LCMS Worship – Suggestions for midweek Lenten services – 2025

LCMS Worship offers suggestions for Lenten Midweek services based on the theme of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to St. Luke.

This series covers five midweek services during the season of Lent. Over the course of these five services, the entire Passion account from St. Luke’s Gospel will be read. The sermon starter ideas cannot possibly cover every detail of the Passion, but they instead focus on key aspects of our Lord’s Passion.

The series will also utilize six psalms that the Jews have traditionally associated with Passover (Psalms 113–118). The Christian Church joyfully confesses that Christ is the fulfillment of all the Old Testament types and figures, and so these psalms are entirely fitting to be prayed in connection with the sacrificial death of Christ, our Passover Lamb (1 Cor. 5:7).

The unique services of the Lenten season — Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday — are not part of this series, as the themes and readings for those days stand alone and carry their own weight.

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