NB: Live! 2015 Talks
Sheet!
Scripture: mostly Noah!
Use this link:
http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearB_RCL/Easter/BEasVigil_RCL.html#OldTest2
Precious
6.05-12.10 Earth
is trashed, yet lonely Wall-E continues his work of clean up. IN the piles of trash he finds items that he
feels are precious and collects them in his home.
Great flood
genesis 7
5 The LORD saw that humanity had become thoroughly evil on
the earth and that every idea their minds thought up was always completely evil.
6 The LORD regretted making human beings on the earth, and he was heartbroken.
7 So the LORD said, “I will wipe off of the land the human race that I’ve
created: from human beings to livestock to the crawling things to the birds in
the skies, because I regret I ever made them.” 8 But as for Noah, the LORD
approved of him.
Great Pearl (matthew 13.45-46)
45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in
search of fine pearls.46 When he found one very precious pearl, he went and
sold all that he owned and bought it.
What is
precious to you?
- What is precious to God?
- Name some examples of wasting preciousness.
- Have you ever been so mad that you just gave up and trashed something you loved?
“To share is precious, pure and fair.
Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't
you wanna care, ain't it lonely out there?”
― Marvin Gaye
“Life is more fragile and precious than I can comprehend,
but believe me, I'm trying.”
― John O'Callaghan
“There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious
things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do
great harm.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope,
and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do
have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am
grateful. Elizabeth Edwards
Laundry Love http://www.laundrylovehb.com/
Clean the World.org
Malawi project
Free wheelchair mission
Directive
8.15-29.00 Wall-E
is nearly alone on earth and in deep need of connection. When Eve arrives he is at once smitten, yet
she is has one directive.
Fill An Ark
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second
month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of
the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. The
rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights. On the very same day Noah
with his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of
his sons entered the ark, they and every wild animal of every kind, and all
domestic animals of every kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the
earth, and every bird of every kind-- every bird, every winged creature. They
went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the
breath of life. And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in
as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in. The flood continued forty days on the earth; and the waters
increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. The waters
swelled and increased greatly on the earth; and the ark floated on the face of
the waters.
Matthew 22:36-40Common English Bible (CEB)
36 “Teacher, what is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 He replied, “You must love the Lord your God with all
your heart, with all your being,[a] and with all your mind. 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
39 And the second is like it: You must
love your neighbor as you love yourself.[b] 40
All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commands.”
- What is your directive?
- How do you know what your directive is/gifts are?
- What is God’s directive for us?
- How do you connect gifts/skills to the needs of the neighborhood?
- How big is your neighborhood?
“You shall love your neighbor With your crooked heart,
It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska
“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a
Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful,
to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you
have lived and lived well.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as
difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities
is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and
joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave
enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our
light."
— Brené Brown
Episcopal service corps
Americorp
Young Adult Service Corp
Blind
39 – 51.51 Life
on the Axiom is sedentary and almost completely controlled by the robots of the
ship.
Life
on Board
The flood continued forty days on the earth; and the waters
increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. The waters
swelled and increased greatly on the earth; and the ark floated on the face of
the waters.
At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark
that he had made and sent out the raven; and it went to and fro until the
waters were dried up from the earth. Then he sent out the dove from him, to see
if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground; but the dove found no
place to set its foot, and it returned to him to the ark, for the waters were
still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took it and
brought it into the ark with him. He waited another seven days, and again he
sent out the dove from the ark; and the dove came back to him in the evening,
and there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf; so Noah knew that the
waters had subsided from the earth. Then he waited another seven days, and sent
out the dove; and it did not return to him any more.
Luke 4:17-19 Common English Bible (CEB)
17 The synagogue assistant gave him the scroll from the
prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was
written:
18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me.
He has sent me to preach good news to the poor, to proclaim release to the prisoners and
recovery of sight to the blind, to
liberate the oppressed,
19 and to proclaim
the year of the Lord’s favor.
- Which parts of the human life on the ship look like human life here and now?
- What is scary about this sequence?
- What blinds’ the folks on the Axiom?
- What blinds us?
- They may be surviving but are they living?
- What does living look like from God’s desire?
“Augustus, perhaps you’d like to share your fears with the
group.”
“My fears?”
“Yes.”
“I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s pause. “I fear
it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid of the dark.”
“Too soon,” Isaac said, cracking a smile.
“Was that insensitive?” Augustus asked. “I can be pretty
blind to other people’s feelings.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Like a sculptor, if necessary,
carve a friend out of stone.
