Lent and Easter Resources

Devotional Resources

Find devotions and meditations to help you during this season of preparation.

• Upper Room Online Daily Devotional
• Lenten Journey: Encountering Mission  (UMW Meditation series)
• Upper Room Daily Reflections
• Bread on the Way to the Cross (UMC.org meditation series)

• Consider Easter Vigil to Greet the Risen Son (Interpreter Magazine)
• Lenten prayer centers enhance spiritual reflection (Interpreter Magazine)
• Lent 101
• Simplicity: A Lenten Path
• Time for Change: Reflections on Lent and Easter
• For Lent, I Gave Up Being Good

Family Resources

Discover ways for your family to celebrate Lent and Easter.

• Family Study for Lent
• Making Ash Wednesday Accessible for Children
• Pockets Magazine Calendar (activities and Scripture readings)
• Family Litany for Lent
• Stewardship Nuggets for Families and Children: Family Lenten Offering
• Observing Lent in Your Family
• Holy Week and Easter Celebration for Families of Many Configurations
• Sharing Easter with Your Children
• Family Worship Center for Easter

Worship Resources

Find liturgies, prayers, and lectionary and preaching helps for the season.

• Lent and Easter Resources from GBOD
• Lent and Easter Resources from Igniting Ministry (graphics and sermon outlines)
• Connecting Worship and Daily Living in Lent
• Living Lent: Focus on Conversion and Baptism as You Plan Your Lenten Services

Study Guides

Involve your small group in a seasonal study.

• Lenten Study Resources 2008: The City of God (Upper Room  Daily Devotions)
• In His Place: A Lenten Devotional Study (GBCS)
• Holy Word and Holy Work (A study on the Bible's call to social justice ministry)
• Forgiveness (Reflections and activities from Interpreter Magazine and UMC.org)