Bill was out of town this past weekend, so I had another opportunity to share the morning message with our congregation on Sunday, February 15. Of course, it was a "Valentine's" message, based on the love one person showed to Jesus. The text was John 12:1-11, and the title was, "Eccessive, Exaggerated, Extravagant Love." Yes, I am aware that the title sounds like the title of someone else's sermon. In fact, it the the title of three different sermons, that I combined into one. The fact that I'm willing to admit it ought to get me something, right? (Besides being labelled as a "plagiarist" that is....)
This particular message was recorded at our 8:15 am service. I preached basically the same message in both services, but this one is a little more concise. In the 10:30 am service, I used a powerpoint game that I created based on famous duos in music, television, and movies. The game took about 6 minutes, which made the audio longer, and without the visuals, it wouldn't be as good. In place of the game in the earlier service, I told some bad Valentine jokes I got off the internet. As you will hear, I was trying to break the ice and loosen that early crowd up, and it worked fairly well. As it is, the message below is a few seconds shy of 37 minutes. It's a little longer than I wanted, but I was still happy with how it went.
To listen, you can try and click on the link below (it should open the file in your media player), or you can download the file to your computer and listen to it. To do this, right-click on the link and select "save target as" and save the file to your computer desktop or somewhere you can find it. Then open the file from your media player (i.e. Windows Media Player, iTunes, etc.).
Message: "Eccessive, Exaggerated, Extravagant Love" Rob Clifton (2-15-2009)
P.S.- The picture at the top of this post is the title slide I used in the presentation for this message. The titles slides I create (some of which you see on this blog) are all created using royalty free art and Photoshop Elements. If you want to use the image in your own church or another presentation, but would like to change the titles, names, dates, etc., I would be happy to send them to you in Photoshop format so you can manipulate them. I also might have something you haven't seen here which fits a theme you are using. Just email me at rcfcc@aol.com and let me know what you are interested in!
