spill the beans
worship and learning resources for all ages
worship and learning resources for all ages
spill the beans
Journeying with Luke
an original lectionary from StB
Having spent 2025/6 exploring all of Luke's Gospel, we now start a year in The Acts of the Apostles with Issue 61 of Spill the Beans now published and ready.
The Spill the Beans Resource Team is utilising a fresh two year cycle that we have developed ourselves. This is our Lukan Lectionary, covering the two volumes written by Saint Luke within the New Testament. This is our fifth issue in the two year cycle and covers Advent, Christmas and Epiphany seasons.
A full plan of the readings is available here, extracted from Issue 57 (note we are making some small tweaks as we go!).
about us
At the beginning of 2009 a conversation began amongst a couple, then a few, then a group about collaboratively creating resources that enabled us to tell the story of faith in a worship context and within age groups for younger people and teens. Spill the Beans was born as the result of that conversation and has grown and developed over the intervening years.
The ethos has remained the same, however. It is all about story. For we believe story is the lifeblood of faith. In story we can tell the truth and speak with honesty about things for which there are not yet words. Story contains mystery and is the poetry that forms faith. Stories grow as we grow and can reveal new truths at different times in our lives. So we believe giving stories to people is one of the most important things we can do in sharing our faith. Children and adults hold stories in their being and keep coming back to them throughout life. Our culture is stored in story. The same is true for our faith. Spill the Beans is a work of love. None of the contributors are paid for their contributions, these contributions are written and prepared with our own congregations in mind. Instead of working in isolation, we bring this work together, give it some spit and polish, and share it with others. This is how we can keep the cost so low.
In addition, we regularly pay it forward by using surplus monies to support other new ministries and projects.
cost
Spill the Beans costs £12 per issue so it will cost you £48 over a year.
We invite you to buy only one issue per congregation and then copy the material as much as you wish for as many are involved in your worship and learning.
partners
We have already been engaging with a partnership with Scottish Bible Society which has seen the provision of a thematic Intergenerational Event in past issues. This will continue into our new series.
The team is also delighted that we have begun a creative collaboration with Fischy Music (www.fischy,com). Our shared vision is to introduce new songs with each issue of Spill the Beans. In issue 33 for our new RCL series we introduce two new Advent and Christmas songs: Sharing God’s Christmas Light and The Angels Say.
Music and words are provided in the issue. Downloadable audio tracks (full and backing) are provided online (http://spillbeans.org.uk). This is an exciting new development and we hope you will find the results of this collaboration with Fischy Music a blessing for your worship in the years to come.