There are often times during the Church’s year when the Bible readings, powerful though they are, seem just a little too familiar, and preachers and worship leaders may be found struggling for something new to say. This is especially true of the great festivals.

Here are fresh ways of telling those stories as if they were being told for the very first time. There are meditations for Advent, Christmas, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Day, Ascension and Pentecost, which, through detailed and vivid description, draw in the listener, so that they feel as if they are an actual witness to the unfolding events.

Easily incorporated into traditional services or forming the basis of something a little different, these meditations provide a useful, flexible and powerful resource at busy times of the year.