Brought up in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, Nick Fawcett served as a Baptist minister for 13 years, and as a chaplain with TocH for 3, before deciding to focus on writing and editing, which he continues with today, despite wrestling with myeloma, an incurable cancer of the blood. He lives in Wellington, Somerset, with his wife, Deborah, and - when they are at home from university - his two children, Samuel and Kate. Delighting in the beauty of the West Country, Nick and Deborah love nothing more than walking stretches of the South West coast path at weekends, and Nick - as well as finding time for online games of chess and Scrabble alongside his many editing commitments - finds constant inspiration for his numerous books in the lanes and footpaths near his house. His aim, increasingly, is to write material free of religious jargon that reaches out to people of all faiths and none.
Nick Fawcett
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Seeking The Way
Themed quiet days for those of all faiths and none - by Nick FawcettIn our restless modern world, in which many seem as troubled and stressed as they have ever been, we need to make time to be still, to commune with something beyond ourselves. This book aims to help in enabling just that, offering a resource for the staging of Quiet Days or reflective events on a variety of themes and, if so wished, for those of all faiths or none. Rather than dealing with overtly religious issues, it approaches everyday matters from a spiritual perspective, covering themes as diverse as anxiety, anger, sorrow, friendship, suffering, envy, truth, loneliness and numerous others, each moving from the negative to the positive, the life denying to the life affirming. Here is a book that will help many to find the guidance in their daily lives they so urgently seek. Contents About the Author Introduction Part 1 - Beyond Dispute Part 2 - A Proper Perspective Part 3 - The Power of Words Part 4 - Giving and Receiving Part 5 - Happy Days Part 6 - Justice and Peace Part 7 - Righting Wrongs Part 8 - Truth and Falsehood Part 9 - The Valley of Tears Part 10 - A Time and a Place Part 11 - Breaking Down the Barriers Part 12 - Will You be my Friend? Part 13 - Healing the Wounds Part 14 - Life's Mysteries Appendix 1 - Adapted Prayers for use in an Interfaith Event Appendix 2 - Adapted Prayers for use in an Event for all Faiths and none References Specifications Book Format - Paperback Published - 2022 Page Count - 330 Dimensions - 152 x 229 x 21mm ISBN - 9781838581275
£13.99 - £15.99
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More All-Age Talks For Special Sundays
28 fully worked out all-age talks by popular author Nick Fawcett to lead you step by step through preparation and presentation.ContentsThe Special Sundays cover:• All Saints' Day• New Year• Week of Prayer for Christian Unity• Mothering Sunday• Christian Aid Week• Father's Day• Harvest• One World Week• Remembrance Sunday• Church Anniversary• Music/Songs of Praise Service
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A Prayer For Your Dedication - Owls -Standard Card
Rejoicing with you on this special dayText by Nick FawcettPrinted on white card with a UV finish. Pack of 6
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A New Light Shining
A New Light Shining looks at the challenges that faced Jesus and the challenges he brings to us. The aim is to stimulate reflection and to help the reader enter into events in such a way that they become alive.
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The Teacher - Presentation Copy (Case Bound)
A simple guide to daily lifeDestined surely to become a modern-day spiritual classic, speaking to people of all faiths and none, this is a book you will want to return to again and again. Drawing on ancient wisdom literature and, specifically, the words of the Teacher, Nick Fawcett invites the reader to join him in a search for insight into the ups and downs, joys and sorrows, of daily life.At once poetic and profound, The Teacher offers guidance on such diverse themes as love, revenge, relationships, loneliness, justice, wealth, and much more. Here is a timely resource for our troubled world, painting a picture of what life could be, should be, and perhaps, just possibly, one day might be.Makes an ideal gift bookContentsIntroductionAngerAnxietyContentmentCriticismDeceitDespairDrunkennessEnvyFlatteryForgivenessFriendshipGenerosityGossipGreedHappinessHealthHopeHumilityIntegrityJusticeLaughterLazinessLonelinessLovePatiencePeacePrejudicePrideQuarrellingRelationshipsReligionRemorseRestRevengeSensitivitySorrowTimeTruthWealthWisdomWordsEpilogueReferences
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Daily Lent Reflections
To deepen our devotional life we need a focus for our thoughts, spiritual food to nurture our faith and discipleship. Daily Lent Reflections makes more accessible the spiritual sustenance already offered by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount.For each of the 40 days of Lent, there are readings, reflections, prayers and points to ponder on themes such as forgiving others, doing that little bit extra in God's service, choosing the way of the kingdom instead of the often-enticing 'way of the world', seeking God's will rather than our own, valuing and respecting others.How do we work out such ideas in terms of daily life? What are their implications for us today? This book sets out to answer such questions, bringing home the challenge, promise, encouragement and inspiration implicit within the teaching of Jesus.
