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Rindfleisch Special user New Jersey 502 Posts |
Lets discuss some classic close up effects that we can apply biblical or theological messages to without have to force it to fit.
For example what about Paul Curry's "Open Prediction" You can use the patter of Election and predistination, I call it the Calvinist Card Trick. Romans 8:29 English Standard Version (ESV) 29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. Here is another example; To further my walk with the Lord and understand his word at a deeper level I started learning Koine Greek. I Picked up Bill Mounces, " Basics of Biblical Greek". Throughout the course there are vocabulary words you need to memorize. He also sells flash cards, these are basically white bussiness size cards on one side is the Greek word and on the other is the English counterpart. Armed with a duplicate set and the concepts of Svengali\mene tekel principle you can make your audience be able to read greek as if were english ;-) Show all greek, say the biblical word Amen and boom now its all english on both sides! I would really like to see a running thread of classics in close-up magic that can be adapted for the gospel. Please share yours. -Joe
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Rindfleisch Special user New Jersey 502 Posts |
Hear is another one
Gypsy thread Life before Christ -break into pieces Accepting Jesus, you can also mention 2 Corinthians 5:17 - Restore pieces. ESV Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. -Joe
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Rindfleisch Special user New Jersey 502 Posts |
Balducci levitation
Wanna see a brief glimpse of what it may possibly look like when we get raptured up?
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Rindfleisch Special user New Jersey 502 Posts |
John Cornielus (sp?) Coin falling up -mp
Wanna see what it may look like when we get raptured?
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Rindfleisch Special user New Jersey 502 Posts |
Stop Pulse illusion
I'd like to tell you guys a story about How I met God and I will use an illusion to help give you a mental visual. Can I have a spectator come sit next to me. Now with one hand please find my pulse. do you have it? great that means I'm alive which is a good thing. Now with the other hand can you please start moving your hand up and down marking the beat of my heart. If it goes fast or slow please move your hand accordingly. Now share you testimony of how things were before Jesus in the extreme bad times where your sin was extreme slow down your pulse and bring it back then tell another example and slow it down. Then talk about being dead in sin maybe talk about your lowest point and stop your pulse. Explain how you said the prayer and accepted Jesus christ into your life and start your pulse again. Although stopping my pulse was only an illusion the supernatural change in my life was completly real if you would like God to come into your heart and change your life like he has chnaged mine. Then I ask you to say this prayer with me tonight. Please repeat after me............ Word it the way you like but you get the gist. Scripture Support ESV Ephesians 2 1 And you were ***dead*** in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were ***dead*** in our trespasses, made us ***alive*** together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
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Rindfleisch Special user New Jersey 502 Posts |
Lennart Green - Angle separation
Place a Red Jack or King face up on the table. Now have a spectator shuffle the cards. Show the faces of the cards via angle separation as you explain how a deck of cards is like the world we live in. There are God believers and there are not.the Red's will represents Gods people. The Bible says in John 10:27 ESV My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. Place deck down face up making sure the red cards are on the face of the deck. After you deliver the verse say, "come" and spread the top half to reveal those cards have come to the top.
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Rindfleisch Special user New Jersey 502 Posts |
This last plot will work with Triumph as well.
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Rindfleisch Special user New Jersey 502 Posts |
Tony Slydini - Paper balls over the head
Teach the lesson on how the Holy Spirit helps us understand his word. The audience will represent Christian believers and the spectator a non-believer Scripture Support ESV 1 Corinthians 2:12-14 12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. 13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.[a] 14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
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paulmagic Loyal user Malaysia, now In New Zealand 290 Posts |
Interesting ideas! Thanks
Many Blessings!!
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Rindfleisch Special user New Jersey 502 Posts |
Ambitious Card
Before I was a Christian, Jesus always called me and put people in my life to minister to me but I wasn't ready and kept on pushing him away. But God was so merciful he never stopped, He never gave up on me.
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Rindfleisch Special user New Jersey 502 Posts |
Your Welcome Paul
-Joe
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Rindfleisch Special user New Jersey 502 Posts |
Out of this world
God's Providence or Divine Providence (look it up if you're not sure) Proverbs 16:9 The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps. Although this was only an illusion God is Eternally in control. He continually shows us each day he provides and works things out for his purpose.
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Rindfleisch Special user New Jersey 502 Posts |
Hand is shown empty, talk about the information below, close hand and say creatio ex nihilo as you wave over it. open and there is now a small globe or a coin (anything will work).
