A Season of Grace is your essential guide to spiritual renewal and intimate connection with God.
Each year, the Church offers the season of Lent as a time of preparation and spiritual renewal, culminating in the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus. This season of hope and love shares the message of Jesus, inviting you to return to the Lord and deepen your relationship of intimacy with the God of salvation.
Written by Sister Siobhán O'Keeffe S.S.H.J.M., this book challenges you to embrace practices of prayer, fasting, and service, compelling you to cast aside prejudice and stand as a voice for the voiceless in a world of injustice.
Journey with Jesus towards his glorious resurrection and experience his cleansing and healing, leading to a deeper union with God.
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Cover: Paperback
Page count: 176
Size: 128 x 198 x 11mm
ISMN: 9781838582470
Transform your Advent season into a profound journey of spiritual discovery.Beyond the Christmas gifts we exchange, God offers gifts that are perfectly timed and exactly what we need. This unique Advent devotional from Patrick Coghlan invites you to unwrap 25 divine gifts hidden within Luke's account of the Christmas story, from God's unconditional love to His eternal promises, from miraculous hope to perfect peace.
Each daily session (December 1st-25th) combines mindful meditation to centre your heart, reflective prayer responses to receive God's gifts, and intimate letters to God to express your gratitude.
Whether you're established in faith or still searching, this accessible, Bible-based resource will guide you through quality time with God each day. Discover how ordinary people like Mary, the shepherds, and Simeon were chosen for extraordinary purposes and how God sees the same potential in you.
Experience Advent as never before. Let God's perfect gifts change your life, one day at a time.
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Cover: Paperback
Page count: 142
Size: 127 x 199 x 10mm
ISBN: 9781838582296
Follow the Jesse Tree this Advent in your school, at church or at home with this guide to storytelling and the Christian story.25 Bible stories, one for each day of December leading up to Christmas Day. Each story is accompanied by notes, tips, storytelling techniques and a video available online.Whether you work through the stories in order or dip in every now and then, in school, as a family or at church, enjoy discovering the art of storytelling and the wonder of the Jesse Tree tales together.Join the action with Amy on the Tales from the Jesse Tree Facebook page!
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A passage to Easter written out of season.In the height of summer, Anglican priest Dan Pierce was challenged to undertake the spiritual disciplines of Lent. The result is this profound collection of poetry, prose, and song lyrics that frames the journey to Easter within the four seasons. A remarkably honest reflection on temptation, addiction, and renewal, A Summer Lent offers fresh, poetic guidance for re-sourcing your spiritual life, no matter the calendar.
‘I was blessed by reading Dan’s beautiful words, and I think you will be too.’ -The Rt Rev’d Dr Michael Volland, Bishop of Birmingham
‘This collection will, indeed, re-Source you, whichever season you find yourself in.’- Brian Draper - Author, Speaker, retreat guide and contributor to BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day
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Cover: Paperback
Page count: 152
Size: 128 x 198 x 10mm
ISBN 9781838582524
Daily Reflections and Prayers for Advent'This Advent I invite you to set out on a pilgrimage - a journey towards a renewed and deeper encounter with God - something active, not simply read about, so there will be things to do each day. Let us set out together and may God be with us on the road.' Each year at Advent we are invited to revisit the stories of those who looked forward over the centuries to the coming of Christ. Travelling through the days and weeks, we recall the trials they faced and the goals they eventually reached. In this book, we are invited to reflect upon our own personal journey towards God in the course of our lives, and review our progress as the year draws to an end.Beginning with the first Sunday of Advent and travelling towards the birth of Christ at Christmas, the material for each day is divided into four parts: A gift to ask God for, A reflection for the road, Scripture to accompany you, and Words for the Journey.Let this book be your most rewarding companion to the season of Advent!
Footsteps to Bethlehem is a series of 31 daily reflections for Advent, inviting you to journey towards Christmas on a pilgrimage of transformation.Each day looks at the life of individual Bible characters, such as Mary and Joseph, Zechariah and Elizabeth, and reflects on how they coped with the major events in their lives. How did they respond when faced with the choice either to walk by faith, ever closer to God's light or to retreat from his light and love?The day's reflection begins with a comment on the chosen reading, followed by an invitation to consider two or three questions prayerfully and examine your own experiences of the Christian walk. A short prayer rounds off each reflection.
Many people look upon prayer as a long distance call when in reality God is present and waiting to meet us. Our God comes today and comes to us. Advent celebrates this joy. David Adam is celebrated as one of the world's finest spiritual writers, and these prayers are some of the very best - succinct, full of meaning, attractive and easy to read. They will help you to celebrate the God who is with you, and who comes to you.
Advent, says Nick Harding, is the ideal time to reflect on some of the characters and places we meet in the Christmas story. Fifteen people and places are explored in this book through suggested readings, comments, ideas, games and prayers.
A Jesse Tree for Advent is a wonderful resource, providing a visual focus for the school and setting the Christmas story in a wider context. Each of the 15 assemblies is based on a character from the Jesse Tree, and suggests a symbol to hang on your tree from among the photocopiable templates included.ContentsThe Bible characters are:• Adam and Eve• Noah• Abraham and Sarah• Jacob• Joseph• Moses• Samuel• David• Solomon• Josiah• Jeremiah• Ezekiel• Daniel• Mary• Joseph
The Christingle service captures the imagination of young and old alike. Here is a resource for all involved in preparing such an event, combining fun sketches and historical background with six fully worked-out orders of service.
