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Christmas More than a word V4
Christmas More than a word V4
by Twelvebaskets Ltd
TIP- PowerPoint Slide Size- The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- • Reduce the image size to 1024x768 pixels using your image editing software. (Will reduce image proportionally) • Insert as Picture in the normal way. • If needed fill the slide area by placing the image in…
Christmas More than a word V2
Christmas More than a word V2
by Twelvebaskets Ltd
TIP- PowerPoint Slide Size- The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- • Reduce the image size to 1024x768 pixels using your image editing software. (Will reduce image proportionally) • Insert as Picture in the normal way. • If needed fill the slide area by placing the image in…
Christmas More than a word V5
Christmas More than a word V5
by Twelvebaskets Ltd
TIP- PowerPoint Slide Size- The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- • Reduce the image size to 1024x768 pixels using your image editing software. (Will reduce image proportionally) • Insert as Picture in the normal way. • If needed fill the slide area by placing the image in…
Christmas More than a word V3
Christmas More than a word V3
by Twelvebaskets Ltd
TIP- PowerPoint Slide Size- The ideal way to insert into PowerPoint is:- • Reduce the image size to 1024x768 pixels using your image editing software. (Will reduce image proportionally) • Insert as Picture in the normal way. • If needed fill the slide area by placing the image in…
The parable of the sower – Peter’s defence
The parable of the sower – Peter’s defence
by Marjorie Dobson
Monologue: The parable of the sower – Peter’s defence Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Matthew 13: 1-9, 18-23 It’s all very well for you to laugh at us disciples, but would you have been any better at understanding if you were hearing one of the tales he told for the very first time…
Cliff and Richard
Cliff and Richard
by Taylormation
Cliff and Richard is an animated short film staring two oranges who discuss the meaning of life. Taken from the "taylormation toolbox" DVD which is also available from twelvebaskets. A fantastic ice breaker or focal point. Great for church meetings, youth work or school assemblie…
Things have changed
Things have changed
by Marjorie Dobson
Christmas day - Luke 2:1–20 Meditation for Christmas Day: Things have changed What do shepherds and angels and stars have to do with this day? Are they not merely a myth told in a seasonal play? Those Eastern wise men? Can they still be found in the sound of the guns and the flam…
Reflection: Naming a child
Reflection: Naming a child
by Marjorie Dobson
Reflection: Naming a child The naming of a child is a very serious business, though some take it very lightly. Pity the child named after all the players in his father’s favourite football team; or the girl who finds her first name making some ludicrous combination with the surna…
Poem: Finding God
Poem: Finding God
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Finding God Finding God, by looking at Jesus, is like hurtling through a grimy tunnel into the glorious sunshine of day. It’s like stumbling around in the dark, then suddenly finding the light switch, or watching the bright colours of the rainbow form against the retreating…
Poem/reflection: What about you?
Poem/reflection: What about you?
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem/Reflection: What about you? When we are challenged by some of the words of Jesus and find them difficult to accept in the context of today’s world, how do we respond when Jesus then says, ‘Do you wish to go away also?’ Do we leave with alacrity, glad of a chance to escape? D…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 21 History and Narrative
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 21 History and Narrative
by SPCK - N T Wright
History and Narrative The task of the historian is not simply to assemble little clumps of ‘facts’ and hope that somebody else will integrate them. The historian’s job is to show their interconnectedness, that is, how one thing follows from another, precisely by examining the ‘in…
Transforming Preaching - Learning
Transforming Preaching - Learning
by SPCK - David Heywood
2 The sermon as a learning event Learning We have looked at two of the specific ‘components’ of the learning process, listening and remembering. We have seen that listening is an active process; it requires a decision to pay attention to some new information or situation, whether…
GOD's rich Pattern - Coming out of the darkness
GOD's rich Pattern - Coming out of the darkness
by SPCK - Dr Lin Berwick
Coming out of the darkness Blindness makes you draw on inner resources and get in touch with the world around you in a different way. Sound is all important. Music can be a wonderful comforter, enabling one to get on a higher spiritual plane. My first introduction to classical mu…
Job for Everyone - Sovereignty without Principle?