Advent Roll Call: 85+ Resources To Add Creativity & Inspiration to the Advent Season

Over the past eight years, we have created a large inventory of creative resources for Advent & Christmas. 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!


words for worship

LiturgY FOR THE SEASON

A new take on "hope, peace, love, and joy" liturgy, these words offer fresh language for Advent waiting in a world desperate for peace.

How does a weary world rejoice? Words for Worship for Advent–Baptism of the Lord
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How does a weary world rejoice? Words for Worship for Advent–Baptism of the Lord
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[This resource is one of many included in our How does a weary world rejoice? Advent Bundle]

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A collection of over 50 liturgies, this resource provides fresh language for worship inspired by the weekly texts and themes in our series. For each Sunday in Advent through Baptism of the Lord Sunday (including Christmas Eve), we provide: a Call to Worship, Call to Confession, Prayer of Confession, Words of Forgiveness, Prayer for Illumination, Affirmation of Faith, and Prayer of the People. We’ve also included candle lighting liturgy for the Sundays in Advent and Christmas Eve, liturgy for Holy Communion on Christmas Eve, and a benediction for the entire series. We hope you will copy/paste or adapt these prayers for your corporate worship (with credit).

Liturgy written by Rev. Sarah (Are) Speed.

From Generation to Generation... Words for Worship for Advent–Epiphany
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From Generation to Generation... Words for Worship for Advent–Epiphany
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A collection of over 40 liturgies, this resource provides fresh language for worship inspired by the Christmas narrative and our Advent theme, From Generation to Generation. For each Sunday in Advent, Christmas Eve, and Epiphany, we provide a Candle Lighting Liturgy, Call to Confession, Prayer of Confession, Words of Forgiveness, Prayer for Illumination, Affirmation of Faith, and Prayer of the People. We’ve also included liturgy for Holy Communion on Christmas Eve and a Benediction for the entire series. We hope you will copy/paste or adapt these prayers for your corporate worship (with credit).

Liturgy written by Rev. Sarah (Are) Speed.

Close to Home Words for Worship for Advent–Epiphany (Year C)
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Close to Home Words for Worship for Advent–Epiphany (Year C)
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[This resource is one of many included in our Close to Home Advent Bundle for Year C]

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A collection of over 60 liturgies, this resource provides fresh language for worship inspired by the RCL scriptures and our Advent theme, Close to Home. For each Sunday in Advent through Epiphany, we provide a Call to Worship, Candle Lighting Liturgy, Call to Confession, Prayer of Confession, Words of Forgiveness, Prayer for Illumination, Call to Offering, Prayer of Dedication, and Prayer of the People. We hope you will copy/paste or adapt these prayers for your corporate worship (with credit).

Liturgy written by Rev. Sarah (Are) Speed.

Those Who Dream Words for Worship for Advent–Epiphany (Year B)
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Those Who Dream Words for Worship for Advent–Epiphany (Year B)
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A collection of over 35 liturgies, this resource provides fresh language for worship inspired by the RCL scriptures and our Advent theme, Those Who Dream. For each Sunday in Advent through Epiphany, we provide a Call to Worship, Candle Lighting Liturgy, a Prayer of Confession, 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 Sarah Are.

What Can't Wait? Advent Words for Worship w/ Candle Lighting Liturgy (Year A)
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What Can't Wait? Advent Words for Worship w/ Candle Lighting Liturgy (Year A)
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[This resource is one of many in our WHAT CAN’T WAIT? ADVENT BUNDLE]

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This Advent, hope, peace, joy, and love can’t wait. This collection of liturgies offers fresh words for worship for Advent through Christmas Eve (following the RCL, Year A). Download includes Candle Lighting Liturgy, Call to Worship, and Prayer of Confession for each week in Advent and Christmas Eve. Liturgy is inspired by the RCL (Year A), the What Can’t Wait? theme, and the traditional weekly Advent themes of hope, peace, joy, and love.

We hope you will copy/paste or adapt these prayers for your corporate worship (with credit).

Liturgy written by Sarah Are.

Advent Wreath Candle Lighting Liturgy (2018)
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Advent Wreath Candle Lighting Liturgy (2018)
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These words offer fresh language for drawing near to hope, peace, joy and love throughout Advent. Download includes Advent wreath candle-lighting liturgy for each week in Advent. Liturgy is formatted for multiple readers.

 

Advent Wreath Lighting Liturgy (2016)
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Advent Wreath Lighting Liturgy (2016)
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Written by: Sarah Are

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A new take on "hope, peace, & love," liturgy, these words offer fresh language for Advent waiting in a world desperate for peace. File includes wreath candle-lighting liturgy for each week in Advent. Liturgy is formatted for multiple readers.

 

 

LITURGIES FOR SPECIAL SUNDAYS

Planning so many services back to back can be overwhelming, especially in the Sundays following Christmas. Here we’ve collected words for worship (many of them full liturgies that can be followed at home) for the Sunday after Christmas and Epiphany Sunday.

From Generation to Generation... Star Words (w/ Epiphany Sunday Liturgy)
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From Generation to Generation... Star Words (w/ Epiphany Sunday Liturgy)
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[This resource is one of many included in our From Generation to Generation… Advent Bundle]

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We created our From Generation to Generation… star words to build on the contemporary tradition of passing out intention words on Epiphany—a tradition growing in popularity amongst many Protestant churches. Inspired by the Magi following the star to Jesus, selecting a star word to meditate on throughout the new year can deepen your self-reflection and prayer practices.

To best serve your needs, we’ve provided multiple formats for printing and distributing the star words to your congregation, along with an accompanying liturgy for Epiphany Sunday. We’ve also provided ideas for how you might use the star words as a daily, child-friendly devotional throughout the season of Advent if you prefer to use them in that way.

We’ve included 160 star words—150 from our 2020 Advent Bundle, plus 10 new words to complement the From Generation to Generation… theme—a number of which are non-English words. Words & liturgy written by Rev. Sarah Speed.

