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Looking for a free resource to use in worship during Lent? In February and March, we’ll be posting Psalm meditation videos. Each video contains a selection of verses from the weekly Psalm selected to keep the video short. For personal prayer and meditation, a version with music is included here. For use in your church services, a version without music is available to download and edit in to your worship video or live stream. Add your own music to personalize it for your congregation.

For Sunday February 21

Selections from Psalm 25: 1-10 for personal prayer and meditation:

Download this worship resource without music:
Download to use in your church at this link.

For Sunday February 28

Selections from Psalm 22:23-31 for personal prayer and meditation:

Download this worship resource without music:
Download to use in your church at this link.

Check back at the beginning of March for Psalm meditation videos for the remainder of Lent. Let us know when you use the video by tagging the Festival on Twitter or leaving a comment on the Festival Facebook page.

Your free registration at the 2021 Festival of Homiletics includes daily worship at noon central. Worship is a highlight of the Festival of Homiletics, giving pastors and church leaders a chance to rest in God’s presence and be renewed by energizing and inspiring preaching.

Take a look at the lineup for worship at the Festival and look at the full schedule of events here.

Take a few moments out of your week to center your heart and mind on the peace we have in Christ. We invite you to use this breath prayer in your personal practice and with your community. God’s blessings, preacher.

This week we invite you into prayer and rest for Advent with a focus on joy. Take a few moments throughout your week to rest in God’s presence.

Our weekly Advent series of prayer and rest continues this week with a breath prayer to help you center on faith. Take a few moments throughout your week to rest in God’s presence.

Burn out. Exhaustion. Fatigue. Do these sound familiar—feel familiar? Even as the seasons have changed in the church year and in nature, the pandemic has seemed to supersede them all in a time that some pastors have jokingly called “coronatide.” Yet, here we are in Advent, a time of promise and hope that calls to us beyond this present suffering and offers us light in a year that has felt so dimly lit, so hard to see through.

Preacher, for this season of Advent we invite you to take moments of resting in God’s presence and trusting in the promise of light. Each week of Advent we will offer a new breath prayer themed around that week’s Advent candle. Use this prayer on your own, and share it with your communities. Take a few minutes out of your day to breathe.

May you receive God’s blessing of hope.