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I was sobbing, touched in the deep places of my soul by The Identical. It's a brilliant picture of the search for identity that can only be found in the Lord, inspired by the stillborn twin brother of Elvis Presley. It's a look at what might have happened if that twin was raised by another family....
09.06.14 10:40 PM - Comment(s)
We've been praying for a friend in a Private Message who is going through a very dark time right now. I was blown away when she asked us for prayer requests! It prompted me to write the following: I was in high school when my Grandma Miller said the Lord told her to get her things in order. I had N...
09.05.14 01:34 AM - Comment(s)
Pastor Joyce Swingle teaches on Romans 10:16-11:6 with illustrations from Isaiah 53, Isaiah 65 and the story of Elijah.

On a Westchester Chapel trip
to Israel Rich Swingle
performed "Prophet of Fear,"
the story of Elijah atop
Mt. Carmel
https://archive.org/embed/SJoyceTheGospelOfGrace...
08.31.14 10:53 PM - Comment(s)
Critics are blasting When the Game Stands Tall, and Rotten Tomatoes' summary says it is filled with "threadbare inspirational sports drama clichés." Whoever wrote that totally didn't get the film or intentionally wanted to subvert it. This film flies in the face of convention. It's outs...
08.31.14 01:29 AM - Comment(s)
Pastor Linda Warren, who led my bride Joyce to the Lord, preaches on Jeremiah 23:9-32, sounding an alarm of caution against the confusion that is out there.

https://archive.org/embed/SLindaFreedomAndSacrifice070614

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08.30.14 12:58 PM - Comment(s)
Phil led us in the songs in the playlist below. What couldn't be captured in its fullest expression was when Phil had all of the students line up around the sanctuary and instructed the instructors to speak a word of truth into their lives based on what we knew of them and  Ephesians 1. Meanwh...
08.30.14 12:33 AM - Comment(s)
We saw  The Father's Love Movie tonight, were thrilled to see my friend  Richard Chew onscreen, and then in the theatre for the talkback! We got to know each other through Inter-Mission when it was operating in NYC in the late 90's.
It's a fantastic film! Joyce and I were bo...
08.28.14 01:54 AM - Comment(s)
This was the first film by the team creating Mayflower II. It's absolutely stunning! Despite the $25M difference in budget we liked many elements better than The Giver, which describes a similar dystopia.

Here's Lee Duigon's A Review of "Remember" a Christian Sci-Fi Film.
08.27.14 12:17 AM - Comment(s)
Pastor Joyce Swingle preaches on Romans 10:1-15. Communion and announcements by Pastor Randy Solomon, who revealed that Men's Group will resume September 6. Guitar background by Tim B. Pastor Joyce gave a report on the Swingles' time on Mars (played by Calgary) in the upcoming film Mayflower II. Pa...
08.25.14 01:30 AM - Comment(s)
Swingle's one-man, high-energy, hour-long play...Beyond the Chariots...won him many hearts.
--David Nadeau, The Capital, Three Hills, Alberta
08.23.14 06:12 PM - Comment(s)
Pastor Linda Warren kicked off our Leadership Bible Study on worship, via our outdoor service. She and Pastor Joyce Swingle led us through Psalm 19 as we explored creation and the Ten Commandments for reasons to worship the Lord. Report on the Salvation Army conservatory by Rich Swingle, and reques...
08.10.14 04:12 AM - Comment(s)
Joyce preached on Romans 8:12-17. Opening prayer by Bill H. Pastoral prayer and communion by Pastor Randy SolomonRich Swingle gave a report on MasterWorks. You can read more details at www.RichDrama.com/MWF.

"All Hail the Power" written by Edward Perronet, 1779. Music by Oliv...
07.28.14 12:20 AM - Comment(s)
It was a true blessing to be with the kids! They encouraged and edified me and gave me real hope for the future! I truly believe it IS in their hands!  And from that group, I am so hopeful that the LORD's name will be high and lifted up, and that there will be revival in the land! 2 Chron....
07.25.14 01:29 AM - Comment(s)
Joyce and I performed the rolls of Ferris and Danae Chapman in this outstanding film shot in and near Calgary.

It's available at www.MayflowerII.com

Here's a recording of Greg Lammiman (writer/producer) and Dallas Lammiman (director) after the film screened at the 2021 International Chr...

07.24.14 10:09 PM - Comment(s)




We had another stellar MasterWorks Theatre Program, this year producing Much Ado About Nothing in Winona Lake, IN, Bethel Park, PA, and NYC in Theatre 315, an Off-Broadway space pictured above. Susan Somerville Brown choreographed a dance number in our production, and Patricia Mauceri co-direc...
07.21.14 02:08 AM - Comment(s)
Pastor Joyce Swingle preaches on Romans 8:5-11. She draws upon some of our MasterWorks experiences.

https://archive.org/embed/SJoyceJesusIsTheReason072014

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07.21.14 12:13 AM - Comment(s)
Though I didn't record this live, I wanted to upload the essence of what I felt led to share after my performance of Big Fish Little Worm for the Salvation Army's Times Square Corps, which meets in Theatre 315, the Off-Broadway space in which the MasterWorks Festival theatre program just performed M...
07.20.14 09:08 PM - Comment(s)
Resurrection! Sean Benson has found it in fourteen of Shakespeare’s plays. Sometimes the theme is spot on, as when Juliet is drugged so as to appear quite dead before coming back to a tragically short life, but in Shakespearian Resurrection: The Art of Almost Raising the Dead, Benson says Shakespea...
07.15.14 02:38 AM - Comment(s)
Amp up your World Cup experience!
For the Glory, in which I play soccer coach to Olympian Kurt Kuykendall, is now available on YouTube. Invite World Cup fans over to see this inspiring story of a failed basketball player who became a world-class goalie.
06.28.14 11:56 AM - Comment(s)
Here are links to the things I'm talking about in today's faculty devotion.

Penn Jillette: "How much do you have to hate someone not to share what you believe?" 
Hollywood Reporter interview with Emmy winner Tony Hale: Tony Hale on 'Arrested 
Development': 'It Didn't Satisfy M...
06.23.14 03:30 PM - Comment(s)

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