100+ Creative Ministry Resources for Lent & Easter
This Lent marks our tenth year crafting art and resources, which means we have a large inventory of materials to support you through the seasons of Lent and Easter. To save you time (and the hassle of searching your way through older resources in our shop), we thought we’d organize all we have to offer. Get your scrolling & clicking finger ready, because there’s a lot in here!
If you’re familiar with our work, you may know that we bundle our resources because they often overlap in use, and because we want to equip you with comprehensive materials for a whole season. Our newest Lent resource bundle, Tell Me Something Good, focuses on the heart of Jesus’ teachings, like radical welcome, love for neighbor, and care for the vulnerable. Click here to check out these resources first! You’ll also see the individual components of our Tell Me Something Good bundle organized in the categories below.
Happy scrolling & browsing!
WORDS FOR WORSHIP
From poetic prayers, to full worship liturgies (with creative elements), to sermon-planning guides, these materials offer fresh, insightful, and sometimes lyrical words for worship.
Liturgy for weekly worship
[This resource is one of many included in our Tell Me Something Good Lent Bundle]
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A collection of over 50 prayers, this resource provides fresh language for worship inspired by the Tell Me Something Good scriptures and themes for Lent. We’ve included liturgy for: Ash Wednesday, the 1st-5th Sundays in Lent, Palm/Passion Sunday, and Easter Sunday. (For Maundy Thursday, we have created a separate, creative worship service available here.)
For each of these holy days, we provide: A call to worship, a call to confession, a prayer of confession, words of forgiveness, a prayer for illumination, prayers of the people, and an affirmation of faith. We have also included a benediction and affirmation of faith for the series and Communion liturgy for Easter Sunday. We hope you will copy/paste or adapt these prayers for your corporate worship (with credit).
Liturgy written by Rev. Sarah (Are) Speed.
[This resource is one of many included in our Everything In Between Lent Bundle]
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A collection of over 50 prayers, this resource provides fresh language for worship inspired by the scriptures and weekly themes for our Lent series, Everything In Between. We’ve included liturgy for Ash Wednesday, the 1st-5th Sundays in Lent, Palm/Passion Sunday, and Easter Sunday. (For Holy Week, we have created a separate, creative worship service available here.)
For each of these holy days, we provide: A call to worship, a call to confession, a prayer of confession, words of forgiveness, a prayer for illumination, and an affirmation of faith. We have also included communion liturgy for Easter Sunday and a general benediction and invocation to use throughout the series. We hope you will copy/paste or adapt these prayers for your corporate worship (with credit).
Liturgy written by Rev. Sarah (Are) Speed.
[This resource is one of many included in our Wandering Heart Lent Bundle]
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A collection of over 50 prayers, this resource provides fresh language for worship inspired by the scriptures and theme for our Lent series, Wandering Heart. We’ve included liturgy for 7 Sundays: the 1st-5th Sundays in Lent, Palm/Passion Sunday, Easter Sunday, and the 2nd Sunday of Easter. (For Holy Week, we have created a separate, creative worship service available here.)
For each of these Sundays, we provide: A call to worship, a call to confession, a prayer of confession, words of forgiveness, a prayer for illumination, and an affirmation of faith. We have also included communion liturgy for Easter Sunday and the 2nd Sunday of Easter, as well as a general benediction to use throughout the series. We hope you will copy/paste or adapt these prayers for your corporate worship (with credit).
Liturgy written by Rev. Sarah (Are) Speed.
[This resource is one of many included in our Seeking Lent Bundle for Year A]
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A collection of over 40 prayers, this resource provides fresh language for worship inspired by the RCL Year A scriptures for Ash Wednesday through Easter Sunday and our Lent theme, Seeking. We’ve included liturgy for 8 weeks and holy days: Ash Wednesday, the 1st-5th Sundays in Lent, Palm/Passion Sunday, and Easter Sunday. (For Good Friday, we have created a separate, creative worship service available here. You can find a worship outline for Maundy Thursday on our blog here.)
For each of these holy days, we provide: A call to worship, a call to confession, a prayer of confession, words of forgiveness, a prayer for illumination, and an affirmation of faith. We have also included Communion liturgy for Easter Sunday, and a general benediction to use throughout the series. We hope you will copy/paste or adapt these prayers for your corporate worship (with credit).
Liturgy written by Rev. Sarah (Are) Speed.
[This resource is one of many included in our Full to the Brim Lent Bundle for Year C]
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A collection of over 57 prayers, this resource provides fresh language for worship inspired by the RCL Year C scriptures for Ash Wednesday through Easter and our Lent theme, Full to the Brim. We’ve included liturgy for 9 weeks and holy days: Ash Wednesday, the 1st-5th Sundays in Lent, Palm/Passion Sunday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday. (For Maundy Thursday, we have created a separate full creative worship service.)
For each of these holy days, we provide: A call to worship, a call to confession, a prayer of confession, words of forgiveness, a prayer for illumination, and an affirmation of faith. We have also included a general communion liturgy (for use any week of Lent), communion liturgy for Easter, and a benediction for the series. We hope you will copy/paste or adapt these prayers for your corporate worship (with credit).
Liturgy written by Rev. Sarah (Are) Speed.
[This resource is one of many included in our Again & Again Lent Bundle for Year B]
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A collection of over 50 prayers, this resource provides fresh language for worship inspired by the RCL scriptures and our Lent theme, Again & Again, A Lenten Refrain. We’ve included liturgy for 10 weeks and holy days: Ash Wednesday, the 1st-5th Sundays in Lent, Palm/Passion Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday. For each of these holy days, we provide: A call to worship, a call to confession, a prayer of confession, words of forgiveness, a prayer for illumination, and an affirmation of faith. We hope you will copy/paste or adapt these prayers for your corporate worship (with credit).
Liturgy written by Rev. Sarah Are.
[This resource is also included in our Wilderness Lent Bundle]
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A collection of 20 liturgies, this resource provides fresh language for worship inspired by the RCL scriptures and our Lenten theme, Wilderness. Download includes a Call to Worship and Prayer of Confession for each Sunday in Lent, as well as full liturgy for Easter Sunday. We hope you will copy/paste or adapt these prayers for your corporate worship (with credit).
Liturgy written by Sarah Are.
[This liturgy is included in our Cultivating & Letting Go Lent Bundle]
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A collection of 13 liturgies, this resource provides language for worship connecting to the Lenten themes of cultivating and letting go. We hope you will copy/paste or adapt these prayers for your corporate worship (with credit).
Liturgy written by Sarah Are.
[This resource is 1 of 7 in our 2018 EMBODIED Lent Bundle of resources]
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Prayers written by: Sarah Are
This is a collection of 12 prayers inspired by our Embodied theme. Collection includes: prayers for embodiment, calls to worship, prayers of confession, prayer of illumination and prayer of gratitude. Some prayers are more poetic in nature; others are formatted as call/response for worship liturgy.
