The Beachcomber | A Parable
As it’s National Storytelling Week this week we thought we’d take a leaf out of Jesus’ book and publish a few of our own parables. Just over a year ago Colourful Church held a parable writing...
View ArticleBoast; Boast Not: The Tale of Four Trees | A Parable
This is the second parable in our series, with a contribution from writer and Jesus Centre volunteer Julia Faire. Read other posts in the parables series. Once there were four trees: an apple, an oak,...
View ArticleSaying “Thank You”– A Christian Music Video
I’ve recently finished making a Christian music video to a song called “Thank You”. This is different from usual in that the singer would like to stay anonymous and keep the attention on the song...
View ArticleNoon the wiser: using church stage design to reinforce a message
A colourful Church stage design at Ponds Forge in the centre of Sheffield. Once a year in the Jesus Fellowship we dedicate time in one of our national events to honour and remember martyrs throughout...
View Article‘I Believe’– A Christian Collaboration Video
This video is the culmination of a vision I’ve had for a long time to bring together a group of Christian film-makers and make an inspirational piece about who God is. It began last year in a video...
View ArticleSprayed Designs for Hessian Banners
We recently had a special little event in my lounge. We’d been planning for a couple of years to do something that mixed music with video, and late 2015 we finally got proper plans together to do this...
View ArticleMaking the Everything in Common Documentary Film
Two years ago I decided to do a documentary about community life at the Jesus Army. I had already been YouTubing for a few years prior to that, but I wanted to make something more ambitious than just...
View Article‘The Journey’– A Live Music and Stories Event
The Vision I was tasked to help bring to life a vision that a few guys had for a music event which brings out our churches history with songs, and stories why those songs came to be. At first I was a...
View ArticleYou’re more creative than you think
God, the greatest of all creators, the One who fashioned the Sun, and the humpback whale, and the Great Dane, made us in his image. The Divine image has been stamped upon us. We alone are made in the...
View ArticleBoast; Boast Not: The Tale of Four Trees | A Parable
This is the second parable in our series, with a contribution from writer and Jesus Centre volunteer Julia Faire. Read other posts in the parables series. Once there were four trees: an apple, an oak,...
View ArticleSaying “Thank You”– A Christian Music Video
I’ve recently finished making a Christian music video to a song called “Thank You”. This is different from usual in that the singer would like to stay anonymous and keep the attention on the song...
View ArticleNoon the wiser: using church stage design to reinforce a message
A colourful Church stage design at Ponds Forge in the centre of Sheffield. Once a year in the Jesus Fellowship we dedicate time in one of our national events to honour and remember martyrs throughout...
View Article‘I Believe’– A Christian Collaboration Video
This video is the culmination of a vision I’ve had for a long time to bring together a group of Christian film-makers and make an inspirational piece about who God is. It began last year in a video...
View ArticleSprayed Designs for Hessian Banners
We recently had a special little event in my lounge. We’d been planning for a couple of years to do something that mixed music with video, and late 2015 we finally got proper plans together to do this...
View ArticleMaking the Everything in Common Documentary Film
Two years ago I decided to do a documentary about community life at the Jesus Army. I had already been YouTubing for a few years prior to that, but I wanted to make something more ambitious than just...
View Article‘The Journey’– A Live Music and Stories Event
The Vision I was tasked to help bring to life a vision that a few guys had for a music event which brings out our churches history with songs, and stories why those songs came to be. At first I was a...
View ArticleCaught! | A poem
They dragged me to the square I knew I left a trail of shame in the dust. But drag me they must Subject of lust I’d been caught red handed Now I’d be branded Shamed, cast out, spat upon. Despised, I...
View ArticleEmpty Crosses | Poem
After it had finished I waited with Mary, When everyone had gone, we went up the hill, But through our tears we couldn’t see Which empty cross was ours. We could hardly see while it was going on And...
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