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Lectionary-based

Ash Wed.
March 5 Lent 1
March 9 Lent 2
March 16 Lent 3
March 23 Lent 4
March 30 Lent 5
April 6 Palm/Passion
April 13 Maundy Thursday
April 17 Good Friday
April 18 Easter!
April 20

Non-Lectionary

Worship

GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD

Hear the Good News

Contemporary Worship Resources For Lent

Worship Innovations

From Life To Life

SYMBOLS OF SACRIFICE

HOLY WEEK CONFESSIONS

Visions Of Lent

Restore Me

Tenebrae For Modern Times

Returning Home

Life On The Edge Of Faith

Lenten Resources For Worship Leaders

And The Sea Lay Down

Bright Intervals

The Word Has Come Down

Living in the Light

Sermon

BIBLICAL PICTURES OF WATER

THE SEVENFOLD PATH TO PEACE

BIBLICAL PICTURES OF BREAD

SOUNDS OF THE PASSION

THE FOLLOW THROUGH ON FOLLOW ME

Paradise Restored

The Glory Of Our Weakness

The Psalms Were Made For Lent

The Victory of the Cross

SIX NAILS OF THE CROSS

An Idle Tale Becomes Good News

The Roads Jesus Traveled

The Vine and the Branches

The Isolated Jesus

Leading To Easter

THE VICTORY OF FAITH

The Victory of Faith

Turning Points

The Seven Last Words Of Jesus Christ

The Gifts Of Lent

Come Dine With Jesus

Behold The Man

At The Cross With Jesus

Affirming The Ash Heap

A Clearer Vision

Wounded For Us

Experiencing Easter

The Challenge of Starting All Over Again

Preaching

If a Sermon Falls in the Forest...

Monologues

The Attributes Of Lent

MY TOMB WAS EMPTY

Lent/Easter

Traveling Calvary’s Road

Traveling Calvary's Road

Easter

The Road to Victory

Drama

PERSPECTIVES ON THE PASSION

DATELINE: Jerusalem

Watch And Pray

The Last Covenant

VOICES

Visualizing The Parables

Why Did Jesus Die?

ThespianTheology

Roll Back The Stone

MEDITATIONS FOR THE SIX DAYS OF HOLY WEEK

Hey Joseph!

From My Point Of View

Conversations With The Savior

From A Soldier Of Rome To A Soldier For Christ

Voices Of Repentance

Who Is This Man -- This Jesus?

Holy Moses

Living in the Light

Children's sermon

The Glory Of Our Weakness

Speaking With Signs

Children's Sermons A To Z

Alleluia!

Bible Study

The Critical Questions... And More

UPCOMING WEEKS
In addition to the lectionary resources there are thousands of non-lectionary, scripture based resources...

Easter 2

20 – Sermons
170+ – Illustrations / Stories
26 – Children's Sermons / Resources
24 – Worship Resources
20 – Commentary / Exegesis
4 – Pastor's Devotions
and more...

Easter 3

34 – Sermons
160+ – Illustrations / Stories
32 – Children's Sermons / Resources
26 – Worship Resources
31 – Commentary / Exegesis
4 – Pastor's Devotions
and more...

Easter 4

30 – Sermons
160+ – Illustrations / Stories
33 – Children's Sermons / Resources
24 – Worship Resources
33 – Commentary / Exegesis
4 – Pastor's Devotions
and more...

Plus thousands of non-lectionary, scripture based resources...

New & Featured This Week

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The Immediate Word

Who And How Do We Follow?

Dean Feldmeyer
Katy Stenta
Thomas Willadsen
Christopher Keating
George Reed
Mary Austin

For May 4, 2025:

Who And How Do We Follow? by Dean Feldmeyer based on John 21:1-19
Second Thoughts: Praising God by Katy Stenta based on Revelation 5:11-14.
Sermon illustrations by Mary Austin, Chris Keating, and Nazish Naseem.
Worship resources by George Reed.

StoryShare

Vision of Heaven

John E. Sumwalt

Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels surrounding the throne and the living creatures and the elders; they numbered myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, singing with full voice… (vv. 11-12a)

Phillip Hasheider is a retired Wisconsin beef farmer and an award-winning author who was dead for six minutes and came back to tell about it. If you have ever thought about dying and wondered what it would be like, then Hasheider’s Six Minutes in Eternity is a book you will want to read.

Emphasis Preaching Journal

Redirected Life

David Coffin

A medical worker is working long, hard, stress filled hours in an urban hospital setting. One day he or she is called into the administrator’s office to be terminated due to angering professionals in the upper echelon. The worker protests that it is, “My word against their word, why am I to be the scapegoat?” The administrator pulls rank! The worker is asked to turn in their badge and do not come into the premises again unless as a patient. The now unemployed medical worker still feels the calling to be a healer. So, they get a job at an alternative/natural health medicine store.