Print and distribute these prayers for your congregation to encourage the spiritual practice of prayer throughout Lent, and/or adapt them for your worship (with credit). If you are a pastor, you may also use these words to inspire your own liturgy and sermons.
[This resource is one of many in our 2017 Lent Bundle]
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Prayers written by: Sarah Are
This is a collection of 21 prayers for the season of Lent. Collection includes prayers of adoration/thanksgiving, confession, supplication and intercession. Some prayers are written in prose, others are poems in stanza form. Print and distribute these prayers for your congregation to encourage the spiritual practice of prayer throughout Lent, and/or adapt them for your worship (with credit). If you are a pastor, you may also use these words to inspire your own liturgy and sermons.
[This resource is also included in our A New Creation Mini Bundle for Easter]
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A full order of worship, this liturgy provides language for an Easter Sunday service or any worship throughout the Easter season. We encourage you to use these prayers as they are or adapt them (with credit) for your Easter services.
Liturgy by: Sarah Are
Full orders of worship (w/ creative elements)
A Simple Tenebrae Service for Good Friday (Free)
[This resource is one of many included in our Everything In Between Lent Bundle]
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This creative liturgy invites us to sit in the holy in-between of Holy Week with singing, prayer, communion, scripture, imaginative monologues, and silence. With three movements that follow Jesus from the Last Supper to the tomb, this complete worship service could be used at any point during Holy Week. This liturgy also includes a printable poem to send home with worshipers to read on Holy Saturday.
Liturgy by guest contributor Avery Arden.
[This resource is one of many included in our Wandering Heart Lent Bundle]
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This creative liturgy invites you to walk “the way of sorrows” to the cross, but through the eyes and experiences of one of Jesus’ closest disciples. As a nod to the Stations of the Cross, this service highlights Peter’s role in the crucifixion narrative. In this way, we follow Jesus to his death with Peter as our companion. By focusing on Peter, we imagine how we might have acted and behaved had we been there as one of Jesus’ followers and friends.
This liturgy was created by Rev. T. Denise Anderson and features her original artwork, The Descent, inspired by Peter’s denials.
[This resource is one of many included in our Seeking Lent Bundle for Year A]
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This complete service for Good Friday, adaptable for in-person or online worship, invites worshipers into an intimate and vulnerable space for silence and sorrow, placing worshipers “in the round” and using a single familiar hymn to remove the need for bulletins. 3-minute silences, during which the worship space grows progressively darker, are placed throughout the service to remember the three hours Christ was on the cross.
Liturgy by guest contributor Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow.
[This resource is one of many included in our Full to the Brim Lent Bundle for Year C]
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Maundy Thursday witnesses God’s invitations to encounter, to connect, and to be transformed. Through three movements in this creative liturgy, worshipers will visit the baptismal font, trusting in their goodness and God’s loving claim on their lives; they will experience the nourishment of the Table, encountering Jesus’s body through ritual; and they will explore how to live out Jesus’s new commandment to love others as he has loved us. This complete service can be adapted for in-person or online use.
Liturgy by Adrian White.
[This resource is one of many included in our Again & Again Lent Bundle for Year B]
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The beginning of Lent brings a new invitation—an invitation into a deeper life of faith, an invitation to renewed spirituality, and an invitation into deeper awareness of God and self. This liturgy is designed to carve out space for personal reflection and intention setting at the start, knowing that the more honest we are with our hopes for this season, the more meaningful this season can become. This liturgy was written to be used by individuals or young families at home, but it could be adapted for small group use as well.
[This resource is one of many included in our Again & Again Lent Bundle for Year B]
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This service honors the ancient story of Jesus’ death while recognizing the ways this narrative repeats itself again and again throughout the past and present. It provides multi-sensory ways to engage, confess, and lament, creating a profound and prophetic Holy Week worship experience. Outlining 3 pathways, the liturgy can be used for online worship, for an in-person service in a sanctuary, or for journeying through physical stations you prepare. Designed by Rev. T. Denise Anderson, the service features her original artwork and artist statement, Pietà: “Woman, Behold Your Son; Behold Your Mother—a sermon project exploring the story of Mamie Till-Mobley (the mother of Emmett Till) and the grief of Mary, mother of Jesus, beholding her son on the cross.
[This resource is also included in our Wilderness Lent Bundle]
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When trudging through the wilderness, songs give us strength and courage to keep moving. This service interweaves song and poetry within the passion narrative to keep us singing on the journey to the cross. This is intended to be a Holy Week service to experience the fullness of the story of the last days before the resurrection. It would be appropriate for either Maundy Thursday or Good Friday, and is particularly intended for churches that only have one service during Holy Week and want to encompass the whole narrative in that one service.
Liturgy includes numerous suggestions (with licensing info) for the hymns and sung responses. Download includes sheet music for two original hymns by Slats Toole.
Liturgy, poetry, and original hymns by guest contributor, Slats Toole.
[This resource is also included in our Wilderness Lent Bundle]
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This creative worship service for Palm/Passion Sunday follows Matthew’s telling of the events from Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem to his arrest in the garden of Gethsemane, highlighting a few narrative moments in between. This service is designed to be a hybrid of worship and dramatic reading. The hope is to engage people in a new way using the ancient Jewish tradition of midrash, helping teach and immerse them in the narrative flow of the Passion story.
Invite members to be midrash readers, embodying characters who each testify to who Jesus is. Get creative with blocking and offering the midrash with emotion and authenticity.
Liturgy & midrash by Sarah Are
[This resource is one of many in our Cultivating & Letting Go Lent Bundle]
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This service is designed to provide worshipers with space to pray and reflect on the needs in their lives, whether they are seeking healing or wholeness for themselves, a loved one, or the earth. Incorporating written reflection, prayer stations, and a visual meditation, the service flows through 3 major Movements:
1. MOVEMENT ONE | Letting Go of Anxiety and Busyness to Cultivate Calm
2. MOVEMENT TWO | Letting Go of Fear to Cultivate Confidence in God
3. MOVEMENT THREE | Letting Go of Doubt to Cultivate Hope
[This resource is one of many in our Holy Week Bundle]
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Written by: Sarah Are
This resource offers poetry reflections (to be offered as spoken word in lieu of a traditional sermon) on three elements present in the narrative of Jesus' final hours: water (foot washing), bread (the Last Supper), and silver (Judas' betrayal). Poetry reflections are integrated within a full Maundy Thursday order of worship.
It starts with water—just as creation started—rooting us in baptism and the knowledge that we are claimed and known by God. The service progresses to Communion, where we are eschatologically reminded that there is always room at the table for us, and that Jesus—fully human, fully God—indeed walked this earth with dusty feet and ate with his friends. Finally, in the turn to silver, we come face to face with our forgetful and flawed nature. We are reminded how easily we can turn from the promise of baptism and the beauty of Communion to betrayal.
