Sermons & Liturgies
Sermons, prayers, and worship resources for creation-centered worship — written and gathered by pastors and worship leaders across our network. Everything here is free for you to use, adapt, and share in your own congregation.
Browse by category below. Read a sermon for inspiration, borrow a prayer for Sunday, or use the planning guide to bring creation care into any service.
Sermons
Sermons about caring for creation, written by pastors from across the country. Read one for inspiration, or adapt it for your own pulpit.
Advent & Christmas
Sermons for the weeks leading up to and following Christmas.
Holy Interruption
Children interrupt worship with noise and mess — and so did God, breaking into the world as a baby. This sermon connects that holy interruption to today’s urgent call to stand with people and places hurt by climate change.
Preached by the Rev. Dr. Leah D. Schade
Refusing to Be Consoled
Preached the Sunday after Christmas, this sermon faces the hard side of the story — children lost to violence — and links it to today’s climate-driven refugee crisis, with concrete ways congregations can help.
Preached by the Rev. Dr. Leah D. Schade
Your God Isn’t Small Enough
God became a tiny, vulnerable baby in a vast universe. This sermon explores what it means that the Creator of every galaxy chose to reach us in the most fragile way possible.
Preached by the Rev. Dr. H. Paul Santmire
Easter
A sermon for the season of resurrection.
More Than Just Weird
The strange imagery of the book of Revelation turns out to be a hopeful, earthy vision — a call to sing God’s praise “with earth and sea and all its creatures” and to care for the planet that is our common home.
Preached by Pastor Susan Henry, House of Prayer Lutheran Church, Hingham, MA
Creation & the Season of Creation
Sermons written for the Season of Creation, four Sundays each fall that celebrate God as maker of heaven and earth.
Land Sunday: Sacred Ground
The ground beneath our feet is alive and sacred, not just property to use up. This sermon for Land Sunday invites us to treat soil with the same reverence and love we would give any of God’s gifts.
Preached by David Rhoads
Forest Sunday: Let the Trees Sing
Trees praise God simply by being trees — and when we cut down forests, we quiet part of creation’s song. A short reflection on why protecting forests matters, with a hymn to sing along the way.
Preached by David Rhoads
Of All That Is, Seen and Unseen
From garden herbs to distant galaxies, this sermon marvels at how much of creation keeps growing and forming without any help from us — and invites simple gratitude for the God who is still creating.
Preached by Pastor Susan Henry, House of Prayer Lutheran Church, Hingham, MA
Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise
Even the smallest, unseen parts of creation — the microbes in a spoonful of soil — reflect God’s care. This sermon asks us to notice life at every scale and to live in a way that helps it flourish.
Preached by Pastor Susan Henry, House of Prayer Lutheran Church, Hingham, MA
Who Is Jesus for Chipmunks?
A pastor asks a question she once thought was silly: does Jesus matter to chipmunks, too? A gentle, honest sermon about widening our faith to include all the creatures God loves.
Preached by Pastor Susan Henry, House of Prayer Lutheran Church, Hingham, MA
General & Public Witness
Sermons for any Sunday, on rest, animals, and speaking up for what is right.
Within Limits: Remember the Sabbath
Sabbath rest was never just for people — Scripture says even farm animals and the land itself need a break. This sermon connects that ancient law to today’s overworked, over-extracted planet.
Preached by Jim Martin-Schramm, Luther College Chapel
Blessing of All the Animals
Written for a Blessing of the Animals service, this sermon speaks directly to the pets and creatures gathered — and reminds the humans in the room that every animal is loved by God for its own sake.
Preached by David Rhoads
On the Way
Peter got the right words about Jesus but the wrong idea of what following him would cost. A sermon about letting go of a comfortable faith to follow Jesus more honestly, wherever that leads.
Preached by Pastor Susan Henry, House of Prayer Lutheran Church, Hingham, MA
Liturgies & Prayers
Prayers, litanies, hymn lists, and planning guides to help you bring creation care into worship.
Advent
Prayers and hymn suggestions for the first two Sundays of Advent.
A Prayer for the Second Sunday of Advent
A short prayer asking God to open our ears to hear creation’s wisdom, and to soften our idea of “dominion” into something closer to care.
By Pastor Ingrid Arneson Rasmussen
A Prayer for the First Sunday of Advent
A brief Advent prayer noticing the sun, sea, and clouds as signs that God is always stirring creation — and us — toward new life.
By Pastor Ingrid Arneson Rasmussen
A Prayer for Advent, from Pope Francis
A short prayer adapted from Pope Francis’s encyclical on caring for creation, asking God’s power and light to help us protect all life.
Adapted from Pope Francis’s encyclical, On Care for Our Common Home
Hymns for the Second Sunday of Advent
A ready-made list of creation-themed hymns for the Second Sunday of Advent, with page numbers in several major hymnals.
Hymns for the First Sunday of Advent
A ready-made list of creation-themed hymns for the First Sunday of Advent, with page numbers in several major hymnals.
Weddings
Ideas for couples who want a creation-centered ceremony.
Eco-Wedding Liturgy
Ideas for a creation-centered wedding — welcome words, prayers, vows, and a tree-blessing ceremony couples can adapt. The full liturgy text lives on another website (interfaithsustain.com); the link below takes you there.
By the Rev. Dr. Leah D. Schade and the Rev. Melissa Frantz
General Use
A litany and a planning guide you can use any time of year.
Litany for Our Personal Covenant with Creation
A call-and-response litany of thanks, confession, and promise — a way for a congregation to recommit together to caring for God’s creation.
Worshiping with Creation
Not a script to read aloud, but a planning guide: practical ideas for weaving creation into the welcome, confession, prayers, hymns, and sermon of any worship service, any week of the year.
Share Your Sermons and Liturgies
Does your congregation have a sermon, prayer, or liturgy that celebrates God’s creation? We would love to add it to this collection.