2015 Lent Prayer Calendar
This prayer calendar for Lent 2015 includes a daily prayer prompt organized by weekly themes.
“Switch: How to Change When Change is Hard” by Chip and Dan Heath
Chip and Dan Heath deliver a great framework on how to understand and enact change. While it is a quick read full of interesting examples, you will soon see that there is depth here as well. I was able to present the material in a sermon series, and it was well received.
What Downton Abbey and Your Sermon May Have in Common
Let’s face it–some TV shows run twice as long as they should. This happens even with ones we love, like Downton Abbey. Three shows (Downton, The West Wing, and House) all ran long for different reasons, and there is a chance we face the same temptations with our sermons.
The Transfiguration – A Dramatic Presentation of Scripture
Dramatic arrangement of the story of the Transfiguration using the text from The Message’s paraphrase of Mark 9:1a-10.
A Call and Response for Transfiguration Sunday
A responsive reading about the Transfiguration. Focuses on the theme of change and how death and resurrection had to occur before what we glimpse in the Transfiguration became permanent.