Advent

[madill]

What graphic themes will some of you be using this year? I'm going to go up to my church and see if Gene's latest series in purple will show up in our sanctuary. Tomorrow's sermon is "Keep Awake" Mark 13:24-37.

The final "bullet point" and clincher is a quote from a missionary's story in South America where the natives are being brought the Christmas story for the first time. The missionary rigs up Christmas lights using a generator. One of the natives says to him, “We are light bulbs and Christmas sends the power to make us light up.”

There is a light bulb graphic from onlinemmi.com's eye drops that I am tempted to use for the sermon. http://www.onlinemmi.com/eyedrops/xmas_2.htm

Any ideas appreciated.

[Gene]

Don C. has a couple of nice lightbulb images:


I did this light bulb graphic a couple years ago and should still have the PSD around to work from:


We'll be doing "Watching and Waiting", and we may use a variation on this I did 3 years ago (hooray for a 3-year liturgical cycle):

[[Admin] danroth]

There are some REALLY NICE Advent themes in the new store...
http://churchmedia.net/store

I also love the weekly Advent videos created by bluefish tv.

[madill]

How do I register for the churchmedia.net store? It wouldn't take my cmn user name and password. And, I couldn't find a place to register.