[Click the photos on the left to preview excerpts of the poetry and liturgy].
Poetry for worship & prayer
[This resource is one of many included in our Tell Me Something Good Lent Bundle]
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This is a collection of 12 poems inspired by our Tell Me Something Good weekly themes and scriptures for Lent–Easter. Honest and intimate, these poems offer meditations that we hope become prayers of your own. Adapt them for worship liturgy, use them to open and close programming events, or print them for members in your community to read and return to throughout the Lenten season.
Prayers written by Rev. Sarah Speed.
[This resource is one of many included in our Everything In Between Lent Bundle]
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This is a collection of 11 poems inspired by our Everything In Between weekly themes and scriptures for Lent–Easter. Honest and intimate, these poems offer meditations that we hope become prayers of your own. Adapt them for worship liturgy, use them to open and close programming events, or print them for members in your community to read and return to throughout the Lenten season.
Prayers written by Rev. Sarah Speed.
[This resource is one of many included in our Wandering Heart Lent Bundle]
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This is a collection of 12 poems inspired by our Wandering Heart weekly themes and scriptures for Lent–Easter. Honest and intimate, these poems offer meditations that we hope become prayers of your own. Adapt them for worship liturgy, use them to open and close programming events, or print them as they are for members in your community to read and return to throughout the Lenten season.
Prayers written by Rev. Sarah Speed.
[This resource is one of many included in our Seeking Lent Bundle for Year A]
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This collection of 10 poetic prayers explores our Seeking weekly sub-themes in light of the RCL (Year A) scriptures for Lent–Easter. Honest and intimate, these poems offer meditations that we hope become prayers of your own. Adapt them for worship liturgy, use them to open and close programming events, or print them as they are for members in your community to read and return to throughout the Lenten season.
We have also included weekly poetry writing prompts as a creative way to engage with scripture and our weekly sub-themes throughout the Lenten season. Consider sharing these prompts with your entire congregation for a weekly poetry writing challenge, or form a poetry-writing small group during Lent. Share your community’s poems in Sunday school, on social media, and/or as part of a large visual display.
Prayers written by Rev. Sarah Speed. Poetry writing prompts written by Rev. Lisle Gwynn Garrity.
[This resource is one of many included in our Full to the Brim Lent Bundle for Year C]
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This collection of 11 poetic prayers explores our Full to the Brim: An expansive Lent weekly sub-themes in light of the RCL (Year C) scriptures for Lent–Easter. Honest and intimate, these poems offer meditations that we hope become prayers of your own. Adapt them for worship liturgy, use them to open and close programming events, or print them as they are for members in your community to read and return to throughout the Lenten season.
Prayers written by Rev. Sarah Speed.
[This resource is one of many included in our Again & Again Lent Bundle for Year B]
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This collection of 11 poetic prayers explores our Again & Again, A Lenten Refrain weekly sub-themes in light of the RCL (Year B) scriptures for Lent–Easter. Honest and intimate, these poems offer meditations that we hope become prayers of your own. Adapt them for worship liturgy, use them to open and close programming events, or print them as they are for members in your community to read and return to throughout the Lenten season.
Prayers written by Rev. Sarah Are.
[This resource is also included in our Wilderness Lent Bundle]
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This collection of 8 poetic prayers explores the Wilderness theme. Each poem reflects on a different type of wilderness space through which we may journey. Honest and intimate, these poems offer Lenten meditations that might become prayers of your own. We hope you might adapt them for worship liturgy, use them to open and close programming events, or print them as they are for members in your community to read and return to throughout the season of Lent.
Prayers written by Sarah Are.
[This resource is also included in our A New Creation Mini Bundle for Easter]
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This collection of 6 poetic prayers explores Easter themes and what it means to become a new creation. Honest and intimate, these poems offer Easter meditations that might become prayers of your own. We hope you might adapt them for worship liturgy, use them to open and close programming events, or print them as they are for members in your community to read and return to throughout the season of Easter.
Prayers written by Sarah Are.
[This resource is also included in our Cultivating & Letting Go Lent Bundle]
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This collection of 9 poetic prayers explores themes of cultivating and letting go for each week of Lent. Honest and intimate, these poems offer Lenten meditations throughout the season. We hope you might adapt them for worship liturgy, or print them as they are for members in your community to read and return to throughout Lent.
Prayers written by Sarah Are.
[This resource is also included in our EMBODIED Unbound Mini Bundle of resources for Easter]
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These 5 short poetic prayers reflect on themes of new life & resurrection in a way that feels personal and intimate. Honest and pure, they imagine what new life truly feels like—for us and for God. We hope you might adapt them for worship or print them as they are for members in your community to read and return to throughout Eastertide.
Prayers written by Sarah Are.
Sermon planning guides
[This resource is one of many included in our Tell Me Something Good Lent Bundle]
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For the focal scriptures included in our Tell Me Something Good series for Lent–Easter, this guide offers biblical commentary, theme connections, guiding questions, and recommendations for further reading. This guide features commentary by Rev. Dr. Brian Blount and Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail.
We hope this guide is your starting point for shaping your sermons, worship services, and scripture study classes. We encourage you to use this guide as a companion to the poetry, visual art, devotional, and other materials in the bundle—allowing all of the words, images, and ideas to cross-pollinate. Consider mapping out your ideas in our accompanying Sermon Planning Grid. Additionally, you might use this guide to facilitate adult education sessions or small groups.
[This resource is one of many included in our Everything In Between Lent Bundle]
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For the focal scriptures included in our Everything In Between series for Lent–Easter, this guide offers biblical commentary, theme connections, guiding questions, and recommendations for further reading. This guide features biblical commentary on the weekly scriptures in light of our Everything In Between theme by Rev. Jeff Chu and Dr. Mindy McGarrah Sharp.
We hope this guide is your starting point for shaping your sermons, worship services, and scripture study classes. We encourage you to use this guide as a companion to the poetry, visual art, devotional, and other materials in the bundle—allowing all of the words, images, and ideas to cross-pollinate. Consider mapping out your ideas in our accompanying Sermon Planning Grid. Additionally, you might use this guide to facilitate adult education sessions or small groups.
[This resource is one of many included in our Wandering Heart Lent Bundle]
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For the focal scriptures included in our Wandering Heart series for Lent–Easter, this guide offers biblical commentary, theme connections, guiding questions, and recommendations for further reading. This guide features biblical commentary on the weekly scriptures in light of our Wandering Heart theme by Dr. Terence Lester and Dr. Karoline M. Lewis.
We hope this guide is your starting point for shaping your sermons, worship services, and scripture study classes. We encourage you to use this guide as a companion to the poetry, visual art, devotional, and other materials in the bundle—allowing all of the words, images, and ideas to cross-pollinate. Consider mapping out your ideas in our accompanying Sermon Planning Grid. Additionally, you might use this guide to facilitate adult education sessions or small groups.
