Sermons For The Holy Week

Come In And Worship offers a complete worship resource for your Holy Week needs, including a festival celebration for Palm Sunday, a Holy Communion service for Maundy Thursday, and a tenebrae service for Good Friday. Each features lengthy scriptural readings supplemented with stirring messages that place worshipers in the emotional turmoil of the passion events. The Palm Sunday ceremony includes a charming children's story, "The Donkey's Tale." Anyone who has to plan or lead worship will find these services to be a wonderful way of bringing Holy Week to life for congregations. Use them in combination with Bankhead's other Lenten titles for a complete interrelated seasonal program. Also by Robert C. Bankhead: A Trail Of Tears: Bible Study For Lent Jesus' Lonely Road: Devotional Guides For Lent And Holy Week An active pastor for nearly 40 years, Robert C. Bankhead has served Presbyterian congregations in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. He is a graduate of Davidson College (B.A.), Columbia Theological Seminary (M.Div.), McCormick Theological Seminary (D.Min.), and the University of Basel, Switzerland (D.Th.). Bankhead is currently the Chaplain of the International Seamen's Service in Wilmington, North Carolina.

In this collection of sermons representing 25 years of Holy Week and Easter preaching, Fleming Rutledge offers a wide-ranging vision of the cross and the resurrection.

Instead of being a dour task on the checklist, what if the process of homily prep renewed you? Instead of feeling insecure about your message, what if your skills made you confident to preach a consistently clear message of Good News, authentic to you, relevant to your listeners, holding their attention and inviting transformation? Backstory Preaching: Integrating Life, Spirituality, and Craft shows you how. By integrating your life and spirituality with the practical skills necessary for effective preaching, you can move beyond the boredom, stress, or insecurity of preaching so it is no longer you who preach but Christ who preaches in you. By connecting with God in the midst of your sermon prep, the Gospel will be spread deeper and further. God’s joy—and yours—will be made complete.