Here are a few PowerPoint presentations I’ve created and used especially for summer camps. If you are one of the two campers, counselors, or sponsors that requested one of these, you’ve found the right spot. For the rest of ya’ll, please feel free to download, edit, and use these presentations as you wish.
NOTE: These PowerPoints are my own design, and the content has not gone through the careful editing eyes of any Kids 4 Truth staff. So, I accept full responsibility for the oft-gaudy text entry animation and slide transitions, the oft-errant subject/verb agreements, and the oft-too-much-content-for-juniors content.
1. The Big Picture of Life — this is a message about “the fear of the Lord.” I have been enjoying a personal study on what the fear of God really is and I hope to publish a detailed post on this topic soon. Lord willing, it will include links to several of the free resources that I’ve used to gain a better understanding of this topic that Bunyan said is “the flower and beauty of every grace.”
2. Seeing and Hearing — this message begins with how Lot tortured his righteous soul by what he saw and heard (2 Peter 2:6–8). Using the sad story of saved Lot as a diving board, the presentation challenges Christians to think God’s thoughts in relation to what they see and hear. There are several interesting and sobering statistics concerning the media of the day included in this presentation.
3. God and His Gospel — for a long time I’ve been burdened to teach a Gospel presentation that begins and ends with God (because the Gospel does that!). Many Gospel tracts and presentations I’ve encountered begin with the fact of man as a sinner, which is okay, but much better I think is when sinners see their sin in light of a holy, awesome GOD. Please check this Gospel presentation out and let me know what you think. If there is an area where I might maximize God better and minimize man more, please bring this to my attention and help me sharpen my teaching and preaching!
For those interested, I’ll try and post the audio messages that accompany these in the first part of August, 2006 (Lord willing). This may be useful since a few times within the PowerPoints you will encounter a bullet of info that is attached to a bigger illustration that I elaborate upon verbally.
BONUS. Here’s one of the many fringe benefits of camp ministry. This week I’m at Camp Eden, a gorgeous camp sitting right atop the Continental Divide, and this is the view while eating breakfast!
