Topic: Card tick for Christ?

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Posted by: WazMeister (Jan 23, 2012 2:11am)

Hi,

Pretty new to Christian magic, would love to perform a nice card trick that presents Jesus, Christ that's fun yet constructive towards adults.

Any advice?

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Posted by: MagicBus (Jan 23, 2012 10:46am)

I think my favorite card trick (using jumbo cards) is Duane Laflin's latest on DVD: I think he calls it "Where Will Your Faith Take You?". This is similar to the "What Color Is Your Bible?" effect Duane used to manufacture (but no longer does)- same "shuffling" principle. In the end, you spell down to the King of Hearts- and this gives you the opening to talk about the King of your heart. My guess is www.LaflinMagicStore.com may have it already or can tell you where to get it. Duane featured it in his lecture last year.

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Posted by: MagicMatthews (Jan 24, 2012 6:48am)

My favourite trick also uses the King of Hearts, but uses the magician's insurance policy. You keep getting the card wrong in a variety of humorous ways, then finally unfold the insurance policy to reveal an extreme jumbo K of H. Again you begin talking about Jesus being the King of your Heart.

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Posted by: jamiedoyle (Jan 24, 2012 1:31pm)

The book: "The Gospel According to Hoyle" by Robert Hill has some good ideas in it:
http://www.creativeartstore.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=26

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Posted by: DoctorCognos (Jan 24, 2012 10:55pm)

I use a trick that I don't recall where I learned it, but I use to teach, Omnicience, Omnipresence, and Omnipotence. I find that many people, young and old, don't have a clue what they mean.

But it the one that you (after doing the dirty work of gbc) spread/smear a deck around on the table. I like doing it with 4 or 5 individuals, and then ask them to pick take a card out the deck, but it it must be the card you tell them to pick, and they are to slide it out face down and pass it over to you, where you will grade them. Then you take the final card, telling them what you will pick.

Then as everyone one by one, recounts the card they were told to choose, you flip over that card to show that they succeeded, right up to your card.

First,
Omnicience means all knowing. God knows everything, even what we will do before we do it.

Omnipresence, means he is always with all of us. Even in that spreadout deck of cards, he was able to find His chosen ones.

Omnipotence, means all powerful, even if we make bad choices, even though none were made this time, He can make them turn out right.

I did this effect earlier today with only one person, and I usually have the one person choose about 4 or 5 cards. But she chose her first card just fine, I told her what to pick next, and she picked her second card. But it was actually the card that I was supposed to pick, if you know what I mean. So that was it. I stopped right there, I told her to select two cards from a spead out pile of cards, and one I had spread them, I never again touched the deck. I even had her reach over and take the cards hereself that were laying face down in front of me. She was amazed, and the message was well received.

If you care to know more about the effect, it is a one ahead, and you should already know how it is done, but if not just PM me.

The Doctor

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Posted by: Kif Anderson (Jan 26, 2012 8:54am)

As for card tricks, I'll go with Invisible Deck...and this is basically my routine...

When we become Christians, we change…or we really don’t become Christians. We may think we are, but if our lives haven’t “turned around” somehow, we are all talk and no action.

In the second chapter of the book of James, he asks us if we think we'll get anywhere in this life if we learn all the right words but never do anything? In other words, does merely talking about faith indicate that a person really has it?

He gives an example. Say you come upon an old friend dressed in ragged clothing and starving and say, "Good morning, friend! Be clothed in Christ! Be filled with the Holy Spirit!" and walk off without providing so much as a coat or a cup of soup. Where does that get you? Isn't it obvious that talking like a Christian without doing things a Christian would do is outrageous nonsense?

Now you may be thinking, "Sounds good. You take care of the faith department, I'll handle the works department."

Not so fast. You can no more show me your works apart from your faith than I can show you my faith apart from my works. Faith and works, works and faith, fit together hand in glove.

Now I’m certainly not suggesting that works save us, but instead that saved people become people of action.

As a Christian, you should stand out among non-believers and especially among phony Christians. You see if you are living a life no different than non-believers, then are you really saved? Maybe at one time you were living that way, but now you have backsliden and are no longer really serving others in the name of Jesus.

(Pick up cards)

Let me use this deck of cards to represent the world. I want you to name one card to represent someone who has turned from the ways of the world and become a Christian.

(Have someone name a card – for the example
we will use the three of hearts)

Three of Hearts will represent our Christian. Now…

(Take cards out of the box appropriately
and begin fanning through the cards)

…as we look at all the other folks represented by the other cards in the deck, our card represented by the Three of Hearts should stand out special somehow.

(Keep searching until you fan the correct “upside down” card)

Wait a minute, one is turned around. Could it be that our card is going “against the flow,” Has it turned its back to the ways of the world’s thinking the cards should be? Is it looking to another card…

(Note the card directly under the upside down card

…for the example we will use the six of clubs)

…such as the six of clubs to see if it needs help and possibly sharing it’s faith? Now that would be the sign…

(Remove card and reveal it to be the chosen card)

…of a true believer.

Now this may seem miraculous, but in reality it is just a clever card effect. A real miracle is when a person turns from the world and starts living for Jesus.

Never think your works have anything to do with being saved…that occurred when you accepted Christ into your life. It has nothing at all to do with anything we do.

He paid for our sins, it isn’t something we did or even deserve.

But the question is: Are you living your life in such a way that the world sees you are different because you are a Christian? If not, get into action.

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Posted by: GaryLee (Jan 26, 2012 10:42am)

I've heard that one before. Do you know ho originally came up with it?

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Posted by: Kif Anderson (Feb 3, 2012 2:11am)

I wrote it several years ago...but others may have come with similar. It was in the Oz and Wilde Routine book we handed out at FCM International in 2007.