Messianic Media Podcast

Mark and David discuss the children's program Beginner's Bible- The Nativity (1995) with the alternate title The First Christmas, the book version, Merry Christmas in other languages, the light jokes, Herod plot, wise men and shepherds, the theme song and song in the episode, the ideal length of this Nativity story, and the age range of this video.

David and Mark talk about Bob Marley and the Wailers' 1997 ablum Exodus and talk about the title, the Exodus compared to returning from Babylon, Rastafari beliefs and how much of it is in the music, I&I, radio airplay and best of lists, mystics, Jesus as a black figure, Marcus Garvey, Jah, Big Fish, heathens, the extra recordings, "yard", waiting, American Idol, worrying and covering or giving tributes with lyrics.

Mark and David talk about The Ten Commandments Rescored (1923 film with a modern 2020 musical score) released by Jewish nonprofit Reboot, and talk about the semi-famous musicians, showing the musicians on screen and over corners of the movie, the melodramatic modern-day second half of the movie cut from this new project, the original film as a response to World War I, skipping 9 of the 10 plagues as well as the the burning bush, added colorization to the movie and Dathan the Discontented. They also talked about Easter/Passover calendar system.

Mark and David talk about U2's The Joshua Tree (1987) and discuss radio play, their live shows, album sales, America, giving the songs additional spiritual meanings, romantic relationships and relationships to God, comparing Bullet the Blue Sky to P.O.D.'s cover, songs in Ireland and New Zealand, the track order, drug addiction, coal mining, saguaro cactus, promised land vs Promised Land, blues music, the many interpretations of A Trip through your Wires, Chilean history and more! Post-credit bonus clip talking about the One Tree Hill TV show.

We review Marty Goetz's Hanukkah and Christmas album Festivals of Light 2002 and discuss the "festive season", Christmas in Japan, the color blue in Judaism, the menorah and nativity cover, live performances, Superbook theme and Emmy nomination, songs blending together/"background music", the album title, instrumental heavy songs and the extra minutes, "Christian" songs that are entirely from the Jewish Bible, changing first-person perspectives, William Blake, traditional Hanukkah blessings, the meanings of the holidays, Hanukkah pronunciation, and the literal translations of Ma'oz Tsur.

Mark and David discuss Spoken's Echoes of the Spirit Still Dwell including the band name and album name, comparison to Rage against the Machine, yelling vs screaming, doubt, influences on our sound and the background of our song Adonai, angsty Christian music, and dancing like David --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/messianicmedia/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/messianicmedia/support

For Passover/Easter we talk about the Jesus movie and its use as ministry tool, if it works as an interesting film, foreign languages and dubbing, the new intro with Eden and prophets, emotional vs educational angles, watching it in one sitting vs watching it as an episodic series, the call to faith, accuracy, special effects as well as Campus Crusade. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/messianicmedia/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/messianicmedia/support

Mark and David discuss Family Force 5, their live show energy and push for audience participation, hairstyles, rock/rap/crunk genre, misinterpreting themes and immature double meanings and possibly intentionally dumb lyrics, drugs as a metaphor for faith, comparison of the band to DC Talk, breakdancing, Southern rap-rock, drama queens and diss tracks and their descriptions of young love. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/messianicmedia/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/messianicmedia/support