Every year we make a Christmas movie.Here is one we made a few years ago. I hope you enjoy it. It has quite a lot of good points that could be raised in a sermon, or as part of a youth discussion group.

What follows now is part 2 of of Comfort and Joy. We had such a laugh making this. We included all age groups in the making of the movie. This year we are starting work on a take off of the Apprentice. the script has been written by Alec Shuttleworth. It looks very good. This is Christmas 2004.

I’m looking forward to preparing the Advent sermons around the theme. “Your Kingdom Come” It is of course a phrase from the Lord’s Prayer.I think it is a phrase full of anguish and hope. During Advent I hope to focus the congregation on the importance of prayer. I’m hoping to make the Christmon tree into prayer tree. Our Christmas Tree will arrive early this year on the 30th November, I hope to get it up for the first Sunday in Advent but leave it absolutely bare. This will give me the opportunity to invite the congregation to think of what they believe is God’s vision is for the work here in Bo’ness and then to write it on a label and attach it to the tree. So the tree will bear all the hopes and dreams of the Kingdom.

Every year we try to make something of Christmas. I especially like to do something at Advent to help everyone start to prepare for Christmas. This year is no exception. We’ve got a group together who call themselves the Advent Angels. They have been working on a number of ideas. The above design is going to be the focus of our Christmas Card Invitation to the Parish. Its been designed by one of our Elders Beatty Long. I hope that we might even have a larger version of this design produced as a hanging in the church.

I thought some of our videos that we made last year for Advent might be a resource for some of my fellow bloggers in the ministry. Now I don’t know if I can do this but here is a powerpoint that I put together for a seminar that I gave to some students at St Andrew’s University last August. I’ve entitled it “Advent Encountered Through A theology of Entertainment’.