Ash Wednesday is six weeks out and you are the one making the slides. These are fifteen prompts you can paste straight into Gemini, ChatGPT, Midjourney, DALL·E, Firefly or PCM Imago — one for each Sunday of Lent, three for Ash Wednesday, and two printable pages for the children in the room.
They are written for congregations that keep Lent as a season of honesty rather than gloom. No stock crowns of thorns, no gauzy European Jesus. Where a prompt describes a person, it says first-century Middle Eastern with brown skin, because image models render these scenes as European unless you tell them otherwise — and that instruction is doing real work, so leave it in.
Ash Wednesday falls on February 10, 2027, and Easter on March 28. The five Sundays in between are February 14, 21 and 28, then March 7 and 14. If you want the full calendar, the 40-day arithmetic, or a printable planning sheet, we keep all of that on how long Lent is and when it starts.
Generate it at 1920×1080 for ProPresenter or EasyWorship, or 1080×1350 if it is going on Instagram. Ask for space for text in the prompt rather than cropping later — most of these already do. And run the first result past someone before Sunday: models are confident, and confidence is not accuracy.
The last section is black-and-white line art meant to be photocopied: a forty-day cross to color in, and a calendar card a family can fill out at the kitchen table. Both ask for no shading and no gray, because soft fills photocopy as mud.
If you want activities rather than art, we have a whole page of them — five Lent activities for Sunday school, plus five low-prep ideas for younger kids.
Generating an image is free and takes a minute. Making forty of them, in one visual style, while also writing the sermon, is a different proposition.
Is it okay to use AI images in worship?
That is a question for your congregation, not for us. What we would say is that the honest version works better than the quiet one: tell people the image was generated, keep photographs of real people out of it unless you have consent, and never let an image do theological work nobody has checked.
Do these prompts work in free AI tools?
Yes. Every one is tagged with the tools it has been tested in, and most work in the free tiers of Gemini and ChatGPT. Midjourney and PCM Imago will give you more control over style consistency across a set.
Why do the prompts specify brown skin and Middle Eastern features?
Because image models default to European features for biblical scenes unless instructed otherwise. The instruction is not decoration — remove it and you will see the difference immediately.
Can I use these for Holy Week and Easter?
There is a separate set for that week. See Holy Week worship graphics AI prompts.
Are these free?
Yes, all fifteen, no signup. If you want finished media rather than prompts, that is what the shop and PCM Complete are for.