Tag Archives: Lent

Great Wild Mercy: The Shocking Kindness of God

Lent seems a long way off, but it’ll be a fast turnaround this year! Mercifully, there are resources to help make the transition smoother.

Mercy is certainly a Bible buzzword, but how often do we stop to think about everything a merciful God means? Our new Lenten series, Great Wild Mercy, takes your congregation on a journey through God’s mercy – sometimes gentle, sometimes unsettling, but always radically kind.

Inspired by Carrie Newcomer’s song of the same name, this free series comes with weekly liturgy, Canva graphic templates, and even a Spotify playlist to soothe the harried preacher’s soul!

Click “Read more” to see if a mercifully-minded Lent is what your congregation needs.

Confession Cycle: Great Wild Mercy

These confessional prayers were created to accompany the Lenten sermon series “Great Wild Mercy.” The bold text is spoken by the whole 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.” Repeated Elements TheContinue reading “Confession Cycle: Great Wild Mercy”

Call to Worship Cycle: Great Wild Mercy

These opening words for worship were created to accompany the Lenten sermon series “Great Wild Mercy.” 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:Continue reading “Call to Worship Cycle: Great Wild Mercy”

Affirmation of Faith: The Lord’s Prayer

These affirmations of faith were selected to accompany the Lenten sermon series “The Lord’s Prayer.” They are from The Heidelberg Catechism, 400th Anniversary Edition, 1563–1963, Copyright © 1962 United Church Press, reprinted in the PC(USA) Book of Confessions. The Heidelberg Catechism was written in 1562 to reconcile different theological perspectives within various groups of theContinue reading “Affirmation of Faith: The Lord’s Prayer”

The Lord’s Prayer

This straightforward sermon series takes the Lord’s Prayer line by line, offering those of us who can rattle it off without thinking a chance to reconnect with the powerful simplicity of the prayer Jesus gave us. While this sermon series was designed for the six weeks of Lent and Easter Sunday, it could also beContinue reading “The Lord’s Prayer”

Confession Cycle: The Lord’s Prayer

These unison confessional prayers were created to accompany the Lenten sermon series “The Lord’s Prayer.” 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 Lord, we are sorryfor all the times our prayerswereContinue reading “Confession Cycle: The Lord’s Prayer”

Call to Worship Cycle: The Lord’s Prayer

These opening words for worship were created to accompany the Lenten sermon series “The Lord’s Prayer.” 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 1Continue reading “Call to Worship Cycle: The Lord’s Prayer”

All Day: a Confession of Sins for Maundy Thursday

Forgive us, Lord Jesus,because we have betrayed youin a thousand mindless ways.  All day we workwithout working for your kingdom.  All day we talkwithout talking about your love. All day we eat and drinkwithout remembering your goodness. Now the day is nearly over, and we cannot change what we have doneor left undone. But we doContinue reading “All Day: a Confession of Sins for Maundy Thursday”

Confession Cycle: Salve-ation

These unison confessional prayers were created to accompany the Lenten sermon series “Salve-ation: A Lent for Healing and Wholeness.” 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: Refuge God of mercy, weContinue reading “Confession Cycle: Salve-ation”

Call to Worship Cycle: Salve-ation

These opening words for worship were created to accompany the Lenten sermon series “Salve-ation: A Lent for Healing and Wholeness.” 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. CarolContinue reading “Call to Worship Cycle: Salve-ation”

Salve-ation: A Lent for Healing and Wholeness

Feeling wounded, parched, or disconnected in this challenging season? This sermon series, which follows the Revised Common Lectionary for Lent Year C, offers a balm for the burned and burned out by drawing close to the grace of experiencing God. While “salve” and “salvation” come from different root words, the English confluence offers us aContinue reading “Salve-ation: A Lent for Healing and Wholeness”

A Litany for Holy Week

This litany is appropriate for the closing of a Palm Sunday service. Today we have hailed you as our champion. Tomorrow distractions will overtake us, and our enthusiasm may fade. Help us keep our eyes on you this week: on Monday, when you clear the temple of greed and deceit;on Tuesday, when you challenge our comfort and ease;onContinue reading “A Litany for Holy Week”

Palm Sunday Confession of Sins

Holy Christ, this is the week we cheer you on a Sunday, fail you on a Thursday, betray you on a Friday, and creep away on a Saturday.  Yet this is the week you ride into danger for us, establish a new covenant of grace for us, pray for us, and die for us. AsContinue reading “Palm Sunday Confession of Sins”

Call to Worship Cycle: Meeting Jesus

These opening words for worship were created to accompany the Lenten sermon series “Meeting Jesus.” 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: “WhenContinue reading “Call to Worship Cycle: Meeting Jesus”

Confession Cycle: Meeting Jesus

These unison confessional prayers were created to accompany the Lenten sermon series “Meeting Jesus.” 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: “When Satan Met Jesus” Merciful God, we come to youContinue reading “Confession Cycle: Meeting Jesus”

Meeting Jesus

Encounters with Christ can be mystifying, maddening, but ultimately, miraculous. 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. Week 1: “When Satan Met Jesus”Scripture: Matthew 4:1-11Every year, the RCL begins the season of LentContinue reading “Meeting Jesus”

Confession Cycle: I Give Up (But in the Good Way)

These unison confessional prayers were created to accompany the Lenten sermon series “I Give Up (But in the Good Way): Lent After a Year of Sacrifices.” 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.”Continue reading “Confession Cycle: I Give Up (But in the Good Way)”

I Give Up (But in the Good Way)

Some years, it feel like Lent never really ends, and we’re all forced to make sacrifices of the things that bring us joy. After a year like that, this sermon series encourages your congregation to give up what hurts them instead, bringing them closer to God and God’s abundant life offered in Christ. The scripturesContinue reading “I Give Up (But in the Good Way)”

Call to Worship Cycle: I Give Up (But in the Good Way)

These opening words for worship were created to accompany the Lenten sermon series “I Give Up (But in the Good Way): Lent After a Year of Sacrifices.” 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 theContinue reading “Call to Worship Cycle: I Give Up (But in the Good Way)”