Faith & WorshipA wide range of prayer resources and Bible Studies available for the Advent and Christmas Season:
As streets fill with shoppers,
bright lights and tempting offers,
Christmas songs and children’s laughter,
You lead us along a different path,
to a desert and a prophetic voice,
a call to repentance,
a call to service,
a call to immerse ourselves
in living water that will never run dry,
a call to prepare a way in our own lives
for the Saviour of the world to enter in,
to know the touch of tender mercy
and rest in your forgiving love
God of hope
be with us in our Advent journey
to the stable and beyond,
be with us in our meeting
and in our travelling together,
be with us in our worship
and our praying together,
be with us in our Advent journey
to the stable and beyond,
our God of hope.
Check out our pages of Advent prayers, Advent themes and liturgies, Christmas prayers old and new, and Celtic Advent Liturgy themes
Healing and wholeness go together, because broken lives are made whole though the love and grace of God. Healing is a recurring theme throughout Scripture, and the Apostles and early Church knew well the power in prayer to bring healing, wholeness and peace into lives.
Drawing close to God with daily prayer is important, and at the top of this page you will find a link to daily prayer, and this automatically changes daily through the week, offering a short liturgy that can be used alone or with a group.
The Daily Prayer for today is here
Prayer for those leading worship - calls to worship and closing prayers. Some of the many contemporary prayers written by John Birch, alongside more traditional prayers that you'll find on the website free to use and ready to download!
Calls to worship are here
This new Advent Bible Study takes as its starting point four familiar hymns/carols, and then takes a journey through the season, with the four themes looking at a covenant people, angels and mothers, the reactions of those who saw the baby and the bigger picture of 'who is Jesus?'
There are the usual pieces of art to maybe discuss, as well as plenty of background info and lots of discussion questions. Studies are easy to use and you only need one copy per group, so very economical!
More info on the Bible Study and download a sample here
For more info on all the Bible studies available on the website, and a bonus offer, head to this page!
'Living in the Light' is a 5 part Lent study that uses the Lectionary readings for Year A, so can be integrated into sermon planning for Lent 2020. It can of course also be used at at any time. The study looks at the long journey of a people coming to terms with their relationship with God, and the struggle of holding onto faith in difficult circumstances.
In the New Testament readings we look at Jesus and his own struggles against temptation, but also the developing picture of who Jesus is and what that means for us all.
There's also artwork to look at, as well as plenty of background info and lots of discussion questions. Studies are easy to use and you only need one copy per group, so very economical!
More info on the Bible Study and download a sample here
For more info on all the Bible studies available on the website head to this page!
Special offer - If you spend £10 or USD10 in the shop on any of the Bible studies or prayer collections then you'll get a free book of prayers as well!
A collection of prayers for those quieter times of meditation, when we are perhaps more able to hear God's gentle whisper - or a few suggestions for those on a fellowship quiet day.
Prayers in quietness can be found here
Prayers can be found here
It might be assumed that worship in the early Christian Church was fairly spontaneous, used as we are to seeing perhaps the occasional poetic prayer attributed to St Patrick or his contemporaries. We might also think that set orders of service are a relatively modern introduction. Actually, this is not the case, certainly for congregational acts of worship follow this link
Find out more on this link
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