[This resource is one of many included in our Seeking Lent Bundle for Year A]
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For the Revised Common Lectionary scriptures for Ash Wednesday–Easter Sunday (Year A), this guide offers biblical commentary, theme connections, guiding questions, and recommendations for further reading. This guide features biblical commentary on the weekly gospel scriptures in light of our Seeking theme by Rev. Danielle Shroyer and Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow.
We hope this guide is your starting point for shaping your sermons, worship services, and scripture study classes. We encourage you to use this guide as a companion to the poetry, visual art, devotional, and other materials in the bundle—allowing all of the words, images, and ideas to cross-pollinate. Consider mapping out your ideas in our accompanying Sermon Planning Grid. Additionally, you might use this guide to facilitate adult education sessions or small groups.
[This resource is one of many included in our Full to the Brim Lent Bundle for Year C]
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For the Revised Common Lectionary scriptures for Ash Wednesday–Easter Sunday (Year C), this guide offers biblical commentary, theme connections, guiding questions, and links to further reading. This guide features biblical commentary on the weekly gospel scriptures in light of our Full to the Brim theme by Rev. Ashley DeTar Birt and Rev. Larissa Kwong Abazia.
We encourage you to use this guide as a starting point for your text study each week. We also provide a fillable Sermon Planning Grid to help you map out your ideas for your series.
[This resource is one of many included in our Again & Again Lent Bundle for Year B]
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For the Revised Common Lectionary scriptures for Ash Wednesday–Easter Sunday (Year B), this guide offers biblical commentary, theme connections, guiding questions, and links to further reading. This guide features biblical commentary on the weekly gospel scriptures in light of our Again & Again theme by Rev. T. Denise Anderson, Coordinator for Racial and Intercultural Justice with the Presbyterian Mission Agency, and former Co-moderator of the 222nd General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA).
We encourage you to use this guide as a starting point for your text study each week. We also provide a fillable Sermon Planning Grid to help you map out your ideas for your series.
[This resource is also included in our Wilderness Lent Bundle]
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For the Revised Common Lectionary scriptures for Lent, Year A, this guide offers you biblical commentary, theme connections, and some reccomended readings. For each text, we’ve included suggestions for how to connect the scripture to the theme, Wilderness. These suggestions offer a few ways of approaching and thinking about the texts in light of our theme.
We encourage you to use this guide as a starting point for your text study each week. You may wish to include our Artist Statements (included with the visuals in our Lent 2020bundle) in your scripture research and reflections. Consider mapping out your ideas in our accompanying Sermon Planning Grid.
Guide developed by Lisle Gwynn Garrity | Commentary by guest contributor, Slats Toole
[This resource is one of many in our Cultivating & Letting Go Lent Bundle]
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Ever wish you had a better way to organize your thoughts around a worship series? Want help connecting the lectionary texts for Year C to our Cultivating & Letting Go theme? We created this resource to help you bridge the gap.
Like biblical commentary, this guide seeks to offer you seeds of ideas, theme connections, questions for deeper study, and real-world intersections. For each text, we’ve included suggestions for how to connect the scripture to the theme, Cultivating & Letting Go, guiding questions for deeper study, a quote for inspiration, and links to articles and books that bring new perspectives.
We encourage you to use this guide as a starting point for your text study each week. Consider mapping out your ideas in our accompanying sermon-planning grid. This is also a great resource for teaching Sunday School or small groups, as the guiding questions are great for group discussion!
Guide developed by Lisle Gwynn Garrity
Short films for worship & reflection
These short films blend visual imagery with either spoken word poetry or scripture to offer meditative moments for reflection. Use these in worship or in a class or programming event.
[This resource is one of many included in our Cultivating & Letting Go Lent Bundle]
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This short film offers a visual and spoken mediation on the parable of the fig tree in Luke 13:1-9. We invite you to show this film during worship or educational events for a thoughtful and meditative reflection on the meaning of this parable.
You may wish to share this film as part of Movement Three in our Cultivating & Letting Go Healing & Wholeness Service.
Art, film, and words by Lisle Gwynn Garrity
[This resource is one of many in our 2017 Lent Bundle]
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Film By: Lisle Gwynn Garrity
Spoken Word by: Sarah Are
This film blends visual and spoken poetry to offer a meditation on our communal and individual brokenness and how we can allow it to divide us, or we can harness it to deepen our empathy, connection, and compassion. We hope this film speaks to the deep divides wracking our nation and world while also inviting us all to look more carefully at ourselves and others during this Lenten season.
[This resources is one of many included in our 2017 Lent Bundle]
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"Fast for Justice"
Painting & Film by Lisle Gwynn Garrity
This film blends visual and spoken poetry from Joel 2 and Isaiah 58 to offer a meditation on how to cultivate our spiritual practices into faithful action during the Lenten season. Beginning with the darkness and gloom imagery from Joel 2, the painting shifts to show how, when we fast for justice, our light breaks open into the darkness like the dawn of a new day.
We hope this film offers a fresh way of hearing these ancient prophecies, while inviting meditation on our spiritual practices and how we are to work for the justice and well-being of all God’s people.
[This resource is 1 of 7 included in our 2018 EMBODIED Lent Bundle of resources]
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This short film explores what it means to relent in the midst of suffering and lament. Pairing time lapse imagery with the words of Psalm 31, this film could be offered as a visual lament in worship or used in bible study/discussion groups around similar themes.
Art & film by Lisle Gwynn Garrity
Relenting is not a passive act; it is the surrender we come to when we bear all our pain—openly, honestly, angrily—before the One who can take it all.
—Lisle Gwynn Garrity
Devotionals
We offer a variety of formats for engaging with the deep spiritual work of Lent throughout the season, including coloring calendars + companion devotional guides, daily devotional cards, and traditional devotional booklets.
Devotional Booklets
Tell Me Something Good Devotional Booklet for Lent ($18-$85)
Everything in Between Devotional Booklet for Lent ($18-$85)
Wandering Heart Devotional Booklet for Lent ($18-$85)
Seeking: Devotional Booklet for Lent, Year A ($18-$85)
Full to the Brim Lent Devotional Booklet, Year C ($18-$85)
Again & Again Devotional Booklet for Lent, Year B ($18-$85)
Wilderness Lent Devotional Booklet, Year A ($18-$85)
Devotional cards
Tell Me Something Good Daily Devotional Cards for Lent ($7-$55)
Everything in Between Daily Devotional Cards for Lent ($7-$55)
Wandering Heart Daily Devotional Cards for Lent ($7-$55)
Seeking: Daily Devotional Cards for Lent ($7-$55
Full to the Brim Daily Devotional Cards for Lent ($7-$55)
Again & Again Daily Devotional Cards for Lent ($7-$55)
Words for the Wilderness Devotional Cards ($7-$55)
Coloring Calendars
Cultivating & Letting Go Lenten Coloring Calendar + Devotional Guide (Year C)
$18-$85
EMBODIED Coloring Calendar + Devotional Guide (Year B)
$18-$85
Curriculum Guides & Children’s Resources
While many churches use our devotionals, visio divina guide (included with each visual art collection), or sermon planning guides as the starting point for bible studies and spiritual formation programs, we also create some additional curriculum guides, especially lessons for children.
