Lent/Easter 2025:
Webinars:
- Planning your 2025 Lenten Sermon Series, an article about Synod of the Covenant’s, Chip Hardwick’s recent online workshop. The article shares many current resources and ideas – watch the workshop recording
- Lent and Easter Messy Meet Up, Wednesday, January 29 from 1:30 to 2:30 on Zoom: Click here to register (Learn about Messy Church.)
- Lent Worship Planning Roundtable from CRC, Thursday, February 13 at 12:00 pm and 6:30 pm on Zoom: Click here to register
Themes:
- A Sanctified Art 2025 series – Everything In Between: Meeting God in the midst of extremes – Based on the Narrative Lectionary (Year 3), allows the Gospel of Luke to guide us through Lent, $- Click here to purchase printed devotional books or prayer cards by January 31st – Get 10% off the entire bundle by midnight, January 31st by using the code: BOTH/AND
- Illustrated Ministry 2025 theme – Bread of Life: Gather, Savor, Share
- Worship Design Studio Lent 2025 Purveyors of Awe: Elements For Curating A Life of Spiritual Depth, non-lectionary, $ – Click here and scroll down to find other lent series – For a limited time, use the promo Lent10 to receive a 10% discount.
- Turning Over Tables: A Lenten Call for Disrupting Power by Kathy Escobar, 2025, WJK, $ – read an excerpt – download free digital resources
- From Wilderness to Glory, Lent and Easter for Everyone by N. T. Wright, 2025, WJK, $ – read an excerpt – download free digital resources
- Words That Changed the World: The Message of Jesus, A complete sermon series for Lent by Adam Hamilton, diving into the most important themes of Jesus’ teachings with free videos, graphics, and more: Click Here & Youth Lenten series with free videos, graphics, and more: Click here
- Pause: Spending Lent with the Psalms,” by Elizabeth F. Caldwell, 2023, WJK, $ – Read an excerpt – download free digital resources
- Luke: Jesus and the Outsiders, Outcasts, and Outlaws by Adam Hamilton, 2023 with worship and media resources, $: Click here
- Hard and Holy Work, A Lenten Journey through the Book of Exodus, by Tyler D. Mayfield & Mary Alice Birdwhistell, 2024, WJK, $ – Read an excerpt – download free digital resources
Lent Worship Resources:
- The Cross Tree: Involving children in Lenten worship, a Reformed Worship article, 2023: Click here
- Season of Beauty: A Lent and Easter Treasury of Readings, Poems, and Prayers by Editors at Paraclete Press, 2024
- The Broken Pot: A Children’s Message Series Studying the Season of Lent: Click here
- Burying The Alleluia: Click here and here(UMC) and here(Get Lit)
- Alleluia Butterfly stickers from Illustrated Ministry
- Ash Wednesday Liturgical service from Presbyterian Outlook, 2023: Click here
- Worshipping With Children website by certified PC(USA) educator Carolyn Brown: Click here
- One Great Hour of Sharing, PC(USA) Bulletin Insert , Media Tool Kit, Social Media Images, Sharing Calendar, and Leader’s Guide
- Feasting on the Word Lenten Companion: A Thematic Resource for Preaching and Worship by David L. Bartlett, Barbara Brown Taylor, Kimberly Bracken Long, 2014, $: Click here
Holy Week Worship Resources:
- Holy Week Story Eggs, $12: Click here
- Ecopalms for Palm Sunday to promote environmental and social justice, March 21, 12:00 noon order cut-off date, $: Click here
- How to make a palm leaf cross youtube tutorial: Click here
- Free Palm Frond coloring page from Illustrated Ministry: Click here
- Illustrated Ministry palm coloring and worship resources: Click here
- Make Holy Week Easter Flags (not year C): Click here
- Create a Resurrection Garden: Click here
- Holy Week Crafts: Click here
- Holy Week in a Box: Click here
- A Holy Week Fair: Click here
- God’s Big Easter Story: A Holy Week Journey For Families using Dwell materials: Click here
- What a a one-page handout or a download of practical ideas for celebrating Easter can look like for the families at your church from the Presbyterian Church of Sweet Hollow: Click here
- A set of contemplative tactile stations for Maunday Thursday/Good Friday, year A, from Intergen: Click here
- Holy Week Family Worship: Outline for Maundy Thursday & Good Friday from Building Faith: Click here
- Holy Week ideas from Building Faith: Click here
- God’s Big Easter Path: An Intergenerational Journey From Palm Sunday to Jesus’ Resurrection from Family Faith Formation (CRC): Click here
- Intergen free Lent and Easter resources: Click here
Intergenerational/Family:
- 40 Acts of Kindness – Be a RAKAVIST – An Act of Kindness from Salvation Army International
- Lenten Calendars – Illustrated Ministry Lenten Spiral, $ – SALT’s Bless This Mess, $ – One Great Hour of Sharing Lenten calendar
- Lent themed videos from the Skit Guys, $: Click here
- Lent/Easter Holy Moments from PRC: Click here
- Stations of the Cross resources: Illustrated Ministry, and on this PRC Lent Resource Page, scroll down and they will be on the right-hand side.
