Christmas Video 17: Joseph speaks – Christmas spoken word
Dai Woolridge has produced some brilliant spoken word videos – Joseph Speaks is a great one to use with your church or youth group for Christmas:
Christmas all-age and youth talks
Here’s some of my favourite Christmas and Christingle talks I have done over the years: School Christingle service: the story of the Christingle. Christmas talk: Chocolate Brussels Sprouts: this is
The vicar’s reaction to people only appearing in church at Christmas
Jody Stowell wrote a great article in The Independent, a few years ago, on the vicar’s reaction to people only appearing in church at Christmas: Do I mind that people
Bishop of London on the challenges facing young people
The Bishop of London, The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally DBE, spoke eloquently in the House of Lords last week on the challenges facing young people: It has been said
Tribalism v Unity
I loved the blog post by DigitalNun on whether or not humanity is Descending into Tribalism Again? I felt like it hit the nail on the head. We’re currently in a place where
Our Greatest Christmas Hope
Nancy Guthrie: Our great hope is not just going to heaven when we die, though that is so wondrously good. But God has much grander plans. Our great hope is
Christmas video 16: Consider by Koko
I love the work of Koko, and this video is well worth showing to the youth group:
Christmas talk: Chocolate Brussels Sprouts
This is my favourite Christmas talk – Chocolate Sprouts – I’ve used this in assemblies, carol services, across the age ranges. Preparation Boil the Brussels Sprouts (make sure they’re not too
What children want for Christmas: a Dad
When it comes to Christmas, it might be safe to assume children will ask Santa for an extensive list of toys, games and treats. But a survery of their typical lists
Christmas video 15: classy Christmas flashmob
Start your day the right way, with this video of what’s possibly the world’s classiest flash mob. Members of the United States Air Force Band wore disguises to the National Air
Christmas feel good story
In 2013 a teenager collected hundreds of supermarket vouchers to buy £600 worth of shopping for 4p so he could give the food to families: Jordon Cox, 16, scoured endless websites and magazines
Christmas video 14: The Scale and Morgan Freeman
This video, ‘The Scale’ is narrated by Morgan Freeman. ‘The Scale’ leaves you wondering all the way through what he is talking about. Only at the end to you get it,