[This resource is one of many included in our Tell Me Something Good Lent Bundle.]
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This interactive, skit-based children’s curriculum contains 7 weeks of lessons for Lent through Easter. The lessons include a variety of ways for children (approximately ages 5–11) to explore the Tell Me Something Good sub-themes and Gospel stories, through rejoicing together in song, telling the story through skits, and engaging further with the theme through crafts, books, and games.
Inspired by the tradition of reading the passion narrative on Palm/Passion Sunday, the accompanying Lenten play tells the good news of Jesus' ministry from his first miracle in Cana to the resurrection. The Act I scenes follow our Tell Me Something Good focal texts for Lent, while the Act II scenes follow Jesus' final week, from the triumphal entry to the tomb. A final Easter Epilogue closes the play as a reminder that death does not have the last word. This play is designed for an intergenerational cast and an audience of all ages. It can be staged at any point during the season.
Curriculum and script by Rev. Anna Strickland
[This resource is one of many included in our Tell Me Something Good Lent Bundle]
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To engage all ages in worship, these printable bulletins invite children deeper into the stories and themes for each Sunday in Lent through Easter Sunday. Each week’s bulletin includes a main idea, a coloring page of the weekly scripture, words to listen for in worship, and space for drawing and coloring in response to prompts.
Children’s bulletin content by Hannah Garrity and Rev. Anna Strickland.
[This resource is one of many included in our Everything In Between Lent Bundle]
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This curriculum invites children (ages 5-11) to follow Jesus through the Gospel of Luke during Lent (as outlined in our Everything In Between series). The children’s curriculum includes 7 weekly lessons. Each lesson includes: a main idea, opening questions and an opening message, a skit inspired by the scripture, questions for discussion, a prayer, and activities to further engage the theme.
Curriculum by Rev. Anna Strickland
[This resource is one of many included in our Everything In Between Lent Bundle]
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To engage all ages in worship, these printable bulletins invite children deeper into the stories and themes for each Sunday in Lent through Easter Sunday. Each week’s bulletin includes a main idea, a coloring image of the weekly scripture, words to listen for in worship, and space for drawing and coloring in response to prompts.
Children’s bulletin content by Hannah Garrity and Rev. Anna Strickland.
[This resource is one of many included in our Wandering Heart Bundle for Lent]
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This two-part curriculum invites children (ages 5-11) and youth (ages 12-18) to learn about Peter’s journey with Jesus (as outlined in our Wandering Heart series). The children’s curriculum includes 8 weekly lessons. Each lesson includes: a main idea, a retelling of the scripture stories with action prompts, questions for discussion, a prayer, and suggestions for games, books, and creative activities to further engage the theme. The youth curriculum also includes 8 weekly lessons with: scripture readings, questions for discussion, multimedia journaling prompts for further reflection, and a prayers.
Curriculum by Rev. Anna Strickland
[This resource is one of many included in our Wandering Heart Lent Bundle]
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To engage all ages in worship, these printable children’s bulletins invite children to look and listen to all that is happening in worship and use their holy imagination. Each week’s bulletin includes a main idea and short retelling of the scripture, a closer look at the Wandering Heart icons, words to listen for during worship, and space for drawing and coloring in response to prompts. A printable faith map is also included to send home for children to follow Peter’s journey throughout Lent.
Children’s bulletin content written by Hannah Garrity. Faith map content written by Rev. Anna Strickland.
[This resource is one of many included in our Seeking Bundle for Lent Year A]
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This curriculum, written with children ages 5-10 in mind, invites children to engage in the RCL Year A gospel texts for Lent in light of our Seeking theme. Each lesson includes a main idea, a storytelling script with suggested “stage directions” for visual storytelling, time for questions and discussion, a prayer, and suggestions for games, books, and creative expression to further engage the theme.
In addition, we’ve provided templates and instructions for creating felt storytelling kits for children to take with them to continue engaging the story in worship and throughout the week.
Curriculum by Rev. Anna Strickland
[This resource is one of many included in our Seeking Lent Bundle for Year A]
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These weekly worship bulletins invite children (elementary age) to engage in worship through images, story, and observation of the space around them. Each week’s bulletin includes art inspired by the gospel story from the Year A Revised Common Lectionary, a main idea and short retelling of the gospel, a closer look at the Seeking logo, reflection prompts, words to listen for during worship, and space for drawing and coloring in response to prompts.
Content written by Hannah Garrity.
[This resource is one of many included in the Full to the Brim Lent Bundle for Year C]
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Lent is a season that invites us deeper into intentional living. This tool is designed to help you do just that. Complete the wellness wheel and reflections on your own or within a small group to help you reflect on where you are in your life and how you hope to grow throughout this Lenten season, and finish by committing to next steps and closing in prayer.
Full to the Brim Children’s Lessons for Lent–Easter, Year C (Free)
Again & Again Children's Lessons for Lent–Easter, Year B (Free)
Original Music
Music brings additional layers of meaning to a rich season. Here are the original theme songs and hymns written for our Lenten themes. Additionally, we have hymn and song suggestions for our Lent bundles available in this blog post.
[This resource is one of many included in our Tell Me Something Good Lent Bundle]
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This music video features our theme song for our Lent series, “Tell Me Something Good.” The song was written and produced by Britt Kusserow.
You are welcome to show this video in worship or other ministry events. You are granted permission to embed this music video in your live-streamed or online worship. We also have sheet music with piano accompaniment and an MP3 recording of the song.
If you’d like to share just the video publicly on social media or your website, please use our preview version to prevent non-patrons from downloading the un-watermarked version of the video.
Tell Me Something Good… Original Hymns for Lent ($3-$15)
[This resource is one of many included in our Everything In Between Lent Bundle]
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This music video features the theme song for our Lent series, “Everything [in] Between.” The words and music were written by Paul Vasile.
The song was imagined as a breath prayer that invites us into deeper listening and awareness. From this anchored space, we may find it possible to share our stories and experiences (and hear others) with less judgment or fewer assumptions.
You are welcome to show this video in worship or other ministry events. You are granted permission to embed this music video in your live-streamed or online worship. We’ve also included a lead sheet and piano accompaniment for the song, as well as the recording.
If you’d like to share just the video publicly on social media or your website, please use our preview version to prevent non-patrons from downloading the un-watermarked version of the video.