- Lent in Three Minutes, a video from Busted Halo: Click here
- Lent, Easter, & Spring resources from GenOn Ministries, $ & free: Click here
- Butterflies Themed event activities: Multigenerational milkweed planting – Milkweed is the food that monarchs need to make their migration, and this is a great Holy Week connection. Just when something is buried, new life bursts forth. Be sure to take a little read hereto see best practices for milkweed planting and for even more information and seasonal creation care awareness, look at the good work here at Journey North. Hatch your own butterflies: Click here. Use with the Alleluia Coloring Page & Poster from Illustrated Ministry: Click here, create some of these butterfly crafts: Click here
- Praying in Color, 2022 (year C) calendar & activity suggestions: Click here
- 40-Day “Love Builds Up” Lenten Family Challenge from SALT: Click here
- 2 Minute Tape Labyrinth construction video: Click here
- The Labyrinth Company: Click here
- Children’s Activity & Coloring sheets (PDF) FREE from Open Life Church: Click here
- A Lenten Journey – this site offers prayer practices , rituals, and activities for faith formation for each week of Lent: Click here
- 40 Acts Lent Resource from Stewardship: Click here
Storytelling on You tube:
- The Legend of The Three Trees: Click here
- Trillia Newbell reads The Garden, the Curtain, and the Cross: Click here
- Jesus Storybook Bible Resurrection: Click here
Curated Playlists:
- Sacred Ordinary Days playlist: Click here
- A Sanctified Art 2024 playlist: Click here
Communications:
- Six Ways to Help You Master Last Minute Easter Communications, a 3/2023 Church Juice article: Click here
- Free Easter verse images for social media : Click here
- Church Open Network Easter resources: Click here
- Easter Service PR Planning – 10 Things To Consider, 2024 article from The Unstuck Group: Click here
Devotions:
- Women Who Followed Jesus; Forty Devotions on the Journey to Easter by Dandi Daley Mackall, 2024, Paraclete, $
- ‘Twas the Season of Lent: Devotions and Stories for the Lenten and Easter Seasons, 2024 by Glenys Nellist, $
- Holy Week Devotions for families & singles from the UMC: Click here
- May It Be So: Forty Days with the Lord’s Prayer, 2019 by Justin McRoberts, $
- 2024 Lenten Devotions from the Outlook: Local Pilgrim, $38: Click here
- 2022-23 Free Lent Resource: Daily Reflection-Action Calendar to Cultivate Creation Justice from Creative Justice Ministries: Click here
- Journey To The Cross from d365, Devotions 365 days a year: Click here
- Return to Me Daily Lenten Devotions, $: Click here
- Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals For A Life of Imperfection, 2022, by Kate Bowler and Jessica Ritchie, $.
- A Way other than Our Own: Devotions for Lent by Walter Brueggeman, 2016, $
- *Walking With Jesus: Lenten Devotions by Paul Strobol, 2015, $.
- *Living Into Lent , 2020, by Donald McKim, $.
Resource pages:
- Sacred Ordinary Days Lent resource page, curated music, books, podcasts, and more: Click here
- Illustrated Ministry: Click here
- Lent and Easter Resource page from PRC: Click here
- Presbyterian Outlook Lenten Archives: Click here
- Messy Church Lent & Easter Resources: Click here
Studies:
- Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life by Tish Harrison Warren, 2019 $
- Wild Hope: Stories for Lent from the Vanishing, Paraclete 1/2020 $
- Lent Study Packs from The Thoughtful Christian for youth and adults: Click here $
- Finding Jesus In The Psalms: A Lenten Journey by Barb Roose, 2023 $
- Lent in Plain Sight: A Devotion Through 10 Objects by Jill Duffield, 2020, A book review with suggestions for using, $: Click here for a review with suggestions of how you might use this book.
- Studies on the Cokesbury site: Click here
Studies In Our Resource Center To Borrow:
- The Grace of Les Miserables by Matt Rawle 2021
- Entering the Passion of Jesus by Amy-Jill Levine 2018
- Witness at the Cross, Amy-Jill Levine, 2021
- Psalmist’s Cry: Scripts for Embracing Lament by Walter Brueggemann, 2011
- Give Up Something Bad for Lent by James W. Moore, 2012.
- 24 Hours That Changed the World by Adam Hamilton, 2010.
- The Walk by Adam Hamilton, 2019
- Forgiveness by Adam Hamilton, 2012
- Forgivenss: A Lenten Study by Marjorie J. Thompson, 2014
- Easter From The Backside by J. Ellsworth Kalas, 2008
- One Thousand Gifts, A Dare To Live Fully Right Where You Are by Ann Voskamp, 2011
- Soul Keeping: Caring For The Most Important Part of You, 2014 by John Ortberg