Posted in Faith, tagged Christmas, Dai Wooldridge, faith, Jesus, poetry, rap, reaching the unreached, spoken word, story, The Christmas Chord, video, YouTube on 12 November, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Sorry to intrude on your November with Christmas thoughts, but this lyrical spoken word presentation of the Christmas story by Dai Wooldridge is utterly wonderful. Thought I’d give you a few weeks to work out how to use it creatively in Christmas events!
Posted in Faith, tagged Christ, Christianity, Easter, Emu Music, faith, Hallelujah, Jesus, resurrection, song, YouTube on 8 April, 2012| 2 Comments »
A new song (to me) for Easter from Emu Music – from the only album of theirs we don’t have in the Vicarage. Yet.
Posted in Faith, tagged Christ, cross, faith, forgiveness, Igniter Media, Jesus, the crowd or the cross, YouTube on 7 April, 2012| Leave a Comment »
One of the speakers on the Walk of Witness in the tow-un yesterday reminded us of how we are all part of that crowd that called for Christ to be crucified. This clip from Igniter Media highlights how the cross redeems us – how we can be forgiven for our part in the crowd.
Posted in Church, Faith, tagged Bible, Christ, cross, Easter, faith, Galatians 2v20, Good Friday, Jesus, kinetic typography, Matt Chandler, YouTube on 6 April, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Church, Fun, tagged charismatic, Christian, comedy, contemporary, Fun, hands, humour, raising hands, Tim Hawkins, worship, YouTube on 30 March, 2012| 1 Comment »
The brilliant Tim Hawkins has some advice for those who are unused to the more exuberant type of contemporary worship. I confess that I don’t get much further than ‘Carrying the TV’ myself. I am Anglican, after all…
Posted in Church, tagged Church, clip, CofE, Holy Trinity, Joomla, local church, vicar, video, website, West Bromwich, Wordpress, YouTube on 14 March, 2012| 6 Comments »
We’ve slowly been souping up our rather basic church website over the past few months. The best thing we did was get our kind computer-literate friend to change it to a WordPress platform, which was familiar to us from blogging. The old site used Joomla and was just too difficult for us to get our heads around.
We try and update the site a couple of times a week to keep it live, and it seems that people are beginning to use it a little. Most of our congregation aren’t on the internet, but we think that the website is especially important for those who aren’t yet in church.
In our quest to make the site friendly and useful, a video of the Vicar has now been produced by Capable, a church member, and Compassion, who is a great friend of our congregation. I think they’ve done a great job and we’re hoping it’ll be a good introduction for people visiting the website. At least they won’t be surprised by the Vicar’s Scottish accent!
Posted in Faith, School, tagged Children, Church of England, For this new morning, God bless the sky, Good morning Lord, Jesus gentle Shepherd, Kids, Lord teach us, morning, prayers, School, The steadfast love of the Lord, YouTube on 13 March, 2012| 2 Comments »
Following up from a blog post I wrote nearly 2 years ago(!), I’ve just been putting together some suggested prayers for our church primary school. I used some of the suggested ones in the blog post and some others I sourced from around the web. This is the selection I’ve given them for first thing in the school day:
Good morning Lord
This is your day.
We are your children.
Show us your way. Amen.
God bless the sky that is above us
the earth that is beneath us
your image deep within us
the day that lies before us.
Amen.
Lord, teach us how to keep your day
And lead and bless us all the way. Amen.
For this new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends.
For everything your goodness sends,
We thank You, dearest Lord.
Amen.
Jesus, gentle Shepherd,
Bless your lamb today;
Keep me in your footsteps,
Never let me stray.
Guard me through the daytime.
Every hour, I pray;
Keep my feet from straying
From the narrow way.
Amen.
(Sung)
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases.
His mercies never come to an end.
They are new every morning,
New every morning.
Great is your faithfulness O Lord.
Great is your faithfulness.
I found a lovely but very amateur clip of the Calvary 1st Nigerian choir singing this – the singing is gorgeous but the video is rather out of focus so I suggest you look at something else in your internet browser whilst you listen.
Posted in Church, tagged Christ be in my Waking, Christian, faith, music, song, Stuart Townend, YouTube on 8 March, 2012| 2 Comments »
Back from deepest Leicestershire and feeling rather spacey after three nights in a strange bed with unfamiliar pillows. But on my home computer so able to share the lovely song and video from Stuart Townend that we saw at the Ministers’ Wives conference. It’s not called ‘This is my Devotion’ as I thought it might be but ‘Christ be in My Waking’. Which is what I want, even when I’m feeling rather out of it after being away.
Posted in Church, Fun, tagged Church, Fun, humour, music, musicians, Robots, YouTube on 5 March, 2012| 1 Comment »
A friend recently linked to this excellent video on Facebook and suggested it might be the solution in small churches where musicians are thin on the ground. We’ve been blessed recently by musicians playing in our services and replacing the cds and midi files, but one (Rocky, our Ministry Trainee) is leaving in the summer, so we’re praying for reinforcements. If you know any musicians, or even some helpful robots, do please send them our way…
Posted in Faith, tagged Abel, Abraham, Adam, bread, Christ, David, Esther, Isaac, Jacob, Jesus, job, Jonah, Joseph, kinetic typography, lamb, Lent, life, Moses, temple, Tim Keller, True and Better, vision, YouTube on 27 February, 2012| 7 Comments »
After a good start to the week? Enlarge your vision of Christ and watch this brilliant kinetic typography clip accompanying Tim Keller explaining how Jesus is the ‘true and better’ Adam, Abel, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Rock of Moses, Job, David, Esther, Jonah, temple, lamb, life, bread (I may have missed a couple).
[HT: Mez McConnell]
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