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Light & Dark Atmospheres – Joy’s Art Project
Aidan Ashby This week Joy Jindu shows us her recently completed art exam piece and describes the research she undertook for the project. For my art exam project, after much indecisiveness and much...
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Christian Community Artwork – Living Stones
Aidan Ashby This post continues our series on artwork featured in the Jesus Army New Creation Christian Community houses. These are contributions from artwork featured on the walls of Living Stones, an...
View ArticleMaking art is a very Christian thing to do
Aidan Ashby I can’t help thinking artistry is a very christian pursuit. How could it not be, when we’re following The Creator and desperately trying to communicate Him to the world with such human and...
View ArticleNo Excuse – David Bowden Poetry
Aidan Ashby I write to you Poets and Martyrs Disciples and Daughters Elders and Brothers Christians and Lovers Pastors and Teachers Prophets and Preachers I write to you Leaders That you might gather...
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Making A Short Film – Life On The Rocks
James Norden It gripped me 15 years ago when I first heard it. Now it’s a short film about despair, hope, and redemption. I thoroughly enjoyed making this with Loz, Jens, and Viv. It took a few months...
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Jesus Is The Great Leveller
andre Not that long ago I was inspired to write a song about how every faction or division that touches on meaningless in the perspective of eternity has been cancelled out by Jesus. Whether that...
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A Drone’s View of Christian Community (and a Farm)
James Norden Once a year people from all over England get together to pick apples. Well that’s the excuse to meet up anyway. The location is New Creation Farm in Northamptonshire, home to agricultural...
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Making a Lyric Video – Take Me To The Edge
Aidan More and more people are using YouTube as their primary means of finding and listening to music, and lyric videos and covers are central to this growing culture. There are countless artists...
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Creating A Song – He Is Stronger
Jake Thursday Evening Every Thursday eve, at our community house in Norwich, we have a big nosh-up. For quite a while our Thursday evenings lacked people. So we prayed. Now we have lots of people...
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How to Live Stream a Church Event Over 3G / 4G
James Norden The Church that I’m part of has national events every couple of months for people from all around the country. It isn’t practical for everyone to travel long distances so I looked into...
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Video Training Day
James Norden For a while now I’ve wanted to pass on what I’ve learned with making videos, and this tied in with realising that there’s a great crew of guys and girls doing video / media studies at...
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The Beachcomber | A Parable
Aidan As it’s National Storytelling Week this week we thought we’d take a leaf out of Jesus’ book and publish a few of our own parables. Just over a year ago Colourful Church held a parable writing...
View ArticleBoast; Boast Not: The Tale of Four Trees | A Parable
Aidan This is the second parable in our series, with a contribution from writer and Jesus Centre volunteer Julia Faire. Read other posts in the parables series. Once there were four trees: an apple, an...
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Saying “Thank You”– A Christian Music Video
James Norden I’ve recently finished making a Christian music video to a song called “Thank You”. I had to put a lot of planning into it as it was the first performance music video I’d done and care...
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Noon the wiser: using church stage design to reinforce a message
James Norden Once a year in the Jesus Army we dedicate time in one of our national events to honour and remember martyrs throughout the years. This year we recognised the persecution many are facing in...
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‘I Believe’– A Christian Collaboration Video
James Norden This video is the culmination of a vision I’ve had for a long time to bring together a group of Christian film-makers and make an inspirational piece about who God is. It began last year...
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Sprayed Designs for Hessian Banners
Aidan We recently had a special little event in my lounge. We’d been planning for a couple of years to do something that mixed music with video, and late 2015 we finally got proper plans together to do...
View ArticleMaking the Everything in Common Documentary Film
Micael Two years ago I decided to do a documentary about community life at the Jesus Army. I had already been YouTubing for a few years prior to that, but I wanted to make something more ambitious than...
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‘The Journey’– A Live Music and Stories Event
The Vision I was tasked to help bring to life a vision that a few guys had for a music event which brings out our churches history with songs, and stories why those songs came to be. At first I was a...
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Video Training Day
For a while now I’ve wanted to pass on what I’ve learned with making videos, and this tied in with realising that there’s a great crew of guys and girls doing video / media studies at college and...
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