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The Bitter Sweet

18 Mar 2009 16:58

Themes:	easter, good friday, resurrection, the cross
Media Type:	Corporate Worship Idea, Spoken Word
Bible refs:	Matt 26:38-40
Written by:	Sharon Tedford

This is a prayer to be read by one voice. Before the prayer begins (perhaps during a song before the prayer time) hand out ‘sour’ sweets. You can purchase packets of jelly sweets that are covered with ‘sour’ sugar. They come in many guises and different price brackets, but are...

Good Friday Symbolic Response

24 Mar 2009 10:54

Themes:	easter, good friday, the cross
Media Type:	Prayer Station
Bible refs:	Isa 53:5
Written by:	Ruth Neve

To symbolise our gratitude and personal acknowledgement that Jesus was pierced for our transgressions, invite people to come forward a dip their finger in the red paint and make a mark on the cross. Practical note: have baby wipes freely available.

Resurrection Parade

30 Mar 2009 17:15

Themes:	easter, resurrection, praise
Media Type:	Corporate Worship Idea
Bible refs:	Col 1:18-20
Written by:	Sam Hargreaves

This Easter Sunday we are planning a Resurrection Praise Celebration. We are splitting the teaching into two halves – in the first half the preacher will show a giant paper world, and talk about how God created everything perfect. He will then rip the world into pieces, talking about how...

Easter Promise

02 Apr 2009 21:47

Themes:	resurrection, easter
Media Type:	Powerpoint
Bible refs:	Luke 24:1-12
Written by:	Chloe Axford

Many things in life promise much but fail to deliver. Putting our faith in money, fame, career, relationships, clothes, food, drink, houses etc can leave us feeling betrayed and empty. But at Easter we can remember one 'empty' promise that offered everything and didn't fail to deliver - the promise...

He's my saviour

18 May 2009 20:06

Themes:	resurrection, easter, praise, the cross, unfinished, second coming
Media Type:	mp3, Corporate Worship Idea
Bible refs:	Rev 22:20, 1 Cor 15:3-4
Written by:	Joel Payne

This song is designed to be improvised! There are a few basic verses to get you going - you can then choose to stop, or carry on with improvised verses. The leader or members of the group/congregation call out 4 or 5 syllable phrases which everyone then joins in singing,...

Easter Bracelet

15 Feb 2010 10:38

Themes:	easter, lent, Passion Narrative, Jesus, the cross, all age
Media Type:	craft, Powerpoint, Teaching, reflection
Bible refs:	Matt 3:13-17, Luke 4:1-13, Luke 4:18-19, Luke 20:20-26, Matt 26:27-28, Matt 26-28
Written by:	Guy Houchen

This is an idea that we used last year on the run up to Easter, inspired by a gift given to my daughter, of a (dare I say 'charm') bracelet depicting elements of the 23 Psalm. We decided to adapt this and created a bracelet that would help us reflect...

'It was my sin' worship idea

22 Feb 2010 12:17

Themes:	easter, good friday, the cross, prayer, confession
Media Type:	Corporate Worship Idea, meditation
Bible refs:	Matt 27:51
Written by:	Sharon Tedford

Here’s an idea that you can either use the week before Easter Sunday (Palm Sunday), on Good Friday or on Easter Sunday (or even during a regular communion service). It could just as easily be used by a small group as by a large congregation. The...

Easter Dramas

02 Mar 2010 12:12

Themes:	easter, the cross, resurrection
Media Type:	drama
Written by:	Chloe Axford

These three Easter scripts are designed to be performed on Palm Sunday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday, but each could stand alone if necessary. They depict the Easter story through the eyes of Ellie, an ambitious young TV reporter and Graham, a weathered and experienced TV cameraman. Notes on direction: Palm Sunday...

3 songs for Easter time

27 Mar 2010 18:27

Themes:	Maundy Thursday, good friday, easter, the cross, Passion Narrative, resurrection, transformation
Media Type:	mp3, reflection
Written by:	AdAM Parkes

AdAM Parkes and his lovely wife Sue - under the artist name Twilight Bark - have recorded three songs for the Holy Week/Easter period. These aren't so much congregational worship songs as contemporary performance tracks you could play with a PowerPoint or other visuals, or perhaps get some dancers to...

Easter fractal images

27 Mar 2010 20:52

Themes:	good friday, Maundy Thursday, easter, the cross, resurrection
Media Type:	visuals, images
Written by:	Richard Lyall

Richard Lyall's Christmas fractal images received the biggest reaction to any resource we've put up, so its great that he's shared a bunch of Easter-themed ones for us here! They have hundreds of potential uses in your Easter services - he shares them under a Creative Commons license which you can...

Glasses - through Jesus everything looks different

20 May 2010 10:38

Themes:	easter, all age, Jesus, transformation
Media Type:	craft, Powerpoint
Written by:	Guy Houchen

The idea is to make individually crafted 3D style glasses with coloured lenses. The big point is that through Jesus everything looks different (just like looking through coloured lenses). It might help to...

Join in the Resurrection Parade

17 Feb 2009 11:25

Themes:	easter, lent, good friday, resurrection
Bible refs:	Col 1:18-20
Written by:	Sam Hargreaves

Not long until we’ve stuffed ourselves with pancakes and got down to the serious business of Lent... And I don’t just mean ‘giving up’ something – Wikipedia says “The three traditional practices to be taken up with renewed vigour during Lent are prayer (justice towards God), fasting (justice towards self),...