NBS Mobile Free Biblical Storytelling Lessons
The Network of Biblical Storytellers International is passionate about the art and spiritual practice of learning and sharing biblical stories - God's stories, which connect with our stories - by heart. This series of videos shares a number of ways to learn and tell the stories.
These videos refer to an online community, or signing up online with a friend. These features had to be cancelled due to abuse; we apologize for that!
This series is designed specifically with young urban folks for whom English is a second language in mind. So all the lessons are short videos designed to be viewed on a smartphone. Links are given to written materials too.
If you have questions or neat stories to share about biblical storytelling, please ask to join the NBS TOGether: The Online Guild community on Google+. Learning and telling are great fun with a friend, or a community!
These are our presenters: Biblical Storytellers Laura Schuh and Jason Chesnut
Click on the links to go to each video. The second link in each lesson provides more information on the story itself.
Introduction video
(More help if English isn't your heart language)
Lesson 1: Repetition - Baptism of Jesus story
Tom Boomershine Help on Mark 1:9-15:
Video, Audio and Written commentary, and story broken into episodes
Lesson 2: Movement - Birth of Jesus story
Tom Boomershine Help on Luke 2:1-20:
Audio and Written commentary, audio telling, and story broken into episodes
Lesson 3: Visualizing - Peter's Call and the Fish
Tom Boomershine Help on Luke 5:1-11:
Audio and Written commentary, audio telling, and story broken into episodes
Lesson 4: Geography - The Paralyzed Man
Lesson 5: Get Creative - The Good Neighbor
Tom Boomershine Help on Luke 10:25-37:
Video, audio and written commentary,
audio telling, and story broken into episodes
Lesson 6: Learning cultural details -
Jesus Heals Two Women at Capernaum
Tom Boomershine Help on Mark 5:21-43:
Video, audio and written commentary,
audio telling, and story broken into episodes
Lesson 7: Spiritual Connections -
Jesus Calms a Windstorm
Tom Boomershine Help on Mark 4:35-41:
Video, audio and written commentary,
audio telling, and story broken into episodes
Lesson 8: Praying the Story -
Jesus Heals Blind Bartimaeus
Tom Boomershine Help on Mark 10:46-52:
Video, audio and written commentary,
audio telling, and story broken into episodes
Lesson 9: Pacing, Volume and Tone -
Jesus is Crucified
Lesson 10: Tandem Telling -
The Lost Sheep and Coin
Tom Boomershine Help on Luke 15:1-10:
Video, audio and written commentary,
audio telling, and story broken into episodes
Lesson 11: Acting on the Story!
Jesus' Resurrection
Tom Boomershine Help on Mark 16:1-8:
Video, audio and written commentary,
audio telling, and story broken into episodes
Lesson 12: Teaching Others to Tell
The twelfth and last video in the NBS basic Biblical storytelling mobile class! Congratulations, you made it! In this video we won't learn a new story but review all 12 learning and telling techniques covered in this class, because the last assignment is - tell your favorite story to a group, and teach Biblical storytelling to a group or a single other person!
What techniques worked best with your group?