You can now send seasonal e-cards through Life Changing Words. Just click on the picture above for a selection of attractive images for Christmas.

An unusual Bible website launched today aiming to help people memorise verses by setting them to music. The team behind Walking Bible have penned 875 mini-songs for downloading and inserting into iPod playlists, each with a distinctive lomographic image to accompany it.

“Research shows that most people know some 2000 songs off by heart but not many people know a poem or a verse” says founder Stefan Oberg. “So we have created a tool which uses music and images to help people memorise Bible verses.”

The service is available free of charge at walkingbible.com, in English and Swedish, with more languages coming soon.

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Christian Aid have launched their Christmas resources for the year, based around the theme of ‘hope’, and featuring these colourful graphics. The package of downloads includes a film, posters, and Sunday school activities.

Orders have started arriving in SGM Lifewords‘ UK office this week for UCCF’s latest gospel project, FREE. Christian Unions around the country will be giving away hundreds of thousands of copies of Mark’s gospel, and SGM Lifewords is handling the distribution.

For more information, visit the UCCF site. Copies are available in boxes of 100, for student use. Loads of extra resources can be downloaded from the site, including Bible studies, posters and graphics files.

Please note: all orders are handled through UCCF.

Operation Noah has launched an advent initiative for 2008 calling for ‘reclaiming christmas‘. As a response to the increasing consumerism of the Christmas season, they are suggesting a series of events for the first weekend of December, all about sustainability, and simpler living. Activities will include special services, present-making workshops, and clean-up operations around shopping centres. Several cathedrals will be taking part, including Birmingham, who recently hosted SGM Lifewords‘ Space Encounters prayer stations.

For more about the project, click here. Resources include liturgy and prayers, and check back soon for their alternative Christmas play, described as ‘Dr Who meets Dickens’ A Christmas Carol’. The project will be launched formally on 11th November with a lecture from Abbot Christopher Jamison, best known for the BBC series ‘The Monastery’, and the book ‘Finding Sanctuary’ (a book a number of us at SGM Lifewords have read and enjoyed.) Jamison introduces the idea:

“Advent is the traditional month of preparation before Christmas, a time of fasting and intense prayer, a time of eager expectation. It is above all a time to celebrate waiting as a normal part of human experience, when the Christian tradition invites us to wait for the birth of a child. In Advent we rejoice that we are waiting, that there is still time to prepare a way for the Lord and we celebrate the virtue of patience. By contrast, the consumer world tells us not to wait but to ‘buy now.’ Greed cannot wait, so to learn to wait is a simple antidote to greed.”

Operation Noah is the climate change initiative from Christian Ecology Link and Churches Together’ Environmental Issues Network.

The Christmas site for 2008 is now live. Click here for booklets, powerpoints, downloadable invites and posters, service outlines and school assemblies, and lots more.

We’ll be adding more resources over the next few weeks, so check back often. If there’s something you think is missing, leave us a comment here on the blog and we’ll see what we can do.