Do we even speak of pancakes?

Is there a place for this discussion in our contemporary homes and worship groups?

What excess, what fat do we find in our homes to feast upon today and abstain from tomorrow?

What words of celebration and festivity mark the transition from abundance to self-imposed scarcity?

How do we speak of traditions or from within traditions such as Pancake Tuesday?

 Joel 2:1-2, 12-17
or
Isaiah 58:1-12
Psalm 51:1-17
2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10
Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Ash Wednesday worship resources:

Ash Wednesday Meditation — Jim Burklo

Fat Tuesday Word Jazz – Jim Burklo, USA

Hopeful brokenness, in response to a bombing — Ana Gobledale, UK

Invocation: Drum-beat Prayer for Divine Rhythm

Isaiah 58:1-12, Why fast? — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson

Pay attention! — Amanda Udis-Kessler, USA

Shout!, Psalm, Isaiah 58 — Duncan Wilson, UK

Temptation Lent Drama — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

We call to mind, Litany — Simon Cross, UK

Lent worship resources — appropriate for any time during Lent:

14 Questions: Stations of the Cross – Jim Burklo, USA

Elemental, Lent candle ritual — Ann Blaedel, USA

Feast and Fast, for Lent — Jim Burklo, USA

From where I stand, hymn — Sam Goodman, UK

Inner Stillness: Seedbed of Action — George Douglas McClain, USA

Lengthening Love, Lenten Prayer — David Long-Higgins, USA

Lent Images

Lent is… — Zach Ford, UK

Lent Vestry Prayer — Fiona Crowther, UK

Lenten feast & fast — Jim Burklo, USA

Lenten prayers, Year A, God Provides — Earth Care, USA

Let me walk in love beside you, hymn — Ray Stanyon, UK

Mothering Sunday (4th Sunday of Lent)

Never let go — Sam Goodman, UK

Prayer for Lent — Cara Heafey, UK

Prayer for Lent — Christian Aid UK

Prayer for Lent — Elizabeth Gray-King, UK

Samuel (1) 3:1-10, Called — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Softly and tenderly, lyrics for today — Jim Burklo

Temptation Lent Drama — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

We were wrong, a confession — Lauren Mallaby, Australia

Genesis 9:8-17
Psalm 25:1-10
1 Peter 3:18-22
Mark 1:9-15

Worship resources for this Sunday:

14 Questions: Stations of the Cross – Jim Burklo, USA

Earth Care Lenten weekly resource, Year B — Presbyterians for Earth Care, USA

Fat Tuesday Word Jazz – Jim Burklo, USA

Inner Stillness: Seedbed of Action — George Douglas McClain, USA

Lead Us, Lenten Hymn — Sam Goodman, UK

Lengthening Love, Lenten Prayer — David Long-Higgins, USA

Lent, hymns for the season — George Stuart, Australia

Love anew, hymn — Sam Goodman, UK

Psalm 25, Call to worship — Ana Gobledale, UK

Psalm for the 100,000 — Zach Ford, UK

Rainbow Prayer, thanksgiving & intercession — Cara Heafey, UK

Shout!, Psalm, Isaiah 58 — Duncan Wilson, UK

Unhinged, prayer – David Long-Higgins, USA

Other Lent worship resources — appropriate for any time during Lent:

14 Questions: Stations of the Cross – Jim Burklo, USA

Elemental, Lent candle ritual — Ann Blaedel, USA

Feast and Fast, for Lent — Jim Burklo, USA

From where I stand, hymn — Sam Goodman, UK

Inner Stillness: Seedbed of Action — George Douglas McClain, USA

Lengthening Love, Lenten Prayer — David Long-Higgins, USA

Lent Images

Lent is… — Zach Ford, UK

Lent Vestry Prayer — Fiona Crowther, UK

Lenten feast & fast — Jim Burklo, USA

Lenten prayers, Year A, God Provides — Earth Care, USA

Let me walk in love beside you, hymn — Ray Stanyon, UK

Mothering Sunday (4th Sunday of Lent)