Chosen Home: An At-Home Liturgy for the First Sunday After Christmas
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Chosen Home: An At-Home Liturgy for the First Sunday After Christmas
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[This resource is one of many included in our Close to Home Advent Bundle for Year C]

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During any lectionary year, the first Sunday after Christmas can create an exhausting week for clergy and church staff. Therefore, this liturgy is designed to offer rest for church leadership so they can be present with their families and loved ones throughout the Christmas season, while also providing meaningful worship for your community.

Centered around the story of young Jesus staying behind in the temple, this liturgy is designed for individuals and families—including children—to walk through together, screen-free. It can also be adapted for an intimate in-person or online communal worship service.

Liturgy written by Rev. Sarah (Are) Speed.

An Interactive Liturgy for the First Sunday After Christmas
$12.00

[This resource is one of many included in our Those Who Dream Advent Bundle for Year B]

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During any lectionary year, the first Sunday after Christmas can create an exhausting week for clergy and church staff. Therefore, this liturgy is designed to offer rest for church leadership so they can be present with their families and loved ones throughout the Christmas season, while also providing meaningful worship for your community.

Centered around the story of Simeon and Anna blessing young Jesus in the temple, this interactive liturgy is designed for either an intimate in-person service, or a worship service via Zoom. We’ve also provided an At-Home Liturgy version of the service that is especially great for young families with children to walk through together, screen-free.

Liturgy written by Sarah Are.

Those Who Dream Star Words (w/ Epiphany Sunday Liturgy)
$20.00

[This resource is one of many included in our Those Who Dream Advent Bundle for Year B]

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We created our Those Who Dream star words to build on the contemporary tradition of passing out intention words on Epiphany—a tradition growing in popularity amongst many Protestant churches. Inspired by the Magi following the star to Jesus, selecting a star word to meditate on throughout the new year can deepen your self-reflection and prayer practices.

To best serve your needs, we’ve provided multiple formats for printing and distributing the star words to your congregation, along with an accompanying liturgy for Epiphany Sunday. We’ve also provided ideas for how you might use the star words as a daily, child-friendly devotional throughout the season of Advent if you prefer to use them in that way.

We’ve included 150 star words—a number of which are non-English words. Words & liturgy written by Sarah Are.

Resources for a Longest Night (Blue Christmas) Service

Not everyone is uplifted by light and joy throughout the Christmas season. For many, the holiday season is a painful reminder of loved ones lost. Create sacred space for grief by hosting a Longest Night service (on December 21st, the longest night of the year for the Northern hemisphere) or a Blue Christmas Service. Our “Those Who Dream Longest Night liturgy” includes sheet music for an original song by The Many. We have also put together a music video for this theme song that can be used during worship. Our “Let There Be Longest Night Liturgy” includes the option of showing our “Let There Be Worship Film” during the service.

How does a weary world rejoice? Liturgy for the Weary
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How does a weary world rejoice? Liturgy for the Weary
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For those who have experienced loss, the joy of the holiday season can often feel elusive and out of reach. As a result, churches around the world have adopted the practice of having a “Blue Christmas”' or a “Longest Night” service during the Advent season. These services are designed to provide space for prayer, reflection, and remembrance amidst the twinkle lights and holiday hustle and bustle. Instead of advertising this as a “Blue Christmas” or “Longest Night Service,” we are calling this a “Service for the Weary,” inspired by our Advent theme.

Both a full order of worship designed for congregational worship (in-person and/or virtually) and an at-home liturgy for individuals are included. We hope that these words and this order of worship can be a gift to individuals and communities alike, providing a space of calm, quiet, and healing.

Liturgy by Rev. Sarah Speed

Close to Home Longest Night Liturgy
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Close to Home Longest Night Liturgy
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[This resource is one of many included in our Close to Home Advent Bundle for Year C]

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Known also as “Blue Christmas,” a Longest Night Gathering is a safe and sacred space to mourn the losses and griefs of the year, to let the tears flow for the hurting places in our own lives, as well as for our country and our world. This full order of worship is designed for congregational worship (in-person and/or virtually), but it can also be used by individuals in the comfort of their own home using the suggested adaptations.

Those Who Dream Longest Night Liturgy (featuring The Many)
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Those Who Dream Longest Night Liturgy (featuring The Many)
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Known also as “Blue Christmas,” a Longest Night Gathering is a safe and sacred space to mourn the losses and griefs of the year, to let the tears flow for the hurting places in our own lives, as well as for our country and our world. This full order of worship was crafted by Lenora & Gary Rand of Plural Guild and includes lots of original music by The Many, as well as a collection of sheet music for the suggested songs. This liturgy features the song The Many wrote for our Advent theme, Those Who Dream. You can download a recording of the Those Who Dream Song here.

The service provides an option for worshipers to write prayers of lament on pieces of cloth and then rend them to form a beautiful “rag wreath” of laments and also includes adaptation ideas for socially distanced and/or online worship.

Those Who Dream Theme Song (by The Many)
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Those Who Dream Theme Song (by The Many)
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This video features our Advent theme song, "Those Who Dream" written and recorded by The Many. The visuals are designed to create a dreamscape of images emerging in and out of view, paralleling the music and lyrics. You are welcome to embed this video within your live-streamed or online worship throughout the Advent season. 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.

Let There Be—Longest Night Worship Liturgy (w/ Visual Art & Poetry)
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Let There Be—Longest Night Worship Liturgy (w/ Visual Art & Poetry)
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[This resource is also included in our 2017 Advent Bundle of resources]

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This liturgical resource is for hosting a "Longest Night" service (alternatively titled, "Blue Christmas" or "Service of Light") on or around the winter solstice (December 21st in the Northern Hemisphere) designed to honor those grappling with loss and grief. Our hope is that this worship service will create a safe and sacred space for those who are struggling to feel the joy and light of this holiday season due to loss of any kind. We do not intend for this service to be a service of healing, for what we lose cannot always be replaced. Instead, we hope this service will acknowledge the hole that grief leaves in one’s heart while simultaneously remembering that we worship a God who is with us, even in the darkest of times.  