Everything in Between: Original Hymns for Lent (Free)
Wandering Heart: Original Hymns for Lent (Free)
Seeking: Original Hymns for Lent, Year A (Free)
[This resource is one of many included in our Full to the Brim Lent Bundle for Year C]
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This video features our Full to the Brim Lent theme song written and produced by Paul Demer. We hope this music video helps connect your heart and soul to our Full to the Brim theme. You are welcome to embed this music video in your live-streamed or online worship. We’ve also included lead sheet music for the song as well as the .mp3 recording.
If you’d like to share just the video publicly on social media or your website, please use our preview version to avoid non-patrons from downloading the un-watermarked version of the video.
Full to the Brim Original Hymns for Holy Week (Free)
[This resource is one of many included in our Again & Again Lent Bundle for Year B]
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This video features our Lenten theme song, “Again & Again,” written and recorded by The Many. The visuals and textures convey the motion blur chaos of our lives being held and contained by the God of "and." You are welcome to embed this music video in your live-streamed or online worship. We have also provided sheet music so that your worship leaders can sing and play the song. If you’d like to share just the video publicly on social media or your website, please use our preview version to avoid non-patrons from downloading the un-watermarked version of the video.
Sanctuary Art
We hope to empower you to create art with others in community to bring the themes of Lent to life in tangible form. These resources provide you with the tools to create paper lace banners, or an intergenerational art installation shaped by everyone in your church!
Order this custom banner to feature the icon from our Lent series, Tell Me Something Good. Display the banner in your sanctuary—as a pulpit parament or on your Communion Table—or install it outdoors or near an entrance. Use it with our corresponding table tapestry to adorn your sanctuary.
Notes: One size; the design cannot be customized. The material is 100% polyester and weather-resistant. Icon designed by Rev. Lauren Wright Pittman.
Order this custom tapestry to feature the background photography used in our Lent series, Tell Me Something Good. Display the tapestry in your sanctuary—on your Communion Table or chancel—or install it in a gathering space indoors. Use it alongside our corresponding small banner to adorn your sanctuary. The tapestry is a blanket material and is best for indoor display.
Notes: One size; the design cannot be customized. The material is a soft polyester and features photography by Rev. Lisle Gwynn Garrity. After the season is over, it can be donated to a member in your community or to your local shelter to be used as a warm blanket.
Order this custom banner to feature the art and icon in our Lent series, Everything In Between. Display the banner in your sanctuary—as a pulpit parament or on your Communion Table—or install it outdoors or near an entrance. Use it with our corresponding table tapestry to adorn your sanctuary.
Notes: One size; the design cannot be customized. The material is 100% polyester and weather-resistant. Icon designed by Rev. Lauren Wright Pittman.
Order this custom tapestry to feature the branding used in our Lent series, Everything In Between. Display the tapestry in your sanctuary—on your Communion Table or chancel—or install it in a gathering space indoors. Use it alongside our corresponding small banner to adorn your sanctuary. The tapestry is a blanket material and is best for indoor display.
Notes: One size; the design cannot be customized. The material is a soft polyester and features graphic design by Rev. Lauren Wright Pittman. After the season is over, it can be donated to a member in your community or to your local shelter to be used as a warm blanket.
Order this custom banner to feature the art and icon in our Lent series, Wandering Heart. Display the banner in your sanctuary—as a pulpit parament or on your Communion Table—or install it outdoors or near an entrance. Use it with our corresponding table tapestry to adorn your sanctuary.
Notes: One size; the design cannot be customized. The material is 100% polyester and weather-resistant. Icon designed by Rev. Lauren Wright Pittman.
Order this custom tapestry to feature the background paintings used in our Lent series, Wandering Heart. Display the banner in your sanctuary—on your Communion Table or chancel—or install it in a gathering space indoors. Use it alongside our corresponding small banner to adorn your sanctuary. The tapestry is a blanket material and is best for indoor display.
Notes: One size; the design cannot be customized. The material is a soft polyester and features an original painting by Rev. Lisle Gwynn Garrity. After the season is over, it can be donated to a member in your community or to your local shelter to be used as a warm blanket.
Order this custom banner (in either light or dark purple) to feature the Seeking icon. Display the banner in your sanctuary—as a pulpit parament or on your Communion Table—or install it outdoors or near an entrance. Invite your community to look closely at the imagery within the icon to discern the meaning in the symbols (see the logo imagery key below).
Notes: One size; the design cannot be customized. The material is 100% polyester and weather-resistant. Icon designed by Rev. Lauren Wright Pittman.
[This resource is one of many included in our Again & Again Lent Bundle for Year B]
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This Lent, we invite you to come to God in prayer again and again, weaving your prayers in with the prayers of your community to create a beautiful prayer wall. Woven together, your prayers will form the shape of an ampersand, representing God’s holy “and.” When we become weary from the motion blur chaos of our lives, God promises that there is always more to the story—death does not have the last word. When we feel helpless and hopeless, God’s holy “and” encourages us to lift our weary eyes to search for more. This Lent, let us practice the power of ‘and’ as we sink into the repetition and ritual of prayer.
[This resource is one of many in our Cultivating & Letting Go Lent Bundle]
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Throughout Lent, create beautiful sanctuary art to install on Easter Sunday. These designs by Hannah Garrity feature blooming lilies with hints of imagery from the days after Jesus’ resurrection—crucified hands, breaking bread, fish, the road to Emmaus. These banners invite you to look closer to find the imagery embedded within the larger composition of blooming, new life. As you will see, these designs can become either a pair of 2 banners or a triptych of 3 banners. We hope you will choose the option best for your space and creative team.
We hope these designs (and our instructional materials) can simply be a starting point for you to create art and beauty that is uniquely your own. Gather a group and create together, for the creative process is just as meaningful as the final result. And we promise, these are not as hard to create as they may look!
[This resource is one of many in our Cultivating & Letting Go Lent Bundle]
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This Lent, we are exploring what must be cultivated within ourselves to further God’s work through us. We are also contemplating letting go of things that may be hindering our positive influence in the world. This project provides a tangible and meaningful way for any member to practice Cultivating & Letting Go throughout Lent.
The project involves congregation members in worship, youth during youth group, and children during the children’s message in worship. It allows everyone in your community the opportunity to participate in the evolving transformation of a Lenten tree. Materials needed are very attainable and can either be ordered or scavenged!
[This resource is one of many in our 2017 Lent Bundle]
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Banner designs by: Hannah Garrity
This pair of banner designs offer a powerful image of the the empty tomb and symbolize how Jesus’ resurrection transforms the brokenness of the world. Use these designs to create unique worship art to share the beauty and mystery of the resurrection. There are several ways you can bring these hand-drawn designs to life in your congregation (from simply coloring them to cutting them into intricate paper lace banners). Choose the option below to best fit your needs and context.
[This resource is also included in our Wilderness Lent Bundle]
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This Lent, adorn your sanctuary with elements of the wilderness. Instead of running away from the wilderness, bring the wilderness in—to face it, confront it, and find your way through it. These elements remind us of the many layers of the wilderness—in these layers we find meaning and the courage to carry on.
