Each sermon series comes with liturgical resources and graphics to share. Get inspired, adapt, or full-on borrow these for your congregation. Attribution: Rev. Carol Holbrook Prickett.
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Advent & Christmas
Christmas (Without the Crazy)
Loosely following the Revised Common Lectionary for Advent Year B, this four week Advent sermon series gets real about the challenges of finding hope, peace, love, and joy in a hectic holiday season.
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Promises: Awaiting Christ in a Weary World
Following the Revised Common Lectionary for Advent Year C, this four week Advent sermon series encourages your congregation to celebrate the promises God has kept and develop faith in the promises God has yet to fulfill.
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Joy to the World
This four week Advent sermon series celebrates one of the most famous Christmas carols. Each week explores the scriptural grounding of a verse of Isaac Watts’ beloved hymn.
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Daring Dreams
Following the Revised Common Lectionary for Advent Year A, this four week Advent sermon series encourages your congregation to dream of God’s future alongside the prophet Isaiah.
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Epiphany
Servant
Following the Revised Common Lectionary for Epiphany Year A, this six week sermon series gives us a chance to recommit to truly being the servants of the Lord.
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Rise Up
Following the Revised Common Lectionary for Epiphany Year B, this five week sermon series highlights the joys and challenges of rising up to follow God’s call, no matter what that looks like in our lives.
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The Gifts of Faith
Following the Revised Common Lectionary for Epiphany Year C, this nine-week sermon series offers us a chance to open up the presents that our faith gives us–some we love, some that confuse us, and some we might never have put on our list!
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Lent
ReLent. Restore. Renew.
Following the Revised Common Lectionary for Lent Year B, this seven week Lent sermon series invites your congregation to ponder what new things God may be doing. It lifts up Lent as a time for restoration and renewal of trust in God’s promises.
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Walking the Hard Road
Following the Revised Common Lectionary for Lent Year C, this seven-week Lent series invites us to explore the challenges of the Christian life, and find the grace powerful enough to see us through.
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I Give Up (But in the Good Way)
Following the Revised Common Lectionary for Lent Year B, this seven week Lent series encourages you to give up the things, not that bring you joy, but that drive you away from the abundant life Christ offers. Keeping a steady eye on Easter, the series offers an introspective look at our lives of faith.
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Salve-ation: A Lent for Healing and Wholeness
Following the Revised Common Lectionary for Lent Year C, this seven week Lent series offers a balm for the burned and burned out by exploring the grace of experiencing God.
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Meeting Jesus
This Lent series, following the Revised Common Lectionary for Lent Year A, follows seven characters whose meetings with Christ leave them forever changed, encouraging us to do the same.
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The Lord’s Prayer
This Lent series takes the Lord’s Prayer line by line, offering us a chance to reconnect with the powerful simplicity of the prayer Jesus gave us.
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Eastertide
Easter People
Following the Revised Common Lectionary for Eastertide Year C, this five-week sermon series highlights some of the characters that pop up after the resurrection of Jesus. These “Easter people,” from the famous to the barely-mentioned, show us how ordinary people responded to Christ’s new life, and encourages us to imagine how we can do the same.
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Ordinary Time
Walking in the Storm
This eight week sermon series explores basic Christian spiritual practices as ways of building up resiliency in times of crisis, chaos, uncertainty, and distress. Centering on the story of Peter walking on water, the series looks at body care, grief, forgiveness, anger, connection, grace, and gratitude.
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It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
This four week sermon series lifts up the spiritual wisdom of Mr. Rogers, who was both a children’s television host and an ordained Presbyterian minister. Tackling tough topics like inclusion, self-doubt, and salvation, this series offers a deeper look at America’s favorite neighbor.
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Finding God in the Flames
This six week sermon series offers a light-hearted tour of some of the great fire stories of the Bible, perfect for summer camping season. From the burning bush to the breakfast on the beach, each story reveals a bit more of the live-giving light (and heat) of God.
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And With All Your Mind
This four-week sermon series is designed as an introduction to thinking of mental health as part of our lives of faith. Each week explores a different way mental health struggles can present themselves and suggests truths and tools our faith gives us to support ourselves and others.
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The Apostles’ Creed
This seven-week sermon series breaks down each piece of the Apostle’s Creed to uncover the original need for each claim and to move us to live according to our beliefs.
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Stewardship & Generosity
Church in Progress
This four week stewardship sermon series skims through Paul’s letter to the Philippians to assure us that the challenges of being church are nothing new–and that despite it all, God is still at work in us!
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Legacy
This four week stewardship sermon series encourages us to take the long view of God’s mission, celebrating our chapter in the everlasting story of God’s vision for the church and the world.
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A Deeper Well
This four-week stewardship sermon series is built around the theme “A Deeper Well.” It engages four scriptures with well/water imagery from both the Old and New Testament. Originally developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the series is designed to carry pastoral sensitivity for churches in times of economic uncertainty. It recognizes that giving money is a sacrifice and lifts up that what the church offers us back–grace, warmth, truth, and love–is worth it.
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Entrusted Treasures
Following (mostly) a stretch of the Revised Common Lectionary for Year C, this four week stewardship sermon encourages us to think about the various treasures God has entrusted to us, and empowers us to entrust our treasures to each other.
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Where Our Treasure Is
Money doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Money has a mission. This straightforward four-week stewardship sermon encourages the congregation to give to the vital mission and ministries God has laid our for the church.
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God’s word is living, active, and sharper than any two-edged sword.
Hebrews 4:12
About
Deep Well Worship Resources is a creation of the Rev. Carol Holbrook Prickett, a PC(USA) pastor and believer in ever-flowing grace.
How to Use
The resources on this site are covered under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (CC-BY-NC 4.0), meaning you are welcome to share or adapt them in any format where you’re not making money. However, you should attribute these resources to Rev. Carol Holbrook Prickett, and indicate whether or not you adapted them. That’s all it takes!
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