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Merry Christmas!

Hope you're having a wonderful Christmas Season!

Joyce and I just got back from a profound week in Cuba where I performed Views of the Manger, and Joyce taught on Jeremiah 29:11, our marriage verse.

We've posted her message and more about Cuba at www.RichDrama.com/Cuba.

As soon as we got ...

12.26.16 05:37 PM - Comment(s)

Christmas Day

Joyce teaches on Revelation 19:1-10. She mentions my performance of "La Gente Que Jesús Conocia" (The People Jesus Knew). Find out more about it at www.RichDrama.com/ShortPieces. Find out more about our trip to Cuba and our upcoming report on January 5 at www.RichDrama.com/Cuba....

12.25.16 01:21 PM - Comment(s)

The Righteous Reign of the Branch

This was our Christmas Eve service for 2016 at Westchester Chapel. Joyce teaches on Isaiah 11:1-10. Pastor Randy Solomon opens the service with prayer. Liz J. prays over the sermon. Joyce and I share about our trip to Cuba that month.

Click the arrow below, or if you're...

12.24.16 07:51 PM - Comment(s)

Message in Cuba: Choose God's Plans

Rich and Joyce Swingle in
Havana, Cuba, near where she
preached this message.

Joyce teaches in Cuba on Jeremiah 29:11 and Romans 12:1-2. She speaks with translation.

Click the arrow below, or if you received this via email click this link, to play the service:

https://archive.org/embed/JoyceIn...

12.18.16 07:55 PM - Comment(s)

Teaching and Performing in Cuba

In twelve hours we'll leave for Cuba to teach, perform and encourage the people!

I've been invited to teach three workshops at a Bible school and train young people how to do enacted prayer and how to create their own sketches through improvisation. On the last night the...

12.10.16 01:57 AM - Comment(s)

Send a Blessing to Cuba

Joyce and I are going to go to Cuba on December 10. I'll be teaching workshops and performing Views of the Manger with Spanish subtitles. Just before that performance I'm going to show a video of greetings from people around the world.

When we prayed about going we felt we were to tell the...

12.06.16 07:22 PM - Comment(s)

Jesus Is Our Peace

After the opening prayer by Rachel Taylor I spoke about the painting above and mentioned how it includes William Penn signing a peace treaty with the natives after paying them a decent price for Pennsylvania. Pastor Jim Warren preaches on Isaiah 11:1-9. He mentions the effec...

12.04.16 06:41 PM - Comment(s)

The Bible Project

I just stumbled upon a great series of short animated films that cover passages of Scripture and themes in Scripture. I've only seen a few, but so far it's all on target and quite fun! If you're new in your walk with the Lord or exploring what that might be like, this is a great way to get immersed...

11.30.16 12:04 PM - Comment(s)

What Does Peace Mean?

Pastor Joyce Swingle launches our newest Advent Series preaching on Isaiah 9:1-7. She mentions the Armor of God, which we've covered in the past ( www.WestchesterChapel.org/Armor) and her husband Rich Swingle's sketch on Gideon ( Sheepish). Pastor Jim Warren opens, and Pastor Linda Warren prays ove...

11.27.16 07:55 PM - Comment(s)

Essence: Exploring the Human-Horse Relationship

We got to connect with Ivy Schexnayder and her mom, Barbara Novak Schexnayder, when they came to NYC recently to screen Ivy's short film Essence: Exploring the Horse-Human Relationship at the Equus Film Festival.

The film is narrated by Rebekah Stought, who was a student a...

11.26.16 09:02 PM - Comment(s)

The Psalm of Joseph

This Sunday I'll be doing a dramatic reading of the story of Joseph as Eva teaches on the passages for our Leadership Bible Study at 9:30am. Shortly after Eva invited me to do that I came across Psalm 105, which includes an ode to Joseph. I planned to memorize and perform the psalm, but it quickly...

11.25.16 10:39 PM - Comment(s)

Saved by Grace

If you're looking for a good film this evening we discovered a Thanksgiving-themed film on PureFlix featuring Muse Watson, who I performed with in A Christmas Snow. The Thanksgiving film is called Saved by Grace.

It shows the power of a relationship with Christ to carry us through the...

11.24.16 09:43 PM - Comment(s)

Thankful for Much!

I was recently a guest writer for Miranda A. Uyeh's To Be a Person. I wrote the piece before and after my performance at a chapel for my alma mater, George Fox University. You can read the article here.

The university sent me the footage of that chapel, and what happened is the number one thing I...

11.23.16 08:52 PM - Comment(s)

We Give Thanks

Thanksgiving greetings from Graceworks!

11.22.16 04:46 PM - Comment(s)

Fellowship with Jesus: Transfigured

I open this morning's service at Westchester Chapel with reflections on this A.W. Tozer quote:

Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to ...

11.21.16 12:19 AM - Comment(s)

The Son of the Living God

Joyce teaches on Matthew 16:13-20. Opening and prayer by Dr. Linda Warren. I performed the drama in the video below from my performance at Caesarea Philippi in Israel. Westchester Chapel's own Kimberly A.’s testimony in the Chris Tomlin video is at 5:10.

https://archive.org/embed/JoyceLordCaesariaP11...

11.07.16 01:51 AM - Comment(s)

Worship the King

I was sitting at the train station when an inebriated man stumbled toward me and threw a punch. Find out what happened below. It's at the 16-minute mark in this morning's service...

Dr. Linda Warren led us through an immersive journey into Psalm 96. Pastor Jim Warren opened the service and closed b...

10.31.16 12:57 AM - Comment(s)

I'm Not Ashamed

I wrote this review shortly after the film came out in 2016 but didn't have time to post it. I'm referring to the film in an article I'm writing for www.HeadlinePrayer.org, so I'm posting it now.

I'm Not Ashamed tells the story of Rachel Joy Scott and how her life came to an end during t...

10.23.16 08:34 PM - Comment(s)

Better email version of Revive Us!

For those of you who already received this in your inbox, I want to apologize for the way the previous version was formatted. I did a bit of research and designed this one so that it should look much better in email form...

By the way, if I'm in a hurry and a future post looks bad or hides some of...

09.28.16 10:48 PM - Comment(s)

Revive Us!

https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FRichSwingle%2Fposts%2F10154071994682279%3A1&width=200I just heard about something that looks to be a fantastic event.

We know two of the presenters, Eric Metaxas, who allowed us to use his testimony as a part of ou...

09.28.16 02:11 PM - Comment(s)

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