The Barefoot Evangelist

Ascension Sunday Opening Prayer Why are we looking up to heaven?Christ has come; Christ has risen; Christ will come again. Why are we looking ahead to the future?The Holy Spirit is among us now. In our baptism, we have already died and risen with Christ. Why are we afraid of death and dying?God’s love casts out our fear.…

Christ is risen! Hallelujah!! Opening Prayer Easter is the season of new life and so we give thanks for our new life in Christ Jesus. Bring us once again into Your presence through Your indwelling Spirit that comforts and sustains us throughout our lives. May we find the quiet centre of Your love today as…

Christ is risen! Hallelujah!! Opening Prayer At times it can be difficultto look forward in hope,to face the future,to trust that God is working for us. But in this space,God is with us.Offering us a glimpse of heaven, a teaser of what is to come. So, however difficult, however challenging, however uncomfortable, put your trust…

Christ is risen! Hallelujah!! Opening Prayer We are God’s church. We come together in worship. We are followers of Christ. We come together to learn from his words. We are joined together by the Spirit. We come together to celebrate. God has freed us from our past. We come together to move forward. We are…

Christ is risen! Hallelujah!! Opening Prayer Easter is not an event that has occurred, it is an adventure that has begun. Not a place that we have visited, but a path on which we stand. The Resurrection story is not complete, but unfolding. Characters still breathing, stations still teeming with the promise of new life,…

Christ is risen! Hallelujah!! Opening Prayer Lord Jesus Christ, on the second Sunday of Easter,the light of Your love shines on!Your light has come into the world, and neither darkness, nor evil, nor even death itself could overcome it. And we (like Mary, like the disciples, like “doubting” Thomas) who have been there with You through Holy…

Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Hallelujah!! Opening Prayer The tomb is dark, but empty. The one we are looking for has overcome the darkness The stone has been rolled away. The one we are looking for has overcome death The burial clothes are put aside. The one we are looking for is alive!…

Children’s Time guards at the tomb Scripture   Gospel of matthew 27:57 That evening a rich disciple named Joseph from the town of Arimathea 58 went and asked for Jesus’ body. Pilate gave orders for it to be given to Joseph, 59 who took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth. 60 Then Joseph put the body in his…