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To apply your lessons with poignancy. And they're flexible, too -- have fun with them as informal, no-prep reader's theater, or rehearse them seriously for polished performances. - Scripture Sketches . . . Don't despair if your students can't tell the difference between Beelzebub and Barnabas -- the Bible will be brought to life for them as they act out scriptural episodes, stories, and passages. (And on page 6 is an index to all this book's scripts by Bible reference. Teaching the Prodigal Son? 1 Corinthians? Exodus? We've got a script for you!) - Contemporary Sketches . . . Off with the togas, on with the tank tops. Here are right-now, real-life scripts for everything from event announcements (that you can tailor to your own events) to dealing with emotional scars. 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Whatever your creative need, Spontaneous Melodramas 2 will fill the bill. Continuing where its predecessor--Spontaneous Melodramas--left off, this volume offers another two dozen tales from the Old and New Testaments that bring the biblical accounts to life . . . with distinctive, contemporary twists!Although these no-rehearsal skits will leave your students in stitches, the humor never buries the message of Scripture. So you can be confident when bringing your kids--whether or not they're familiar with the Bible--","brand":"Koorong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51561472688415,"sku":"9780310233008","price":39.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8981\/8143\/files\/9780310233008_108895.jpg?v=1769137079"},{"product_id":"ideas-library-drama-skits-sketches-3-167185","title":"Ideas Library: Drama, Skits \u0026 Sketches 3","description":"This series offers youth leaders a huge range of ready-to-use resources for every aspect of group ministry - games, skits, discussion topics, Bible lessons, meeting plans, special events, fundraising, publicity, and much more! Select what you need from the 14 volumes, or get all of it in a fully searchable CD-ROM software package. Branch out and bring some fresh life to your youth ministry!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you ate up the previous two best-selling volumes of Drama, Skits, and Sketches, you're gonna really dig this next batch of 54 brand-new, youth group-tested thespian exercises! With the help of the scenarios in Drama, Skits, and Sketches 3, you can discuss important issues with pizzazz . . . present Bible stories with humor . . . and add serious significance to your lessons. Use them any way you'd like--whether as fun, informal, no-prep reader's theater or as guides for seriously polished performances! SCRIPTURE SKETCHES Designed to supplement your Bible teaching--and add flesh and bones to already powerful Bible stories--your students will love acting out scenarios such as 'Community Kitchen,' 'Recipe for a Quiet Time,' and 'As the Cookie Crumbles: The Search for Fig-nificance.' (And we've provided an index that lists scripts according to Bible reference--quite the handy tool as you prepare specific lessons!) CONTEMPORARY SKETCHES These 21st-century skits will hit your kids where they live, using terms, imagery, and situations they're intimately familiar with. Looking to beef up a topic for the evening--or even add some spice to announcements? Try on 'Can O' Blame,' 'Backward Lip Sync Contest,' and 'American Master' for size. TV TAKEOFFS These humorous sketches based on television programs are great for lively discussion starters or as openers at camps and conferences. TIMES OF CRISIS Here are scripts that deal with tough issues and tough times. And while many discuss crisis in a lighthearted manner, their themes will grab your students' attention and prepare them for some excellent dialog. MONOLOGS Time for one kid in your group to shine! These scripts require little or no costumes or props, but they can be as powerful as an ensemble cast's three-act play! Plenty of skits and sketches here--serious, spiritual, educational, and humorous--to keep your group learning and having fun for months. Drama, Skits, and Sketches 3 is perfect for youth leaders, camp counselors, Sunday school teachers, and recreation directors!","brand":"Koorong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51561476915487,"sku":"9780310238232","price":39.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8981\/8143\/files\/9780310238232_108195.jpg?v=1769137207"},{"product_id":"instant-skits-235505","title":"Instant Skits","description":"Using Improv to Create Memorable Moments in Ministry The Skit Guys bring you more than 200 skits to use in your youth group. Indexed by topic and Scripture reference, you can illustrate just about any lesson you want. Plus, each skit is ready to go and will allow all your students to participate in the teaching, whether or not they can act. 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Plus they give you everything you need for each skit--overview, characters, location, Scripture reference, props, direction pointers, and a complete script.The Skit Guys avoid the cheesy dialogues and scenes typically found in Christian dramas and instead bring fun characters, witty dialogue, and entertaining situations to their skits, all categorized for you by: - Skits for Idiots (it would take an idiot not to be able to do them right!)- Monologues- Duets\/Ens","brand":"Koorong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51561519087903,"sku":"9780310265696","price":39.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8981\/8143\/files\/9780310265696_107650.jpg?v=1769138281"},{"product_id":"long-wait-for-a-messiah-308325","title":"Long Wait For a Messiah","description":"Contains 6 dramas, both in modern and biblical settings. These dramas will allow tweens to role play certain situations they may find themselves in every day. 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Is Funny: Human beings get in fixes and messes. Watch how God--with gentleness, humor, and tough love--delivers his people time and again. Encourages Participation: Suitable for actors ages nine to ninety-nine! Fosters Dialogue: Each play ends with Questions for Discussion. Shows Theology in the Making: Do theology the Godly way--with boots on the ground! Consider this evangelism model: The disciples have just seen the risen Lord Jesus ascend into heaven and can't wait to tell all Jerusalem! Invites Imagination: The characters in Proverbs gather in the marketplace and tell Simple Youth, a first-year university student, about their lifestyles. Which will he follow? Promotes This Concept: We all play our lives on stage to an audience of One: God. \"\"With its emancipated imagination, the Bible clearly is intended for dramatic reperformance. Robin Gallaher Branch has well understood this and has brought her artistic sensibility to the task. The outcome is compelling scripts that will evoke many fresh performances. Her scripts provide the dramatic specificity and concreteness so crucial to the biblical plot.\"\" --Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary \"\"Dr. Branch succeeds in this publication to bring biblical characters to life. In some instances, by having these characters converse with modern contexts, she comments on the transformative nature of the biblical text in the twenty-first century. In other cases, she captures and investigates the human spirit of her characters while keeping them confined to an ancient life setting. Either way she makes an exciting contribution to writing the present chapter in the reception history of the biblical text.\"\" --Hans Van Deventer, Professor of Biblical Studies, North-West University, South Africa \"\"Dr. Branch claims that 'Plays capture the drama of theology in the making.' That is certainly true in her compositions, where she employs the scriptural idiom in dramatic format to invite both performers and audiences to see themselves as part of the greatest story ever told.\"\" --Andrew Dearman, Professor of Old Testament, Fuller Theological Seminary \"\"Dr. Robin Gallaher Branch has taught on the college level, written for the Society of Biblical Literature, and published an important book on contributions of lesser-known women in the Old Testament. Dr. Branch is an excellent scholar, however, she is able to write so that the average person understands the message being conveyed. Her Six Biblical Plays for Contemporary Audiences is a delightful look at Bible stories and helps us see these rich stories in a playful light.\"\" --John B. \"\"Mike\"\" Loudon, Pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Lakeland, FL \"\"Robin Gallaher Branch has written six plays which Christians will enjoy enacting as their audiences gain fresh insights into the significance of familiar biblical texts. The profound scholarship displayed in her annotations enables her to understand accurately the background of these texts. She correctly depicts Elizabeth and Mary as young teenagers at the time they were wed. She empathetically describes their emotions: Elizabeth while suffering the anguish of barrenness and Mary while living under the suspicion of being an adulteress. Her plays based on characters from Proverbs and on the parts of the body of Christ personified display wit and humor.\"\" --Edwin M. 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