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Free Christmas graphics inspired by Christmas Carols, formatted for Instagram and Postcards

29 November, 2020 By Yvon Prehn 2 Comments

Free Christmas Card Social media images based on Christmas Carols
Christmas carols are inspirational for more than singing. They can also inspire our Christmas communications.

Christmas carols are not only wonderful to sing this time of year, but many of the lines in them are both inspiring and encouraging to our faith.

My pastor recently preached a sermon challenging up as to whether we had room in our lives for Jesus. In addition to finding it personally motivating, I also realized it would make a great theme for a Christmas graphic, Instagram image, and postcard.

As is usual with these things, one thing led to another, and I created an entire set of images that you can use for whatever you want, plus they are formatted for Instagram and postcards. In addition, I did a layout of the postcards in MS Publisher and created ready-to-print PDFs that you can print off and use.

Below are pictures of the images and below the images are links to download a ZIP file that has them in various formats.

If you would like to create your own Christmas communications using Christmas Carols

Little Christmas angel
This is another one of the images in the Christmas set below.

All of the wording for the images below came from Christmas carols that are now in the Public Domain and that you can quote freely. Following is the link to a website that has a useful list of Christmas carols, both those that are in the Public Domain and those that are still under copyright protection:

https://www.easysonglicensing.com/pages/help/articles/copyright-law/christmas-songs-in-the-public-domain.aspx

Note: if a song you want isn't on the list above, simply google it, as I had to do for one I wanted.

After you know which ones are free to use, it is then helpful to have the words printed out. Here is a site that has that for you:

http://ldsguy.tripod.com/Christmas.carols.html [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Christmas, Free Social Media Images, FREE Templates, INSTAGRAM Images Tagged With: Free Christmas church materials, Free Christmas Images, Free Christmas Instagram images, Free Christmas materials using Christmas carols, Free Christmas postcards

The PERFECT VACATION—FREE Instagram and other media–and an encouragement for your congregation, when you can’t do traditional vacations

19 July, 2020 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

The Perfect Vacation in Jesus, images and commentary
Though it might be challenging to take the vacation we'd like, in Jesus, we can always find the true rest and renewal our soul needs.

Staying at home isn't so hard when it's windy or rainy and there are schoolwork and chores to be done.

But it's a whole different situation when school is out, the sun is shining, and it's time for a vacation! We want out! We want fun! We want anything but feeling guilty about leaving the house.

But. . . . . . no, the virus is not going to magically disappear. So what do we do when everything in us screams we want to get out of the house, but our sensible mind, considerate of long-term health and family, says, stop and think a minute?

This is very real to me

After being a virtual prisoner in my home for almost two years because I couldn't walk, after my surgery to fix things, I couldn't wait to get out.

But. . . . . .

I won't give away my struggle and spiritual resolution (that's in the Caption/Commentary below), but it motivated the Media Made for You set included today. I am going to be moving these to a paid section of the website in a while, but I'm still moving pretty slow so it's all free for now. Below are

  • Thumbnails of the images. These are available in ZIP files with formats and sizes for Instagram, Pinterest, Presentation size, Facebook post, 600 x 600 jpg files, and MS Publisher Ready-to-Print PDFs.
  • A copy of the Caption/Commentary I did for Instagram. You have my permission to use this in any way you want if you want to use the images on a newsletter, print, or email or whatever. Please, however, if you use it, do not edit it. I am going to be doing more of this. Somehow the images and the microblog format of the caption space works for what I feel the Lord wants me to communicate now. It isn't the usual use of INSTAGRAM for many I know and I'll be experimenting with it. If you want to simply capture and share the image and caption, you can follow my INSTAGRAM account: https://www.instagram.com/yvonprehn/
  • Of course, you can also use the images in any format you want and write your own caption or commentary, or not even use one if you don't want.
  • Below the commentary are the ZIP Files for you to freely download

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Filed Under: Covid19 Communication Related, INSTAGRAM Images, Media Made for You, Social Media Images Tagged With: Free Instagram verses, Free social medial images, rest in Jesus, spiritual refreshment, vacation in Jesus

Father’s Day and Men’s Ministry INSTAGRAM Images

16 June, 2020 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

FREE Father's Day Instagram ImagesI made two versions of the following images for you not only for Father's Day, but for anytime for Men's Ministry. Below each image set is a ZIP file that has the images.

For a large selection of materials for Father's Day and Men's Materials are all on the TEMPLATE section on Father's Day. Go to the link: HERE. Flyers, slides, business cards--many things are free and downloadable for you.

Father's Day Images

To download the ZIP file of the images above, click the following link: Happy Father's Day, INSTAGRAM 2020

Men's Ministry Quotes

To download the ZIP file of the images above, click the following link:  Fathers Day & Men's Ministry INSTAGRAM Images

 

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Media Made for You: On the topic of Prayer

6 May, 2020 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Variety of Social media images to remind us to prayReminders to pray are always useful and here is a redone set of images for you in a variety of social media formats as well as MS Publisher and sized for PowerPoint.

Prayer social media and postcard images to share

To download the jpg., low res file, CLICK THIS Link: Prayer, jpg

To download the INSTAGRAM IMAGES FILE, CLICK THIS Link: Prayer INSTAGRAM

To download the PINTEREST file, CLICK THIS Link: Prayer, PINTEREST

To download the FACEBOOK POST file, CLICK THIS Link: Prayer, FACEBOOK

To download the PDF postcards and MS Publisher file, CLICK THIS Link: Prayer, MS Publisher and Postcards PDF

To download PowerPoint size images, CLICK THIS Link: Prayer, POWERPOINT size

 

 

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Filed Under: Facebook Post Images, Free Social Media Images, Instagram Images, Social Media Tagged With: Facebook images on Prayer, Free Instagram Images on Prayer, Free Postcard Templates on Prayer

PODCAST: Was Jesus a zombie—NO irreverence intended, but an honestly asked question and an answer

16 October, 2018 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Why Jesus isn't a Zombie
Not an irreverent question, but an opportunity to share the gospel at Halloween.

I was challenged with this question twice in one week from people who were quite serious and not affiliated with any church in any way. After I got over my initial shock, I realized it was a question worth an answer, and might be something other churches may be asked.

To answer I did several things:

  1. A Podcast on my new Bible Podcast, Bible 805. I've been asked to do this for a long time by people in my Sunday School Classes and I finally decided to start it. In the next week or so I'll have lots more on there and I'll tell you about the system and using and how to access it, but for now you can listen to the podcast below and following it is
  2. The Podcast script, which you can use if you want to share the content in any way.
  3. The gallery of images in social media sizes below you can download if you want to share what I've written or anything on your own as a way to use Halloween as an opportunity to share the gospel. You can click the following link to download a zip file of the images: Not a ZOMBIE social media image set

The podcast

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