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Clips For iPhone — Movie Clip Teaching Ideas

Chris — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:00:33 +0000

Have you ever hunted for just the perfect movie clip to use as an illustration for your teaching? There’s brand new iPhone app to help with that: Clips ~ Teach the Bible; Use scenes from movies. I love that it’s made by a Youth Pastor that’s also a developer, RJ Grunewald.

Description from iTunes:

Have you ever noticed that a scene from a popular movie can often teach better than any great lesson from a pastor or small group leader? Clips is all about helping people engage with the Bible by using scenes from great films. Pastors, small group leaders, and youth ministers can all benefit with the tools provided. Clips tells you exactly what scenes to use, what topics to teach, the verses you could use, and even some possible discussion questions. It gives you everything you need to easily find the scene you are teaching from, even linking to it in iTunes.

Open the app and you are free to browse the movie library, look up topics you’d like to teach, or even search for a scene based on a particular verse. Once you’ve found the movie you want to use, Clips makes it easy for you to have exactly what you need to lead a discussion on that scene.

Features:
- Library of 50 movies (and growing…)
- Over 80 topics
- Search by title, topic, or verse
- Share scene details via email
- Save your favorite clips and add used clips to history
- Easily find movies in iTunes through download links

Looks like a great youth ministry resource, go grab it on the app store now!

Clips from Films Still in the Theatre

admin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:49:49 +0000

I recently ran across a pretty incredible site: Wing Clips. The site focuses on providing clips for download from top movies that you can use as an illustration in your talks/sermons. What’s amazing, is that they have clips available from first-run movies that are still in the theatres! Right now they even have clips for a couple of films that have not even been released.

The clips are categorized by title, theme, and some even have full sermon outlines available for download (premium only). What is interesting, and convenient, is that they have worked out a deal with the studios to allow you to not need a CVLI license to display them. They provide 320×240 versions for free, and offer a subscription for unlimited 640×480 resolution for $15.95 a month or $139.00 a year (which works out to $11.59 a month).

WingClips.com

My Favorite Christmas Video Clip

Chris — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:15:19 +0000

This Sunday at church we were talking about the fact vs fiction surrounding the birth of Jesus. It reminded me of this video clip from the old Mr Bean TV show. It’s a great exaggeration of the secular mythology surrounding Christmas. It surprises me how much students don’t know what’s in the Bible vs. Popular thought.

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WingClips.com

Chris — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:40:04 +0000

It’s summer and movie going season is in full swing. I’ve had some great conversations with students about some of the popular movies. I have been thinking about all the different angles you could take on a lesson about The Dark Knight, but one of the hard things about using a movie illustration in your talk is find the movie clip. Sure if it’s out on DVD you could always rent it and just show it off the DVD, but often times I want to use a clip from a film that not out on DVD yet. That’s where WingClips comes in. They have a ton of movie clips that you can download and use. The do offer subscriptions that give you higher quality clips and outlines, but I’ve used the free level and it’s been great. They also have a great search tool if you are looking for something on a specific topic. As a Youth Worker I’ve found it to be a great resource.

A bonus for me, they are featuring a few clips from The Dark Knight now, I just might have to use them.

Has anyone else used it? What are your thoughts?

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