A Life Observance Sunday is a wonderful way to promote and celebrate life in your congregation. On this page, you can download Life-focused material based on genre. You can also now download the annual package of Life Sunday material. The materials below are provided to support your efforts in conducting a Celebration of Life event and can be downloaded and printed free of charge.
Christian Life Resources generally recommends that a Life Observance celebration take place on the Sunday closest to March 25 (the Annunciation of our Lord).
Other suggested dates are:
- Father’s Day
- Mother’s Day
- Mission Festival (Date of the Congregation’s Choosing): Click Here to Review Life Sunday Mission Festival Notes
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
As always, CLR provides additional materials and support to fit your unique plans. We’ll be happy to help – contact us today!
Life Sunday Annual Packages
“Defenders” Life Sunday Materials
“That We May Know” Life Sunday Materials
“Value the Gift” Life Sunday Materials
“Higher Authority” Life Sunday Materials
Bible Studies
Facing Life’s Issues with a Biblical Perspective | 5 Week Series
The Meaning of Life: A Gift From God | 3 Week Series
Download Student & Leader’s Guide PDF
Download Bible Study PowerPoint Presentation
Psalm 90 – A Prayer for Life
Download Student’s Guide PDF
Download Student’s Guide Microsoft Doc
Download Leader’s Guide PDF
Download Leader’s Guide Microsoft Doc
Be Silent No More
Download Student & Leader’s Guide PDF
Download Student & Leader’s Guide Microsoft Doc
End of Life | 3 Week Series
God’s Word Calls Us to Speak Up
What Does It Mean to Be Pro-Life?
Transformed
Still in It for Life
God Is Pro-Life
Download Student & Leader’s Guide PDF
Download Student & Leader’s Guide Microsoft Doc
Fight for Faith… Fight for Life
Download Student & Leader’s Guide PDF
Download Student & Leader’s Guide Microsoft Doc
Life Has an Inherent Value, Regardless of Its Quality
A Bible Study on Abortion
The Meaning of the Term “Human Life”
The Book of Jonah and Our Mission to an Ungodly Nation
Human Life is a Gift Which Only God Can Give
When I Die…
God’s Pro-Life Testimony in Christ
Bulletin Covers
Christian Life Resources has developed a variety of pro-life bulletin covers. Click here to view all the styles in our CLR Store.
Bulletin Inserts
CLR Bulletin Insert
“Marriage” – Bulletin Insert
Download in Black/White Format
Download in Full Color Format
“A Mother’s Beginning” – Mother’s Day Bulletin Insert
“What Does Scripture Say?” (About Abortion)
Download in Full Color Format
Download in Black/White Format
DEVOTIONS
Faith, Science, and the Struggles of Life Devotion
Week 1 – PDF
Week 1 – Microsoft Doc
Week 2 – PDF
Week 2 – Microsoft Doc
Week 3 – PDF
Week 3 – Microsoft Doc
Orders of Service
Please download and use this Hymn Reference Conversion Chart for Hymns referenced in “Orders of Worship” Christian Worship 1993 (and Supplement) to Christian Worship 2021.
Life Sunday – God Highly Values Human Life
Annunciation Life Sunday (Sunday closest to March 25)
“The Meaning of Life: A Gift From God” Series (Three-Week Series)
Week 1: Life Is a Gift To Be Defended – PDF
Week 1: Life Is a Gift To Be Defended – Microsoft Doc
Week 2: Life Is a Gift To Be Respected – PDF
Week 2: Life Is a Gift To Be Respected – Microsoft Doc
Week 3: Life Is a Gift To Be Used to God’s Glory – PDF
Week 3: Life Is a Gift To Be Used to God’s Glory – Microsoft Doc
Sanctity of Life Worship Service (Christian Worship)
Clearly Caring Worship Service (Christian Worship)
Life Sunday #1 – Respect Your Elders (Christian Worship)
Life Sunday #2 – Family Matters (Christian Worship)
Life Sunday #3 – Aging Gracefully (Christian Worship)
Sanctity of Life Sunday (Christian Worship)
Transformed
Still in It for Life
Life: You Make the Difference (Christian Worship)
Fight for Faith…Fight for Life (Christian Worship)
A Service Remembering The Unborn Before The Lord (The Lutheran Hymnal)
Pro-Life Sunday – Mother’s Day (The Lutheran Hymnal)
The Miracle of Being Twice Born (The Lutheran Hymnal)
Pro-Life Sunday Order of Service
The Sanctity of Human Life Sunday (The Lutheran Hymnal)
A Prayer Service (The Lutheran Hymnal)
Service Outline – PDF
Service Outline – Microsoft Doc
Scripture Readings & Prayers – PDF
Scripture Readings & Prayers – Microsoft Doc
Praise Him – We Are Wonderfully Made
The Gift of Life Eternal (The Lutheran Hymnal)
Notes to Incorporate a Life Sunday into a Mission Festival Themed Service
Sermon Studies
“The Meaning of Life: A Gift From God” Series (Three-Week Series)
Week 1: Life is a Gift To Be Defended
Text Study
Week 2: Life is a Gift To Be Respected
Text Study
Week 3: Life is a Gift To Be Used
Text Study
Life Sunday Series
Week 1: Respect Life
Week 2: Defend Life
Week 3: Forgiveness
Week 4: Glorify God
“Who Doesn’t Want to Be the Greatest?!”