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The services are:
• The first Christingle
• A mouth-watering Christingle
• An inextinguishable Christingle
• An Advent Christingle
• An Epiphany Christingle
It is better to light a candle than to complain about the darkness.' Advent and Christmas are about the Light of Christ coming into our lives, to conquer the darkness for each of us. Each service in this book is based around a candle lighting, to mark Christ as the Light of the World and also to observe that we take this light into our own hands and hearts as we turn towards him. Welcoming the Light has been written in a way that also makes it suitable for individual worship, lighting a candle to welcome the new day and to commit our lives to God.
If pictures tell a story they can equally inspire prayer, as Nick Fawcett shows in this delightful collection of gift books. They will not only warm your heart but nurture your spirit.
Special Services for Advent and Christmas provides a range of services for different age groups and occasions during this time that will engage the worshippers in a meaningful experience and give them a renewed sense of faith and wonder.
Light Amidst the Darkness by John Cox is a thought-provoking and spiritually enriching exploration of the Advent season. Through a series of powerful contrasts—death and hope, judgment and peace, heaven and joy, hell and love—Cox invites readers to reflect deeply on the light that shines through life’s darker moments.
Each chapter offers meditations that guide the reader toward a profound understanding of the Christian faith, culminating in the celebration of Christmas Day and the arrival of Jesus Christ, the ultimate source of light and love.
Perfect for personal reflection or group study, Light Amidst the Darkness is a heartfelt journey of hope, renewal, and faith during the sacred season of Advent.
This book is specially written for the busy people who spend their weeks before Christmas doing a wonderful job of preparation. It gives you a short, daily reflection to help you keep the sparkle in all the hard work, and hold on to the real wonder of Christmas.
In Open to God Joyce Huggett addresses some of the 'barriers and blocks' to a deeper prayer life and offers practical guidance. Though especially suitable for the Advent and Christmas season, the book can be used at any time as a guide to meditation and prayer.
Here's a fact: you are, believe it or not, created from stardust. Such knowledge is as awe-inspiring as it is almost impossible to grasp. Much like what happened on that first Christmas.Follow That Star is the perfect Advent resource for anyone who wants to challenge their thinking, exercise their imagination, and be amazed by the wonder of the life we have all been given.Devised as an Advent calendar for grown-ups (without the chocolates - sorry), the reflections, challenges and prayers presented here are sure to encourage all intrepid travellers to risk exploring the truth of what is.
There are many suggestions here to help with the planning and presentation of all-age Advent services and activities - enough to keep your church going for many Advent and Christmas seasons.
This book brings together over 300 beautiful prayers for advent and the Season of Christmas, written by four of the best-loved and most distinguished Christian writers:David AdamNick FawcettSusan Sayers Ray Simpson
An invaluable resource to make Advent and Christmas even more specialThe whole season of Christmas, from Advent to Epiphany, is a wonderful opportunity for the Church to celebrate the birth of Jesus as 'God with us'.Instead of feeling we are battling against the tide and shutting ourselves off from all the festivities, which are increasingly secular, Susan Sayers encourages us to embrace them and fill them with real meaning. In her excellent book of resources for worship in church, outside and at home, for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, the author shows how this can be possible.The resources help to make Advent more spacious and reflective, rather than being caught up in the frantic pre-Christmas secular stress. They also show how we can Christianise many of the pre- and post-Christmas activities, so that these secular events are not extras to be squashed into an already hopelessly busy schedule, but become an integral part of our Christian preparation and reflection.
For those entrusted with leading public prayer during Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, here is the perfect resource: a complete collection of Nick Fawcett's prayers relating to these well-loved seasons.
Extensively revised and adapted, with many new congregational responses, they offer an easy-to-use resource that will help the busy worship leader to lead prayer more effectively throughout this special time of year.
Covering the four weeks of Advent, the 'challenge' of the title is to discover the real meaning of Advent and Christmas and avoid the tide of commercialism. There are two pages for each day of December up to Christmas and two extra days for those years when Advent Sunday falls in the last few days of November. This book can be used again and again.
The Jesse Tree is Jesus' family tree - and this book gives step-by-step instructions on how to make one. Although designed as an Advent activity book, it is in fact much more. Using illustrations and photocopiable templates, new characters start appearing on the tree, starting with Adam symbolised by an apple. Finally, stars representing Jesus are added on Christmas Day.Please note made to order items are non-returnableContents
Week 1Adam and EveNoah and the floodAbraham, father of God's peopleThe sacrifice of IsaacWeek 2Jacob's ladderJoseph feeds God's peopleMoses leads the people out of EgyptMoses and the Ten CommandmentsWeek 3Isaiah's prophecyBethlehem houseKing David the harpistKing SolomonWeek 4Joseph the carpenterMary, the mother of JesusJohn the BaptistJesus, Saviour of the world
A truly instant Nativity, for a totally stress-free Christmas performance
- No lines to learn, virtually no actions to perform- Just two narrators directing the others on stage- Free downloadable backing tracks- Celebrates cultural diversity- Encourages children who might struggle learning lines to take part- Sets and props can be as simple or elaborate as you like- 7 well-known carols - listed below
No performance licence requiredThe Carols are:O come, all ye faithful,O little town of Bethlehem,See him lying on a bed of straw,See, amid the winter's snow,We three kings,Silent night,Hark, the herald-angels sing.
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O come, all ye faithfulO little town of BethlehemSee him lying on a bed of strawSee, amid the winter's snowWe three kingsSilent nightHark, the herald-angels sing
