I love creating liturgy and it’s my joy to share these prayers with you. You are more than welcome to use these prayers in your context as long as you give me credit for the creativity. You’ll notice that there is reference in the pandemic to not worrying about this detail because clergy were burning out and it was one more thing to do when they couldn’t get YouTube or Facebook to work. It was enough and I wanted to give some grace. After the pandemic, I kindly request that you give credit somewhere in your bulletin or worship slide by adding “created by Elsa Anders Cook from Cooking with Elsa (cookingwithelsa.org).”

It is my hope to create a full index of everything in the archives of these pages which I’ve started by season and will add by Scripture. You are more than welcome to use the search bar below to find anything that you can’t find.

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Season of Advent

• An Advent Invocation
• Advent Candle Liturgies
• Advent and Christmas Candle Liturgies
• Pandemic Liturgy for Advent Year B
• First Sunday of Advent: Year C
• Second Sunday of Advent: Year C
• Third Sunday of Advent: Year B, Year C
• Fourth Sunday of Advent: Year C

Longest Night

All Saints Day

• Silent Prayers for All Saints Day
• Pandemic Liturgy for All Saints Sunday

Christmastide

• Christmas Eve Under Pandemic Skies
• Lessons and Carols for Coronatide
• Poetry for Lessons and Carols
• Litany for the Birth of Christmas (Year C)
• Pandemic Fireside Prayers for Christmas Morning
• Starry Christmas Morning Worship

Season of Epiphany

• Pandemic Prayers for Epiphany
• Baptism of the Christ: Year B, Year B, Year C, Call to Worship
• Second Sunday After Epiphany: Year C, Year C
• Third Sunday After Epiphany: Year B
• Fourth Sunday After Epiphany: Year B, Year C
• Fifth Sunday After Epiphany: Year B, Year C, Year C
• Sixth Sunday After Epiphany: Year C, Year C
• Seventh Sunday After Epiphany: Year C

Ash Wednesday

• A Service to Break Down Walls for Ash Wednesday

Season of Lent

• Illuminating the Way of Hope in Another Pandemic Lent Year C
• Pandemic Prayers for the Whole Season of Lent
• Wilderness Communion for Lent
• First Sunday of Lent: Year C
• Second Sunday of Lent: Year B, Year C
• Third Sunday of Lent: Year C, Year C
• Fourth Sunday of Lent: Year C, Year C
• Fifth Sunday of Lent: Year C, Psalm
• Transfiguration Sunday: Year C, Communion

Holy Week

• Ingredients for Worship in Holy Week
• Palm Parade
• Pandemic Palm Sunday Psalms and Prayers
• Pandemic Prayers for Palm Sunday
• Prayers for Palm and Passion Sunday
• Maundy Thursday Still in Coronatide

Eastertide

• Resurrection Anytime
• Gathering of Flowers Ritual
• Easter Sunday Invocation Year A
• Second Sunday of Easter:
• Third Sunday of Easter: Year A
• Fourth Sunday of Easter: Year A, Year B
• Fifth Sunday of Easter: Year A, Year C
• Sixth Sunday of Easter: Year A
• Ascension Sunday: Psalm, Year B

Pentecost

• Pandemic Prayers for Pentecost
• Prayers for Pentecost Winds

World Communion Sunday

• Pandemic Prayers for World Communion Sunday Year B
• Pandemic Prayers for Another World Communion Sunday Year C
• Blessing for World Communion
• Global Prayers and an Agape Feast for World Communion Sunday

All Saints Day

• Half-Baked Ideas for All Saints Day
• Pandemic Liturgy for All Saints Day
• Silent Prayers for All Saints Day
• Table Prayers for Families for All Saints and All Souls

Ordinary Time

• Trinity Sunday: Psalm, Year B
• Third Sunday After Pentecost: Proper 6B
• Fourth Sunday After Pentecost: Proper 7B
• Fifth Sunday After Pentecost: Proper 8B
• Seventh Sunday After Pentecost: Proper 10A, Proper 10B
• Eighth Sunday After Pentecost: Proper 11A
• Ninth Sunday After Pentecost: Proper 12A, Proper 12B, Proper 12C
• Tenth Sunday After Pentecost: Proper 13A, Proper 13B
• Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost: Proper 14A, Proper 14B
• Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost: Proper 15A, Proper 15B
• Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost: Proper 16A, Proper 16B
• Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost: Proper 17A, Proper 17B,
• Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost: Proper 18B
• Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost: Proper 19A, Proper 19A
• Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost: Proper 20A
• Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost: Proper 21A
• Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost: Proper 22B
• Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost: Proper 23A, Proper 23B, Proper 23B
• Twenty First Sunday After Pentecost: Proper 24A, Proper 24B
• Twenty Second Sunday After Pentecost: Proper25A, Proper 25B
• Twenty Third Sunday After Pentecost: Proper 27B, Proper 27C
• Twenty Fourth Sunday After Pentecost: Proper 28B
• Reign of Christ: Year B

