Sometimes it is tricky to see the miraculous in the muddle of the everyday. You are fishing with your mates – you don’t expect God to being barbecuing on the beach. You are walking along to road, chatting over the latest news – you don’t expect the headline to appear at your side. … More Luke 24:36-48 – Hope in the Muddle
Vultures gather to snuff out life and consume the corpse. In Jerusalem, the conflict is reaching a climax. Will Darkness overcome the Light? … More The Vultures Gather- Look, See, Pray
Lent is a transition time between winter and spring. A meditation on the frost that chills the soul: and prepares us to celebrate the Resurrection festival. … More Frost that chills the Soul… Look, See, Pray
The classic story of servant-meets-girl, servant-gets-girl, boy-finally-sees-girl-on-a-camel. Hollywood should buy the rights immediately. … More Genesis 24:34-38, 42-49, 58-67
[Click here for printable Puzzle Pages (PDF) – Third Sunday of Lent] This year I have updated the Puzzle Pages to link more closely with the Lenten Tree Activity. They will still stand on their own, or you can access the original Puzzle Pages via the link in the menu. Puzzle Pages are downloadable A4 … More Puzzle Pages – Lent 3
If we take the claims of the Bible seriously, then Jesus as Good Teacher, Jesus as Inspiring Example, simply are not options. (And if we don’t take the Bible seriously, we need to ask ourselves if the God we worship is the one revealed by the word-made-flesh in the word-made-paper, or a more convenient one made in our own image.) … More Matthew 17:1-9
O Lord our God, You set before us choice this day, You set before us life and death, You set before us death and life, And bid us choose life. Write your words upon our hearts, bind your laws upon our hands, fix your statutes on our heads. That our feet may walk your … More Prayer – Now Choose Life
The third thing we learn is that you don’t mess with the Lord Almighty, maker of heaven and earth. This is your full-blown, honest-to-goodness, 1000 gigaWatts of power, divine thunderbolt. If you’re a Back to the Future fan, by the way Doc Emmett Brown underestimated by a factor of 1000! Seems the prophets of Baal made the same mistake. … More 1 Kings 18:20-21, (22-29), 30-39
An Activity Print out the image by artist Gustave-Verbeek. Find two volunteers and stand them a distance apart or back to back, so that they cannot see what the other sees. Show one volunteer the image and ask them to describe what they see. (A man with a hat in a boat and a big … More John 17:20-26
Puzzle Pages are downloadable A4 double-sided sheets in PDF format. They have colouring, puzzles and activities for children, all linked to the Bible passage. Use them for: Sunday schools and after-school clubs sermon activities for children staying in church school assemblies / CUs missions / outreach / messy church Click here for printable Puzzle Pages (PDF) … More Lent 1 – Puzzle Pages
The Reflectionary 