AN EASTER PLAY SCENE 3: (Light full onstage R couch) BOY (to Dad and Girl): I knew you two had great imaginations. Wasn’t that fun? GIRL (shakes head as Dad nods): Fun for you, maybe. I just got yelled at. What happened next, Grandpa? GRANDPA (reads Mark 14:12): Well, the next day was “the first…
Wow! So That’s What Really Happened: Modern kids discover the Bible’s timeless truth about Easter
AN EASTER PLAY SCENE 1: (Light full on stage R couch with Boy, leaning on stage L arm, looking stage L) GIRL (from other side of couch where she’s playing with iPod): Do you see him yet? BOY: Not yet . . . Wait a minute, I—no, never mind. (Stops leaning, plops down on couch)…
Chase the Dream, Chapters 1-4 updated
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How Good Is God and How Bad Is Sin?
While reviewing Romans 6, verse 21 hit me: “Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.” Sin ends in death, every time. That little white lie? Keep coddling it, and like a baby viper, it will naturally kill you….
First Things
One Sunday when my children were very young, our family made it to church with enough time before the service for an elderly saint to ask how things were going at home. I replied that some days we didn’t seem to accomplish a thing. “Did you read them the Bible?” she asked. “Yes.” “Then you…
Wow! So That’s What Really Happened: Modern kids discover the Bible’s timeless truth about Christmas (Part 3 of 3)
Scene 13: stage right Shepherd 1, Shepherd 2, Lazy Shepherd solo: “If He Was the Messiah” (All in beards [thirty-three years after first scene].)Light up on center stage right, desert. Shepherd 1 enters, using crook as cane, speaking to someone behind him offstage: Do you remember? (Pauses but keeps hobbling as Lazy and 2 enter,…
Wow! So That’s What Really Happened: Modern kids discover the Bible’s timeless truth about Christmas (Part 2 of 3)
Scene 5: stage right Magi Harry, Magi WilliamLight fades up on center stage right, with one Magi staring at audience with binoculars Magi Harry: Wow! (Puts down binoculars and calls behind him) Guys! You have got to see this. (He goes back to looking, but no one comes) Hey! George, William! Rumpled Magi William stumbles…
Wow! So That’s What Really Happened: Modern kids discover the Bible’s timeless truth about Christmas (Part 1 of 3)
Here’s the start of a Christmas play my daughters and I wrote which was performed at our church and broadcast into Canada over our local radio station. Following it are stage directions. Scripture quotations taken from the NASB (New American Standard Bible) copyright by The Lockman Foundation http://lockman.org Scene 1: couch: Grandpa, Boy, Girl House…
Chase the Dream: Childhood Dreams, Chapter 4 part 3
From the best seat in the Palace, Sterling Sr. crowed, blending in with the tumult around him. “Did you see that move, boy? Blast Off’s calling card: a few straight-out jumps and then a killer right reverse. Sure tumbled ol’ Hank Dixon!” The old man hooted as the fallen rider sought refuge behind the arena…
Chase the Dream: Childhood Dreams, Chapter 4 part 2
Forrest didn’t mind his granddad going off and leaving him with a stranger. That was nothing unusual. But the clucking old hen now attending him was. Forrest couldn’t concentrate with her chatter filling the deserted grandstands. He couldn’t do what he needed to before the performance, because despite what he’d told his best friend, Tom,…
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