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Why do pilgrims walk so much? What do they learn? What lasting good
does it do? In Pilgrim Journeys, experienced pilgrim and writer
Sally Welch explores the lesstravelled pilgrim routes of the UK and
beyond, through the eyes of the pilgrims who walk them. Each
chapter explores a different aspect of pilgrimage, offering
reflections and indicating some of the spiritual lessons to be
learned that may be practised at home. This absorbing book shows
how insights gained on the journey can be incorporated into
everyday life, bringing new ways of relationship with God and with
our fellow Christians, offering support and encouragement as we
face life's joys and challenges.
Helping churches to reconnect and value their environment. A
creative worship and activity resource for churches to use outside
the church building, Outdoor Church functions in any green space
and is suitable for churches in urban, suburban and rural contexts.
- Four sessions for each season - Four stand-alone service
outlines, one for each season - Material based on Bible stories and
parables - All-age activities and seasonal prayers - Indoor
alternatives for rainy days
In this year's BRF Lent book Sally Welch explores two questions:
What is the Easter story really about, and how do we share it?
Through each week of Lent, a different aspect of the Easter story
is examined: repenting, changing, hoping, trusting, forgiving,
loving and sacrificing. Within each week, the days are focused on
what we need to do in order to share the story: listening,
understanding, reflecting, living, telling, sharing and becoming.
Each day offers a Bible passage, followed by a reflection and
prayer activity. Suggestions for group study and group study
questions are also included.
Five weeks of Advent material for church groups and individuals,
offering themed reflections by well-loved contributors from the New
Daylight archive alongside specially written questions for group
discussion. Week 1: The Advent antiphons - David Winter Week 2: 2
and 3 John - Steve Aisthorpe Week 3: Light in the darkness - Amy
Boucher Pye Week 4: Word incarnate: John 1:1-18 - Andy John Week 5:
Psalms of hope - Margaret Cundiff With an introduction by New
Daylight editor Sally Welch.
Using the biblical idea of pilgrimage, Sally Welch walks alongside
us as leader and guide, but also fellow traveller, to explore how
we can understand this biblical principle and make it our own. This
book is divided into sections of a journey, beginning with the
preparations necessary before setting out, exploring the obstacles
which might be put in our path and sharing ways in which the
journey can be made easier and more productive. At the end of each
reflection there is a suggestion for an activity or prayer to
enable the reader to apply the learning to their own life.
In this year's BRF Advent book Sally Welch explores two questions:
What is the Christmas story really about, and how do we share it?
Through each week of Advent, a different aspect of the Christmas
story is examined: light, promise, mystery, love, peace and hope.
Within each week, the days are focused on the ways in which the
Christmas story is shared: prophecies, journeys, new life, signs,
poems, stories and conversations. Each day offers a Bible passage,
followed by a reflection and prayer activity. Suggestions for group
study and group study questions are also included. 'Imbued with
biblical insight, this book delves into the failings, the
forgivings and the foibles of the way we are and the way we behave.
Into the glorious muddle of our lives, we search for God and find
God. In Sally Welch we have a delightful, experienced pastoral
guide.' Gordon Giles, author of At Home in Advent 'Sally has woven
a beautiful golden cord, binding together scriptural truth and
wisdom, profound contemporary relevance and insightful personal
experience. Written with warmth, love and understanding, this is a
genuine treasure.' Margaret Silf, author of Lighted Windows
Holy Habits is an adventure in Christian discipleship. Inspired by
Luke’s model of church found in Acts 2:42–47, it identifies ten
habits and encourages the development of a way of life formed by
them. The habits are: Biblical Teaching, Fellowship, Breaking
Bread, Sharing Resources, Serving, Eating Together, Gladness and
Generosity, Worship, Prayer and Making More Disciples. These Bible
reading notes have been created to help churches and individuals
explore the habits through prayerful engagement with the Bible and
live them out in whole-life, missional discipleship.
Holy Habits is an adventure in Christian discipleship. Inspired by
Luke's model of church found in Acts 2:42-47, it identifies ten
habits and encourages the development of a way of life formed by
them. The habits are: Biblical Teaching, Fellowship, Breaking
Bread, Sharing Resources, Serving, Eating Together, Gladness and
Generosity, Worship, Prayer and Making More Disciples. This Bible
study group material has been created to help churches and
individuals explore the Holy Habits through prayerful engagement
with the Bible and live them out in whole-life, missional
discipleship.
A labyrinth is a pattern consisting of a single circuitous path
that winds into the centre, with no possibility of getting lost, as
in a maze, and no dead ends. It is one of the most ancient tools
for spiritual growth and development, dating back to medieval
Christianity, and is currently enjoying a popular revival,
especially in contemporary 'Fresh Expressions' of church. As an
effective focus for prayer and worship, labyrinths - temporary and
permanent - are increasingly found in traditional and alternative
church communities and at festivals like Greenbelt. This book
provides a complete guide for beginner and seasoned labyrinth
explorer alike. An accessible and inviting illustrated guide, it:
traces the history of labyrinths in the Christian spiritual
tradition, explores the different ways groups and individuals can
use a labyrinth for prayer and reflection, gives instructions for
creating small and large, simple and complex, temporary and
permanent, indoor and outdoor labyrinths based on the most well
known designs - e.g Chartres, Rouen and Amien cathedrals, and it
provides outlines for spiritual exercises using the labyrinth.
This resource provides Lent material at an affordable price, using
material by well-loved contributors from the New Daylight archive
alongside specially written questions for group discussion. It
encourages groups and individuals, whether existing readers of New
Daylight or those who are new to using Bible reading notes, to
share their experience and reflect together on the Lent journey as
a church community. With contributions from: Helen Julian CSF -
Feasting and fasting; Rachel Boulding - The sermon on the mount;
Stephen Cottrell - Jesus' wisdom in Luke; Tony Horsfall - 1
Corinthians 13; and Brother Ramon - From upper room to Easter Day
Praise for Lent with New Daylight: 'People are saying it's the best
Lent book they've had and are asking for more! It brought them
together across 7 small, rural churches and faith journeys were
shared in a new way.' Church leader, Severn Loop Parishes,
Shrewsbury
Whether in the home, in a church building or around familiar
landmarks in a local community, a pilgrim journey can be made that
will bring a new level of understanding and appreciation of daily
life and the holy spaces it inhabits. Linking in with the
traditional experiences of pilgrimage - Beginning, Discovering,
Struggling, Resting, Remembering and more, this book provides
guided meditations for ten prayer journeys inspired by everyday
sights. Appropriate prayers and reflections are provided throughout
and photographs encourage us to see familiar objects afresh. The
book helps us create our own 'waymarks' out of the basic stuff of
our lives that will remind us every day that wherever we go, we
walk on holy ground.
This compact and carryable guide will open your eyes to what
journeys of pilgrimage can teach you, whether you're planning an
epic expedition or a virtual pilgrim interested in the spiritual
dimensions of this long-standing tradition. Simultaneously
practical and uplifting, it will take you through each aspect of
the journey, from preparing to leave to readjusting to normal life
after extraordinary experiences. Including the stories of modern
pilgrims and ancient ones, this book is full of inspiration, with
quotes and reflections in each section. Whether you're an
experienced pilgrim or considering the idea for the first time,
this book extends an invitation to make travel sacred - by
realizing that whatever your destination, it is the journey that
matters in the end.
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