Looking for a sermon series idea. Title is "What if"

[ratmith]

Hello,

I need to make a slide for the new sermon series our pastor is starting in a month or so. The title is "What if" My mind is blank lol. I need sometime of theme and graphic. I just cant think of anything. Any ideas or thoughts would be greatly appreciated. I usually dont have this problem lol.

thanks,

[[Admin] osborn4]

You could go with a question mark or a questioning face. You could search the MXC for Question to get some ideas.

Also, a search on stock.xchng for question may kick off some ideas.

A search of a paid stock photo site, e.g. stock.xpert, dreamstime, istockphoto for questioning face or something like that, could come up with some better ideas.

[cronos]

Off the top of my head I can just think of using question marks. I may be showing my age (old), but I thought of the Marvel comic called "What If?" You could make a mock comic book cover -- but I don't know how many people would get it.

If you had some more specifics on the rest of the "what if..." question you could montage each topic in the series and then focus on each one week by week. That way you could use one main graphic and then pull elements out of that one for the graphics for the week's topic. That way you do most of the work up front and then each week is faster to put together.

I learned a technique from Tim Eason's "Media Ministry Made Easy" book where you make one main graphic, then save each layer or element in the graphic as a .png file, then you can put those into PowerPoint and quickly rearrange each layer/element to create different styles each week. There's a training video on the DVD that shows how to do it. I haven't seen where he's posted a tutorial online anywhere on how to do it. But it's a real time saver.

So what are some of the specific "what if" topics?

[ratmith]

Great ideas!!! He hasnt told me any of the topics yet lol. I will set down with him next week so he can let me know a few of them. Great ideas though, got my mind working a little bit. Keep them coming!! People on this forum always have so much imagination and are so helpful.

Thanks!!

[Gene]

Knowing more about the topics would be a big help.

"What if...the pastor told me what they were going to preach on?"

[ratmith]

that is very true lol

[[Admin] skstarkiller]

What if you did something like this?

[[Admin] osborn4]

I like the style, but the background may not have enough contrast to show up on many church projectors, especially if there is ambient light to overcome.

Just my $.02US

[[Admin] skstarkiller]

Good point Joel. Is this a little better?

Posted the image and the psd in the MXC for others to use if they would like...

[[Admin] osborn4]

Originally Posted by skstarkiller

Good point Joel. Is this a little better?

Yes. I'm sure that will be much more helpful.

[Gene]

It'd be fairly straightforward to change the images and text I did for the "God Questions" series:

The PSD is in the MXC:

The hardest part would probably be finding images to go inside the question mark, though not too bad unless the topics are really out there Anyway, let us know when you find out more about the topics, at least the first one.