Worship: Liturgical Arts - General

In Stay Awhile, pastor Kara Eidson presents a banquet table of inspiration for Advent, including weekly reflections for personal and small group use, brief daily devotions, and ideas to involve the whole congregation. Congregational resources include liturgies, sermon starters, children’s moments, and even a no-rehearsals-needed Christmas pageant. 

In his blog, This Common Life, Amar D. Peterman offers an advent reading list (Dec 20, 2022), including essays and ikons for the advent season from Amar D. Peterman:

• What Happened When Joseph Brought Mary Home? (Sojourners, 2022)

• Mary the Archprophet (Church Anew, 2022)
• What Mary Didn’t Know (Sojourners, 2021)
• Smile in the Mystery (Fathom Magazine, 2020)

and from his friends:

• Advent for the Clinically Depressed: Meditations on Vulnerability and the Myth of Self-Sufficiency, Wendy Cordero Rugama (Acuerpándonos)
• Why ‘The Muppet Christmas Carol’ is a Radical Christian Classic, Mitchell Atencio (Sojourners)
• "The Babe That I Carry Carries Me:” Mary, Christ, and Nourishment in Ephrem the Syrian's 'Hymns on the Nativity, Emma Yeager ( Give Me a Word)
• advent and the miracle of earth's resurrection, Yanan Melo (Sacred Sonder)

Light Their Way: Purple Teaching Clergy Stole for Advent, Candles with Detachable Flames

Invite artists of all ages to illustrate your Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or First Sunday of Christmas sermon. Use one of our Illustrate Your Own rhyming verse sermons for free. (Please share appropriate credits on all platforms.)

THE DANCE OF DELIGHT: AN ILLUSTRATE-YOUR-OWN CHRISTMAS SERMON

Dreams of a New Day: An Intergenerational Advent Pageant Liturgy

includes a study guide that facilitates easy preparation

Every Birth is a miracle. The Christmas story gives us a chance to relive, to re-experience the miracle every year. Find a number of Christmas liturgies to support deep connections with this miracle.

“My Heart Shall Sing” Liturgical Resources from Barn Geese Worship

The Gifts of Advent and             Advent & Christmas films

from The Work of the People

Missy Greene (St Stephen's Episcopal, Edina, MN) created Digital Nativity Stories.

Download as .pdf, .zip and/or .png file to share in a variety of formats.

God’s Son v.1

God’s Son v. 2

Drive-through Journey to Bethlehem - full script is here; adaptation ideas are here.

The Iona Community offers these seasonal liturgical resources and a slew of other downloadable liturgical elements.

 Illustrated Ministry offers four distinct Advent liturgies, along with a full line-up of resources on the same theme.

Now in Flesh Appearing includes:

• a worship liturgy
• devotionals (in different formats for all ages)
• family resources
• an Advent calendar
• coloring pages and posters, and more

Their three other themes are:

• God With Us
• Do Not Be Afraid
• In Light & Darkness

For a brief description of all four different themes, check out this video.

See also their more general: 

• Illustrated Worship Advent Resources: Advent 2022
• Four Advent Wreath Candle Lighting Liturgies