Realize that your inner sight is blind
and try to see a treasure in everyone.”
― Rumi
"...faith isn't about having everything figured out
ahead of time; faith is about following the quiet voice of God without having
everything figured out ahead of time."
— Rachel Held Evans (A Year of Biblical Womanhood)
Kits.worldvision.org
Bloodwater.org
Breadfortheworld.org
Live!
58-1.10 Not
enough to just survive, we need to live.
Living for others requires sacrifice, creativity and
compassion
Ready to change
In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first
day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the
covering of the ark, and looked, and saw that the face of the ground was
drying. In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth
was dry. Then God said to Noah, "Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and
your sons and your sons' wives with you. Bring out with you every living thing
that is with you of all flesh-- birds and animals and every creeping thing that
creeps on the earth-- so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and
multiply on the earth." So Noah went out with his sons and his wife and
his sons' wives.
Hebrews 12
28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that can’t be
shaken, let’s continue to express our gratitude.[d] With this gratitude, let’s
serve[e] in a way that is pleasing to God with respect and awe, 29 because our
God really is a consuming fire.
- What do you need to give up to live as God desires?
- What does sacrifice look like in our world?
- What gets in the way of living for others?
- How do you express your gratitude through sacrifice/service?
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the
service of others.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is
about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so
don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.”
― Mother Teresa
“Life is for service.”
― Fred Rogers, Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers:
Things to Remember Along the Way
Thistle
Farms
Homeboyindustries.org
Womensbeanproject.org
Project for awesome
Stand!
1.18 - end The
people on the ship have to choose to reclaim their lives and STAND!
Dry earth and a rainbow
Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, "As for
me, I am establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you, and
with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the domestic animals,
and every animal of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark. I
establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by
the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the
earth." God said, "This is the sign of the covenant that I make
between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future
generations: I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of the
covenant between me and the earth."
- As you return home what can you STAND for?
- can you follow Christ for the well-being of yourself and your community?
- What can you reclaim to live in God’s way?
- How does church community help you to stand?
“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that
drives one person to stand up for another.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone
across the waters to create many ripples.”
― Mother Teresa
“The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our
relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun
still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we
bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the
world. ”
― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History
of Four Meals
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many
dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love
is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Talk Writing and Quotes!
The best website for finding Bible verses is
BIBLEGATEWAY. I recommend these
translations (in this order)
- CEB Common English Bible
- NRSV New Revised Standard Version (what most of you hear in worship)
- NIV New International Version
- The Message (not a translation, a paraphrase)
Good Reads and Brainy Quote are good for quotes (except that
BQ seems to favor male authors and includes too many celebrities.)
Building A ‘Talk’
Talk’s can be prerecorded videos, like a vlog, or live in
person
Your goal is to connect three things: your life, the talk
topic, & the Christian traditions.
This is not about you, it is about loving God and loving
your neighbors
This is not about who can tell the saddest story. This is about Christ, who calls us to look at
our brokenness…and BE HEALED.
We will always show the section of the Wall-E movie before
each talk. Because of this we will not
have other connecting videos (ones created by others) unless they are about a
ministry or non-profit work that relates to your topic. Check out the suggestions!
You do not have to say everything you ever thought of.
It is a good piece of advice to have some distance from any
emotional story. At least a year!
Follow the pattern of preparation below; do not come to the
talk with a story you have to tell.
Talk Preparation
Write or draw these out!
Creative responses are awesome.
1. Brainstorm
for two-five minutes everything that comes to mind for your core word.
2. If you
can watch the scene, please do so.
3. Use a
thesaurus (or a site) to make a list of your five favorite synonyms for the
word and three antonyms that stand out.
4. What
thoughts and feelings leap at you when you think about the one word?
5. Read the
scripture quote. What stands out, what
is most important and how does it relate to your life/our lives
6. Take a
few deep breaths. Walk away. Do something creative or physically active.
7. Do you
have a small and appropriate story that goes with the scene, the scripture, or
your notes??
8. Reread
your notes. Repeat until you can find
responses to 3 of the following questions.
• Oops:
What goes wrong with this?
• Ugh:
What is complicated and/or frustrating about this?
• Aah:
What amazing insight/relief can be found (has been found) for this?
• Whee:
What can we do and what is awesome about it?
• Yeah:
How can we be or do or share God’s good news about this?
Now outline your talk/presentation.
Then write your talk or make your presentation.
Send
JAG a draft (youthministries@spokanediocese.org)
