Lent and Easter Resources

Devotional Resources

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

• Upper Room Online Daily Devotional
• Lenten and Easter meditations from UMW
• Reflections and features from Global Ministries
• Upper Room Daily Reflections
• Prayers for Lent from Malawi
• Bread on the Way to the Cross (UMC.org meditation series)
• Words Matter: Lenten Devotions

• United Methodists called to 'Alcohol Free Lent' for 2011
• Moving devotionally through Lent
• Journeying Inward and Outward: Creating a Holy Lent (Interpreter Magazine)
• Pastors debate value of Lenten sacrifices
• Lent: A Time to Fast and Pray
• Read and reflect throughout Lent (Suggestions for Lenten reading)
• Lent 101
• Simplicity: A Lenten Path
• Lent: Don't Just Do Something, Sit There!
• 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.

• 2011 Family Study for Lent
• Making Ash Wednesday Accessible for Children
• Family Prayer for Ash Wednesday
• Family Litany for Lent
• Stewardship Nuggets for Families and Children: Family Lenten Offering
• Observing Lent in Your Family
• Observing Holy Week in the Home
• Easter Prayer for Families

Worship Resources

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

• Ash Wednesday Resources from GBOD
• Lenten Resources from GBOD
• Rethinking stations of the cross
• New ways of praying at Lent
• New ways of praying at Lent
• Lenten worship displays provide focus
• Sermon Starters and Worship Resources from Rethink Church 
• Connecting Worship and Daily Living in Lent
• Living Lent: Focus on Conversion and Baptism as You Plan Your Lenten Services
• Planning for worship during Lent, Yr. A
• Worship displays provide focal point during Lent
• Burying the 'Alleluia' during Lent?

Study Guides

Involve your small group in a seasonal study.

• Keeping the Faith: Contemporary Spiritual Practices for Contemporary Christians (Northern Illinois Conference)
• Hope Is Here! Lenten Devotional for Families and Friends in Recovery (GBGM)
• 2011 Lenten Study Guide (companion to the Upper Room Daily Devotional Guide)
• Forgiveness (Reflections and activities from Interpreter Magazine and UMC.org)

Take action

• One Great Hour of Sharing
• Devotions from Society of St. Andrew