This worship art project invites members of all ages to create wilderness art together. The project includes contemplative liturgy with poetry so that your creative process is worshipful and deeply meaningful.
[This resource is 1 of 7 in our 2018 EMBODIED Lent Bundle of resources]
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This Lent, create beautiful sanctuary art to illuminate the embodied theme. These designs by Hannah Garrity feature abstract imagery of mind, body, heart, and soul. We hope these designs (and our instructional materials) can simply be a starting point for you to create art and beauty that is uniquely your own. Gather a group and create together, for the creative process is just as meaningful as the final result.
Original Visual art
Each year, we offer new original visual art inspired by the themes and scriptures of our Lent bundles. Below are our Lenten visual collections, which also include artist statements and a visio divina bible study curriculum so that you can use our visuals in Sunday School or other group study contexts. Our Stations of the Cross series is a moving way to offer the Stations as an art installation. It includes a Companion Guide with scripture and written reflections for each Station.
[This resource is one of many included in our Tell Me Something Good Lent Bundle.]
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This is a collection of 15 visuals inspired by the scripture texts in our Tell Me Something Good series for Ash Wednesday–Easter Sunday. These art pieces, created in a variety of mediums—multimedia collage, acrylic paint, paper lace, watercolor, block print, gouache, and digital media—are visual meditations on these scriptures. With each visual, we include written statements from the artists. We also provide a visio divina bible study guide for you to use these images in a group session incorporating the ancient Benedictine spiritual practice of "divine seeing." This collection includes artwork created by our guest artists, Carmelle Beaugelin-Caldwell, Nicolette Faison, and T. Denise Anderson.
[This resource is one of many included in our Everything In Between Lent Bundle]
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This is a collection of 10 visuals inspired by the scriptures for Lent–Easter included in the Everything In Between series. These art pieces, created in a variety of mediums—multimedia collage, ink on paper, paper lace, watercolor, and digital media—are visual meditations on these scriptures. With the visuals, we include written statements from the artists. We also provide a visio divina bible study guide for you to use these images in a group session incorporating the ancient Benedictine spiritual practice of "divine seeing." This collection includes artwork created by our guest artist, Steve Prince.
[This resource is one of many included in our Wandering Heart Lent Bundle]
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This is a collection of 13 visuals inspired by the scripture texts for Lent–Easter included in our Wandering Heart series. These art pieces, created in a variety of mediums—multimedia collage, ink on paper, acrylic on canvas, quilted fabric, and digital media—are visual meditations on these scriptures. Along with the visuals, we include written statements from the artists. We also provide a visio divina bible study guide for you to use these images in a group session incorporating the ancient Benedictine spiritual practice of "divine seeing." This collection includes artwork created by our guest artists, Rev. Nicolette Faison and Rev. T. Denise Anderson.
[This resource is one of many included in our Seeking Lent Bundle for Year A]
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This is a collection of 15 visuals inspired by the RCL scripture texts for Ash Wednesday–Easter Sunday, Year A. These art pieces, created in a variety of mediums—paper lace, acrylic and oil painting, collage, and digital media—are visual meditations on these scriptures. With each visual, we include written statements from the artists. We also provide a visio divina bible study guide for you to use these images in a group session incorporating the ancient Benedictine spiritual practice of "divine seeing." This collection includes artwork created by our guest artists, Carmelle Beaugelin and Denise Anderson.
[This resource is one of many included in our Full to the Brim Lent Bundle for Year C]
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This is a collection of 16 visuals inspired by the RCL scripture texts for Ash Wednesday–Easter Sunday, Year C. Download includes files formatted for print and web/projection, as well as artist statements for each visual, plus a visio divina bible study guide.
[This resource is one of many included in our Again & Again Lent Bundle for Year B]
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This is a collection of 16 visuals inspired by the RCL scripture texts for Ash Wednesday–Easter Sunday, Year B. Download includes files formatted for print and web/projection, as well as artist statements for each visual, plus a visio divina bible study guide.
[This resource is also included in our Wilderness Lent Bundle]
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This is a collection of 15 visuals inspired by RCL scripture texts for Lent (Year A). Download includes files formatted for print and web/projection, as well as artist statements for each visual, plus a visio divina bible study guide.
[This resource is one of many in our Cultivating & Letting Go Lent Bundle]
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This is a collection of 6 visuals inspired by RCL scripture texts for Lent (Year C). Download includes files formatted for print and web/projection, as well as artist statements for each visual, plus a visio divina bible study guide.
[This resource is also included in our A New Creation Mini Bundle for Easter]
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This watercolor mirrors our A New Creation Banner Designs and offers the beautiful juxtaposition of lilies blooming in front of a dark empty tomb. Download includes files formatted for print and web/projection.
[This resource is also included in our EMBODIED Unbound Mini Bundle of resources for Easter]
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This is a pair of visuals inspired by the RCL gospel scripture texts for Easter day (Year B). Download includes files formatted for print and web/projection.
[This resource is also 1 of 7 in our 2018 EMBODIED Lent Bundle of resources]
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This is a collection of visual art inspired by RCL scripture texts for the six Sundays in Lent (Year B). Download includes files formatted for print and web/projection.
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By: Lauren Wright Pittman
The Stations of the Cross is an ancient meditative pilgrimage inviting the spiritually hungry to walk the “Way of Sorrows” with Jesus to his death on Calvary hill. Traditionally depicted in fourteen visuals, the Stations highlight pivotal moments in Jesus’ final hours. This graphic art rendition of the Stations by Lauren Wright Pittman nods to tradition while imagining Jesus’ journey toward crucifixion through a modern lens. In twelve black and white images, this series condenses the version Pope John Paul II introduced on Good Friday in 1991. Stripped down and textured, these visuals highlight the metaphorical and emotional layers of Jesus’ journey toward his last breaths.
We encourage you to print this series on large poster paper (see printing info below) to install it as an art exhibit in your church or community. Distribute copies of the Companion Guide for participants to read and reflect as they journey through the Stations. Companion Guide includes the scripture, visual prompts, an artist reflection, and prayer for each Station. Final page includes prompts for group discussion or individual reflection on the Stations as a whole. To purchase the Companion Guide separately, please click here.
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This is a pair of prophetic visuals for Holy Week, one specifically for Good Friday, and the other for Easter morning. Download includes files for print and web so you can use them for projecting images and slides in worship, printing on bulletins, study materials, and church publications, and advertising your worship on your website and online.
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[This resource is one of many in our 2017 Lent Bundle]
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Visuals & graphics by: Lisle Gwynn Garrity, Lauren Wright Pittman, & Hannah Garrity
A collection of 7 visuals and graphics to help you visually explore the season of Lent. All images are formatted for print and web so you can use them for projecting images and slides in worship, printing on bulletins and church publications, and advertising your worship on your website and online.
