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Category Archives: Incarnation
Jesus is God’s Gift: An all age visual, fun, interactive and creative Christmas talk
This fun, visual and creative talk explains how Jesus is God’s gift to the world using a wrapped up present with various items inside of it. As you pull each item out (it’s best done in order) you simply explain … Continue reading
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Tagged all age service, all age talk, best christmas present, christmas, Christmas assembly, Christmas story, creative communication, creative learning, creativity, first Christmas, incarnation, incarnation explained to children, Jesus is God, Jesus is God's gift, nativity, nativity story, the perfect christmas present
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Advent 15: Clean enough for God?
Jesus, the King of Kings and creator of the universe had an animal feeding trough for his first crib. God decided that his son would be born in ordinary and humble settings. He was born into poverty to parents who were … Continue reading
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Tagged Advent, christmas, Christmas story, did mary cry, first Christmas, incarnation, kid born in shed saves world shock, mary the mother of Jesus, Mary's amazing faith and obedience, why was Jesus born in Bethlehem, why was there no room for mary
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Advent 6: A Special Child
The angel had said ‘You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will call him Jesus’. In their conversation, Mary seemed to struggle to get past the ‘you will have a son’ bit which isn’t surprising. Mary was a … Continue reading
A Real Star, Sent With Love
At a Christmas event today, we provided people with cards that said ‘with love’ and also nativity stickers. There were some fairly impressive cards, but this one was my favourite. The aim of the activity was to help people to appreciate that … Continue reading
The One About Looking Closer
I recently received a card and I was so excited as I opened the envelope until I saw the picture inside. They had written ‘Graeme’ on the outside and put a picture of a fat bloke in a funny costume inside. … Continue reading
Have you ever thought about how tragic the Nativity Story is?
The version of the nativity that is often presented in church is a very nice, clean and happy story but have you ever considered how tragic that the Christmas story really is? Mary was unmarried and pregnant and the punishment in her culture … Continue reading
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Tagged birth of Jesus, Christmas story, first Christmas, God at work, how to respond when we are stressed, In which situation is God at work?, incarnation, nativity, nativity story, The light shines the brightest in the darkest places, why was jesus born in a stable
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A Parable for Christmas
This story explains why Christmas is so important to me. It is 3000AD and there is an opportunity to end the war that had seemed like it had lasted forever. A commando was needed to go into the dangerous and … Continue reading
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Tagged first Christmas, incarnation, incarnation explained to children, incranation, jesus came as a human, Jesus came to serve, john 1.14, modern parable, vulnerability, what did it cost God the father to send his son
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The One Where Baby Jesus Looked Like a Dead Sheep
So, I came across this picture of some knitted nativity characters. I noticed the donkey and the sheep at the top of the picture and my next thought was that the sheep in the bottom left looked dead because it had … Continue reading
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Tagged baby Jesus, Christmas story, first Christmas, incarnation, jesus came as a human, jesus saves us, jesus saviour, john 1 29, lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, our salvation cost Jesus everything, Saved by Jesus
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The one where Peter wanted to put Jesus in a box
So, Jesus, Peter, James and John went up a mountain and at the top, ‘Jesus’ appearance was transformed so that his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as light’ Matthew 17.2. Peter was so in … Continue reading
The One Where Ronaldo Pretended to be Homeless
I watched a video recently that shows the footballer Cristiano Ronaldo in disguise as someone who is homeless. He kicks a ball around fairly skillfully in Madrid city centre but he is largely ignored, but then when he reveals who he … Continue reading
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