Let There Be Worship Film (w/ Spoken Word Poetry)
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Let There Be Worship Film (w/ Spoken Word Poetry)
$35.00

[This resource is also included in our 2017 Advent Bundle of resources]

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This worship film offers a visual meditation on love and loss, creating safe and sacred space for those wading through the tides of grief. Featuring spoken word poetry by Sarah Are, the film offers imagery of stormy chaos slowly curving into calm. The end result is not an erasure of the chaos, but, instead, a sense of groundedness for being held by God even in the midst of the storm.

Poetry by Sarah Are | Art & film by Lisle Gwynn Garrity

 
 

Poetic Advent Prayers

Personal and honest, these poetry prayers invite you into intimate conversations with God. Use them to open group sessions, adapt them for corporate worship, or distribute them to community members.

How does a weary world rejoice? Advent Poems
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How does a weary world rejoice? Advent Poems
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This collection of nine poetic prayers explores the How does a weary world rejoice? theme and weekly sub-themes and scriptures for Advent–Baptism of the Lord. Honest and intimate, these poems offer 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 Advent season. Prayers written by Rev. Sarah (Are) Speed.

From Generation to Generation... Advent Poems
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From Generation to Generation... Advent Poems
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This collection of seven poetic prayers explores the From Generation to Generation… weekly sub-themes and scriptures for Advent–Epiphany. Honest and intimate, these poems offer 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 Advent season. Prayers written by Rev. Sarah (Are) Speed.

Close to Home Advent Poems
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Close to Home Advent Poems
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[This resource is one of many included in our Close to Home Advent Bundle for Year C]

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This collection of seven poetic prayers explores the Close to Home weekly sub-themes in light of the RCL (Year C) scriptures for Advent–Epiphany. Honest and intimate, these poems offer 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 Advent season. Prayers written by Rev. Sarah (Are) Speed.

Those Who Dream Advent Poems
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Those Who Dream Advent Poems
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This collection of 10 poetic prayers explores the Those Who Dream weekly sub-themes in light of the RCL (Year B) scriptures for Advent–Epiphany. Honest and intimate, these poems offer 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 Advent season. Prayers written by Sarah Are.

What Can't Wait? Advent Poetry Prayers
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What Can't Wait? Advent Poetry Prayers
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This collection of 5 poetic prayers explores the question, what can’t wait? Each poem reflects on how God can’t wait to create hope, peace, joy, and love. Honest and intimate, these poems offer Advent 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 Advent.

Prayers written by Sarah Are.

Conversations w/ God Advent Prayers
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Conversations w/ God Advent Prayers
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[This resource is also included in our 2017 Advent Bundle of resources]

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These 4 short first-person “Conversations with God” poems reflect on hope, peace, love, and joy in a way that feels personal and intimate. These prayers are honest and pure, innocently child-like in their inquiry. We hope they invite you into a prayerful and intimate conversation with God throughout the weeks of Advent.

Prayers written by Sarah Are.

Draw Near Poetic Prayers
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Draw Near Poetic Prayers
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These 5 short poetic prayers illuminate a spiritual longing to draw near to God. Honest and pure, they reflect on drawing near to wonder, truth, justice, love and one another as means to connect more deeply to God. 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 the season of Advent.

Prayers written by Sarah Are.

 

Christmas Liturgies

These resources engage children in worship and can be used for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or any service throughout the Christmas season.

From Generation to Generation... Creative Liturgy for Christmastide
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From Generation to Generation... Creative Liturgy for Christmastide
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This liturgy, intended for use anytime throughout the Christmas season, includes many creative elements such as: a poetic reading of John 1:1-5, a time for written prayers, and a communal benediction. We hope it helps you create a joyful and gratitude-filled worship experience for this holy season.

Written by Rev. Sarah A. Speed

“The World’s Child” Mini Christmas Bundle w/ Full Order of Worship, Narrative Reflections, & Illustrated Foldable for Kids ($22-$28)

“The World’s Child” Mini Christmas Bundle w/ Full Order of Worship, Narrative Reflections, & Illustrated Foldable for Kids ($22-$28)

Interactive Lessons & Carols Liturgy for Children & Family Service
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Interactive Lessons & Carols Liturgy for Children & Family Service
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[This liturgy is included in our 2017 Christmas Bundle of resources]

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Looking for a more worshipful option for your church's children pageant? This full order of service offers liturgy and hands-on creative elements to keep wiggly ones engaged throughout. Structured as a worship service, the liturgy provides scripture scripts for telling the story of Jesus' birth with multiple voices. It even includes an option for recording a short video of the children in your community answering questions about Jesus' birth (think: something like this).

Love Drawn Here Christmas Liturgy
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Love Drawn Here Christmas Liturgy
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A full order of worship, this liturgy provides language for a Christmas Eve service or any worship throughout the Christmas season. Much of the liturgy is shaped around the Christmas theme, “Love Drawn Here,” focusing on Christ’s birth as a symbol of God’s love. The service opens with a poem, “Love Drawn Here.” We encourage you to download and distribute copies of our foldable illustrating this poem and pass it out to children and adults to color in throughout the service.

Advent Sermon Planning Guides

These guides offer you theme connections, questions for deeper study, and links to diverse authors and scholars for each of the RCL scripture texts in Advent. Our newest Sermon Guide includes biblical commentary by our guest contributor, Elder Vilmarie Cintrón-Olivieri.

How does a weary world rejoice? Sermon Planning Guide for Advent–Baptism of the Lord
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How does a weary world rejoice? Sermon Planning Guide for Advent–Baptism of the Lord
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[This resource is one of many included in our How does a weary world rejoice? Advent Bundle]

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For each of the focal scriptures in our How does a weary world rejoice? Advent series, 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 How does a weary world rejoice? theme by Rev. Cecelia D. Armstrong.

We hope this guide is your starting point for shaping your sermons, worship services, and scripture study classes. We also provide a fillable Sermon Planning Grid to help you map out your ideas for your series.