Coloring Posters
Coloring is a simple way to provide space for either intergenerational communal art-making or individual reflection. Incorporate them into your bible study, youth group, prayer stations, children’s church, fellowship events, etc. Like our visual art, each collection of coloring pages is based on the lectionary and includes written reflections on the imagery. For all of our coloring posters, we provide digital files for printing them in three sizes (8.5x11, 11x17, 24x36).
[This resource is one of many included in our Cultivating & Letting Go Lent Bundle]
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A collection of 9 hand-drawn coloring posters inspired by RCL texts for Lent Year C. Print the art as coloring posters (we provide 3 size options) to invite members of all ages to dig deep into these scriptures through color, line, and form. These coloring posters are great for creating easy and meaningful community art.
Download includes artist statements for each poster plus a visio divina bible study guide.
[This resource is 1 of 7 included in our 2018 EMBODIED Lent Bundle of resources]
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A collection of 7 hand-drawn coloring posters inspired by the RCL gospel texts (plus Psalm 31) for the six Sundays in Lent (2018/Year B). Print the art as coloring posters (we provide 3 size options) to invite members of all ages to dig deep into these scriptures through color, line, and form. These coloring posters are great for creating easy and meaningful community art.
This collection also includes a specially-formatted file for printing all 7 posters (with artist statements and scripture) as an 8.5x11 coloring book. Print and distribute the coloring book to individuals in your community to use for personal reflection throughout the season.
[This resource is one of many in our 2017 Lent Bundle]
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Coloring poster designs by: Lauren Wright Pittman, Hannah Garrity, & Lisle Gwynn Garrity
A collection of 8 coloring posters inspired by Lenten scriptures and stories, these illustrations are perfect for children, youth, and adults to cultivate the spiritual practices of reflection, meditation, and coloring throughout Lent.
Graphics & Thematic Branding
One of the ways we aim to serve you is by offering you tools for quality graphic design. These materials not only help you effectively communicate announcements about your worship and seasonal themes; they also offer visual icons with deep theological meaning. Below are some of the themes you might use to shape your Lenten season.
[This resource is one of many included in our Tell Me Something Good Lent Bundle]
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Whether you are a church with a full-time communications staff or one whose pastor handles all communications (on top of everything else), this branding suite provides everything you need to effectively share the Tell Me Something Good theme with your community. Download includes beautifully-designed logos and theme graphics for print and web so you can use them for worship projection, bulletins, study materials, church publications, or for advertising events on your website and social media platforms.
We encourage you to use these branding materials in your communications throughout Lent and Easter.
Graphic design by Rev. Lauren Wright Pittman.
[This resource is one of many included in our Everything In Between Lent Bundle]
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Whether you are a church with a full-time communications staff or one whose pastor handles all communications (on top of everything else), this branding suite provides everything you need to effectively share the Everything In Between theme with your community. Download includes beautifully-designed logos and theme graphics for print and web so you can use them for worship projection, bulletins, study materials, church publications, or for advertising events on your website and social media platforms.
We encourage you to use these branding materials in your communications throughout Lent and Easter.
[This resource is one of many included in our Wandering Heart Lent Bundle]
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Whether you are a church with a full-time communications staff or one whose pastor handles all communications (on top of everything else), this branding suite provides everything you need to effectively share the Wandering Heart theme with your community. Download includes beautifully-designed logos and theme graphics for print and web so you can use them for worship projection, bulletins, study materials, church publications, or for advertising events on your website and social media platforms.
We encourage you to use these branding materials in your communications throughout Lent and Easter.
[This resource is one of many included in our Seeking Lent Bundlefor Year A]
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Whether you are a church with a full-time communications staff or one whose pastor handles all communications (on top of everything else), this branding suite provides everything you need to effectively share the Seeking theme with your community. Download includes beautifully-designed logos and theme graphics for print and web so you can use them for worship projection, bulletins, study materials, church publications, or for advertising events on your website and social media platforms.
We encourage you to use these branding materials in your communications throughout Lent, Holy Week, and Easter.
[This resource is one of many included in our Full to the Brim Lent Bundlefor Year C]
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Whether you are a church with a full-time communications staff or one whose pastor handles all communications (on top of everything else), this branding suite provides everything you need to effectively share the Full to the Brim theme with your community. Download includes beautifully-designed logos and theme graphics for print and web so you can use them for worship projection, bulletins, study materials, church publications, or for advertising events on your website and social media platforms.
We encourage you to use these branding materials in your communications throughout Lent, Holy Week, and Easter.
[This resource is one of many included in our Again & Again Lent Bundle for Year B]
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Whether you are a church with a full-time communications staff or one whose pastor handles all communications (on top of everything else), this branding suite provides everything you need to effectively share the Again & Again, A Lenten Refrain theme with your community. The download includes beautifully-designed logos, theme graphics, and original photography to support you in all your communication needs—online or in print. We also provide backgrounds, .png logo files, and a branding story to guide you in customizing the branding files for your needs.
We encourage you to use these branding materials in your communications throughout the season of Lent.
[This resource is also included in our Wilderness Lent Bundle]
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Whether you are a church with a full-time communications staff or one whose pastor handles all communications (on top of everything else), this branding suite provides everything you need to effectively share the Wilderness theme with your community. Download includes beautifully-designed logos and theme graphics for print and web so you can use them for worship projection, bulletins, study materials, church publications, or for advertising events on your website and social media platforms.
We encourage you to use these branding materials to share the Wilderness theme throughout Lent and Easter.
[This resource is one of many in our Cultivating & Letting Go Lent Bundle]
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Whether you are a church with full-time communications staff or one whose pastor handles all communications (on top of everything else), this branding suite provides everything you need to effectively share the theme, Cultivating & Letting Go, with your community. Download includes files for print and web so you can use them for projecting images and slides in worship, printing on bulletins, study materials, church publications, and advertising your worship on your website and online.
[This resource is also included in our A New Creation Mini Bundle for Easter]
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Whether you are a church with full-time communications staff or one whose pastor handles all communications (on top of everything else), this branding suite provides everything you need to effectively share the theme, A New Creation, with your community. Download includes files for print and web so you can use them for projecting images and slides in worship, printing on bulletins, study materials, church publications, and advertising your worship on your website and online.
[These graphics are 1 of 7 in our 2018 EMBODIED Lent Bundle of resources]
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These graphics offer a visually engaging way for you to share our EMBODIED Lenten theme with your community. Download includes files for print and web so you can use them for projecting images and slides in worship, printing on bulletins, study materials, church publications, and advertising your worship on your website and online.
[This resource is also included in our EMBODIED Unbound Mini Bundle of resources for Easter]
As a continuation of our EMBODIED lent graphic logo, this design offers visual symbolism for the season of Eastertide. Download includes files for print and web so you can use them for projecting images and slides in worship, printing on bulletins, study materials, church publications, and advertising your worship on your website and online.