A Service For Passion Sunday -- With Readers' Theater Based On Matthew
Bettie Scott
Crowd: (Each person selects a phrase and repeats at random) Let him be crucified! Death! Crucify him! Let him die! Away with him!

Pilate: Why. What evil has he done?

Crowd: (At random) Let him be crucified! Away with him! Crucify him!

An Easter Sunrise Drama
Lawrence H. Balleine
Give your congregation a new perspective on the Easter story with this chancel drama that depicts the familiar events of Jesus’ death and resurrection from the viewpoint of a Roman soldier. A series of brief vignettes portrays the soldier’s transform

A Good Friday Tenebrae Service
David E. Ridenhour
This gripping tenebrae worship drama confronts your congregation with the powers of darkness and destruction which were responsible for the crucifixion of Christ. Brief monologs by Sorrow, Fear, Death, and four other shadowy personae (presented on st...

A Service Of Tenebrae
Kathryn W. Orso
Reflections On The Crucifixion is a Service of Tenebrae, written for either one hour or three hours, reflecting the thoughts and feelings of Jesus' disciples on that original Good Friday.

Reflections On The Crucifixion is taken f

A Palm Sunday Celebration
Janice Bennett Wyatt
”Listen to me -- I want to be king of your heart and your mind. I want to lead you to love God with all your strength and all your mind. I want to teach you to love your neighbor as yourself.” (words of Jesus from the service)

Your

Three Worship Dramas For Easter
Gurden F. Henley
Each of these sermon -- length dramas celebrates the resurrection from an unusual perspective. Suitable for use at Easter Sunrise, Easter Festival worship, or on a series of Sundays during the Easter Season, Gurden Henley's dramas involve 5-8 charact

A Play For Good Friday
C. Alton Robertson
”What today is Holy Saturday on the Church’s calendar was certainly not Holy Saturday for those early followers of Jesus. It was a day of despair, truly a Black Saturday.” (from the Foreword)

This liturgical drama provides a stark cont...

Twelve Worship Resources For Holy Week
Cynthia Cowen and Stephen Cowen
Death took me. I found myself in an empty, dark void. I don’t remember anything of it, just emptiness. Then I heard his voice, ”Lazarus, come out!” Jesus called me from death to life. Struggling through the darkness, I came out of my tomb. (fr

A Liturgy And Dramatic Monologue For Good Friday
William Grimbol
The centerpiece of this Good Friday worship service is the monologue, The Ghost of Judas. Designed to be presented by the pastor or any lay-person who can speak with a sense of drama, the monologue places Judas Iscariot at center stage on the

Resources For Palm Sunday Through Easter
Friedrich Rest
Our Christian Worship: Resources For Palm Sunday Through Easter, contains original and selected, contemporary resources for worship for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter.

Our Christian Worship features opening