Below, I list all my titles, excepting the No Ordinary Man, Prayers for All Seasons and A Most Amazing Man/A Man Like No Other series, relating chiefly to particular seasons of the Christian Year.
Advent and Christmas
A NEW DAY DAWNING: PERSONAL MEDITATIONS FOR ADVENT AND CHRISTMAS
Drawing and enlarging upon material from No Ordinary Man, A New Light Shining explores the events associated with the birth of Jesus and asks what those mean for us today. The aim is to stimulate reflection and to help the reader enter into events in such a way that they become as alive and immediate for them as for those who witnessed first-hand the stable, the manger and the coming of Christ among us.
DAILY ADVENT REFLECTIONS
For those who want to reflect more deeply on the significance of God’s coming in Christ, this book offers 40 short but meaningful acts of devotion with readings, reflections and prayers to challenge, encourage, nurture and inspire. It affords the reader the perfect way of committing the seasons of Advent and Christmas prayerfully to God.
LIGHT DAWNS: 100 MEDITATIONS FOR PUBLIC WORSHIP FROM ADVENT TO EPIPHANY
In this comprehensive compilation, drawn from several of his most successful publications, Nick provides 100 meditations concerning Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, each linked to a reading of Scripture and rounded off by a short prayer. Here is a perfect tool for offering fresh insights into this well-loved time of year that speaks so wonderfully of God’s coming into our world through Christ.
REFLECTIVE SERVICES FOR ADVENT AND CHRISTMAS
Here are 14 complete service outlines for innovative and reflective worship at Advent and Christmas. The services consist of suggested visual material and music, introductions, hymns, prayers and meditations – everything you need to add a new dimension to your services.
COLLECTED PRAYERS FOR ADVENT, CHRISTMAS AND EPIPHANY
For those entrusted with leading public prayer during Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, here is the perfect resource: a complete collection of Nick Fawcett’s prayers relating to these well-loved seasons.
CELEBRATING CHRISTINGLE: ALL YOU NEED TO PREPARE YOUR SERVICE
The Christingle service captures the imagination of young and old alike. Here is a resource for all involved in preparing such an event, combining fun sketches and historical background with six fully worked-out orders of service.
THE LITTLE BOOK OF CHRISTMAS PRAYERS
If pictures tell a story they can equally inspire prayer, as Nick Fawcett shows in this delightful collection of gift books. They will not only warm your heart but nurture your spirit.
A Chequered Legacy: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of the Church
An Advent Course (Book 1: The Good)
The Good looks at the positive aspects of the Church, celebrating some of the achievements of Christian believers across the years in terms of building a better world, and asking what their efforts and example might teach us today.
FORGIVING AND FORGETTING: A GROUP STUDY COURSE FOR ADVENT
Christmas is a time for giving, getting, forgiving and forgetting. Each of these themes is explored through readings, prayers, activities, comments, sayings, discussion points and hypothetical scenarios reflecting everyday life.
LIGHTEN OUR PATH: REFLECTING ON THE MESSAGE OF ADVENT AND CHRISTMAS
An Advent study course and audio CDs for groups in six sessions.
Each focuses on one aspect of light and offers thoughts, readings, prayers, music, activities and points for discussion.
PROMISES, PROMISES: AN ADVENT STUDY COURSE
Promises, Promises is an eight-week course of exploration and reflection on the meaning and message of two of the most important seasons in the Christian calendar.
Each session includes prayers, Bible readings, reflections, discussion questions, meditations, suggestions for further reading, and ideas for action.
Suitable for both individual and group use.
READY AND WAITING: EXPLORING THE ESSENTIALS OF ADVENT
One theme dominates Advent – waiting. Just as God’s people of old waited for the day of the Messiah, so we wait for the return of Christ in fulfilment of God’s purpose.
Beginning and ending each session with passages of Scripture, Nick Fawcett has included hypothetical scenarios that bring each theme down to earth and help to explore what they might be saying to us today.
