We spent about four hours shooting this weekend’s message. It doesn’t snow much in DC, but our video shoot coincided with the heaviest snow of the year. I was soaking wet and freezing cold by the time we called it a wrap. We hit several places in DC that supplemented the message including the IRS, McDonald’s drive-thru, and the ATM at my bank.

Producing the message is a lot more difficult than just preaching it! I think it’ll be a good change of pace. We’re really trying to keep our creative edge sharp this year. We don’t want to just do things the way we’ve always done them. We have a core value: everything is an experiment. Last weekend we experimented with more meditative worship by adding Scripture verses to our worship set. This weekend it’ll be a video message.

I ran out of mental energy. And I found myself cutting out some of the content because it felt longer on video than it does behind the pulpit. But I think the message will preach. Look forward to seeing what our media department does with it.