Lent & Easter

Magnificent Seven Pancake Day Ditties

Shrove Tuesday - the traditional day of feasting and fun before the forty days of Lent, has its own mostly long forgotten tradition of rhymes and verses.

February 21st, 2012 - Posted & Written by Les Ellison

LENT COURSES - What are they and what can they do?

The forty days before Easter Sunday give you and your church an opportunity like no other in the Christian calendar. In commemorating Jesus' preparation for his earthly ministry, Lent offers his followers one of very few chances to something Jesus actually did himself - to spending time apart fro...

February 18th, 2012 - Posted & Written by The Editor

Lent for Everyone: Mark - a new Lent course for 2012. by Tom Wright

Using Tom Wright's own translation of Mark's gospel, 'Lent for Everyone: Mark' gives you 53 daily readings for Ash Wednesday through to the Saturday after Easter, making Lent a time for spiritual growth and renewal. Born out Tom Wright's time as Bishop of Durham, his books of short, easy to read...

February 16th, 2012 - Posted & Written by Les Ellison

Happy Pancake Day - only seven days to go

Today is Valentines Day but you’ve only got seven more days to eat all those heart shaped chocolates because next Tuesday is Shrove Tuesday – the day that announces the imminence of Lent and last chance to enjoy all those goodies and sweets you most crave.

February 14th, 2012 - Posted & Written by Les Ellison

The Nail - being part of the Passion: a new Lent course for 2012. by Stephen Cottrell.

New 2012 Lent books and study courses give a fresh heart to the most reflective season of the Christian year. Leading you deeper into the meaning and relevance of the Jesus’ life crucifixion, death and resurrection a new Lent course offers emotional and spiritual enrichment. Privately, as part...

February 10th, 2012 - Posted & Written by Les Ellison

LENT RESOURCES - all you need to lead your family, group, church, class and school through Lent

February 7th, 2012 - Posted & Written by

Crossing Palms - Crossing Continents

Come Palm Sunday, churches across the UK, Europe, Australia and America will distribute palm crosses hand woven by villagers in one of the poorest areas of Southern Tanzania. Subsistence farmers and their families of Masasi village work together to grow, harvest, weave and pack hand woven African...

February 6th, 2012 - Posted & Written by Les Ellison

Whose cross are you carrying?

Palm Sunday: the day in the church year when children are deliberately given Christian symbols they can readily turn into swords and daggers. Not quite the intended witness, as children sword-fence their way through the after-service coffee and into the street, but still an opportunity to get the...

February 4th, 2012 - Posted & Written by Les Ellison

Finding A Voice: King's Speech Lent Course

Based on the 4 times Oscar winning film 'The King’s Speech', Hilary Brand opens her 2012 Lent course an engaging new examination of the fears that prevent our true expression as followers of Christ.

February 3rd, 2012 - Posted & Written by Les Ellison

Not a Tame Lion - a Lent course on C S Lewis' Narnia films by Hilary Brand.

The Narnia films give you a compelling opportunity to open up the Bible using the popularity of the films and their underlying Christian message. Movie lovers who might never otherwise open the Bible, never mind attend a Lent study course, will be attracted to a discussion group centred on th...

February 2nd, 2012 - Posted & Written by Les Ellison

New Lent Courses 2012 - The Way of The Desert by Andrew Watson: connecting the Exodus to the Everyday

Drawing informative and insightful parallels between the four desert books of the Exodus and the four gospels, Andrew Watson’s new Lent course is one of the most original and engaging explorations of Jesus’ wilderness experience. ‘The Way of the Desert’ is the new Lent course that explor...

February 1st, 2012 - Posted & Written by Les Ellison

Christ and the Chocolaterie - by Hilary Brand: A Lent course from the movie 'Chocolat'

Hilary Brand is skilled and experienced in using the visual impact of art and film to explore Bible themes and their life changing application. In ‘Christ and the Chocolaterie’ Hilary takes the story and characters of the movie ‘Chocolat’ to explore what it means to be truly and completel...

February 1st, 2012 - Posted & Written by Les Ellison

Nick Fawcett's 3 'Light' Collections - Lent, Easter and Holy Week meditations for school and church

3 new collections of Lent, Holy Week and Easter meditations from Nick Fawcett give you 240 first-person accounts of Jesus’ life, crucifixion, death and resurrection helping you lead group studies, church services and school assemblies into the meaning and relevance of Lent.

January 24th, 2012 - Posted & Written by Les Ellison

The Big Bible Project - Tom Wright's Lent for Everyone: Mark is the Big Read for Lent 2012

Surveys by the CODEC organisation showed that 70% of church going Christians owned a Bible, but only 18% read it at least once a week. Projects like The Big Bible were set up to find ways of developing greater Bible engagement among a much wider readership. The Big Bible Project is a non-denomin...

January 10th, 2012 - Posted & Written by Les Ellison