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More All Age Talks For Lent, Holy Week & Easter
If the thought of giving a talk for all-age worship leaves you wondering what to say and how to say it, here are 25 brilliant fully worked out ideas.Popular author Nick Fawcett leads you step by step through every aspect of the preparation and presentation of his tried and tested talks for Lent, Holy Week and Easter.There are many imaginative and enjoyable ways to get your ideas across, including quizzes, games and puzzles.
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Beatitude Attitudes
Few passages of Scripture are better loved than the Beatitudes, but what do they actually mean? In this selection of readings, reflections and prayers, Nick Fawcett seeks to explore what each of the Beatitudes has to say to us today. Here are readings to encourage, renew and inspire as we seek more faithfully to exhibit beatitude attitudes in our lives.
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Paul: The Man & The Mission
A series of eight stimulating and challenging Bible studies for groups. Each study has six sessions/themes with an easy-to-follow structure including:• prayers • an introduction to the theme • an ice-breaking activity • Bible readings • comment on the theme • discussion questions • meditation • suggestions for actionPaulExploring the major aspects of Paul's life, teaching and mission, and making the great Apostle accessible and meaningful to the lives and faith journeys of modern Christians. The six weekly themes are:• Admitting we're wrong • By the grace of God • Pressing on • The one thing needed • True contentment • So much more to say
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Collected Prayers For Lent, Holy Week & Easter
For those entrusted with leading public prayer during Lent, Holy Week and Easter 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.
£26.99
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Collected Prayers For Advent, Christmas & Epiphany
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.
£17.99
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Sermon Hooks 2
More themed ideas for those preparing talksEvery talk or sermon has to reflect the speaker's own faith and experience of God if it is to communicate effectively, and in Nick Fawcett's experience, a single idea can be useful in providing the raw material from which the finished product is fashioned.Providing short musings upon a range of biblical passages from which a sermon or talk can develop, this is a perfect resource for the busy minister, preacher or speaker. Covering themes such as Awe and Wonder, Nature and the Environment and Daily Relationships, there's also a handy index of readings to help locate particular passages of scripture.ContentsAction, faith shown inAwe and wonderThe BibleChanged LivesChristian seasonsChristian UnityCommitmentConvictions, courage ofDaily life, working out our faith inDaily relationshipsDarkness, light inDeath, life afterDiscipleship, journey ofEvil confrontingFear and anxietyThe Faithfulness of GodFaults, acknowledgingFellowshipForgivenessFreedom in ChristFulfilment, true nature ofGifts, usingGlory, God'sGrace, growth inGrace, of God in ChristGreedGuidanceHealing and wholenessHeaven, kingdom ofHopeJoyJudgementLove, God's for allLove, ours for God and othersNature and the environmentNew YearOld agePersonal responsePraise and worshipPrayerPresent moment, celebratingPurpose, God'sQuestions of life and faithRemembrance DayService, of GodSharing our faithSowing and reapingStillness and quietnessStrength, God'sTemptationThanksgivingTrouble, help in times ofTrustVoice of GodA world in need, responding to
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A Pint And A Prayer
God is always there in the everyday experiences of life – in our work and leisure, in everything and anything that might be chatted about over a pint. Celebrate and respond to that truth through these down-to-earth prayers.
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A Haven In The Storm -
In the face of an ever-changing world, sometimes we all need is a gentle reminder of God's promise to be with us, come what may. In this collection of poems, Nick Fawcett helps us to explore the true promise at the heart of the gospel - God's everlasting faithfulness.and to us. Contents IntroductionThe unchanging GodOur refuge and our strengthHope in despairGod with usThe wonder of creationThe cycle of the seasonsfaith, come what mayBeneath the surfaceA cry for helpThe ever-present GodGod's awesome devotionA Haven in the StormCounting our blessingsThe assurance of faithKeeping faithA love like no otherThe transforming grace of GodA haven in the stormGrateful responseA prayer from the heartOur eternal hopeThe constancy of God's loveFinding ForgivenessIntroductionLord, forgive meTaking stockPride goes before a fallTrue richesCelebrating God's goodnessFaith in actionFlawed discipleshipLearning to loveLove divineStewardship of creationGood intentionsGod's way not oursAmazing graceGiving our allRenewed commitmentThe vital ingredientGlimpsing God's presenceA faith that showsOur Broken WorldIntroductionA divided worldBehind the labelsA world in needFaith in actionPraying for othersFaith and doubtThe riddle of lifeOne people?Questions of faithFor those who care enough to show itWhen God seems distantHope in times of confusionFor the elderly and infirmThe shadow of deathOur eternal homeLiving with LossIntroductionThe pain of lossFacing the truthLetting goThe shadow of deathHonestly rememberedGetting byNew beginningsDefeat and victoryFaith in things unseenThe price of lovingThanks for the memoriesThanksgiving for a parentComfort those who mournThe promise of new lifeA love that conquers deathWe'll meet again
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The Little Book Of Baby Prayers
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.
