Sermon Sketch

It's been a while since I've made a sermon sketch. This morning I approached today's service with intentionality to "see" the message. This is the result of that message by Pastor Glenn Packiam at New Life Downtown.

Sermon Sketch 13 November 2001

Good message this morning. Matt Heard spoke on Giving. As he spoke the following sketch came from my pen...

Sermon Notes 5 Dec 2010

If you know me, you know I like to doodle during meetings and during church. Doodling helps me to pay attention. During sermons I like to focus my doodling to bring a visual element to the message. This is what came out of my pen this morning in church.

Sermon Sketch 24 October 2010

Matt's sermon today was full of visual imagery. He started with "Doubting" Thomas from John 21. I really liked his use of two chairs - one rickety, and one strong. We make faith-based-upon-evidence decisions all the time.

Oh, I noticed I put the wrong date on my sketch.

Sermon Sketch 17 Oct 2010

The pastor began his sermon by reminding us of that moment when the first probe enter that Chilean mine. What a great reminder of hope from above. It was easy to sketch this quickly.

"The Land Between"

I made this sketch during a lecture at the Willowcreek Global Leadership Summit. Mr. Manion spoke to us about his new book on the same topic. Good stuff.

Sermon Sketch 27 June 2010

The speaker at church (Crossroads Basel) today spoke from John 2 where Jesus performs his first miracle - turning water into wine. As I listened I got to thinking about how that miracle happened and made a little sketch. Of course, I'm pretty sure there were no glass cups on that day, but still...

I like the quote from Michael Card "Our faith was conceived at a party by one who loved parties." Check it out - the disciples come to faith at this event!! John 2:11.

Our speaker also recommended the movie"Babette's Feast" as an example of this kind of extravagant love. I've never seen it but it looks good.

My sketch is trying to show how the miracle may have happened...

Sermon Sketch Dec 27 09

I had never quite heard the Simeon story quite this way before. It's a perfect a message for the Sunday after Christmas - a sort of "rest of the story". The baby Jesus is brought to the temple 8 days after his birth and when Simeon sees the child he has a vision of what will be. He prays aloud, "I have seen your salvation which you have prepared for all people. He is a light to reveal God to the nations and he is the glory of your people Isreal!" Luke 2:30-32.

Speaker: Roger Ridley. Crossroads International Church of Basel.

Sunday sketch 27 09 09

I was struck by this scene in Pastor David's sermon from Luke 8:43-48. You know the one where the shy, sick woman pressing through the massive crowd and touches (David said it was better translated "clutches") the hem of Jesus's garment. Jesus knew immediately that power left him and healed the one who touched him. Jesus had compassion on the unnamed lady who was desperate enough to simply touch him.

This is what I drew during today's sermon taken from Luke 5:1-11. My favorite line was, "Jesus was done speaking, but he wasn't done teaching". I like the place of the boat in this sermon (not really the Pastor's point). For me the boat is the visual anchor for this message. Jesus spoke from this boat, then Peter catches fish from this boat, and finally Peter leaves and walks away from his boat after participating in Jesus' teaching to follow Christ.

Click on the picture for a closer look.

Materials: Moleskine blank book, Uniball Signo RT Gel 0.38. Time: length of sermon plus ten minutes to darken certain parts. Speaker: David Harrop, BFCF

Easter Sunday Illustration

Pastor spoke on the power of the resurrection extending all the way to me. It's like the power generated by the Hoover Dam extending all the way to Los Angeles.

Sunday Sketch 22.03.09

Pastor Harrop spoke from Galatians 5:13-26. This is the image that came to mind as he spoke.

Sunday 22 Feb 09

Sermon notes. The Galatians 4:21-31 passage is a bit difficult, but our Pastor got through it. :-) The section in scripture is an allegory and Paul tells us so. I get the idea that Hagar and Sarah represent two lines of spiritual living - slavery and freedom. One based upon human effort, the other based upon God's effort directed at humankind. We have a choice to make...

Sunday Sketch

The speaker today (G. Hogenbirk) spoke from John 12:24.

When facing the cross, Jesus had to ask himself, "Do I keep my life, or do I give my life?" Because he GAVE and laid down his life, a tremendous harvest came forth. The question is the same for me, "Do I keep my life, or do I give it away?"

Psalm 1 Thoughts

If you occasionally check on this blog then you know, "If I can see it I can understand it." This is why I approach the Sunday sermon as a search for visual clues - ways to illustrate the morning's message. This started years ago when my two little boys (now grown) used to sit in church on either side of me and try not to wiggle too much. I helped them sit still by trying to draw some picture from the morning message as they looked on. I found out that this practice was not only good for them, but good for me too.

This morning Pastor Harrop spoke from Psalm 1. "Psalm 1 presents a clear choice..." This is the picture that came to mind as he spoke.

Sermon Thoughts

The passage is Galatians 3:23-29. I always say, "If I can see it, I can understand it". Here is a quick way to visually represent what I understood from the passage our pastor spoke from this morning. I can "see it" now - can't you?

Kipling

This morning our Pastor briefly mentioned Rudyard Kipling and his poem "The Elephant's Child". He had a photo of him up on the screen - for about two minutes. As quickly as I could I sketched Kipling and his big black moustache. I love that face.

I included a bit of his poem. The pastor mentioned this as a lead-in for addressing the issue of "Why we believe what we believe." We are in Galatians chapter 3 and studying law and grace.

Our only hope

Jesus my Savior.

First Advent 08

A quick sketch for today. This is a day of preparation for our hearts. Today we light the candle of hope.

Today's Sermon

Our Pastor is taking us through the book of Galatians. Today the topic was justification - the ruling that I am without sin. This is the picture that came to mind - the judge's gavel. The problem of course, is my response and how I live with this declaration, this grace. We tend to move back and forth between legalism and no law at all. (See gauge below.) The solution is living more in touch with Jesus every day - John 15:5.