Never let go — Sam Goodman, UK

Prayer for Lent — Cara Heafey, UK

Prayer for Lent — Christian Aid UK

Prayer for Lent — Elizabeth Gray-King, UK

Samuel (1) 3:1-10, Called — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Softly and tenderly, lyrics for today — Jim Burklo

Temptation Lent Drama — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

We were wrong, a confession — Lauren Mallaby, Australia

Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16
Psalm 22:23-31
Romans 4:13-25
Mark 8:31-38
or
Mark 9:2-9

Worship resources for this Sunday:

Call to Journey together — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Earth Care Lenten weekly resource, Year B — Presbyterians for Earth Care, USA

From where I stand, hymn — Sam Goodman, UK

Psalm 22 Renewed – Duncan Wilson, UK

Psalm 22, a lament — Jim Burklo, US

You call us, hymn — Sue McCoan, UK

Other Lent worship resources — appropriate for any time during Lent

14 Questions: Stations of the Cross – Jim Burklo, USA

Elemental, Lent candle ritual — Ann Blaedel, USA

Feast and Fast, for Lent — Jim Burklo, USA

From where I stand, hymn — Sam Goodman, UK

Inner Stillness: Seedbed of Action — George Douglas McClain, USA

Lengthening Love, Lenten Prayer — David Long-Higgins, USA

Lent Images

Lent is… — Zach Ford, UK

Lent Vestry Prayer — Fiona Crowther, UK

Lenten feast & fast — Jim Burklo, USA

Lenten prayers, Year A, God Provides — Earth Care, USA

Let me walk in love beside you, hymn — Ray Stanyon, UK

Mothering Sunday (4th Sunday of Lent)

Never let go — Sam Goodman, UK

Prayer for Lent — Cara Heafey, UK

Prayer for Lent — Christian Aid UK

Prayer for Lent — Elizabeth Gray-King, UK

Samuel (1) 3:1-10, Called — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Softly and tenderly, lyrics for today — Jim Burklo

Temptation Lent Drama — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

We were wrong, a confession — Lauren Mallaby, Australia

Exodus 20:1-17
Psalm 19
1 Corinthians 1:18-25
John 2:13-22

Worship resources for this Sunday  – appropriate for any time during Lent:

Carry me home – Sam Goodman, UK

Earth Care Lenten weekly resource, Year B — Presbyterians for Earth Care, USA

Eddies in the current of life — Jim Burklo, USA

Exodus 20 Prayer — Merryl Blair, Australia

Psalm 19 Collect — Merryl Blair, Australia

Psalm 19 Renewed — Duncan Wilson, UK

Shout!, Psalm, Isaiah 58 — Duncan Wilson, UK

The Ten Amendments — Jim Burklo, USA

Other Lent worship resources:

14 Questions: Stations of the Cross – Jim Burklo, USA

Elemental, Lent candle ritual — Ann Blaedel, USA

Feast and Fast, for Lent — Jim Burklo, USA

From where I stand, hymn — Sam Goodman, UK

Inner Stillness: Seedbed of Action — George Douglas McClain, USA

Lengthening Love, Lenten Prayer — David Long-Higgins, USA

Lent Images

Lent is… — Zach Ford, UK

Lent Vestry Prayer — Fiona Crowther, UK

Lenten feast & fast — Jim Burklo, USA

Lenten prayers, Year A, God Provides — Earth Care, USA

Let me walk in love beside you, hymn — Ray Stanyon, UK

Mothering Sunday (4th Sunday of Lent)

Never let go — Sam Goodman, UK

Prayer for Lent — Cara Heafey, UK

Prayer for Lent — Christian Aid UK

Prayer for Lent — Elizabeth Gray-King, UK

Samuel (1) 3:1-10, Called — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Softly and tenderly, lyrics for today — Jim Burklo

Temptation Lent Drama — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

We were wrong, a confession — Lauren Mallaby, Australia

Numbers 21:4-9
Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22
Ephesians 2:1-10
John 3:14-21

Resources for Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year B:

Earth Care Lenten weekly resource, Year B — Presbyterians for Earth Care, USA

Psalm 107 Inspired — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Psalm 107 Prayer — Merryl Blair, Australia

