The 40 days of Lent are coming. Is your sermon calendar ready?
For many pastors, Lent arrives right in the middle of a packed ministry season. You’re barely catching your breath from Christmas and New Year, and suddenly you’re staring down a six-week stretch that calls for some of the most theologically rich preaching of the year.
The good news? You don’t have to start from scratch.
Free Lent Sermon Series Templates
Four series templates with message suggestions for the weeks leading up to Easter.
Ministry Pass has over 40 Lent-focused sermon series designed to help you lead your congregation through this season of reflection, repentance, and renewal. Below are six of our most popular options—each one complete with graphics, outlines, and teaching resources to help you preach with clarity and confidence.
Lent: Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust
Big Idea of Lent: Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust Sermon Series
This seven-part series is intended for use during Lent. Lent is a time for us to pause and consider a foundational tenet of the Christian faith: we are all sinners in need of Jesus. During this series, congregants are invited to find their grounding by contemplating their sinfulness and prepare themselves to see the significance of God’s loving sacrifice.
Broken For Us: A Lent Series
Big Idea of Broken for Us Lent Sermon Series
This Lenten series contemplates the reasons why Jesus is going to the cross. Our lives are hard—because of our own sinfulness, but also because of the actions of the world. God knows this and has promised to deliver us from the pain of this world. He promises the ultimate redemption of the world and of all those who believe. The concentration of his promises is found in Jesus’s cross.
Lent: The Power of the Gospel
Big Idea of Lent: The Power of the Gospel Sermon Series
This six-week series for Ash Wednesday and the Sundays in Lent celebrates the power of the gospel by lifting up some of the key ways Jesus demonstrated his power during his lifetime. By healing, forgiving, raising a child from the dead, walking on water, and exorcising a demon, Jesus declares himself the Son of God and prepares us to witness with fresh eyes his greatest power on Easter morning: his power over life and death for all time and all people. Our own power to believe and thrive in faith grows as we tap into the power he repeatedly demonstrates.
Grounding: A Lent Series
Big Idea of Grounding Lent Sermon Series
This seven-part series is intended for use during Lent. Lent is a time for us to pause and consider a foundational tenet of the Christian faith: we are all sinners in need of Jesus. During this series, congregants are invited to find their grounding by contemplating their sinfulness and prepare themselves to see the significance of God’s loving sacrifice.
Lent: Reflection and Repentance
Big Idea of Reflection and Repentance Lent Sermon Series
This six-week Lenten series explores the gift of repentance by considering moments of genuine sorrow in the Bible. We will be challenged to look for the fruits of true repentance in our own lives.
Lent: The Practice of Preparation
Big Idea of Practice and Preparation Lent Sermon Series
The season of Lent is a time of preparation for the significant gift of Easter. This six-week series explores different practices you can incorporate individually or corporately to make the most of the season of Lent.
As you prepare for Lent, remember that every sermon is an opportunity to lead your congregation into deeper reflection and renewal. With these six sermon series, you have a powerful toolkit to craft Lent sermons that challenge hearts, inspire transformation, and illuminate the true meaning of this sacred season.
Embrace the opportunity to guide your community through a journey of penance, hope, and spiritual rebirth—one sermon at a time.
This Lent, Lead With Intention
The 40 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter represent one of the most spiritually formative seasons your congregation will experience all year. It’s a rare window when people are already leaning toward reflection, repentance, and deeper faith.
That’s an opportunity—and a responsibility.
These six series are more than sermon starters. They’re frameworks to help you shepherd your people through the wilderness and toward the empty tomb. Choose one, make it your own, and trust that God will meet your congregation exactly where they are.
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Free Lent Sermon Series Templates
Four series templates with message suggestions for the weeks leading up to Easter.