Sermon Illustrations for Easter 3 (2025)

Mark Ellingsen
Bill Thomas
Frank Ramirez
Bonnie Bates

Acts 9:1-6 (7-20)
Martin Luther believed that the story of Paul’s conversion demonstrates that there is no need for special revelation. The reformer commented:

Our Lord God does not purpose some special thing for each individual person, but gives to the whole world — one person like the next — his baptism and gospel. (Complete Sermons, Vol.7, p.271)

The Village Shepherd

The Lakeside

Janice B. Scott

I've recently spent several hours by the lakeside, for I've been in retreat this past week in the little village of Hemingford Grey, in Huntingdonshire. A great delight for me was to walk to the flooded gravel pits, sit on a bench in glorious sunshine, and watch the water birds. For me, that's a wonderful way to become very aware of the presence of God through the beauty of his created world. And sitting like that for several hours, doing nothing but watching and waiting, I can't help but absorb the peace which passes all understanding.

SermonStudio

Put Your Net On The Other Side

Constance Berg

When Beth was a teenager, she lived on the streets. She smoked cigarettes and drank beer and her parents had said that she had to choose: her friends or her family. Beth chose her friends and lived from house to house and eventually in homeless shelters. She barely avoided being raped at one point. About six months of shelter-hopping was all she could take, and she found a shelter that sponsored her until she took the GED. They told her she was brilliant: she was just bored and dissatisfied with the status quo. The shelter supervisors suggested she look into community college.

Easter 3

James Evans

(For alternative approaches, see Epiphany 6/Ordinary Time 6, Cycle B; and Proper 9/Pentecost 7/Ordinary Time 14, Cycle C.)

The main theme of this psalm is captured profoundly in the movement within a single verse: "Weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes with morning" (v. 5). Casting life experiences between light and dark is not unique or novel, of course, but the poet's treatment of these themes offers some fertile ground for reflection.

Third Sunday of Easter

Elizabeth Achtemeier

We have three different accounts of the conversion of Saul in the Gospel according to Luke (9:1-20; 22:6-16; 26:12-18). They differ in a few minor details, but essentially they are the same. In addition, Paul writes of his conversion in Galatians 1:11-16, and in 1 Corinthians 9:1 and 15:8-9, stating that at the time of his conversion on the road to Damascus, he saw the Lord. For Paul, that made him an apostle, equal to the twelve. An apostle, in Paul's thought, was one who had seen the risen Christ and had been sent to announce that good news.

Death To Glory

Richard E. Gribble, CSC

Once in a far-off land, there was a great king whose dominion extended far and wide. His power and authority were absolute. One day, as events would happen, a young man, a commoner, committed a grave offense against the king. In response, the king and his counselors gathered together to determine what should be done. They decided that since the offense was so grave and had been committed by a commoner against someone so august as the king, the only punishment that would satisfy justice was death.

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Lent/Easter Resources

Lectionary-based

Non-Lectionary

GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD

Hear the Good News

Contemporary Worship Resources For Lent

Worship Innovations

From Life To Life

SYMBOLS OF SACRIFICE

HOLY WEEK CONFESSIONS

Visions Of Lent

Restore Me

Tenebrae For Modern Times

Returning Home

Life On The Edge Of Faith

Lenten Resources For Worship Leaders

And The Sea Lay Down

Bright Intervals

The Word Has Come Down

Living in the Light

BIBLICAL PICTURES OF WATER

THE SEVENFOLD PATH TO PEACE

BIBLICAL PICTURES OF BREAD

SOUNDS OF THE PASSION

THE FOLLOW THROUGH ON FOLLOW ME

Paradise Restored

The Glory Of Our Weakness

The Psalms Were Made For Lent

The Victory of the Cross

SIX NAILS OF THE CROSS

An Idle Tale Becomes Good News

The Roads Jesus Traveled

The Vine and the Branches

The Isolated Jesus

Leading To Easter

THE VICTORY OF FAITH

The Victory of Faith

Turning Points

The Seven Last Words Of Jesus Christ

The Gifts Of Lent

Come Dine With Jesus

Behold The Man

At The Cross With Jesus

Affirming The Ash Heap

A Clearer Vision

Wounded For Us

Experiencing Easter

The Challenge of Starting All Over Again

If a Sermon Falls in the Forest...

The Attributes Of Lent

MY TOMB WAS EMPTY

Traveling Calvary’s Road

Traveling Calvary's Road

The Road to Victory

PERSPECTIVES ON THE PASSION

DATELINE: Jerusalem

Watch And Pray

The Last Covenant

VOICES

Visualizing The Parables

Why Did Jesus Die?

ThespianTheology

Roll Back The Stone

MEDITATIONS FOR THE SIX DAYS OF HOLY WEEK

Hey Joseph!

From My Point Of View

Conversations With The Savior

From A Soldier Of Rome To A Soldier For Christ

Voices Of Repentance

Who Is This Man -- This Jesus?

Holy Moses

Living in the Light

The Glory Of Our Weakness

Speaking With Signs

Children's Sermons A To Z

Alleluia!

The Critical Questions... And More

New & Featured This Week

John Jamison

Dean Feldmeyer
Katy Stenta
Thomas Willadsen
Christopher Keating
George Reed
Mary Austin

Mark Ellingsen
Bill Thomas
Frank Ramirez
Bonnie Bates