Inspired by the Sagrada Familia magic square, Dr. Hans-Christian Solka created his diptych, The Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, in 2017. The diptych consists of the magic squares The Passion and Death of Jesus Christ and The Resurrection of Jesus Christ. By combining Christian symbolism and mathematics, Solka created them with the symbolic sum of 33 without using duplicate numbers. Not only do the sums of each row, column, and diagonal add up to 33, but also the sum of the numbers of the cross. In the center of the cross is the number 9, commemorating the hour of Jesus Christ's...
Twenty-five choice messages or object lessons from texts of the Bible are illustrated very effectively with tricks of magic and mystery. Perfect for the magician who wishes to perform before a church audience, whether it be a Sunday School group, church social, or other occasion.
Each effect is fully described and illustrated if necessary. Citations from the Bible for each lesson are provided, too. A great book for the magical entertainer, magi-minister, and Sunday School teacher.
"Tricks with a minimum of apparatus with patter to tie them in to Bible texts." - Harold Sterling
"Easily workable effects...
Here is the third book in Rev. Jim Dracups gospel magic trilogy! The first two books, Magic With An Upward Look and Magic That Gives An Upward Lift have proven to be best-sellers. All the books in this three-book series are loaded with practical and audience-tested material. Each book contains so much material that you are sure to find an application for tricks you already own. (You will also find applications so perfect that you will convince yourself to buy the corresponding effect!) All of this stems from Jim Dracups extensive backgrounds in both gospel work and magic. Both have been his life work and these three books are the combined collection...
Magic That Gives an Upward Lift includes a section called "The Seed Basket". Here are many pages of outlines, ideas, quotations, illustrations and food for thought. This is material that can be incorporated into a patter line or story - or material that can be used just to inspire and get those brain cells working! Another special section of this ebook is called: "A Bit Of Humor". Over fifty pages of carefully selected gag lines, funny stories, daffynitions, puzzles, silly signs, one liners, etc. Special material for magicians and ministers and special material for an audience of children. ...
Jim Dracup is the author of a long out of print book, A Magician Goes To Church. That book has become one of the most requested and sought after works in the field of gospel magic. Since the publication of that first book, Jim has been gathering material and perfecting and polishing the routines that he uses on a day to day basis. That material has been published in the form of Magic With An Upward Look. This is the first ebook in a trilogy of gospel magic ebooks by Reverend Dracup.
Magic With An Upward Look contains only the best and the brightest material. There is, for instance, a chapter...
Gospel magic can be done as a business. But there are steps in the planning process, research needed in the market place and calculations that have to be done first. There are times we can make the decision. Then there are others where the decision is made for us. This ebook will give you a strong foundation approach. It will identify how you determine expenses, project income and how to plan for your net profits. If you do your homework this book will identify if making an income is practical in your area.
Magicians perform Gospel magic for free, some charge to recover their expenses and...
PDF 29 pages.
24 routines for Magic Ministers
1st edition 1962, PDF 36 pages.
Perform magic tricks with presentations related to passages from the bible. Also includes a section called Presenting The Program which helps you put everything together and dress it up.
This is an oldie but goodie, it helps solve a problem with certain church shows. Devin has often got phone calls from church groups asking for a magic show, but to not bring playing cards because the church frowns upon them as being sinful. Here is an effective and proven way to use playing cards in church groups that think cards are based on gambling and are of the devil. Yes, these people still exist today and this treatise gives an effective way to overcome this belief. Devin was raised in a household that forbid playing cards, but he used the technique in this e-book to change his family's...
Legacy Magic released this book originally in 2012 and it was a huge success. This revised edition includes some minor edits and enhancements. Here you'll will find three simple yet poignant object lessons valuable for use with both children and teens. David is a performing magician who has spent years working in both churches and a broad array of secular venues. Let him pass on his insight to you on using magic to convey messages. Don't own expensive props? No problem!
David is a master at taking the simple and small and making it play BIG!
Don't forget to see the Appendix, which has...
Magical Tricks Prepared for Teaching and Preaching Use
From the introduction:
The increasing problem of the church of today is to interest the young people in practical Christian service. The gospel message is as potent and powerful as ever, but the difficulty is to get young people to listen to it and to find preachers who can speak the language of the young people of today and make their message sufficiently attractive to challenge their attention.
Modern pedagogy is finding that object lessons are most efficient in teaching the young mind. We remember and understand so much more...
All you need is a piece of paper and your hands and you can follow along the instructions in this ebook. It is organized into 27 lessons and teaches many wonderful and fun shapes from the anchor to the sword and from the lighthouse to the dove. The goal is to tear and not to cut which means that this material is appropriate for children as well as adults.
Each tear is accompanied by patter to teach many spiritual truths. Although not magic by itself, this material is appropriate to be considered by the gospel magician.
1st edition 1921; 27 pages.