on Blog Talk Radio

Here are the links I mention on the show:
Beyond the Chariots: RichDrama.com/BeyondtheChariots
 Plays: RichDrama.com Click on Feat...
12.11.11 10:19 PM - Comment(s)

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We pray all God’s best as we enter into this season of celebrating our Savior’s incarnation and birth as the Baby Jesus.  May all His Love flow over and in you this holy time.
The Swingles had another eventful year:
  • Joyce completed h...
12.11.11 08:55 PM - Comment(s)

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