Hallelujah

A new song (to me) for Easter from Emu Music – from the only album of theirs we don’t have in the Vicarage. Yet.  

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Excellent Easter Art

In my search for help on the Passover meal I’m catering for church this Thursday evening (over 40 folk signed up – eeek!), I visited Ann Voscamp’s beautiful blog the other day. Through her I was pointed to Willow of Wonder, another artistic blog where there are free Easter poster downloads available at the moment. [...]

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Happy Easter – He is Risen!

Hallelujah! Sandbox animation from Sandbible.com – I love this way of telling bible stories, so I’m looking forward to them expanding their collection.

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Holy Week Timeline

I’m sure a bunch of you have already seen this around the blogosphere, but I only spotted it yesterday. It’s a really cool picture of where everyone was in Holy Week – Jesus, the disciples, the Jewish leaders, the crowds, the guards etc. Am wondering how to get this printed out much bigger – A0 [...]

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Hosanna for Palm Sunday

Regular readers know that I’m a big fan of Andrew Peterson’s Christmas album, Behold the Lamb. This week I came across his Palm Sunday song ‘Hosanna’ from his 2008 album Resurrection Letters Vol II (Vol I is apparently still in the pipeline). Enjoy. You have crushed beneath your heel the vile serpent. You have carried [...]

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Resurrection Eggs for Toddlers, Sunday School and Busy Vicars

The other day I noticed an interesting tweet in my Twitter stream: Just finishing talk for tomorrow’s Easter Praise. Have taken @thevicarswife Resurrection Eggs & adapted them for under 3s. It will be mayhem So I got onto Abi, who was responsible for the tweet and asked her if she’d mind writing up the details [...]

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Still Time for Resurrection Eggs

Last year I made a set of Resurrection eggs to talk the kids through the Easter story over 12 days leading up to Easter Sunday. Actually, last year, I started rather late, so it went on post-Easter too. After Easter I discovered that they sell empty plastic eggs in The Works – those shops seem [...]

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Something New for Easter

Tyndale House, the biblical research centre in Cambridge, have produced three short video clips for Easter, with biblical scholars talking about evidence for Jesus’ trial, death and resurrection. One of the clips, where David Instone-Brewer and Peter Williams are looking at the Munich Talmud, was something I’d never heard about before – a very early [...]

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The Passion in Sand

The death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus shown vividly and movingly in sand images: [HT Rachel at Re-vis.e Re-form]

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Happy Easter – God changes things

I’ve been thinking a lot this Easter about how the resurrection of Jesus shows that God really can turn hopeless situations around. This clip gives you  an idea of how hopeless…

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