Feb 18, 2009
We are in the process of upgrading our server's uplink speed: www.message7.org may experience some downtime at the end of this month. Our alternative domain at www.messageweek.com will remain unaffected.

We hope you benefit from our recent film, "The Wrath of God".

Feb 15, 2009
We've spent the past weekend "editing and crunching film" after a successful filming session again on Friday. This is the second time we've shot this script, and the improvements have been worth it.

"The Wrath of God" is one of those films (at 19 minutes duration) that may well be an enormous help for many in the years ahead. Our work in this film has been simply to ask what does Jesus say about the Wrath of God, and then take a look at what it means for us.

A big thank to all who, over the past few weeks, have helped us through the writing and development of this important script. Thanks so much for your time and dedication.

The film is currenly being uploaded to our servers, and will be ready later today. The YouTube versions, Part 1 and Part 2 will be available later this week.

Feb 1, 2009
We're working on the next film, and hope to begin filming it later this week.

Most of us choose not to think about the "wrath of God". It's too confusing and rather daunting. Some criticise the very existence of God based on how they perceive Him in this regard. Others prefer a more benign, gentle, grandfatherly figure.

Is Jesus only gentle and suffering, or is He really coming back again but this time as a Conqueror "with a sceptre of iron"? Using nothing else but Jesus' own words, we can gain a remarkable understanding as to what we might actually expect. The truth may surprise you!

Jan 21, 2009
The price of injury can often provide opportunities previously thought inconceivable. A few weeks ago, I caught my finger in a wood planer, and lost the top of my middle finger, half way down the nail. Thanks to those who prayed for me. The doctors and nurses at the hospital did an excellent job. I'm back at work again.

Initially somewhat hindered by this injury, any inconvenience it has caused has been offset by being able to take a break from general IT work; the tyranny of the urgent no longer is so important. And, when we've seen the suffering experienced by the people of Haiti, a missing part of a finger is really inconsequential. What suffering and what devastation!

In Christ we're looking forward to another good year, no matter how bad it gets!

Dec 28, 2009
The upload of our lastest short outreach film "Peer Pressure" is now complete. It's been a busy few weeks, but yielding pleasing results. Instead of taking the expected multiple film shoots, this film was mastered in the first take. We hope and pray that this slightly longer than usual film, being 11 minutes in duration, will permeate the attention and help millions of people.

We have had to edit the YouTube version of this film in order to comply with the ten minute maximum duration; the abridged YouTube version works well even with the edits.

Dec 16, 2009
Upgrade of Server: We've just purchased a rack-mount Dell PowerEdge 2850 Dual Xeon 3.6Ghz server to replace our aging current www.message7.org streaming server. We anticipate the work of installing it to take place over the next month or so. This involves migrating all services, hosting and media archives to the new machine, and then testing it to ensure no downtime or errors at deployment.

We're also working on the proposed scripts for two new films, the first shooting of which may be by this weekend. Some films take multiple takes before we get it to an acceptable broadcast standard; the last film took three shooting over two weeks, before we finally settled on one. Other films are mastered with the first take.

The motivating factor in ministry work is, and one that governs any merit in our work, is simply if one person is encouaraged and helped in their walk with God, then our work is successful. For example, numerous people have been encouraged by our series on the Hope of the Resurrection; other films too have touched lives near and far. Faith in God is being strengthened, one day and one person at a time.

Nov 29, 2009
We hope you find our latest short film, "Grace and Peace" not only encouraging and perhaps inspiring, but that it's deeper apostolic teaching to be clearly apparent. The early church leaders, such as Peter, John, James, Jude and Paul, all had a specific and repeated message for the churches they ministered to. "Grace and peace", or similar reiterations such as "grace, mercy and peace", come from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

It's an extremely important message. The significance of God the Father and Jesus Christ's greetings bears relevance to our experience and understanding today, especially when compared to any primary, developed doctrines in our contemporary faith creeds.

Nov 20, 2009
After more than two years building, the new MessageWeek Ministries film studio set is nearing completion.

The ceilings are now lined; walls painted and finished, and within the next week the electrician fits all the powerpoints, etc.

Over the weekend ahead, we will attempt to re-shoot the "Grace & Peace" film, temporarily transporting our lights, camera, chroma screen etc to the new location from our existing small studio - which will still remain the primary location for all our editing/production work.

We have also upgraded the domain capacity of www.messageweek.com to store 2Gb worth of media streams with a maximum bandwidth of 35Gb per month. This will help our websites with greater redundancy and capacity. The main archive of all our streaming films is on a high performance terabyte platter at www.message7.org

Nov 16, 2009
Today we're filming a short film titled "Grace and Peace", the proposed transcript which has already been posted at our blog site at www.message7.org/discuss

We're in the process of ugrading our film studio's chroma green screen. This is the bright green background screen which we use in our studio filmset. We've used a variety of screens in the past, and the need has been apparent for some time for this upgrade.

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