Prayer for Tuesday of Holy Week
God of all times and places, the business of daily life consumes us. Work must get done. Meals must be cooked. Bills..
Prayer for Monday of Holy Week
Living God, we acknowledge our tendency to worship you on Sunday only to forget your claim on our lives come Monday. Yesterday..
Three Hours: Sermons for Good Friday
Fleming Rutledge Eerdmans, 96 pages In this remarkable set of brief sermons on the traditional seven last words of Jesus, Fleming Rutledge..
Prayer for Holy Saturday
We woke today hoping against hope that you would be alive and with us, Lord. We had wished yesterday was a nightmare,..
Prayer for Good Friday
Lord, days like today we wish we could wipe off the calendar. The pain crushes our spirits. Seeing you mocked and beaten,..
Prayer for Maundy Thursday
Servant Lord, you come not to be served but to serve. You tell us to emulate your actions becoming least and last..
Prayer for Wednesday of Holy Week
You call us, Lord of all, to keep awake, to watch and be ready, to be on alert for the in-breaking..
Prayer for Tuesday of Holy Week
Lord Christ, Hosanna in the highest, even as you prepare to face your death, you continue your God-given work. We marvel at..
Prayer for Monday of Holy Week
Lord, after the crowds and noise, the branches and cloaks, the shouts of “Hosanna!” and the scramble to follow your instructions and..
Prayer for Palm/Passion Sunday
Cloaks on the road, leafy branches cut from the fields of those who welcomed you, Lord Christ, all offerings of what..
Good Friday prayer
How many times have we denied being disciples of Jesus Christ? Let us pray.
Servants’ tools: A Maundy Thursday meditation
“Let me take your place,” Jesus says, behind the broom, in front of the hot stove, beside the assembly line, underneath the crushing weight of sin.
Holy Week prayer
The news this week, dear God, the news. It is relentless. Bombs in airports and subways. No boundaries between combatants and innocents,..
Celebrating Holy Week with Children
I just reread Frederick Buechner's novella, “The Christmas Tide,” a story inspired by the suicide of his father when Buechner was 10..
Mid (Holy) Week
Was there a Weary Wednesday led into Maundy Thursday? A day when all that went before the palm branches and plotting, all..
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