Lent and Holy Week (and Easter)
DAILY LENT REFLECTIONS
To deepen our devotional life we need a focus for our thoughts, spiritual food to nurture our faith and discipleship. Daily Lent Reflections makes more accessible the spiritual sustenance already offered by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. For each of the 40 days of Lent, there are readings, reflections, prayers and points to ponder on themes such as forgiving others, doing that little bit extra in God’s service, choosing the way of the kingdom instead of the often-enticing ‘way of the world’, seeking God’s will rather than our own, valuing and respecting others. How do we work out such ideas in terms of daily life? What are their implications for us today? This book sets out to answer such questions, bringing home the challenge, promise, encouragement and inspiration implicit within the teaching of Jesus.
A NEW LIGHT SHINING: PERSONAL MEDITATIONS FOR LENT, HOLY WEEK AND EASTER
Drawing and enlarging upon material from No Ordinary Man, A New Light Shining looks at the challenges that faced Jesus and the challenges he brings to us. The aim is to stimulate reflection and to help the reader enter into events in such a way that they become as alive and immediate for them as for those who witnessed first-hand the life, death and resurrection of Christ.
LIGHT SHINES: 100 MEDITATIONS FOR LENT
In this comprehensive compilation, drawn from several of his most successful publications, Nick provides 100 carefully revised meditations on Lenten themes, each linked to a reading of Scripture and rounded off by a short prayer. Here, then, is a perfect tool for offering fresh insights into this special season of prayer, contemplation, confession and recommitment.
LIGHT IN OUR DARKNESS: OVER 70 MEDITATIONS FOR HOLY WEEK
Over 70 wonderfully prayerful meditations, drawn from several of Nick’s most successful publications, concerning Holy Week, each linked to a reading of Scripture and ending with a short prayer. Nick Fawcett cleverly imagines the thoughts, feelings and words of different Bible characters caught up in the events of this momentous time and presents each meditation through their eyes. The result is a fresh and moving telling of the awesome suffering and sacrifice of our Lord.
REFLECTIVE SERVICES FOR LENT, HOLY WEEK AND EASTER
Fourteen complete service outlines for innovative and reflective worship. The services comprise: Suggested visual material and music • Introduction • Hymns • Prayers • Meditations. Opening out familiar passages of Scripture to look beyond the events at the people who shaped them, bestselling author Nick Fawcett builds up a reflective atmosphere through the music, images and meditations.
THE LITTLE BOOK OF LENT PRAYERS
If pictures tell a story they can equally inspire prayer, as Nick Fawcett shows in this delightful collection of gift books. They will not only warm your heart but nurture your spirit.
COLLECTED PRAYERS FOR LENT, HOLY WEEK AND EASTER
For those entrusted with leading public prayer during Lent, Holy Week and Easter here is the perfect resource: a complete collection of Nick Fawcett’s prayers relating to these well-loved seasons.
CELEBRATING THE SEDER: A RESOURCE FOR A CHRISTIAN INTERPRETATION OF THE PASSOVER MEAL
Why celebrate a seder meal? For Jews this is a sacred occasion, yet the Old Testament is part of Christian life as well as Jewish tradition. A seder ceremony reminds us of our joint roots; a common inheritance. This is a substantial, comprehensive resource to enable a respectful and meaningful Christian celebration of the seder.
Easter
LIGHT OF LIFE: 70 MEDITATIONS FOR EASTER
This compilation from various of Nick’s previous works provides a comprehensive reflective resource which offers new meaning into this unforgettable season of hope, promise and joyful celebration. It features 70 carefully crafted meditations concerning the resurrection and exaltation of Christ, and the gift of his Spirit, each linked to a reading of Scripture and rounded off by a short prayer.
THE LITTLE BOOK OF EASTER PRAYERS
If pictures tell a story they can equally inspire prayer, as Nick Fawcett shows in this delightful collection of gift books. They will not only warm your heart but nurture your spirit.