From Generation to Generation... Sermon Planning Guide for Advent–Epiphany
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From Generation to Generation... Sermon Planning Guide for Advent–Epiphany
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For each of the focal scriptures in our From Generation to Generation… Advent series, 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 From Generation to Generation… theme by Dr. Christine Hong.

We hope this guide is your starting point for shaping your sermons, worship services, and scripture study classes. We also provide a fillable Sermon Planning Grid to help you map out your ideas for your series.

Close to Home Sermon Planning Guide for Advent-Epiphany (Year C)
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Close to Home Sermon Planning Guide for Advent-Epiphany (Year C)
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For the Revised Common Lectionary scriptures for Advent–Epiphany (Year C), this guide offers you biblical commentary, theme connections, guiding questions, and links to further reading. This guide features biblical commentary on the weekly gospel scriptures by Elder Vilmarie Cintrón-Olivieri. 

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.

Those Who Dream Sermon Planning Guide for Advent-Epiphany (Year B)
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Those Who Dream Sermon Planning Guide for Advent-Epiphany (Year B)
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For the Revised Common Lectionary scriptures for Advent–Epiphany (Year B), this guide offers you biblical commentary, theme connections, guiding questions, and links to further reading. This guide features biblical commentary on the weekly gospel scriptures by Dr. Marcia Y. Riggs, J. Erskine Love Professor of Christian Ethics at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, GA. 

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.

Sermon Planning Guide + Grid for Advent (Year A)
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Sermon Planning Guide + Grid for Advent (Year A)
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[This resource is one of many in our WHAT CAN’T WAIT? ADVENT 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 Advent (Year A) with the theme, What Can’t Wait? We created this resource to help you bridge the gap.

Like biblical commentary, this guide offers 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 What Can’t Wait? theme, guiding questions for deeper study, quotes for inspiration, and recommended 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! We hope you’ll use the artist statements in our Advent Visual Art Collection as well as our Advent Words for Worship as companions to this guide in your worship planning.

Guide developed by Lisle Gwynn Garrity

 
 
 

devotional BOOKLETS

Looking for thoughtful, creative Advent devotions for yourself or your congregation? These resources offer print-ready files for you to print your own devotional booklet and distribute as many copies as you wish to your community. If you are unable to print and distribute copies due to COVID-19, email us at contact@sanctifiedart.org after you place your order and we’ll send you a version for use on tablets and computers.

From Generation To Generation… Devotional Booklet For Advent ($18-$85)

Close to Home Advent Devotional, Year C ($18-$85)

Close to Home Advent Devotional, Year C ($18-$85)

Those Who Dream Advent Devotional, Year B ($18-$85)

Those Who Dream Advent Devotional, Year B ($18-$85)

What Can’t Wait? Advent Devotional, Year A ($18-$85)

What Can’t Wait? Advent Devotional, Year A ($18-$85)

Draw Near Advent Devotional, Year C ($18-$85)

Draw Near Advent Devotional, Year C ($18-$85)

Let There Be Color Devotional, Year B ($15-$80)

Let There Be Color Devotional, Year B ($15-$80)

 

Children’s Resources

The Christmas season is a special time for children. These Advent calendars, daily devotionals, liturgies, and coloring foldables can be used to engage children and families at home and during worship all season long. You can also find free children’s lessons written for our Close to Home and Those Who Dream Advent themes on our blog.

How does a weary world rejoice? Children's Curriculum for Advent + Pageant
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How does a weary world rejoice? Children's Curriculum for Advent + Pageant
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This interactive skit-based children’s curriculum contains 6 weeks of lessons that sequentially follow the story of Jesus and John’s births found in Luke 1–3. Each of the 6 lessons includes a main idea, an opening song suggestion, a scripture skit, 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 colorable characters from the scripture skits that may be printed and colored to stage puppet shows, placed in worship bags, or sent home with children.

As the scripture skits for each week in the series flow from one to the other, they may be performed sequentially as an Advent or Christmas pageant. A full pageant script—including staging options, costume suggestions, and an original musical interlude—is included with the curriculum. The download includes sheet music and rehearsal tracks for the musical interlude, written for an SATB choir with two soloists accompanied on piano.

Curriculum by Rev. Anna Strickland

How does a weary world rejoice? Advent Calendars for Children and Adults (Copies for one individual/family)
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How does a weary world rejoice? Advent Calendars for Children and Adults (Copies for one individual/family)
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This Advent, practice daily acts of joy by using our Advent calendars—made for both children and adults. Our children’s Advent calendar is designed for coloring and can be printed on 11x17 paper. Starting on December 1st, count down the days of Advent by coloring in a shape within our Advent icon which features two figures holding the world together with weariness and joy. Then, complete the daily action prompt together as a family.

Our adult (and teen-friendly) calendar includes daily prompts for practicing joy in a weary world. Print it on 11x17 paper and display it somewhere you will see it each day. For this calendar, we have also included social media graphics of each prompt. We encourage you to share them on your church Instagram or Facebook page as an invitation for your community to practice joy this season.

How does a weary world rejoice? Children's Bulletins for Advent–Baptism of the Lord Sunday
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How does a weary world rejoice? Children's Bulletins for Advent–Baptism of the Lord Sunday
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These weekly worship bulletins invite children (elementary age) to engage in worship through coloring, storytelling, reading, and drawing. Each week’s bulletin includes a main idea, colorable images of the characters and events in each week’s gospel text, prompts for engaging the story, a prayer, an invitation to listen for words as they are said in service, and space to draw and color in response to drawing prompts.

Content written by Hannah Garrity. Character images and backgrounds drawn by Anna Strickland.

From Generation to Generation... Advent Calendar for Children and Families ($5-$55)

From Generation to Generation... Intergenerational Art Curriculum for Advent
$15.00

[This resource is one of many included in our From Generation to Generation… Advent Bundle]

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This intergenerational art curriculum contains seven small art projects, one for each of the weekly scriptures and sub-themes in our From Generation to Generation… Advent series. Each project’s curriculum includes: materials, preparation, instructions, and connection to the theme, as well as ideas for how you might integrate these projects into the life of your church.

