Some excellent options for sharing & showing…

1) The Super Cool Story of Jesus – Bible Society

Dai Woolridge and Emma Randall have teamed up for Bible Society again, producing a fun re-telling of the Easter video that complements their Christmas joint effort.

They also have more related resources here.

2 & 3) Capturing God – The Good Book Company

The Good Book Company have produced two short videos to go with Capturing God, a fantastic and short guest-friendly book from Rico Tice, ideal for giving away to adults at Easter services.

4 & 5) Beauty & the Beast – Go Chatter

Ok, so it’s not technically Easter, but given this is the big holiday film, you may want to spin-off it in Easter services. Go Chatter have produced two B&TB themed videos: one takes a look at how the story of the film is the story of the gospel, and the other re-works the lyrics to the theme song giving it a gospel theme.

6) The Garden, The Curtain & The Cross – Good Book Company & Trillia Newbell

Trillia reads this beautifully illustrated book, alongside the images, as it unpacks why the Easter story is at the heart of the Bible’s big story.

7) Did Jesus Really Rise From The Dead? – Impact 360

An engaging piece looking at whether it’s all really true.

8) The Tomb Is Still Empty – Joel Mullen

In a word: cute.

9) If You Had Been Here – Glen Scrivener

Glen poetically explores the significance of Jesus’ resurrection from the perspective of the grieving brother of Lazarus: “Through you death is a gardener, we are the seed. And this is the path; resurrection decreed.”

10) He’s Still Risen – Igniter Media

I love this. Simple and powerful film to bring home the impact of resurrection.

11) Good Friday: Live! – Christians in Sport

Clever retelling of the events of Good Friday through imagined live scrolling web-based news reporting. I played this at a baptism service last week.

12) Arms Wide Open – Miriam Swaffield

Spoken-word piece underlining how the cross of Jesus reveals the rescue plan of God and calls us to respond.

13) Cannonball – Speak Life feat. Guvna B

A visual/lyrical/musical feast, from the team at Speak Life, including Guvna B on vocals. Writer Glen Scrivener has also put together a short explanation.

14) I’m Full Cos It Was Empty – Spoken Truth

Dai Woolridge doing what he does really well.

15) Egg – Dave Crofts

Clever spoken-word piece riffing off something familiar and casting our eyes to bigger things.

16) Dead Come Alive – Full of Eyes

Powerful visual story-telling.

17) Bread of Heaven – Glen Scrivener

Taking up the theme of Passover and Jesus’ body being broken for us, whilst using a child’s voice and drawings, this paints the Bible’s grand-narrative and re-sets Jesus’ death and resurrection within its bigger story.

18) What do you think Easter is all about? – UCCF

A simple two-minute video, using pictures to accompany someone probing the question as to what Easter is about, before putting forward some of the evidence for Jesus’ resurrection.

19) That’s Easter: Death to Life – St Helen’s

Short presentation featuring biblical scholars speaking on the reliability of the gospel accounts.

20 & 21) Lego Easter Story – Richard Case/BW Animations

Two takes on the same idea, one apparently a ten-year old’s school art homework project, and the other a more in-depth take.

22) How Deep The Father’s Love – Page CXVI

Page CXVI reworking a modern hymn that captures the heart of the Easter message.

23) Fix You Crucifixion

Coldplay’s well-loved track provides the soundtrack to these crucifixion scenes.

Know of any other videos? Share the love and drop them in the comments below.

And if you’re looking for other ideas for assemblies, lessons, & all-age slots, then read this short piece from Faith in Kids, which includes a link to their Easter material.

As it happens I’ve never really written about a flower before (admittedly, apart from that metaphoric ditty I wrote about my first crush, Poppy, back in Year 6). But here I am getting mildly botanical, because over the last few weeks I’ve been particularly enthralled by Spring’s darling, the daffodil. Let me tell you why…

In the UK at least, the seasons of the year offer a vivid in-built illustration of new life from death and barrenness. As winter gives way to Spring, it’s hard not to see through these times of change to eternal realities. Martin Luther basically said as much:

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

And surely there is no better example of this than the splendour of the daffodil. There it is, popping up in your garden or lining your local verge, all in various shades of sunburst. 

Just as the apostle wrote about the ‘last trumpet’ sounding when Jesus returns, signalling the day of resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:50-53), I reckon daffodils in springtime are like little resurrection trumpeters, vibrant and alert, declaring their good news to our dulled and distracted hearts. 

In fact, A. A. Milne has a line in one of his Winnie the Pooh books where he describes the daffodil as being a herald of life:

She turned to the sunlight, and shook her yellow head. And whispered to her neighbour: “Winter is dead.

Of course in this Easter time we have a seasonal opportunity to discover what the Christian seeks to recall daily: to look back to an empty cross and an empty grave and fix our hearts on these guarantees of God’s love, forgiveness and resurrection future.

But every sown seed that goes into the ground and ‘dies’, before being raised in the ‘glory’ of a flower, is also an enacted reminder that the new-life story is our story (1 Corinthians 15:35-44).

And yet the daffodil is not just a picture of transformation; she is a watchman who also raises her instrument and calls us to behold the new reality that has burst through the horizon in Jesus’ resurrection.

So as we approach Easter, I draw your attention to this little resurrection trumpet. Next time your eyes catch her joyful radiance, faithfully standing tall amidst this season of birdsong and April showers, why not take a moment to imagine her victory blast and remember what’s coming.