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

19 November, 2025 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...]

FREE Mother’s Day Social Media, Background, and MS Publisher Templates

30 April, 2023 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

I created a selection of FREE Background and then Social Media and MS Publisher templates for you for last-minute Mother’s Day invitations and here the links to the posts and previews of each of them. Many of these can also be useful anytime for Women's Ministry Communications.

Mother’s Day backgrounds that you can also use in any Women’s Ministry Communications

Canva and Template Link: https://wp.me/pDky9-9KM
YouTube video preview link: https://youtu.be/H6KzVntZMrI

Free Social Media and MS Publisher Invitations, set #1

Canva and Template Link: https://wp.me/pDky9-9JP

YoutTube Preview Link: https://youtu.be/B2uScuu5Vfg

Free Social Media and MS Publisher Invitations, set #2

Canva and Template Link: https://wp.me/pDky9-9K2
YouTube Preview Link: https://youtu.be/kYC-rXEDhD8

We are at the half-way point with Lent and here are 40 challenging images for you to use however you want

21 March, 2022 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Lenten Set of images from Effective Church Communications — This is the first of 40 images for you to download and use during Lent or anytime to help people grow in their walk with Jesus.

Lent isn't just for Lent. What I mean by that is Lent is a specific time when we can focus on denying ourselves so we can live more fully for God.

It is about so much more than giving up chocolate or social media or whatever other external thing we choose during this time. At its best, Lent is a time for quiet self-evaluation so we can grow more deeply to become who God wants us to be.

In that self-evaluation, it's time to add virtues, practices to our lives that will help us become more like Jesus.

What I have for you to inspire you during Lent

To guide you through Lent, I created a set of 40 inspirational images and I then wrote a brief challenge or thought-provoking idea to go with them.

I put the challenges into a free downloadable journal for you, plus they are on daily Instagrams, and in my favorite form, on a daily short YouTube video (less than a minute), where I read them to you along with a challenge and prayer. Please check that out--CLICK HERE to go to the channel. [Read more...]

FREE PRINTABLES, images for Mother’s Day in all formats and sizes

22 April, 2021 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Prov 31:30, to celebrate any woman who serves God — These images can be printed up in a variety of sizes to honor women at Mother's Day or any time.

This image is part of a collection of printable images you can download and use in any digital format in 96 dpi and also in high-resolution PDFs and 300 dpi jpegs that can be printed at large sizes through online printing shops. I can only give you some of the smaller sizes here (because of upload size limitations), but the larger sizes are now available at the Bibleverse Shop!

Please click on the images and a larger view will come up.

I chose this verse because though it is a great one to share for Mother's Day, it applies to all women, biological moms or spiritual moms, or any woman who deserves praise because she fears the Lord.

At the bottom of this article are downloadable files that contain the images in these sizes and formats including:

INSTAGRAM and FACEBOOK size 96 dpi images are useful for any way you want to use them in a digital, social media, or web format.
Ready to print PDFs, 2 sizes in one folder for 8.5 and A4—the most common for a full-size sheet printed out in with standard church or office printers. Plus high-resolution 300 dpi jpegs.

It's now here! The Bibleverse Shop!

I now have a system and a place (the Bibleverse Shop) where I can also provide a selection of sizes and formats that can be sized from small images to 24x36 and 30x30 in both high-resolution PDFs and high-resolution 300 dpi jpg. You can use these files to have the images printed at your local print shops, or online with Costco, Vista Print, Staples, and many more.

At your home or office, you can print them out and then put them into frames for gifts or for inspiration around your church. The mockups below illustrate some of the ideas. The Bibleverse Shop is now OPEN and these images show what you'll be able to do with the files on the site.