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This year I'm combining the Tear Drop Spiral Template with a daily devotional called Lent for Everyone: Luke, Year C: A Daily Devotional by N.T. Wright. In many liturgical churches, the Gospel readings for the Sundays of Lent this year (Year C in a three-year cycle)...
Lent starts this coming Wednesday, March 6! Here are two additional Lenten Calendar Templates. Click on the version you want below the picture; download; and print. The first one with the hearts was created by Pat Maier of Visual Faith Ministry. It has 40 spaces. For...
Using a calendar template is a simple, daily prayer practice for making the journey through Lent. Each day choose a word to ponder or a person to pray for. Write the word or name in the allotted space with a pen and draw or doodle around it. Add color with colored...
Celebrate the coming of Christ. Celebrate Incarnation. Celebrate Emmanuel. For Unto Us a Child is born. Unto us a Son is Given. Isaiah 9:6-7 May this completed Advent be the start of a fresh, new journey with Jesus for the coming year, an unfolding experience of...
Below are a few verbal and visual reflections on words from#AdventWord 2018. #SINGing is my primary learning style. It is probably not in the educators' official handbook of learning styles with auditory, verbal, visual, kinesthetic...but it includes all of those ways...
For the first nine days of Advent I have really enjoyed combining praying in color with #AdventWord. Everyday #AdventWord (adventword.org) sends an email with a new word and a reflection on the word. The chosen words are based on the Advent lectionary from year C....
Besides drawing an Advent Calendar using the templates for this year (see the bottom of this post), here are several other ideas for creating a daily visual Advent calendar. Draw your own calendar. My first praying in color Advent calendars were drawn one-day-at-a...
"#AdventWord is a global, online Advent calendar. Each day from the first Sunday of Advent through Christmas Day, #AdventWord offers meditations and images to inspire and connect individuals and a worldwide community of believers to the themes of Advent. AdventWord is...
A Happy and SereneThanksgiving. This is the beginning of my gobbler gratitude list. I'll work on it more today and throughout the weekend. You can still download the template. Click on the links below the image. You can read more and look at more examples from...
“Let us come before God with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.” (Psalm 95:2 NIV) For a family activity on Thanksgiving Day or during the holiday weekend, hand out colored pencils, markers, and a turkey template. In the spaces within the turkey and on...