Worship and Devotional Resources

Here is a collection of worship resources that offer you help during the Lenten season.

Presbyterians Today 2008 Lenten Devotional Guide

Surely the Lord Is in This Place
By Steve Shussett

A booklet of devotional readings, prayers and Scripture passages produced by Presbyterians Today magazine for use by families and individuals during Lent. The daily meditations focus on places where God is encountered, both in Scripture and in our lives.

Item # 6827007017
1-9 copies $3.00 each

Reflections on the Lord's Prayer: A Lenten Study

Lent is an appropriate time to consider the prayer Jesus taught us to pray in a careful way. Participants will enjoy the many reflections and information the author provides. Each session concentrates on a major theme or phrase of the prayer in the hope that we will be renewed in our reflections during Lent and intentional as we pray this familiar prayer. This Lenten study does not follow the lectionary.

Well-known author Ellsworth Kalas has written a very fine Lenten study based on the Lord’s Prayer.  It is a six-session study, and the Leader’s Guides are authored by Carol Wehrheim.

Creating Space for Grace: Meditations for Lent 2008

This devotion is a guide to help "create space for grace" through the season of Lent. Grace is a shorthand way of speaking of the incredible love of God. John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, understood grace as God's mercy that comes to us, even though we do not deserve it. It is a free gift.

Learn more and download this Lent guide from the Higher Education Ministries Arena Web site.

Journey to the Cross

A daily online Lenten Devotional Guide

The d365 devotional series is produced by Passport, Inc. Passport’s seasonal devotional sites, Journey to the Cross and Following the Star, help readers journey through Advent and Lent. These series are written especially for students and seek to provide reflections on themes that impact our faith journey. We hope that in the midst of busy or boring days, these sites will create a quiet space in your life for contemplation and prayer. [Learn more]

Jesus as Teacher

This new Bible study by well-known author and Christian educator Sara Covin Juengst looks at the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth and explores the role of education in the body of Christ. This resource is ideal for celebrating the Year with Education, to use as a Lenten Bible study, or to use anytime during Sunday school classes. Each chapter is followed by questions for personal and group reflection.

$1.50 each for ten or more.
$2.00
PDS# 7035098602

Kneeling in Jerusalem

In a powerful and creative way, renowned author and speaker Ann Weems brings new insight into the Lenten season by providing seventy-one poems of inspiration. For example: Just when I thought, there would be no more light, in the Jerusalem sky, the Bright and Morning Star, appeared and the darkness has not overcome it.

With her intuitive and heartening poems, Weems takes the reader on a pensive journey through Lent and Easter. Recalling Easter as child, she says, "I remember the Easter egg hunts on green lawns and in our living room. I remember pastel dresses and patent leather shoes. I remember roast lamb with mint jelly. I remember the abundance of flowers and the overloaded Easter baskets. But most of all I remember the hot cross buns on Good Friday morning and going to church instead of school and the inevitable sermons on the last words of Jesus and wondering why, in the face of the cross and death, this day is called Good."

2008 One Great Hour of Sharing Lenten Devotion Guide    

This tabletop tent provides weekly devotions focusing on Lent leading up to the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

PDS# 1113808120
FREE

Pausing on the Road to Jerusalem
Study pack

By Michael L. Lindvall and Christy Lang

This study is built around the Common Lectionary Gospel readings for the five Sundays in Lent and Palm/Passion Sunday of 2007. Participants who worship with congregations that follow the Common Lectionary will find that these lessons amplify their Sunday hearing of these same passages and the sermons preached on them. For others, these passages, selected by the Lectionary to explore the great themes of Lent, will offer a broad and varied set of studies fit for the season.

Available from The Thoughtful Christian
$25.00

Liturgical Resources

Daily Readings for Lent 2008
Two-year daily lectionary

The daily readings in this schedule are drawn from the two-year daily lectionary. For Sundays and festivals (Ash Wednesday, the Sundays in Lent, the days of Holy Week and Easter Sunday) two sets of readings are provided: the first set of readings is from the two-year lectionary cycle, and the second set is from the Revised Common Lectionary. In the two-year daily lectionary, the psalms repeat according to a weekly pattern.

Daily Readings for Lent 2008
Year A

The daily readings in this schedule are drawn from Year A of the three-year Revised Common Lectionary. In this series of readings, the scriptures for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday generally carry forward the themes of the previous Sunday, while the scriptures for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday introduce the readings for the following Sunday. One psalm is repeated over the course of each of these three-day sets.

Presbyterian Peacemaking Program

Servant Christ: a litany

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance Program

Here is a compilation of past liturgies from Presbyterian Disaster Assistance for you to use during the Lenten season.

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance extends a special thank-you to Presbyterian World Service and Development (Presbyterian Church in Canada) who has given us permission to use their Lenten worship resources. [Read more]

Lenten and Easter Lectionary Commentary on Fair Food

Presbyterians from around the country compiled a variety of Lenten and Easter lectionary commentaries about the PC(USA)’s work with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) for fair food and human rights. Pastors, professors, and students connect Year C lectionary texts with this work.

Lectionary Commentary: Sixth Sunday in Lent, April 1, 2007
The Rev. Richard Williams, Campus Minister, Agape House, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Lectionary Commentary: Fifth Sunday in Lent, March 25, 2007
Andrew Nurkin, Presbyterian Seminarian, Yale Divinity School.

Lectionary Commentary: Fourth Sunday in Lent, March 18, 2007
Prof. Steve Friesen, Chair in Biblical Studies, University of Texas.

Lectionary Commentary: Third Sunday in Lent, March 11, 2007
Prof. Steve Friesen, Chair in Biblical Studies, University of Texas.

Lectionary Commentary: Second Sunday in Lent, March 4, 2007
The Rev. Matthew Lang, First Presbyterian Church, Des Plaines, Ill.

Litanies for Lent 2007

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance extends a special thank-you to Presbyterian World Service and Development (Presbyterian Church in Canada), who has given us permission to use their Lent worship resources. Lent is a time we often let things go by giving something up. Lent is also a time to pick things up — like prayer, study, the cross.

Litanies for the Sundays of Lent

Litanies for Lent 2006

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance extends a special thank-you to Presbyterian World Service and Development (Presbyterian Church in Canada), who has given us permission to use their Lent worship resources. Lent is a time we often let things go by giving something up. Lent is also a time to pick things up — like prayer, study, the cross.

Litanies for the Sundays of Lent

Litanies for Lent 2005

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance extends a special thank-you to Presbyterian World Service and Development (Presbyterian Church in Canada), who has given us permission to use their Lent worship resources. Lent is a time we often let things go by giving something up. Lent is also a time to pick things up — like prayer, study, the cross. [Read more]

Litanies for the Sundays of Lent

Litanies for Lent 2004

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance extends a special thank-you to Presbyteryian World Service and Development (Presbyterian Church in Canada) who has given given us permission to use their Lent worship resources. [Read more]

Litanies for the Sundays of Lent

Litanies for Lent 2003

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