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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...
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.
This liturgy closed the 'Liturgy for our times' we led at the UK Songwriters Consultation, and is focused around how we identify with Christ on the cross - such and unlikely way to transform the world. It would be very useful as a close to services where you were thinking...
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 idea...
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...
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...
Poetry can often seem so difficult to write that we don't even bother. Yet it can harness images and tell picutres in ways which are very difficult using other types of art or media. This resource is both the poem itself and a call to action; try to write something...
The church I belong to doesn’t do much to celebrate Holy Week, which means in practice that we don’t meet all together between Palm Sunday and Easter Day. I wanted to create a way to walk through Jesus’ final week as a man, in one act of worship, suitable for...
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),...