Use the curriculum in weekly one-hour sessions during Advent–Epiphany, host a family-friendly Advent craft night, or adapt the projects for Advent take-home kits.

Close to Home Advent Calendar for Children & Families ($5-$55)

What Can’t Wait? Action Calendar for Children & Families ($5-$55)

What Can’t Wait? Action Calendar for Children & Families ($5-$55)

From Generation to Generation... Star Words (w/ Epiphany Sunday Liturgy)
$20.00

[This resource is one of many included in our From Generation to Generation… Advent Bundle]

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We created our From Generation to Generation… star words to build on the contemporary tradition of passing out intention words on Epiphany—a tradition growing in popularity amongst many Protestant churches. Inspired by the Magi following the star to Jesus, selecting a star word to meditate on throughout the new year can deepen your self-reflection and prayer practices.

To best serve your needs, we’ve provided multiple formats for printing and distributing the star words to your congregation, along with an accompanying liturgy for Epiphany Sunday. We’ve also provided ideas for how you might use the star words as a daily, child-friendly devotional throughout the season of Advent if you prefer to use them in that way.

We’ve included 160 star words—150 from our 2020 Advent Bundle, plus 10 new words to complement the From Generation to Generation… theme—a number of which are non-English words. Words & liturgy written by Rev. Sarah Speed.

Those Who Dream Star Words (w/ Epiphany Sunday Liturgy)
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Those Who Dream Star Words (w/ Epiphany Sunday Liturgy)
$20.00

[This resource is one of many included in our Those Who Dream Advent Bundle for Year B]

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We created our Those Who Dream star words to build on the contemporary tradition of passing out intention words on Epiphany—a tradition growing in popularity amongst many Protestant churches. Inspired by the Magi following the star to Jesus, selecting a star word to meditate on throughout the new year can deepen your self-reflection and prayer practices.

To best serve your needs, we’ve provided multiple formats for printing and distributing the star words to your congregation, along with an accompanying liturgy for Epiphany Sunday. We’ve also provided ideas for how you might use the star words as a daily, child-friendly devotional throughout the season of Advent if you prefer to use them in that way.

We’ve included 150 star words—a number of which are non-English words. Words & liturgy written by Sarah Are.

An Interactive Liturgy for the First Sunday After Christmas
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An Interactive Liturgy for the First Sunday After Christmas
$12.00

[This resource is one of many included in our Those Who Dream Advent Bundle for Year B]

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During any lectionary year, the first Sunday after Christmas can create an exhausting week for clergy and church staff. Therefore, this liturgy is designed to offer rest for church leadership so they can be present with their families and loved ones throughout the Christmas season, while also providing meaningful worship for your community.

Centered around the story of Simeon and Anna blessing young Jesus in the temple, this interactive liturgy is designed for either an intimate in-person service, or a worship service via Zoom. We’ve also provided an At-Home Liturgy version of the service that is especially great for young families with children to walk through together, screen-free.

Liturgy written by Sarah Are.

Interactive Lessons & Carols Liturgy for Children & Family Service
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Interactive Lessons & Carols Liturgy for Children & Family Service
$10.00

[This liturgy is included in our 2017 Christmas Bundle of resources]

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Looking for a more worshipful option for your church's children pageant? This full order of service offers liturgy and hands-on creative elements to keep wiggly ones engaged throughout. Structured as a worship service, the liturgy provides scripture scripts for telling the story of Jesus' birth with multiple voices. It even includes an option for recording a short video of the children in your community answering questions about Jesus' birth (think: something like this).

“The World’s Child” Mini Christmas Bundle w/ Full Order of Worship, Narrative Reflections, & Illustrated Foldable for Kids ($22-$28)

“The World’s Child” Mini Christmas Bundle w/ Full Order of Worship, Narrative Reflections, & Illustrated Foldable for Kids ($22-$28)

Love Drawn Here Foldable & Illustrated Poem
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Love Drawn Here Foldable & Illustrated Poem
$5.00

[This liturgy is included in our 2018 Christmas Bundle of resources]

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This fun “foldable” illustrates the poem, “Love Drawn Here,” which reflects on the meaning of Christmas. We encourage you to print and distribute this one-page foldable to adults and children to color throughout your Christmas Eve worship using our Love Drawn Here Liturgy. You could also distribute it to families for a fun take-home activity during the holidays.

Print the file in black and white, double-sided on 8.5x11 sheets, then fold in half to read and color like a book!

 
 
 

sanctuary art

We hope to empower you to create art with others in community. Advent is a perfect season to try something new and add even more beauty to your sacred space while telling the story of Christ’s birth in a visually compelling way. Each of these resources include designs for you to project, trace, and bring to life as paper lace cut out banners. We also provide written instructions and a video tutorial to guide you through the process—any willing group can do it! Pictured below are mock-ups of the banner designs. If you’re unable to create large banners due to COVID-19, check out this blog post for other creative ways to bring these designs to life.

How does a weary world rejoice? Banner Designs for Advent & Christmas
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How does a weary world rejoice? Banner Designs for Advent & Christmas
$20.00

[This resource is one of many included in our How does a weary world rejoice? Advent Bundle]

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This Advent, project & trace these designs to create painted or paper lace banners for your sanctuary. These designs by Hannah Garrity feature imagery from the Christmas story as found in Luke 1–2, as well as the How does a weary world rejoice? theme. 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.

From Generation to Generation... Banner Designs for Advent & Christmas
$20.00

[This resource is one of many included in our From Generation to Generation… Advent Bundle]

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This Advent, project & trace these designs to create painted or paper lace banners for your sanctuary. These designs by Hannah Garrity feature imagery from the Christmas story, as well as the From Generation to Generation… theme. 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.

Close to Home Banner Designs for Advent & Christmas
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Close to Home Banner Designs for Advent & Christmas
$20.00

[This resource is one of many included in our Close to Home Advent Bundle for Year C]

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This Advent, project & trace these designs to create painted or paper lace banners for your sanctuary. These designs by Hannah Garrity feature imagery from the scriptures in the RCL for Advent, Year C, as well as the Close to Home theme. 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.

