Lent and Easter Resources
Lent and Easter Resources
2/27/2014
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
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