Special Days Within and Beyond the Church Year

• Prayers in Church on Mother’s Day
• Pandemic Prayers for the Fourth of July Year B
• One Worship Bulletin for the Whole Summer
• Prayers for Labor Day Sunday
• Blessings of Backpacks Part 1 and Part 2
• Prayer for National Coming Out Day
• What To Do Without a Church Musician

Hebrew Scriptures

• Genesis 1:1-5: Prayer Stations
• Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16: Prayer of Confession
• Exodus 14:19-31: Hear our rage
• Exodus 16:2-15: Call to Worship
• Exodus 17:1-7: Prayer of Confession
• Exodus 20:1-17: Call to Worship
• Exodus 33:12-23: Prayer of Confession

Wisdom Books

• Job 19:23-27s: Call to Worship
• Job 23:1-9, 16-17: Call to Worship
• Psalm 1: Call to Worship, Prater of Invocation, Prayer of Confession, Prayer of Confession and Assurance, Benediction
• Psalm 19:1-4: Call to Worship
• Psalm 27: Call to Worship
• Psalm 33: Psalm
• Psalm 40: Call to Worship, Prayer of Invocation
• Psalm 51: Call to Worship
• Psalm 63:1-8: Call to Worship
• Psalm 69: Call to Worship
• Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14: Prayer for the Stars Alignment
• Psalm 96:1-9: Call to Worship
• Psalm 111: Call to Worship
• Psalm 113: Praising God from Sunrise to Sunset
• Psalm 114: Call to Worship
• Psalm 118: Psalm, Interactive Call to Worship
• Psalm 124: Prayer for Choosing Sides
• Psalm 125: Prayer for Seeking Trust
• Psalm 130: Psalm
• Psalm 132:1-12: Pastoral Prayer
• Psalm 146: Prayer of Confession and Assurance
• Psalm 147: Psalm, Gathering Prayer
• Proverbs 1:20-33: Call to Worship

Prophets

• Isaiah 43:16-21: Confession
• Isaiah 55:1-9:
• Isaiah 60:1-6: Lighting the Way of Christ
• Jeremiah 31:31-34: Call to Worship, Invitation to the Heart

Gospels

• Matthew 2:1-12: Prayer of Confession
• Matthew 28:1-10: Invocation
• Matthew 28:16-20.: Affirmation of Faith
• Mark 1:1-11: Call to Worship, Pastoral Prayer for the Resurrection, Interactive Call to Worship
• Mark 8:31-38: Prayer of Confession
• Mark 10:19-31: Prayer of Invocation
• Luke 3:15-17, 21-22: Call to Worship
• Luke 13:31-35: Sermon
• Luke 19:28-40: Sermon
• Luke 20:27-38: Call to Worship
• Luke 22:39-23:25: Sermon
• Luke 24:44-53: Prayer for the Witnesses
• John 3:1-7: Call to Worship, Prayers of the People
• John 1:43-51: Sermon
• John 10:22-30: Prayer of Confession
• John 18:33-37: Pastoral Prayer
• John 20:19-31: Call to Worship

Acts of the Apostles

• Acts 1:1-11: Prayer for the Witnesses
• Acts 2:1-4: Call to Worship
• Acts 9:36-43: Prayer for Coming Alive, Prayer of Confession

Epistles

• Romans 8:24-25: Affirmation of Hope
• Romans 14:1-12: Call to Worship
• 1 Corinthians 8:1-3: Prayer of Confession
• 1 Corinthians 12: Call to Worship
• 2 Corinthians 5:16-21: Invocation
• Philippians 1:21-30: Call to Worship
• Philippians 2:1-13: Invocation
• Hebrews 13:1-8: Prayer of Confession and Affirmation
• James 3:13-4:3: Prayer of Confession

Revelation

• Revelation 1:4b-8: Opening Prayer, Confession
• Revelation 5:11-14: Gathering Prayer
• Revelation 7:9-17:
• Revelation 21:1-6
• Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5: Confession