Devotional Resources

Find devotions and meditations to help you during this season of preparation.

Devotions and meditations

• Upper Room Daily Devotional
• Ideas for weekly Lenten reflection
• Reflections and features from Global Ministries
• Upper Room Daily Reflections
• How Beautiful (Society of St. Andrew Lenten devotional guide)

Articles

• 40 Ideas for Keeping Lent Holy
• 7 awesome ideas for Holy Week and Easter
• When keeping Sabbath, simply rest
• Got ashes? Chicago church takes Lent to the streets
• Pastors debate value of Lenten sacrifices
• Lent: A Time to Fast and Pray
• New Ways of Praying at Lent
• Lent 101
• Simplicity: A Lenten Path
• Lent: Don't Just Do Something, Sit There!
• Time for Change: Reflections on Lent and Easter
• Where Does the Term "Good Friday" Come From?

FAQS

• Questions about Lent & Easter

Resources for Purchase

• Cokesbury Seasonal Selections
• Upper Room Lent & Easter Reources
• Lent and Easter Multimedia Resources

Family Resources

Discover ways for your family to celebrate Lent and Easter.

• 2014 Family Study for Lent
• A Lenten Litany
• Making Ash Wednesday Accessible for Children
• Stewardship Nuggets for Families and Children: Family Lenten Offering
• Coins for Lent
• Observing Holy Week in the Home
• Easter Devotional for Families
• Sharing Easter with Your Children

Worship Resources

Find liturgies, prayers, and lectionary and preaching helps for the season.

• Ash Wednesday Resources from GBOD
• Lenten Resources from GBOD
• Planning for Worship During Lent, Year A: Living Our Baptismal Calling
• Creating Lenten Spirituality Centers (video from Central UMC, Florence, S.C.)
• Rethinking stations of the cross
• New ways of praying at Lent
• Lenten worship displays provide focus
• Connecting Worship and Daily Living in Lent
• Living Lent: Focus on Conversion and Baptism as You Plan Your Lenten Services
• What should we do about singing "Alleluia" during Lent?
• Water and Ashes Do Not Mix!
• Contemporary Service for Ash Wednesday

Holy Week and Easter

• Palm/Passion Sunday planning
• Holy Week planning helps
• Maundy Thursday in an Alternative/Emergent Mode
• How Shall We Observe Good Friday?
• Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley: A Tenebrae Service
• The Great Vigil of Easter
• A New Great Thanksgiving for Eastertide

Study Guides

Involve your small group in a seasonal study.

• The Awkward Season (online Lenten retreat)
• Journey to Hope (Intergenerational study and sermon series from Rethink Church)
• Forgiveness (Reflections and activities from Interpreter Magazine and UMC.org)

Videos

• Desktop Meditation: A Lenten Journey
• Chuck Knows Church: Shrove Tuesday
• Chuck Knows Church: Ash Wednesday
• Chuck Knows Church: Lent
• Chuck Knows Church: Footwashing
• Rethinking Stations of the Cross
• Good Friday Cross Journey
• Easter Church Drama
• Easter Cross Walk

Take action

• Donate to One Great Hour of Sharing
• Coins for Lent