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Prayer-The Fundamental Questions
Exploring the subject of prayer, raising the kinds of questions people ask, and offering helpful answers.
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A Chequered Legacy Book 1: An Advent Course (The Good)
A Chequered Legacy is a two-volume study course in which popular author Nick Fawcett explores 'the good, the bad and the ugly' of the Church.Starting in Advent, The Good looks at the positive aspects of the Church, celebrating some of the achievements of Christian believers across the years in terms of building a better world, and asking what their efforts and example might teach us today.In the Lent book, The Bad and the Ugly, Nick Fawcett moves on to faults of the Church; faults that call us to reflect, confess, repent and work as best we can for a better, more enlightened future.We have inherited a chequered church history: a mixture of the inspiring and appalling, wonderful and awful, and we need to learn from both. Through doing so honestly, we can open the way for God to help us become more fully the people he would have us be.Contents• A voice for freedom: William Wilberforce• A voice for justice: The Earl of Shaftesbury• A voice for the sick: Florence Nightingale• voice for the voiceless: Martin Luther King• A voice for peace and reconciliation: Nelson Mandela
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Light Shines
Nick Fawcett's reflective writings have for many years offered a valued resource for worship and personal devotion, providing a powerful and imaginative way of communicating the gospel message across the Christian seasons.In this comprehensive compilation, drawn from several of his most successful publications, Nick provides a hundred carefully revised meditations on Lenten themes, each linked to a reading of Scripture and rounded off by a short prayer.Here, then, is a perfect tool for offering fresh insights into this special season of prayer, contemplation, confession and recommitment.Contents The themes covered are:Testing and temptationGrace and mercyCostly commitmentExamining ourselvesFaith and worksTime and space for GodNew beginningsJesus transfiguredMothering Sunday
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All-Age Talks For Special Sundays
Photocopy: PermittedAll-age Talks for Special Sundays contains eighteen fully worked-out all-age talks for Mothering Sunday, Christian Aid Week, Father's Day, Church Anniversary, Harvest, One World Week, All Saints' Day and Remembrance Day. Each talk is set out according to a basic framework: a suggested Bible passage to be read prior to the talk, a statement of the aim of the talk, details of preparation needed beforehand, and the talk itself.The talks are:Mothering Sunday • Mothers • Scent with loveChristian Aid Week • Fair sharesFather's Day • Our Father • A special dayChurch Anniversary • Past, present and future • Representing Christ • Back to the future • The unchanging GodHarvest • Gifts to every nation • Sowing in tears, reaping in joy • Any order?One World Week • Belonging • Handle with careAll Saints' Day • All Saints? • All the same in God's eyesRemembrance day • Worth remembering • Lest we forgetEverything is provided to make your presentation both enjoyable and memorable. A godsend for the busy preacher! All-age Talks for Special Sundays is drawn from Nick Fawcett's Getting It Across.
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A Man Like No Other - Book 2
Nick Fawcett's prayers and meditations have always spoken powerfully to those who read and hear them - and this book is no exception. -Section One is a series of meditations, written from the perspective of the characters who appear in the gospels. Grouped into themes which stimulate reflection on the person of Jesus, they are ideal as a sermon supplement, or a replacement in less formal all-age services. Section Two has reflective services for Christian festivals throughout the year and resources for quiet days. The book presents in themed format the material from A Most Amazing Man for Year A of the Lectionary and is designed to be flexible, providing a fresh and imaginative way of presenting the message of Christ and his challenge for today.
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The Little Book Of Rabbit Prayers
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.
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Little Book Of Bear Prayers
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.
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With Deepest Sympathy - Penguins -Standard Card
Lord Jesus, thank you that when we reach out, seeking your help in time of need, you are always there, ready to help, to heal and to hold.Text by Nick FawcettPrinted on white card with a UV finish.
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Touching The Seasons
Some days of the year are special, not just Christmas and Easter, but other occasions too. However, we're not always able to articulate our thoughts as we would wish or to relate the occasion in question to daily life. This book offers a hundred simple prayers rooted in everyday experience, the commonplace offering a springboard to personal devotion.
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