Posted in STORYREALING on 09. Mar, 2010
Recently our email, twitter and facebook have been filled with those of you who sent us the OK Go “This Too Shall Pass” video. We are honored that it made you think of us and blessed that we get to build this kind of stuff all the time in The Big Deal Warehouse.
We set out [...]
Posted in STORYREALING on 03. Mar, 2010
E/MS^2 + Y(RA/TC) – V = APS.
While this might look like a ridiculous equation for calculating the average platypus speed under various conditions, it is actually the framework for understanding why we do what we do.
(Everything divided by the Mission Statement squared plus why times the realistic application over time constraint minus Velveeta equals an [...]
Posted in The Big Deal Network on 01. Mar, 2010
In the third installment on Wisdom Michael and Andrew discuss the traps and snares that face the unwise. We also reminisce about the old Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons. These videos work as intro pieces for both small groups and large groups. Each one finishes with an object to start off a discussion. Contact [...]
Posted in STORYREALING on 26. Feb, 2010
So Michael and I came up with some new games for the Winter Olympics. What if the Ski Cross guys were given foam whiffle bats as they raced down the course. Or how about the Downhill Ski Jump Joust…you can imagine that one. It sounds crazy until you consider that every sport ups the ante [...]
Posted in The Big Deal Network on 26. Feb, 2010
In the second installment on Wisdom Michael and Andrew discuss the nature of sound and wisdom and sound wisdom. These videos work as intro pieces for both small groups and large groups. Each one finishes with an object to start off a discussion. Contact us at thebigdealguys@gmail.com with questions.
Posted in The Big Deal Network on 23. Feb, 2010
We use The Big Deal Network each week to intro the Bible Story. We follow the Rethink 252 Basics Curriculum. We use these in every life group room and also for our Saturday Night Large Group. More to come.
Posted in STORYREALING on 22. Feb, 2010
When I was a kid, my contractor-carpenter dad would bring home scrap blocks of wood for me to nail together. I could clean out all the nails in his tool bag as I learned that first rule of hammering: “Don’t hit the pink nail.” Often that comment came as I was running in [...]
Posted in STORYREALING on 16. Feb, 2010
The funny thing about creating is that it rarely happens out of the blue, it
just sounds like it does (for a great book about the how and why behind
creativity check out Andrew Razeghi’s book The Riddle). The real
combination happens when you take a lot of information that you already know
and combine it with something [...]
Posted in STORYREALING on 15. Feb, 2010
Do you ever wonder where some of the great inventions come from? Take for instance Orville and Wilbur Wright. Men had dreamed up ways to fly for centuries, mostly by watching birds in flight. That meant early attempts were trying to imitate something that we would have a hard time recreating, that [...]
Posted in The Other Videos on 08. Feb, 2010
So yesterday morning in The Big Deal we “retired” almost 400 shirts for kids. This idea came up on Wednesday… we had no worship leader so what did we do? We went ahead and got 400 shirts with thebigdeal.org printed on them and then we let kids decide where to paint the tire track. Some [...]
We work, draw, build, dream, play and do ministry at The Big Deal. God has blessed us with a creative outlook, some jack-of all-trades skills, some serious tools, and a passion to tell people about a relationship with God.
Almost every Sunday @ 10:40
Forest Hill Church, Charlotte, NC
A high energy environment for 1st- 5th graders and their families.
