50 Church Easter Theme Ideas
Give your Church a Focus
Searching for some inspiration for Easter? Some churches find an Easter theme can be a helpful way to create a focus for the season. Below you’ll find 50 ideas to get you thinking, as well as alternative titles and the bible passage that inspired them. They’re grouped by topic to help you navigate them easily.
People in your community usually know that you’ll do something for Easter (you are a church after all!) What they don’t know is why they should bother engaging with your church at Easter. A theme or focus can be a helpful way to show people the ‘why’. Why should they come to your event? Why should they attend a service? And, most importantly, why should they consider Jesus this Easter?
Resurrection
Encourage your church to dwell upon the miracle of Easter Sunday with a theme based on the topic of Resurrection.
Buried & Raised
Buried & Resurrected
Buried & Glorified
1 Corinthians 15:4
Made New
Remade
Remade New
Ephesians 4:23
Hope Resurrected
Living Hope
Hope is Alive
1 Peter 1:3
He is Risen
He is Alive
He Rose
Matthew 28:6
The Resurrection & the Life
I am the Resurrection & the Life
John 11:25
Sacrifice
Focus on the topic of Jesus’ once-for-all sacrifice for us.
See His Wounds
By His Wounds
Isaiah 53:5
Slain for us
The Lamb who was slain
Revelation 5:12
He Took our Pain
He Took our Sin
He Took our Shame
Isaiah 53:4
Pierced
Crushed
Stricken
Isaiah 53:5
Once for all
His Once for all Sacrifice
One Time Only
Hebrews 7:27
Death Defeated
Easter is good news for us. We no longer have to live with the fear of death – help your church celebrate this.
Jesus lives
He lives
Jesus reigns
2 Corinthians 13:4
He is not here
He is not dead
He is not defeated
Revelation 5:12
Empty
The empty tomb
John 20:1
Death could not hold him
No grave could contain him
Acts 2:24
Death no longer rules
Death has no mastery
Romans 6:9
Victory
Praise God for his victory over sin and death!
The day that changed everything
The day that shook the world
The day that death was beaten
Hosanna
Hosanna in the highest
Matthew 21:9
Hallelujah
Praise the Lord
Revelation 19:1
Victorious
He is victorious
The Victorious God
1 John 5:4
Swallowed up in victory
Death swallowed up
1 Corinthians 15:54
Life
Help your church focus on the gift of new life in Jesus with an Easter theme about life.
Truly live
True life
1 John 5:20
This is eternal life
Find eternal life
This is life forever
John 17:3
Giver of life
He gives life
Life giver
2 Corinthians 3:6
Life to the full
The best life
The full life
John 10:10
Full of life
His words are life
Life giving words
John 6:63
Questions
Here are some theme ideas that act as questions for your church members and community.
Who do you say I am?
Who do you think he is?
Who is he?
Matthew 16:15
Why are you so afraid?
Why do we fear?
Matthew 8:26
Why do you doubt?
The empty tomb
Matthew 14:31
Do you believe?
Who do you believe?
What do you believe?
John 11:26
What if it's true?
Could it be true?
Hope
People are desperate for something to hope for. Easter promises them a real, blessed hope.
Living Hope
Hope is alive
Matthew 16:15
Rest in hope
Rejoice in hope
Joyful in hope
Acts 2:26
Blessed hope
Titus 2:13
On him we have set our hope
On him we have fixed our eyes
2 Corinthians 1:10
Hope of glory
Hope of heaven
Hope of eternity
Colossians 1:27
Renewal
Help your church see the impact of Easter with the topic of renewal or revival.
The renewal of all things
Making all thing new
Matthew 19:28
Revive us again
Restore us again
Psalm 85:6
The promise of restoration
The promise of eternity
The promise of forever
Acts 3:21
The old has gone
The new is here
2 Corinthians 5:17
A fresh start
A new beginning
Being made new
Names of Jesus
Get your church to marvel at the character of the Lord Jesus by focussing on of the names he’s known by.
Risen King
King of Kings
Alive and reigning
Revelation 15:3
Lamb of God
John 1:29
Mighty One
Everlasting one
Isaiah 60:16
Our deliverer
Our redeemer
Romans 11:26
Man of sorrows
Isaiah 53:3
The cross
Let’s remind ourselves of the price that Jesus paid in our place.
The road to calvary
The road to redemption
Luke 23:33
It is finished
It’s over
The end
John 19:30
Crown of a king
Crown of thorns
A twisted crown
Matthew 27:29
The earth shook
The sky darkened
Matthew 27:51
The price he paid
The punishment he bore
The penalty we deserved
Isaiah 53:5
I hope one of these ideas will be the right fit for your church this Easter.
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