Those Who Dream Banner Designs for Advent & Christmas
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Those Who Dream Banner Designs for Advent & Christmas
$20.00

[This resource is one of many included in our Those Who Dream Advent Bundle for Year B]

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This Advent, project & trace these designs to create painted or paper lace banners for your sanctuary. 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. Read this blog post for a number of creative ways to bring these designs to life (that are COVID-safe).

What Can't Wait? Banner Designs for Advent & Christmas
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What Can't Wait? Banner Designs for Advent & Christmas
$20.00

[This resource is one of many in our WHAT CAN’T WAIT? ADVENT BUNDLE]

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This Advent, project & trace these designs to create painted or paper lace banners for your sanctuary. These designs by Hannah Garrity feature traditional Advent & Christmas imagery as well as imagery from the Isaiah passages in the RCL for Advent, Year A. Look closely in this composition for: plowshares and pruning hooks, the wolf and the lamb, crocuses blooming in the desert, the stump of Jesse, the wise men, the shepherds, the angels above, and Mary, Joseph, and Jesus in the inn.

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!

Let There Be Light Advent Banner Designs
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Let There Be Light Advent Banner Designs
$20.00

[This resource is also included in our 2017 Advent Bundle of resources]

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This Advent, create beautiful sanctuary art to illuminate the themes of the season. These designs by Hannah Garrity feature light breaking into the world through the bursting forth of the cosmos and the birth of Christ. If you use them to create paper lace banners (see more below), light will quite literally break through the negative shapes you cut away. 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.

Draw Near Advent Banner Designs
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Draw Near Advent Banner Designs
$20.00

[This resource is one of many in our DRAW NEAR ADVENT BUNDLE]

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This Advent, create beautiful sanctuary art to illuminate the Christmas promise of God drawing near to us. These designs by Hannah Garrity feature traditional Christmas imagery—the Madonna and child, a shepherd, the star of Bethlehem—in a swirl of light and foliage. 

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.

Christmas Narrative Banner Designs
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Christmas Narrative Banner Designs
$20.00

Created by: Hannah Garrity

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[This resource is one of many in our 2016 Advent Bundle. Check out the entire bundle here]

Inspired by Mary’s Magnificat, Joseph’s Dream, Jesus’ Birth Story, and the Angels’ Birth Announcement to the Shepherds, this series of Advent and Christmas banners will adorn your space for the season. The large background movement in each banner depicts the movement of the Holy Spirit swirling around and surrounding the characters. The patterns draw the viewer into the piece while also symbolizing important details of each story.


films for worship & reflection

These short films blend visual imagery with either music, spoken word poetry, or scripture to offer meditative moments for reflection. Use these in worship or in a class or programming event.

Close to Home Theme Song (by Barnaby Bright)
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Close to Home Theme Song (by Barnaby Bright)
$25.00

[This resource is one of many included in our Close to Home Advent Bundle for Year C]

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This video features our Close to Home Advent theme song written and recorded by Becky & Nathan Bliss of Barnaby Bright. We hope this music video helps connect your heart and soul to our Close to Home theme, giving language to our deep longing to come home to God wherever we are. You are welcome to embed this music video in your live-streamed or online worship. 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.

Those Who Dream Theme Song (by The Many)
$25.00

[This resource is one of many included in our Those Who Dream Advent Bundle for Year B]

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This video features our Advent theme song, "Those Who Dream" written and recorded by The Many. The visuals are designed to create a dreamscape of images emerging in and out of view, paralleling the music and lyrics. You are welcome to embed this video within your live-streamed or online worship throughout the Advent season. 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.

God Couldn't Wait Christmas Worship Film
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God Couldn't Wait Christmas Worship Film
$25.00

[This resource is one of many in our WHAT CAN’T WAIT? ADVENT BUNDLE]

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This short film offers a reflection on the precarious timing of Christ’s birth. God chooses an unwed, lower-class, teenage girl forced to travel cross-country to be counted for the census in the midst of her third trimester. God’s plan to enter the world in human flesh seems so perilous—so much could and did go wrong. This led to the question, what if God had waited?

And yet, God couldn’t wait. God couldn’t wait to be love known in flesh and bone—and neither should we.


Art, film, and words by Lisle Gwynn Garrity

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"Light in Darkness" John 1 Worship Film
$25.00

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As you listen to the poetry of John 1: 1-5, watch this time lapse painting come to life as a meditation on the light that shines in the darkness.

Art & film by: Lisle Gwynn Garrity

Vocals by: Sarah Are

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"I Will Sing" Magnificat Worship Film
$25.00

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Mary sang a song of hope while standing in the dark. How? Maybe we are called to do the same. 
Full-length visual liturgy inspired by Luke 1: 46b-55.

Spoken word by: Sarah Are
Film & production by: Sarah Are & Lisle Gwynn Garrity

Draw Near Worship Meditation Film
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Draw Near Worship Meditation Film
$25.00

[This resource is one of many included in our DRAW NEAR ADVENT BUNDLE]

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This short film imagines the ways God draws near to us, like the sun bending down to earth to lift the flowers to the sky. Pairing time lapse imagery with poetry by Sarah Are, this film could be offered as a visual meditation in worship or used in bible study/discussion groups around themes of drawing near to God.

Poetry by Sarah Are
Art & film by Lisle Gwynn Garrity

Let There Be Worship Film (w/ Spoken Word Poetry)
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Let There Be Worship Film (w/ Spoken Word Poetry)
$35.00

[This resource is also included in our 2017 Advent Bundle of resources]

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This worship film offers a visual meditation on love and loss, creating safe and sacred space for those wading through the tides of grief. Featuring spoken word poetry by Sarah Are, the film offers imagery of stormy chaos slowly curving into calm. The end result is not an erasure of the chaos, but, instead, a sense of groundedness for being held by God even in the midst of the storm.

