Living Open Source

Well, instead of an image this week, I put together this little animation. Inspired by the word picture in Isaiah 2:1-5 of ploughs being manufactured from reclaimed swords. I’m also working on a longer version using a track from Paul Simon’s Surprise album, called Wartime Prayers You might find this music helpful for Sunday.

They will beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
Advent begins with one of Isaiah’s wonderful pictures of the kind of transformation that this season announces. Swords into garden tools. What might be transformed in our communities? - knives and guns, into shopping trolleys and walking aids?
One of the great literal [...]

I stumbled upon a fantastic public group on Flickr, where worship backgrounds are shared willingly with others. With 542 photos, you’ll not be short of images for next Sunday. You can join the group yourself if you have a Flickr account and start sharing your own creations.

That’s right! You can download a modified version of the theme I’m using on this blog. Well, I’ve changed the graphics and cut out a couple of tricks, but you can get ZETA from my WordPress Themes page and customise it yourself.

I say PowerPoint, but of course you’d be better off with Impress. But if the preacher used pictures and words on a screen to get his point across, did it help? This week’s poll.