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The table is a central image in Christianity - feasts appear frequently in Jesus' parables, the central act of Christian worship takes place around a table and the Bible describes heaven as a place of banqueting. Building on this inviting imagery, Dilly Baker offers ready-made resources for the whole year.
Ask almost any priest what their biggest headache is and the answer is likely to be ‘finding with ideas for including children in worship’. Here is the answer to their prayers – a whole year’s worth of ready-to-use scripts for children’s liturgies of the Word. This resource has been developed and used in Anglican and Catholic parish churches over the last ten years by a professional educationalist, artist and experienced children’s church leader. Sixty complete worship outlines are included and they feature:ready-to-use scripts to open up the Sunday Gospel for children of all ages,activities, games, and creative ideas,reproducible artwork and cartoons,simple responsive prayers to begin and end each session,ideas for ‘back in church’ presentations to the adults by the children.The scripts and illustrations (in full colour) can be downloaded from the accompanying CD Rom.
A resource that gives practical ideas for reflection and study based on the central Christian symbol - the cross - an endlessly rich theme against which to explore individual stories and experiences. It comes with a downloadable CD-ROM which includes templates and instruction for making hand held crosses and colour images of crosses worldwide.
Seasons like Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter are among the busiest for clergy and leaders of worship. This addition to the popular Creative Ideas series helps you plan seasonal worship more easily with a range of easy-to-use dramas and ideas to liven up worship, all based on the lectionary readings. It includes: • dramatic readings of lectionary readings and drama sketches for all seasons of the Christian year • short and snappy dramatic dialogues exploring biblical readings from a contemporary point of view • ideas for using our worship space more creatively • ideas for non-lectionary events such as Christingle • how to write creatively for worship • CD-Rom with downloadable resources Seasons covered include Advent, Christmas, Christingle, Epiphany, Lent, Mothering Sunday, Easter, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, Harvest and Remembrance Sunday.
Since this, their first book was published just five years ago, Jan and Tessa have become a publishing brand in their own right. Their practical Creative Ideas books have sold over 7000 copies and have released the creative energies of young and old alike in many churches. Their imaginative ideas for enriching worship are simple and effective. Crafts for Creative Worship is full of good ideas for adding vibrancy to the great celebrations of the church year: Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, Pentecost and other seasonal celebrations along the way such as Mothering Sunday and Harvest. It includes complete instructions, templates for artwork, and a guide to running your own workshops for seasonal worship. Now reissued with a downloadable CD-ROM, this trusted resource is more versatile than ever.
An introduction to the principles and skills of pastoral liturgy. Inter-denominational, this text can be used across different Christian traditions, in both formal and informal contexts and to meet traditional and non-traditional pastoral needs.
Sunday worship, baptisms, weddings and funerals are the shop window of the church and there is nothing more important for mission than getting them right. How do we help congregations and occasional visitors encounter God through them? This practical guide draws upon the treasury of the church’s tradition and experience to establish good practice
Royal Court premiere for a very funny, true-life play about the private lives of prostitutes.
A collection of prayers from around the worldwide Anglican Communion that makes connections between women's personal lives and global concerns of women around the globe. It shows the connection, for example, between a woman's prayers for her child in the West and the plight of child labour in the third world.
What is the greatest, most precious, opportunity that life provides? It is not winning millions in a lottery. Money, fame, intelligence, beauty, a prestigious career, or mere existence will not simply provide us with a good life. We all have the potential to live well, to have a good life, but how can we do so? We can master complex subjects, attain advanced qualifications and demonstrate sound skills; we can become wealthy, and still make a mess of our lives. People can meet the accepted measures of success, yet still not live well. Gough Whitlam, Nelson Mandela, Pete Seeger, Luke Kelly and Ben of Kombi Life are used here to demonstrate the challenges and joyous rewards of living well. They inform, and teach us, that we can also live well when we cultivate awareness; altruism; wholeness of body, mind and spirit; resilience and persistence; passion; empathy; a sense of belonging; personal character; self-knowledge; and life-enhancing habits.