Poetry by Sarah Are | Art & film by Lisle Gwynn Garrity

Let There Be Light Advent Customizable Short Film ($75-$105)

Let There Be Light Advent Customizable Short Film ($75-$105)


Original Visual Art

Each year, we offer new original visual art inspired by the lectionary scriptures. Below are our Advent visual collections. We include written reflections on our visuals (and the scripture that inspired them) and a visio divina bible study curriculum so that you can use our visuals in Sunday School or other group study contexts. You can also browse and license all of our images individually through our Image Licensing Library.

How does a weary world rejoice? Visual Art Collection for Advent–Baptism of the Lord Sunday
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How does a weary world rejoice? Visual Art Collection for Advent–Baptism of the Lord Sunday
$60.00

[This resource is one of many included in our How does a weary world rejoice? Advent Bundle]

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This is a collection of 11 visuals inspired by the scripture texts featured in our How does a weary world rejoice? series. These art pieces, created in a variety of mediums—acrylic painting, collage, oil painting, and digital media—are visual meditations on these texts. 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."

Art created by: Rev. Lisle Gwynn Garrity, Rev. Lauren Wright Pittman, Hannah Garrity, and our guest artist, Rev. Nicolette Faison

From Generation to Generation... Visual Art Collection for Advent–Epiphany
$70.00

[This resource is one of many included in our From Generation to Generation… Advent Bundle]

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This is a collection of 13 visuals inspired by the scripture texts for Advent–Epiphany featured in the From Generation to Generation… series. These art pieces, created in a variety of mediums—paper lace, acrylic painting, collage, hand-cut block prints, and digital media—are visual meditations on these texts. 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."

Art created by: Rev. Lisle Gwynn Garrity, Rev. Lauren Wright Pittman, Hannah Garrity, and our guest artist, Carmelle Beaugelin

Close to Home Visual Art Collection for Advent–Epiphany, Year C
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Close to Home Visual Art Collection for Advent–Epiphany, Year C
$70.00

[This resource is one of many included in our Close to Home Advent Bundle for Year C]

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This is a collection of 13 visuals inspired by the RCL scripture texts for Advent–Epiphany, Year C. These art pieces, created in a variety of mediums—paper lace, acrylic and oil painting, hand-cut block prints, and digital media—are visual meditations on these texts. 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."

Art created by: Rev. Lisle Gwynn Garrity, Rev. Lauren Wright Pittman, Hannah Garrity, and our guest artist, Rev. T. Denise Anderson

Those Who Dream Visual Art Collection for Advent–Epiphany, Year B
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Those Who Dream Visual Art Collection for Advent–Epiphany, Year B
$80.00

[This resource is one of many included in our Those Who Dream Advent Bundle for Year B]

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This is a collection of 17 visuals inspired by the RCL scripture texts for Advent–Epiphany, 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.

What Can't Wait? Advent Visual Art Collection (Year A)
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What Can't Wait? Advent Visual Art Collection (Year A)
$60.00

[This resource is one of many in our WHAT CAN’T WAIT? ADVENT BUNDLE]

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This is a collection of 13 visuals inspired by RCL scripture texts for Advent (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.

Draw Near Advent (Year C) Visual Art
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Draw Near Advent (Year C) Visual Art
$45.00

[This resource is one of many in our DRAW NEAR ADVENT BUNDLE]

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This is a collection of 9 visuals inspired by RCL scripture texts for Advent (Year C). Download includes files formatted for print and web/projection.

Let There Be Light Advent Visual Art (Year B)
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Let There Be Light Advent Visual Art (Year B)
$35.00

[This resource is also included in our 2017 Advent Bundle of resources]

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This is a collection of visual art inspired by the gospel scripture texts for the four Sundays in Advent (Year B). Download includes files formatted for print and web/projection.

Advent & Christmas Visual Art (Year A)
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Advent & Christmas Visual Art (Year A)
$45.00

[This resource is one of many in our 2016 Advent Bundle. Check out the entire bundle here]

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Created by: Lisle Gwynn Garrity, Lauren Wright Pittman, Hannah Garrity

Inspired by this year's Revised Common Lectionary Advent & Christmas scripture texts, this is a collection of 12 original visual art digital downloads for use as bulletin cover art, church publications, and screen projections in worship.

Light With Us Christmas Visual Art
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Light With Us Christmas Visual Art
$25.00

[This resource is also included in our 2017 Christmas Bundle of resources]

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This is a collection of 3 visual art pieces inspired by gospel lectionary (year B) scripture texts for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and Epiphany Sunday.

Download includes files formatted for print and web/projection, written reflections on each visual (and how it offers commentary on the scripture), and a short visio divina guide for using the art in a group practice of visual meditation.

 
 
 

ORIGINAL MUSIC

The Advent and Christmas season is a musically rich time. Between Lessons & Carols services and the Christmas songs pumping through every car and store, music fills December. Here are some original songs and hymns written to illustrate our Advent themes through song. Additionally, we have hymn and song suggestions for our What Can’t Wait (Year A), Those Who Dream (Year B), and Close to Home (Year C) themes available on our blog.

From Generation to Generation… Original Hymns (free for congregational use)

Close to Home Theme Song (by Barnaby Bright)
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Close to Home Theme Song (by Barnaby Bright)
$25.00

[This resource is one of many included in our Close to Home Advent Bundle for Year C]

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This video features our Close to Home Advent theme song written and recorded by Becky & Nathan Bliss of Barnaby Bright. We hope this music video helps connect your heart and soul to our Close to Home theme, giving language to our deep longing to come home to God wherever we are. You are welcome to embed this music video in your live-streamed or online worship. 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.

Close to Home Original Hymns
(free for congregational use)

Those Who Dream Theme Song (by The Many)
$25.00

[This resource is one of many included in our Those Who Dream Advent Bundle for Year B]

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This video features our Advent theme song, "Those Who Dream" written and recorded by The Many. The visuals are designed to create a dreamscape of images emerging in and out of view, paralleling the music and lyrics. You are welcome to embed this video within your live-streamed or online worship throughout the Advent season. 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.