Use this as an EXAMPLE of how God created the world. The Doctrine of Creation out of nothing, in Latin the term is,creatio ex nihilo Biblical scholars and theologians within the Judaeo-Christian tradition such as Philo (20 BCE – 50 CE),[9][10] Augustine (354-430),[11] John Calvin (1509–1564),[12] John Wesley (1703–1791)[13] and Matthew Henry (1662–1714)[14] cite Genesis 1:1 in support of the idea of Divine creation out of nothing. The central theme in all of these type of illusions is what you do through illusion God does Super naturally, Amen!! Joe Rindfleisch
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Vlad_77 Inner circle The Netherlands 5829 Posts |
Dear Mr. Rindfleisch,
It's an honor to have you here on The Café! Your work is uniformly splendid!! I should state right off the bat that I do not do Gospel magic. But I am a Christian who does magic - close enough I would warrant. What I love about this thread is that you are getting magicians to think about presentation; a subject that really gets too little attention in all areas of magic. In thinking about your thread I have to say that it confirms my long held assertion that virtually any magic effect one can think of can ge done with a Gospel message - or indeed any message. Robert Neale does a VERY powerful effect whose central theme is The Holocaust. I never use another magician's patter except when performing this particular effect. The reason is that the patter is a poem written by a great Czech poet who survived The Holocaust. It is a poem that haunts such that the atrocities of this horrific event in human history is brought home a poem about an innocent wolf. The first time I read the poem, I cried actually. Thanks for the great thread and for all the magic you have created that has enriched my repertoire! +In Christ, Vlad |
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Rindfleisch Special user New Jersey 502 Posts |
Thank you for your kind words and insight.
-Joe
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Rindfleisch Special user New Jersey 502 Posts |
Crazyman's Handcuffs
Patter: One band represents sin the other represents me before I knew christ I was trapped held prison to sin there was no escape even when I tried to do good sin would not release its grip. Performance:Do the move Patter: but then I heard about Jesus who died on the cross for me to pay the debt for my sins Performance: while saying the above slowly move the bands into a position to make a cross. Patter: Then I was set free! Performance: Slowly move your hands away. Merry Christmas everyone! -Joe Rindfleisch
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Howie Diddot Inner circle San Francisco & Los Angeles California 3288 Posts |
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On Dec 22, 2014, Rindfleisch wrote: I can see performing this with regulation gimmicked handcuffs. Have a volunteer place the handcuffs on your wrists and release them at the appropriate time in your routine. Patter: With both hands handcuffed representing sin before I knew Christ I was trapped and held a prisoner to sin; there was no escape even when I tried to do good, sin would not release the hold on me, shake the handcuffs. Patter: but then I heard about Jesus who died on the cross for me to pay the debt for my sins. I accepted Jesus as my lord and I was set free! Performance: while saying the above slowly remove the cuffs. Drop the cuffs in a box and continue with the routine. |
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Russo Inner circle So.California / Centl.Florida / retired Florida 1165 Posts |
Using 3 people from the audience - tie one up in Sin- (a release tie) have the other 2 hold the ropes- say"1st Coren. 10:13" at the word "escape" have the one tied up in SIN - escape. used this many time- good response Ralph(russo)Rousseau
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GlenD Inner circle LosAngeles, Ca 1293 Posts |
Transmental Gemsation (Viking)
You can do sort of a random wordless book routine using the above mentioned Viking effect called "Transmental gemsation". I have this and sometimes use it as an icebreaker and as a means of introducing a spiritual conversation. I usually ask a question (after discovering which color they put in the tube) like... "Did you know there are those that will not experience death, physical death, here on earth? In fact The Bible talks about a whole generation that will not go through the experience of dying but rather will meet Jesus in the sky... the clear blue sky (represented by the blue gem, the sapphire)... did you choose the blue gem? Do you know that if Jesus came back today that you would be among those to meet Him in the sky?" Anyways, I ask similar questions with each of the other colors as I reveal the color that they chose. The other colors are red, gold, green and clear like a diamond or white. I have some other ones that I will share here when I have more time to write up my basic presentation(s). Merry Christmas! Glen
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harris Inner circle Harris Deutsch 8812 Posts |
3 Blank cards and assorted images
One could customize a 3 card monte. Of course there are a few 3. Card gospel effects available in the retail market Could you please give the source of the Holocaust Story. I am a Christian with Jewish roots. Shalom Brother Harris
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