Living Open Source

This year I got the Rock Solid group to create the graphics for the carol service. Take a handful of teenagers, a few torches and a camera with a 6 second exposure and wow!…

I wanted some cool backgrounds for our Carol Service on Sunday, so after several minutes trawling the Google generated Christmas cringe, thought it would be quicker and more fun to make my own. And because it is Christmas you can download them and a ready-to-go presentation for Impress (or Powerpoint if you really insist on [...]

Our local group of churches have used various means to publicise jointly the fact that Christmas is a time to go to chruch. This year we managed to get nearly half a page in the local paper for a bargain price and so here are three ideas for an ad. You can vote on which [...]

In a bar humbug kind of mood, thought I’d see which carols irritate you the most (from a theological perspective)? The list could be huge so if you have others you’d like to vote on that are not here, leave a comment and I’ll consider adding it.

Well, I loved Jars of Clay‘s new Love Came Down track so much, I wanted to be able to play it myself. There is a song book out, but of course it hasn’t reached this side of the water! The chords are actually very easy. The original mp3 is available for free download at last [...]

One of my favourite Christian bands, Jars of Clay have a Christmas songs album out. They have a nice animated version of the nativity to accompany one of their songs as well as a book of reflections (Life as Advent).