One-Year Pericope: Advent 3, Christmas 2, Pentecost 14, Pentecost 18
Gospel Texts for Life Observance Sunday (Series C)
Epistle Texts for Life Observance Sunday (Series C)
Old Testament Texts for Life Observance Sunday (Series C)
Gospel Texts for Life Sunday (Series B)
Epistle Texts for Life Sunday (Series B)
Children of God, You Are Worth Something! (A Sermon Concept)
Old Testament Texts for Life Sunday (Series B)
Gospel Texts for Life Sunday (Series A)
Epistle Texts for Life Sunday (Series A)
Old Testament Texts for Life Sunday (Series A)
Respect Your Elders Service Notes (Christian Worship)
Family Matters Service Notes (Christian Worship)
Aging Gracefully Service Notes (Christian Worship)
Sermons
“The Meaning of Life: A Gift From God” Series (Three-Week Series)
Week 1: Life Is a Gift To Be Defended (Sermon)
Week 1: Life Is a Gift To Be Defended (Sermon Booklet)
Week 2: Life Is a Gift To Be Respected (Sermon)
Week 2: Life Is a Gift To Be Respected (Sermon Booklet)
Week 3: Life Is a Gift To Be Used (Sermon)
Week 3: Life Is a Gift To Be Used (Sermon Booklet)
Let Us Not Love With Words or Speech but with Actions and in Truth
Jesus Is Pro-Family
A Question of Rights
Life Observance Sunday Based On Exodus 20:13
Download Sermon – PDF
Download Sermon – Microsoft Doc
Download Children’s Sermon – PDF
Download Children’s Sermon – Microsoft Doc
More Than Just a Cause
Children’s Sermon for Life Observance Sunday
Who Is Really in Charge? (Includes Sermon Plus Sermon Outline)
Be Silent No More
Life: You Make the Difference
Fight for Faith…Fight for Life
Jesus is Lord!
Jesus Has the Healing Touch
Transformed!
The Image Matters
Know Where You Stand
The Interests of Others
The Sanctity of Life
A Christian Response to Herodism
The Miracle of Being Twice Born
The Pro-Life Pentecostal Promise for Mothers and Others
Spiritual Medicine for the Spiritually Ailing
He’s Always There – or – Thou, God, Seest Me
Children of God: You Are Worth Something!
God is the Lord of My Life
Put on the Full Armor of God…and Stand
What Does It Mean to Be Pro-Life?
God Knows How We Feel
The Making of a Godly Marriage
Still in It for Life
Songs
Master Plan
Download Lyrics – PDF
Download Lyrics – Microsoft Doc
Download Piano Accompaniment – PDF
Download Piano Accompaniment – Microsoft Doc
All Things Were Made By God’s Great Power
To the Tune of “May God the Father of Our Lord” [Christian Worship Hymn 597]
Lord of Life
To the Tune of “Lord of Glory, Who Has Bought Us” [Christian Worship Hymn 486]
Lord, You Saw Me Before My Birth
To the Tune of “Jesus! and Ever Shall I Be” [Christian Worship Hymn 347]
Life is a Gift from God
To the Tune of “Crown Him With Many Crowns” [Christian Worship Hymn 341]
Now Share the News
To the Tune of “Behold a Host, Arrayed in White” [Christian Worship Hymn 550]
Other Materials
Life Sunday Prayer for the Easter Season
“The Meaning of Life: A Gift From God” Series – Sample Bulletin Announcements
A Prayer for Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day Prayer
A Trimester of Prayer
Responsive Life Prayer for the Church (Epiphany 5)
Submit materials
Christian Life Resources continues to develop this resource enabling pastors to choose among a variety of original materials to conduct a special Life Observance Sunday in their churches. Materials focus on various beginning-of-life and end-of-life topics, as well as family issues such as:
- Abortion
- Birth Control
- Chastity
- Cloning
- Dating
- Depression and Suicide
- Divorce
- Education
- End-of-Life
- Euthanasia
- Family Relationships
- Gay Marriage
- Homosexuality
- Infertility
- Medical Ethics and Organ Donation
- Mother’s Day / Father’s Day
- Post Abortion Syndrome
- Single Parenting
- Stem Cell and Genetic Research
Pastors from the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) and Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS) are invited to submit pro-life Sunday materials to our office so that others may benefit too. As a thank you, we offer honorariums for accepted submissions.
Materials List
Materials being assembled include (but are not necessarily limited to):
- Sermon ($25)
- Sermon outlines ($50)
- Sermon notes and action guide ($25)
- Bible studies (student and leader guides) ($150)
- Complete orders of service (including identified Scripture readings with intros, prayers, and hymns from Christian Worship) ($35)
- Original text hymns (using public domain melodies) ($35)
- Original text and original music hymns ($75)
- Children’s sermon outlines ($35)
- One-part children’s hymns (original text and music) ($35)
- Two-part or more children’s and/or adult choir hymns (original) ($75)
- Banner design ($35). Include a hard-copy of the design.
- Black and white reproducible bulletin cover (original design) ($50)
- Promotional text ($25)
- Other types of submissions will be considered based on individual merits and possibilities (honorarium negotiable).
Submission Information and Restrictions
All submissions should be emailed or sent to:
Christian Life Resources
Box 56
Richfield, WI 53076
Submission of any material grants CLR full rights for publicizing the information in any format provided the honorarium(s) has/have been paid. Limited resources means some submissions may not be accepted. CLR is not obliged to return submissions. For more information, please contact us. Thank you!