Confession Cycle: Easter People

These unison confessional prayers were created to accompany the sermon series “Easter People.” You are welcome to use or adapt these liturgies for worship, with credit. When printing these liturgies, please use the following credit line: “Prayer by Rev. Carol Holbrook Prickett.” Week 1: “Thomas” Creator God, you have instilled in us so many different giftsContinue reading “Confession Cycle: Easter People”

Call to Worship Cycle: Easter People

These opening words for worship were created to accompany the sermon series “Easter People.” The bolded words are spoken by the congregation. You are welcome to use or adapt these liturgies for worship, with credit. When printing these liturgies, please use the following credit line: “Prayer by Rev. Carol Holbrook Prickett.” Week 1: “Thomas” WeContinue reading “Call to Worship Cycle: Easter People”

Easter People

This five-week sermon series, following the Revised Common Lectionary for Year C, invites us to spend time with 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 howContinue reading “Easter People”