Why Advent?

  Advent is a time to take spiritual inventory. A time to look at the bad spiritual habits that we have fallen into and take steps to break them. Advent helps us to seek to be Christ-like. What a wonderful opportunity to examine ourselves – to take stock and confess those things that lead us […]

Free worship resource - Advent Meditation

Here is a beautiful Advent Meditation that you are welcome to use in your worship communities in the run up to Christmas. The meditation is on a Powerpoint presentation with a haunting Celtic soundtrack. Simply click on the image above to download. Then open the file, press the “slideshow” button in the bottom right hand […]

Advent worship team devotional. Part 2 - Messy People/Messy Faith

This worship team devotional is part of a four-week series that takes excerpts from The Taming of Christmas written by Jon Nicol. Each devotional contains a brief scripture reading and discussion questions and is designed for use during the Advent season. The Messiness of Christmas, Part 2: Messy People/Messy Faith Let’s talk about the shepherds. […]

Advent worship team devotional. Part 1 - The reality of the nativity

  This worship team devotional is part of a four-week series that takes excerpts from The Taming of Christmas written by Jon Nicol. Each devotional contains a brief scripture reading and discussion questions and is designed for use during the Advent season. The Messiness of Christmas, Part 1: The Reality of the Nativity We like […]

Join us in 25 days of Advent reflections. From wherever you are.

We have decided to mark the Advent season with a daily meditation taken from the Mission Aviation Fellowship and Evangelical Alliance Advent Prayer Guide. You can download a copy of the guide here. We are posting the daily meditation on our Facebook page at 10am UTC (that’s 10am GMT in the UK, 2am PST, 3am […]

Advent worship team devotional. Part 4 - God entered our mess

This worship team devotional is part of a four-week series that takes excerpts from The Taming of Christmas written by Jon Nicol. Each devotional contains a brief scripture reading and discussion questions and is designed for use during the Advent season. The gospel—the good news—of the Christmas story, isn’t JUST that God became man. But […]

Advent worship team devotional. Part 3 - An unsafe God

This worship team devotional is part of a four-week series that takes excerpts from The Taming of Christmas written by Jon Nicol. Each devotional contains a brief scripture reading and discussion questions and is designed for use during the Advent season. The Messiness of Christmas, Part 3: An unsafe God We sing about a lot […]