Switchfoot and tobyMac gig dates (UK)

Switchfoot - The best selling CCM Rock band ever have confirmed dates to play in 2010 at:

The Big Church Day Out (Leicestershire & West Sussex)
29TH MAY 2010 - STANFORD HALL, LEICESTERSHIRE
30TH & 31ST MAY 2010 - WISTON HOUSE, WEST SUSSEX

Fuel 10 Event (Belfast) (Facebook Group)
11th – 13th JUNE 2010

Frenzy Festival 2010 (Edinburgh)
12th JUNE 2010

… and there could be more dates added.

This is the first time the band will have played in the UK since 2007.

tobyMac is also confirmed to play at The Big Church Day Out (Leicestershire & West Sussex).

The Big Church Day Out (Leicestershire & West Sussex)
29TH MAY 2010 - STANFORD HALL, LEICESTERSHIRE
30TH & 31ST MAY 2010 - WISTON HOUSE, WEST SUSSEX

This is the first time Toby will have played in the UK since 2007.

For more information on any of these dates please go to the event websites direct.

Animated Baby Moses

Hey, hold on, I missed this. I could claim mitigating circumstances but the bottom line is I forgot to post about it.

'What?' I hear you cry.

Well, we did another Bible Friends animation. This one is all about baby Moses. And you can get to it by following this link, although once again if you're not on broadband you may want to give it a miss.

PS Look out for another animation very soon!

Darren

Apologies, the link is now fixed

Easter in October?

No, we're not trying to reignite the controversy over the date of Easter. But the majority of the age groups in Light are looking at the Easter story at the moment.

Why?

Well, quite simply, when Easter comes around each year and we meet on Sunday, we jump from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. We miss, or gloss over, some of the most important bits of the gospel message.

So, because we care deeply about such things, we thought we'd take a deeper look now. It has nothing to do with us getting our calendars mixed up.

Remember, Jesus is for life, not just Easter.

The story of Joseph animated

Every so often we create a little something that we think you may enjoy.

Due to the limits of blogger, you'll need to follow the link. I don't think you'll be disappointed. (it may take a while to load, it is 4mb)

Joseph animation (broadband recommended)

Darren

This dream is not about sex!

What If Pharaoh had asked Freud what the seven thin and fat cows meant? I’m sure the answer would have involved Pharaoh’s mother, childhood emotional trauma and sex. It may be over simplistic but Freud had a habit of reducing subconscious thought to those three areas.

Fortunately for Pharaoh, and us, Freud wasn’t around during the events of Genesis 41. This meant that Pharaoh’s dreams were interpreted by Joseph. These particular dreams had national implications. They signalled events that would be felt both locally and further afield. Therefore, Joseph turned to God to interpret the dreams and reveal the meaning.

Joseph trusted God and gave the meaning to Pharaoh.

LightLive is currently in the middle of the Joseph account in Genesis. This week, if you’re following the syllabus, Pharaoh’s dreams are the topic.

Let us pray that God will explain the meaning of these passages to us. Then, that we will pass the meaning on clearly to our groups.

Scheduled downtime

Our Internet servers are being moved to a new home in Slough. This is part of a planned move by our hosting company, who are migrating away from their present central London sites.

This means LightLive will be unavailable from around 1am to 6am on Sunday 14 June (GMT) while they're moving.

Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible

The team are at CRE

Just to let you know that the LightLive, SchoolsLive and WordLive team are down at the Christian Resources Exhibition this week. So if you are in the Esher area and want to know a little more, come along and have a chat on the stand.

For more information click here.

Normal service resumed!

Thanks to our technical team, LightLive is now back up and running!
thank you for your patience!
love from the LightLive team

LightLive is unwell

We're aware of an issue affecting LightLive at the moment. You can access content but if you try and edit a session you'll be dumped to a login screen. So until further notice you may want to avoid trying to edit any sessions.

We'll update here as soon as the issue is resolved.

Sorry.

Religious think tank welcomes launch of atheist buses

Theos, the public theology think tank, has welcomed a new atheist bus campaign, being officially launched in Central London today (Tuesday).

The bendy-buses, with the slogan "There's probably no God", are the idea of the British Humanist Association and have been supported by prominent atheist Professor Richard Dawkins.

They are now running on the streets of London.Commenting on the launch of the buses, Director of Theos, Paul Woolley, said:

"We think that the campaign is a great way to get people thinking about God. The posters will encourage people to consider the most important question we will ever face in our lives.

"The slogan itself is a great discussion starter. Telling someone "there's probably no God" is a bit like telling them that they've probably remembered to lock their front door. It creates the doubt that they might not have done so.

"A new Theos research study, to be published next month, shows that there are as many people finding God in Britain today as losing it, so this campaign is speaking into a very live debate.

"Mike Elms, a Fellow of The Marketing Society and former Chief Executive of ad agencies Ogilvy & Mather and Tempus/CIA, has said that the campaign could play a role in the revival of Christianity.

Mr Elms said "For too long, the British public has been able to dodge the 'God choice' - is there or isn't there? - by scribbling C of E on their hospital admission form. But now atheists are challenging us to make that choice one way or another. The atheist campaign opens the door toward a very public debate on the existence and nature of God."

www.theosthinktank.co.uk