Image: The Name of Forgiveness
Family Sunday School Resources
We’re looking for ways to connect Sunday school with the rest of the week, home/family, etc. So I’ve started a project that will be take-home based on the CPH lesson … Continue reading →
Image: Baptism Never Gets Old
Here’s an image I created for a sermon on Romans 6:1-11 to show that other things get outdated, but our Baptism is new every day.
Title: Buried Alive
Description: We’ve been given eternal life, but we still live in the world of the temporary. How can we experience the eternal now?
Image: Word Became Flesh
I recently wrote an article on the Incarnation and the Real Presence relative to the Passover, and I took some photos that might be useful to those who’d like to tie “The Word became flesh” to “This is My body.”
Find variants with both paten & chalice here.
Image: Cross in Rubble
A Photoshop composite for a sermon from Matthew 5:1-12 (Sermon on the Mount, Beatitudes)
When everything crumbles: When everything falls apart around you, when you have nothing left, is it possible to feel blessed in the middle of that?
Cross in Rubble (from Rikuzentakata_filled_with_the_rubble by Mitsukuni Sato, Creative Commons Attribution License)
Image: Wrestling with God
A wrestling championship belt around a Bible
From a sermon based on Genesis 32.22-30
Litany of Dedication
Litany of Dedication P O Lord, our Rock and our Redeemer, C Have mercy on us P O God, our refuge and strength, C Have mercy on us P O … Continue reading →
Poetic Sermon: In Christ Alone
In the time before time, when the past met the future, Eternity spoke, and His voice produced nature “Let there be light,” and the darkness was ruptured Land, feather, hoof … Continue reading →
Churches: Competing with the Competition
Church attendance is down. That’s partly due to living in a post-churched culture and partly due to more activities that compete for time. People’s schedules are jammed, and for many, … Continue reading →
Attractional vs. Missional (Can’t we all just get along?)
A little background: When the church first started, it met with a lot of opposition. It was a pre-churched culture, where people didn’t know what Christianity was about and had … Continue reading →
Image: No Room for God
From a sermon based on Luke 10:38-42 Finding God in the Clutter (Jesus, Mary & Martha)
No matter the space, we’ll fill it, whether our homes, our computers, or our schedules. How do we find the space we need for everything that needs to go into it?
Image: Bible Cradle
Illustration for sermon from Isaiah 66:10-14
“Comfort for the Nation”
When the stress of life is too much, where can we find comfort? Is comfort from God just platitudes, or does He truly have comfort to give? How do we find that comfort?
Easy to Read Bible Translations Comparative Study
Introduction Every year, our congregation gives free bibles to all of our third-grade students. Until this point, we have given them the Faith Alive Study Bible, but CPH just changed … Continue reading →
Theater Week
This summer, we ran a week-long morning camp for age 10–high school to teach kids some acting skills, discuss our hope in Christ, and give them an opportunity to express … Continue reading →
Image: God’s Name on our Hearts
Image: The New Temple
Title art for sermon for 5/29/16
Text: 1 Kings 8:22-24,27-29,41-43
Description: “Bringing the World to the House of God” Where is the house of God, and how can we bring people to it?
The idea is that the house of God is now the human heart through Holy Baptism, and we bring others into God’s house by bringing them into our hearts and showing them the love of Christ, letting our light so shine before men….
(And of course, because the Word of God is in our hearts, when they’re in, they’ll hear it, because it’s everywhere in there.)
Image: Glimpse of the Kingdom
From a sermon based on Revelation 22:1-6,12-20 “The Coming Kingdom Today” Is the coming Kingdom of God just something that we look forward to someday, or can we find glimpses … Continue reading →
FaithWebbing
via FaithWebbing.com Faith Webbing is a deep, purposeful intergenerational approach to connecting youth to faith through a congregation. Its premise is to intentionally identify relationship voids in young peoples’ lives … Continue reading →
Art frm the Hrt
http://artfrmthehrt.com/scripture-reading-samples.html PowerPoint Contemporary Slide Presentations consisting of a Scripture reading introduction, three readings, and an appropriate ending slide for each reading using the ESV translation with copyright permission from Crossway … Continue reading →
Groceries
So I was at a new grocery store to get supper, but when I went to check out, I realized I didn’t have my wallet, and they didn’t take Apple … Continue reading →