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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...

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,...

You lead us through the wilderness

09 Feb 2010 21:15

Themes:	lent, God's Care, resurrection, brokenness, suffering, prayer
Media Type:	Powerpoint, mp3, visuals, reflection
Bible refs:	Matt 4:1-11, Luke 9:24, 2 Cor 12:9, 2 Cor 1:3-7, Rom 8:26
Written by:	Sam Hargreaves

This song was written by Sam as a reflection on the themes of Lent, but it can work at any other time of the year. It focuses on meeting God in the hard places, allowing him to grow us through difficult times and trusting in him for a 'resurrection dawn'. ...

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...

Jesus is Lord shout

26 Apr 2010 14:11

Themes:	Jesus, the cross, resurrection, humility, praise
Media Type:	Spoken Word, Liturgy
Bible refs:	Phil 2
Written by:	Michael Perry

This piece of spoken worship is particularly useful because it requires no printed or projected words to involve a whole congregation. We've used it at Spring Harvest, on our 'How would Jesus worship' tour and in regular Sunday services. Explain to the congregation that you are going to say a line,...

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),...