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Sticking Pins in the Cross: A Creative Prayer Activity

Posted on February 19, 2016 by honestaboutmyfaith

This simple activity explores the meaning of the cross and why Jesus died. At a family event last Easter, we stuck a paper cross on a pin-board and wrote some random negative things on to it. We invited the people taking … Continue reading →

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The One About Bringing People to God

Posted on January 17, 2016 by honestaboutmyfaith

At church today we were thinking about bringing people to God and we used this simple activity to pray for people in a creative way. Everyone was given two connected paper people, one represented them and the other one represented … Continue reading →

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What does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus?

Posted on June 26, 2015 by honestaboutmyfaith

I wonder if I asked you to draw a frog if you could do it? What if I asked you to draw this particular frog, could you replicate it exactly? I can guarantee that you can draw an identical one and … Continue reading →

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Prayer and Train Tracks

Posted on July 2, 2014 by honestaboutmyfaith

Have you ever wondered what prayer is for? Train tracks can help us to understand. For a train to run smoothly the tracks need to run parallel but God and us usually looks more like this set of tracks. God doesn’t … Continue reading →

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