\documentclass[14pt]{beamer} \usepackage{fontspec} \defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures=TeX} \usepackage{polyglossia} \usepackage{tikz} \setmainlanguage[variant=british]{english} \setbeamertemplate{background canvas}% {% \tikz\node[opacity=0.66] {\includegraphics[width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]{background.png}}; } \title{We Can Be Heroes} \author{Matěj Cepl} \date{June 9th} \begin{document} \begingroup \setbeamertemplate{background canvas}{% \includegraphics[width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]{front-page-bg.jpg}} \setbeamercolor{normal text}{fg=black} \setbeamercolor{title}{fg=black} \setbeamercolor{author}{fg=white} \setbeamercolor{date}{fg=white} % trick taken from https://topanswers.xyz/tex?q=1989 \tikzset{ use page relative coordinates/.style={ shift={(current page.south west)}, x={(current page.south east)}, y={(current page.north west)} }, } \setbeamertemplate{title page}{ \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay,use page relative coordinates] \node[text width=3cm] at (0.43,0.38) {\centering\usebeamercolor[fg]{title}\usebeamerfont{title}\inserttitle\par}; \node[text width=3cm] at (0.15,0.15) {\usebeamercolor[fg]{date}\usebeamerfont{date}\insertdate\par}; \node[text width=3cm] at (0.7,0.15) {\usebeamercolor[fg]{author}\usebeamerfont{date}\insertauthor\par}; \end{tikzpicture} } \begin{frame}[plain] \titlepage \end{frame} \endgroup \begin{frame}{} \begin{itemize} \item There are obviously too many women of faith to consider any of them individually as the typical representative of all of them \end{itemize} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{} \begin{itemize} \item One of the strongest motivators of our behaviour is effort to avoid pain. By any means and for any costs. \item The only way how to get through the pain is to stay in it until we are truly relieved by our Lord. \item If we step aside from it, especially by some bad means, it hurts our soul. \end{itemize} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{} \begin{quote} Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, eat something.” But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.” So the disciples began to say to one another, “No one brought him anything to eat, did they?” Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work. …” (John 4:31-34) \end{quote} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{} \begin{itemize} \item Submit your pain in prayer for the Lord to resolve it, look for a place where you could be useful in its resolution; \textbf{If} he decides to call you to help with it, take it. \item Do you want to help or do you want to change the world? \item Is your central focus you helping? Link together others and encouraging. \end{itemize} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{} \begin{itemize} \item Are you focused on your goal and you are willing to let other issues go if they jeopardise it? \item Are you persuaded that “small work” (“práce drobná”, the phrase of the first Czechoslovak president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk) is more fruitful and blessed than revolution and destruction? \end{itemize} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{} \begin{itemize} \item {\huge MINISTRY TIME} \end{itemize} \end{frame} \end{document}