De La Mennais Brothers: Making Jesus Christ better known and loved by young people

And finally, something very different, the aforementioned Eddie Kirkland cover of “How He Loves”.    

Oh, how he loves us!!!… and I love this song and video (cover version by Eddie Kirkland of the John Mark McMillan song). It cleverly foreshadows the events of the Passion narrative through the story of Jesus’ temptations in the desert at the start of his ministry.

A couple of weeks ago I discovered a YouTube video which puts together black & white cartoon-style drawings of Jesus going into the desert for 40 days to prepare for his mission by British artist Si Smith, and the song "How He Loves" by John Mark McMillan in an excellent cover version by Eddie Kirkland (it's been covered by numerous artists in the last few years, most notably by David Crowder Band). I've played it to all my RE classes who have responded positively, some asking to see it again in subsequent lessons. The combination of visuals and music in particular during the last minute of the video is especially powerful. You get a real sense of Jesus in his weakened physical state being more susceptible to experience (but not giving in to) temptation, expressed rather interestingly through the Devil as a mirror image form of Jesus himself, but in red. There's also some nice foreshadowing of events in the Garden of Gethsemane and the Passion story itself. ...