 
 
 

Coloring Posters

Coloring is a simple way to provide space for either intergenerational communal art-making or individual reflection. Incorporate coloring posters into your bible study, youth group, prayer stations, children’s church, fellowship events, etc. Like our visual art, we create new coloring pages each year based on the lectionary and include written reflections on the imagery. You can also find these colorable images in our Image Licensing Library to print on bulletin covers or individual coloring pages.

Draw Near Advent Coloring Poster Collection (Year C)
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Draw Near Advent Coloring Poster Collection (Year C)
$55.00

[This resource is one of many included in our DRAW NEAR ADVENT BUNDLE]

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A collection of 8 hand-drawn coloring posters inspired by RCL texts for Advent 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.

Let There Be Light Advent Coloring Posters (Year B)
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Let There Be Light Advent Coloring Posters (Year B)
$65.00

[This resource is also included in our 2017 Advent Bundle of resources]

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A collection of 16 hand-drawn coloring posters inspired by all of the Revised Common Lectionary scriptures for the four weeks of Advent (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.

Advent & Christmas Coloring Page Collection (Year A)
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Advent & Christmas Coloring Page Collection (Year A)
$45.00

[This resource is one of many in our 2016 Advent bundle. Check out the entire bundle here]

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Created by: Lauren Wright Pittman, Hannah Garrity, Sarah Are

A compilation of designs, this is a set of 9 hand-drawn coloring pages inspired by Advent and Christmas scriptures. Download includes files for 8.5 x 11 pages and 11 x 17 posters. Enjoy these coloring pages as ways to slow down and visually meditate on scripture and the Christmas story.

 

 

Love Drawn Here Foldable & Illustrated Poem
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Love Drawn Here Foldable & Illustrated Poem
$5.00

[This liturgy is included in our 2018 Christmas Bundle of resources]

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This fun “foldable” illustrates the poem, “Love Drawn Here,” which reflects on the meaning of Christmas. We encourage you to print and distribute this one-page foldable to adults and children to color throughout your Christmas Eve worship using our Love Drawn Here Liturgy. You could also distribute it to families for a fun take-home activity during the holidays.

Print the file in black and white, double-sided on 8.5x11 sheets, then fold in half to read and color like a book!

“The World’s Child” Mini Christmas Bundle w/ Full Order of Worship, Narrative Reflections, & Illustrated Foldable for Kids ($22-$28)

“The World’s Child” Mini Christmas Bundle w/ Full Order of Worship, Narrative Reflections, & Illustrated Foldable for Kids ($22-$28)

 
 
 

Graphics & Theme 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 Advent season.

How does a weary world rejoice? Branding Suite
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How does a weary world rejoice? Branding Suite
$45.00

[This resource is one of many included in our How does a weary world rejoice? Advent 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 How does a weary world rejoice? 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 Advent, Christmas, and Baptism of the Lord Sunday.

From Generation to Generation... Branding Suite
$45.00

[This resource is one of many included in our From Generation to Generation… Advent Bundle]

DIGITAL DOWNLOAD FOR ONE-TIME LICENSE

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 From Generation to Generation 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 Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany.

Close to Home Branding Suite
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Close to Home Branding Suite
$45.00

[This resource is one of many included in our Close to Home Advent Bundle for 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 Close to Home 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 Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany.

Those Who Dream Branding Suite
$45.00

[This resource is one of many included in our Those Who Dream Advent Bundle for Year B]

DIGITAL DOWNLOAD FOR ONE-TIME LICENSE

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 Those Who Dream 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 Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany.

What Can't Wait? Branding Suite
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What Can't Wait? Branding Suite
$45.00

[This resource is one of many in our WHAT CAN’T WAIT? ADVENT BUNDLE]

DIGITAL DOWNLOAD FOR ONE-TIME LICENSE

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 theme, What Can’t Wait?, 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.

We encourage you to use these branding materials to share the What Can’t Wait? theme throughout Advent and Christmas.

Draw Near Branding Suite
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Draw Near Branding Suite
$30.00

[This resource is one of many in our DRAW NEAR ADVENT 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, Draw Near, 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.

Love Drawn Here Christmas Branding Suite
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Love Drawn Here Christmas Branding Suite
$30.00

[This liturgy is included in our 2018 Christmas Bundle of resources]

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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, Love Drawn Here, with your community throughout the Christmas season.

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.

Let There Be Light Graphics
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Let There Be Light Graphics
$25.00

[These graphics are included in our Advent 2017 Bundle of resources]

DIGITAL DOWNLOAD FOR ONE-TIME LICENSE

These graphics offer a visually engaging way for you to share the "Let There Be Light" Advent 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.

Light With Us Christmas Graphics
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Light With Us Christmas Graphics
$25.00

[These graphics are included in our 2017 Christmas Bundle of resources]

DIGITAL DOWNLOAD FOR ONE-TIME LICENSE

These graphics offer a visually engaging way for you to share the "Light With Us" theme with your community during Christmas. 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.

Advent Journey Graphic Icon Series
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Advent Journey Graphic Icon Series
$30.00

[This resource is one of many in our 2016 Advent Bundle. Get the entire bundle for a discounted price here]

Created by: Lauren Wright Pittman

DIGITAL DOWNLOAD ONLY

Details:

  • The advent journey set includes 6 icons (4 for the 4 weeks of advent, 1 for Christmas, and 1 for Epiphany).
  • .jpg and .png files for web and projection use (100 dpi) and .jpg and .png files for print use (300 dpi).
  • Set also includes a .pdf file explaining the theology of the images, which can be used for Christian education purposes.

 

 

 
 

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rev. Lisle Gwynn GArrity

Founder, Creative Director

Lisle Gwynn Garrity (she/her) is a Pastorist (pastor + artist), retreat leader, and creative entrepreneur seeking to fill the church with more color, paint, mystery, and creativity. She founded A Sanctified Art with the conviction that, in order to thrive, the church needs more creative expression and art-filled freedom.