Preach Magazine Issue 4 - Preaching in the digital age | Page 38

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FEATURE

IMAGES FOR WORSHIP
AND PREACHING
Of course, there are also specialist
sites for the use of images in
worship. CODEC is good friends with
theworshipcloud.com, who currently
offer over 20,000 resources, including
hymns, prayers, commentaries,
images for worship, sermons, and
devotionals, often free for use.
Vanderbilt Divinity Library provide
a lectionary-based collection of art
(lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu),
while Art in the Bible (artbible.info)
offers links to classical art inspired
by the Bible. For the less classical,
there are many individual artists’
pages with their own contributions
to make, based both in the developed
and developing nations. One example
with a more contemporary edge is
Jim LePage at jimlepage.com. Of
course, there are also collections of
art, often available for use in Church
services: for example, the Methodist
Modern Art Collection is now
available online: bit.ly/MethodistArt.
And, if you really like Lego, there
are Lego block scenes for most
of the major events in the Bible
in the awesome Brick Testament
(bit.ly/BrickTestament).
There is always the general image
(and media) search on the various
search engines. However, this can
raise complex issues about the
use of someone else’s images. Bex
Lewis, CODEC’s Social Media Fellow,
has made some great tips and
resources available concerning the
use of images online, including some
pointers to the potential dangers of
copyright law: (bit.ly/imagepolicy).

OFF TO THE MOVIES
In terms of films, movies and
animated media, CODEC has
produced its own Lego-inspired
animation of Psalm 139 (available
through YouTu