A CHEQUERED LEGACY: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY OF THE CHURCH
A LENT COURSE (BOOK 2: THE BAD AND UGLY)
In The Bad and the Ugly, Nick Fawcett moves on to faults of the Church; faults that call us to reflect, confess, repent and work as best we can for a better, more enlightened future.
BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS: A LENT STUDY BOOK
This book looks at the idea of moving from the old self to the new and asks what aspects of our life need to be ended and what new characteristics should put in their place. Each of the six sessions begins with the words of a well-known hymn which introduce the theme to be discussed. These are further explored through a variety of prayers, intercessions and meditations.
DECISIONS, DECISIONS: A LENT STUDY COURSE
Exploring different aspects of life’s decisions through Bible passages and personal experiences, the five weekly sessions in this study course include prayers, activities, discussion questions, meditations, suggestions for further reading and ideas for action. Intended for small groups, but also useful for individuals, the sessions cover: A time to decide ● Complex decisions ● Who decides? ● Flawed decisions ● Living with decisions
SPOT THE DIFFERENCE: A GROUP STUDY COURSE FOR LENT
What difference does being a Christian make to your life and what difference should it make? In this group study course, prolific author Nick Fawcett considers five ways in which Christian commitment should manifest itself: in a quality of love, allegiance to Christ and a spontaneity of witness, a disposition of joy, a generosity of spirit and a vibrant inner faith.
STOP AND STARE: A REFLECTIVE LENT COURSE
Ever-popular Nick Fawcett presents here not a study course but rather a tool for reflection. After an opening prayer, an introduction, readings and points for discussion, each weekly session contains poems, prayers, proverbs – and equally important, periods of silence – all designed to stimulate quiet contemplation.
All seasons
WORSHIP THROUGH THE SEASONS: REFLECTIVE SERVICES FOR THE CHRISTIAN YEAR
In Worship through the Seasons Nick Fawcett provides 24 complete service outlines for innovative and reflective worship during Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, the opening days of Holy Week, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter. The services consist of: Suggested visual material and music • An introduction • Hymn suggestions • Prayers • Meditations Each service builds up a reflective atmosphere through music, images and meditations as we step into the shoes of those most intimately involved in the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus. Opening out familiar passages of Scripture to look beyond the events to the people who shaped them, Nick Fawcett invites us to reflect upon these Christian seasons in new and refreshing ways. Worship through the Seasons, drawn from the author’s two Volumes of No Ordinary Man and three of A most amazing man, is an invaluable resource for those wishing to add a new dimension to Christian worship.
TOUCHING THE SEASONS: DOWN-TO-EARTH PRAYERS FOR THE CHRISTIAN YEAR
Some days of the year are special, not just Christmas and Easter, but other occasions too. However, we’re not always able to articulate our thoughts as we would wish or to relate the occasion in question to daily life. This book offers 100 simple prayers rooted in everyday experience, the commonplace offering a springboard to personal devotion.
SELECTED REFLECTIONS FOR THE CHRISTIAN YEAR
How do you celebrate the Christian seasons? Do you approach them each year determined that they will shape your daily devotions, only for them somehow to pass you by? In this book, drawing on some of his most popular writings, Nick Fawcett offers nearly 200 reflections on classic verses of Scripture, each helping to bring home the meaning of the key dates of the Christian calendar and relating those to daily life. Here is a resource to bring the Christian seasons to life for you as never before.
Special Sundays (Harvest, Remembrance Day etc.)
REFLECTIVE SERVICES FOR SPECIAL SUNDAYS
Here is an invaluable resource for any preacher. There is a service for Mothering Sunday, the week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Christian Aid Week, Father’s Day and One World week, and two services each for Church Anniversary, Harvest, All Saints’ Day and Remembrance Sunday. All comprise suggested visual material and music, an introduction, hymns, prayers and meditations.
Worship through Celebrating Grandparents: Services to say thank you
Celebrating Grandparents provides an informal act of worship to celebrate the part grandparents play in family and Church life. It contains five fully worked out services, each including introductions, prayers, dialogues, poems, quotations and family talks alongside suggestions for hymns and readings.