Adapted from a 2017 post An Activity Find an audio recording of today’s passage – you can find them at Bible Gateway, for example. Sit quietly for a moment and notice to your breathing. Then listen to the passage with your imagination as well as year ears. Imagine yourself in the room. I wonder who … More Mentioning-the-elephant-in-the-room Thomas
Reality was ripped skin, blooded head, impaled limbs, heat, sweat, terror, and horror. … More Not like that… Look, See, Pray
It’s the Easter hols! Yay! I don’t have to go to school for two weeks! To celebrate, below is a fun activity related to this year’s reading about ‘Cloak’ Sunday, plus a selection of links from all over the place that that I hope you find useful. This gorgeous Sunset / Sunrise craft is from … More Intergen Easter Resources
Here is liturgy I wrote for Good Friday and Easter Day, with Holy Saturday added to complete the three days. You can use these in church, small groups or for personal meditations on these days of darkness, of silence and of light. Good Friday Isaiah 52:13-53:12, Hebrews 4:14-16, 5:7-9, John 18:1-19:42 Confession and Absolution Surely, … More Days of Darkness, Silence and Light
In English we have many ways to talk about when something happened. Oh yes, this post is going to be very in-tense! (If you’re about to shudder and remember Year 4th grammar with old Mr Slater, breathe. It’s OK. This is me. We’ll be fine.) I found this handy-dandy chart that shows English tenses. We’re … More Tetelestai – Perfect
Wildflower Paper Here’s a lovely activity for autumn or spring, perfect for a Harvest Festival, Hallowe’en light party, Messy Church or Easter garden party. Also perfect for the parable of the mustard seed, the sower and the soils, that bit about Apollos watered but God made it grow, wheat and tares, the reapers overtaking the … More Sowing the Seed
We had a bunch of fab baptisms in church this week. Liturgical whoop whoop! So if you want twenty minutes of uplifting youtube that’s not parrots playing the xylophone, you can listen to the testimonies from t = 60mins and watch the baptisms from t = 77mins The preach, from about t=45, is also good. Totally … More Sheepy Stuff + Water
Disbelieving from Joy While in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” And they gave him a piece of grilled fish. (Luke 24:41-42) What’s the very best thing that could happen right now? Go on. Name it. Someone rings and tells you that your … More Disbelieving from Joy
There’s always a clown. Drama needs clowns- and the circus requires clowns of all shapes. Including the sad faced ones. The drama of Good Friday is about to begin. In a darkened Garden, a man and a few friends face their midnight of the soul. Which is the clown? Is it Judas, who sold a … More Laugh Or You’d Cry- Look, See, Pray
OK, I know Palm Sunday isn’t about that sort of palm, but since we all have that sort of palm, why not use them? Click here [A Handy Guide to Easter] for my handy-dandy guide to telling the Easter story with the help of your hands. Everyone can join in with the actions – not just … More Palms!
The Reflectionary 