Tag Archives: Lent

Call to Worship Cycle: Walking the Hard Road

These opening words for worship were created to accompany the Lenten sermon series “Walking the Hard Road: When Faith is Challenged.” 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.Continue reading “Call to Worship Cycle: Walking the Hard Road”

Walking the Hard Road: When Faith is Challenged

The season of Lent grew from a strengthening period of preparation for baptism and entry into the Christian life, acknowledging that it is not always an easy life. Using scriptures from the Revised Common Lectionary, Lent Year C, this sermon series invites us to look deeper into the challenges our faith may face along theContinue reading “Walking the Hard Road: When Faith is Challenged”

Confession Cycle: ReLent. Restore. Renew.

These unison confessional prayers were created to accompany the Lenten sermon series “ReLent. Restore. Renew.” 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: “A New World” Merciful God, we confess that weContinue reading “Confession Cycle: ReLent. Restore. Renew.”

Call to Worship Cycle: ReLent. Restore. Renew.

These opening words for worship were created to accompany the Lenten sermon series “ReLent. Restore. Renew.” 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: ReLent. Restore. Renew.”

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. Week 1: “A New World”Scripture: Genesis 9:8-17While Noah’s Ark is often treatedContinue reading “ReLent. Restore. Renew.”

Maundy Thursday Blessing

Jesus said, “Eat this bread and drink this cup In remembrance of me.” On the cross, a criminal hung beside him. The criminal said, “Jesus, Remember me when you come into your kingdom.” And Jesus promised that he would. We remember the story. We make love our first memory– our foundational memory. We remember weContinue reading “Maundy Thursday Blessing”

In Remembrance (A Maundy Thursday Communion Liturgy)

Tonight, at this table, we remember we remember another table, in another place and time not a sanctuary but an upper room where friends gathered to celebrate their sacred meal the Passover and to remember what God had done for them. We remember the beginning before the beginning where there was nothing chaos and voidContinue reading “In Remembrance (A Maundy Thursday Communion Liturgy)”

Communion: Led by the Spirit (Lent I)

Invitation to the Meal We come to this meal today, as Lent begins. We will return to it as Lent concludes. Between now and then we will wander far, and find ourselves at many tables. But no matter where we go, or whom we meet, we remember that we are always welcome here. Whether weContinue reading “Communion: Led by the Spirit (Lent I)”

Two Hands and a Basin (A Maundy Thursday Poem)

John 13:1-5 Two hands and a basin and a towel at his waist against twenty-four feet that had followed him this far.   Without his outer robe he looked frail, tired, old almost and they heard how his knees creaked as he bent towards each pair of feet sore and smelly  calloused and hairy crackedContinue reading “Two Hands and a Basin (A Maundy Thursday Poem)”