Breathing life into your preaching and worship

March 2004       


The New Easter Collection 


This Months Articles:

The Passion: The Perfect Evangelism Tool
  By Renee Harms



This year, an unexpected evangelistic tool has risen to the forefront of our awareness. As Christians, a central question we face is how to communicate the life-changing message of the cross to the world. The recent release of The Passion of the Christ revealed that our methods are not exhausted. If you have had the opportunity to see the movie, or have paid attention to the news, you know that whether or not one agrees with its portrayal, this movie has, in one aspect or another, made a significant impact on millions of people. The scenes of Jesus' suffering and death seem to evoke powerful emotions in almost every viewer.

Visual aids do for an idea what lyrics do for a song—they allow for a greater impact and understanding of the concept. When we see a picture used to illustrate a concept, it serves to bring a wider perspective to our understanding. Even though I've been a Christian all of my life and have long known the story of the cross, seeing the excruciating suffering of Jesus in this movie brought me a little closer to understanding what it meant for Him to endure pain and death for me, and thus gave me a deeper gratitude for His sacrifice.

His is a message that people need to hear.

Read this complete article.

Lesson Lab 6:
Oxygen's Unique "Presentation Design Center"


When we started creating a new generation of our Oxygen product, we asked many of our loyal customers for feedback. We made it our goal to discover what people wanted to do, and how we could help them design their sermons faster and more professionally.

Through everyone's generous feedback, we were able to mold a new, friendlier product. All of our new products (including our new Easter Collection) now come with a wonderful interface we call the Presentation Design Center.

This new interface makes sermon design a snap. The product opens up a simple-to-use interface that allows the customer to select a presentation based on their standard design needs. Each page of the Presentation Design Center helps you to narrow down the image and style of the slides you want to create. Once you have decided what you want, our interface will open your design choices in PowerPoint. Like our original system, each slide is pre-built with text boxes and appropriate fonts choices on every slide.

Learn more about the Presentation Design Center.


Oxygen Compilation Vol. 1: The Easter Collection

We have just released our first compilation volume with the introduction of our Easter Collection. This complete Oxygen volume offers 450+ images, backgrounds and templates perfect for Easter/Passion sermons. We are offering 3 wonderful backgrounds that fit the theme of the season wonderfully, along with some amazing, fresh new images that are sure to add visual power to your Easter message. The Easter CD-ROM also comes packed with all the latest features, including our Presentation Design Center. We are offering this wonderful Christian graphic collection to our customers for the discounted price of $79.95. This early release special won't last long, so take advantage of this amazing deal today!

See the images from our Easter Collection.


Oxygen Road Schedule:
We will be starting this season on the road at the Christian Media Association conference in Dallas, Texas. This will be a great opportunity for us to meet our customers and get feedback on our new products. We are looking forward to sharing some multimedia tips, in addition to giving away some goodies while we're there. If you are planning to attend the conference, please come by our booth and say "Hi." We would love to meet you!



Thank you for joining us in this issue of Breathe. Next month, look for another e-mail loaded with church media tips and tools designed to help increase the visual impact of your service.

Here is a preview of what you will see next month:

  • Special Feature: Why multimedia is designed for a visual generation, using graphics for evangelism.
  • Tutorial: A brand-new lesson lab on getting the most out of PowerPoint.
  • New Product Updates: Oxygen 6 and our new motion products.



    Until then, go with God and be powerful for His Kingdom,

    The Oxygen Team