Psalm 107 Renewed — Duncan Wilson, UK

Psalm 107, Call to worship — Ana Gobledale, UK

Psalm 107, Call to Worship — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Shout!, Psalm, Isaiah 58 — Duncan Wilson, UK

Mothering Sunday resources:

Birthing Prayer (Inspired by 2 Timothy 1:5) — Kevin Goldenbogen, USA

Blessing for parents — Lauren Mallaby, Australia

Cafe Church, Open Table service — Mothering Sunday

Inclusive Benediction — Jann Aldridge-Clanton, USA

Life’s connecting strands — Liz Grant, Salisbury, United Kingdom

Litany for Mothers — Janice Hill, USA

Mother God, a prayer — David Long-Higgins, USA

Mothering God — Cara Heafey, UK

Mothering Love, a hymn — George Stuart, Australia

Mothering Sunday Call to Worship, Proverbs 3 – Jann Aldridge Clanton

Mothers: a responsive prayer — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Mother’s Day is complicated — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Our Mother Creator, Responsive Reading, Genesis 1 —  Jann Aldridge-Clanton, USA

Prayer for International Women’s Day — Anna-Claar Thomasson-Rosingh, UK

Psalm 23, Call to Worship — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson

Thanksgiving Hymn — George Stuart, Australia

Other Lent worship resources  – appropriate for any time during Lent:

14 Questions: Stations of the Cross – Jim Burklo, USA

Elemental, Lent candle ritual — Ann Blaedel, USA

Feast and Fast, for Lent — Jim Burklo, USA

From where I stand, hymn — Sam Goodman, UK

Inner Stillness: Seedbed of Action — George Douglas McClain, USA

Lengthening Love, Lenten Prayer — David Long-Higgins, USA

Lent Images

Lent is… — Zach Ford, UK

Lent Vestry Prayer — Fiona Crowther, UK

Lenten feast & fast — Jim Burklo, USA

Lenten prayers, Year A, God Provides — Earth Care, USA

Let me walk in love beside you, hymn — Ray Stanyon, UK

Mothering Sunday (4th Sunday of Lent)

Never let go — Sam Goodman, UK

Prayer for Lent — Cara Heafey, UK

Prayer for Lent — Christian Aid UK

Prayer for Lent — Elizabeth Gray-King, UK

Samuel (1) 3:1-10, Called — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Softly and tenderly, lyrics for today — Jim Burklo

Temptation Lent Drama — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

We were wrong, a confession — Lauren Mallaby, Australia

Jeremiah 31:31-34
Psalm 51:1-12
or
Psalm 119:9-16
Hebrews 5:5-10
John 12:20-33

Worship resources for this Sunday:

Burial Bandages, a confession — Earl Roberts, USA

Earth Care Lenten weekly resource, Year B — Presbyterians for Earth Care, USA

Prayer for Lent — Cara Heafey, UK

Psalm 19 Collect — Merryl Blair, Australia

Psalm 51, Be Merciful — Duncan Wilson

Shout!, Psalm, Isaiah 58 — Duncan Wilson, UK

There you are — Sam Goodman, UK

Other Lent worship resources – appropriate for any time during Lent:

14 Questions: Stations of the Cross – Jim Burklo, USA

Elemental, Lent candle ritual — Ann Blaedel, USA

Feast and Fast, for Lent — Jim Burklo, USA

From where I stand, hymn — Sam Goodman, UK

Inner Stillness: Seedbed of Action — George Douglas McClain, USA

Lengthening Love, Lenten Prayer — David Long-Higgins, USA

Lent Images

Lent is… — Zach Ford, UK

Lent Vestry Prayer — Fiona Crowther, UK

Lenten feast & fast — Jim Burklo, USA

Lenten prayers, Year A, God Provides — Earth Care, USA

Let me walk in love beside you, hymn — Ray Stanyon, UK

Mothering Sunday (4th Sunday of Lent)

Never let go — Sam Goodman, UK

Prayer for Lent — Cara Heafey, UK

Prayer for Lent — Christian Aid UK

Prayer for Lent — Elizabeth Gray-King, UK

Samuel (1) 3:1-10, Called — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA

Softly and tenderly, lyrics for today — Jim Burklo

Temptation Lent Drama — Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson, USA