Holy Lands Photos

This is a really nice site which provides free high quality pictures of Bible Lands taken by Dr Carl Rasmussen. Those of you who are familiar with the Zondervan NIV Bible Atlas know that Dr Rasmussen was the author of that volume.

The site allows you to browse in three ways: a) Daily Life and Artifacts, b) People and c) By Region. What is nice is some of these images are ready sized available for use in Powerpoint teaching.

Here's a research question: In the Bible, there are passages which describe the Tabernacle. Where are these passages to be found and how would you describe the tabernacle?

OK, here's the answer. To the question, "Where are these passages to be found?", go to www.biblegateway.com Clue: Check "Exodus".

To the second question, visit www.holylandphotos.org. Go on the top right corner and click on Daily Life and Artifacts>Religion>Tabernacle.
Here's one of the sacrificial altar outside the Tabernacle but within the curtained area of the Tabernacle structure.
URL: http://www.holylandphotos.org/

Bible Lands Dot Com

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Emerging church cartoon

I just couldn't resist sharing this cartoon from http://www.cartoonchurch.com

Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.

Colouring pages for Sunday School

Sometimes, Sunday school teachers wish they could find instant resources for their kids to colour.

Here are links to some sites.

a) Sermon for Kids Colouring Pages
John the Baptist
URL: http://sermons4kids.com/colorpg.htm

b) Touch of Fire Site
Scroll down to the bottom third of the webpage where it reads:
"Free! Our Bible A-Z coloring book is ready for download. All the stories from our book are available for easy download and print. This is free (all our downloads are). There are about 120 high-quality A4 size pages with lovely pictures and text."

There you can get nice pdf files of Bible stories, each of which contain a few pictures from a story. Here's one of Balaam and the donkey!
URL: http://www.touchoffire.com/

c) Christian (Bible) Coloring Pages
Ruth gathering her sheaths
URL: http://www.coloring.ws/christian.htm

d) TeacherHelp Coloring Pages
This is a great resource because it has compiled many links to different sites which offer free coloring pages. No lack of choices here! The first link, which is the link to Calvary Chapel provides a very comprehensive curriculum for teaching bible to kids. That is to say, its not just coloring pages, its a whole curriculum plus ideas to help promote learning which accompany the pictures.
A page from the story of Hagar and Ishmael
http://www.teacherhelp.org/color.htm#bible

More Asian face pictures in Flash Face

Here's a face created with changes in hair style and lip shapes in http://flashface.ctapt.de. I then created 4 powerpoint slides, inserted the images and the text, saved the slides as gif images, and then made an animated gif of the 4 gif images.

Recognize the potential of creating such images for learning? What if I created an animated gif which was a dialogue between bible characters? What if I created an animated gif of ordinary people talking about issues in the Bible which invited discussion/study?
Growing bald!

An experiment with Asian faces on Flash Face

Guess what? The Flash Face site can create great Asian faces. Here's my sketch of an Asian male.


I love this site. Go discover the really nice features! I think I will only focus on creating Asian faces as well as imaginary Biblical characters.

URL: http://flashface.ctapt.de

Oh, remember that by manipulating just the eyes and mouth (and occasionally the nose), you can get so many different possible facial expressions.

Flash Face

Flash Face is similar to the Face Game. Here is a picture that was sketched in a few minutes. The site is great!


This one is entitled "OT Prophet...or emo guy?" Suddenly, any one can be a sketch artiste....

URL: http://flashface.ctapt.de

National Geographic's Face Game

The Face Game is a image generator that allows you to create "realistic", photofit type pictures by chosing different face shapes, hairdo, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, etc.

This is Jane...


URL: http://natgeochannel.co.uk/play/faceGame/

URL: http://www.mono-1.com/monoface/main.html