His Hour
His Hour

This four-week Easter series examines Jesus’s repeated references to “his hour” throughout the Gospel of John, following the trail all the way to the cross. These sermons are designed to deepen your congregation’s affection for Christ, as the hour of Jesus is that moment in time when God in Christ reveals his unconditional and unwavering…

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Golgotha to Glory
Golgotha to Glory

This Easter series follows Christ on his harrowing journey to the cross and brings us to Easter Sunday, where we celebrate his victory over sin, hell, and the grave.

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Glorious Day
Glorious Day

This message helps us see why Easter is, in fact, a glorious day, and what the implications of Christ’s resurrection are for us and the whole world.

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Empty and Filled
Empty and Filled

This Easter sermon helps us understand why it was good that Christ should go away (John 16:7) after his resurrection, and it invites us to enjoy the gift of the Spirit, who fills each believer with the presence and power of the risen Savior.

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Lent: Reflection and Repentance
Lent: Reflection and Repentance

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.

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Turn: The Heart of Repentance
Turn: The Heart of Repentance

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.

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Hearts of Stone
Hearts of Stone

This six-week Lent series borrows its title from Ezekiel 36 and the picture given there of “the heart of stone” (v. 26). The series looks at ways our hearts are hardened or can be hardened and God’s invitation to transform our callous hearts into “hearts of flesh.” This sermon series is meant to edify your…

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Lent: The Practice of Preparation
Lent: The Practice of Preparation

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.

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The Third Way
The Third Way

This series is all about the radical way of Jesus. We see in the Sermon on the Mount how Jesus simultaneously rejected outrage and apathy, license and legalism, and the divisive allegiance to the ‘sides’ that opposed each other in his time. In both his life and teaching, Jesus shows his followers, then and now,…

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Dust To Dust
Dust To Dust

This six-week series examines the season of Lent and the reality of being human and needing God. Through repentance, fasting, and lament, we can realize our mortality, finitude, and need for God’s strength. We can humble ourselves, receiving God’s grace and knowing that God is changing us to be more like his Son.

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The Outsiders
The Outsiders

This four-week series looks at stories in the Old Testament that feature people who seem to be “outside” of the “main” story the OT seems to be telling about God and the people of Israel. Stories like Jonah’s and characters like Ruth, Naaman, and Rahab show us that even though God chose the Israelites to…

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Overheard
Overheard

This four-week series invites us to listen in on four different conversations that people had with or about Jesus in the Gospels. We will look at a moment when Jesus caused someone to make an immediate change, at someone who walked away from a gift Jesus offered, at someone restored to her rightful place in…

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Thou Art Dust
Thou Art Dust

This six-week series examines the season of Lent and the reality of being human and needing God. Through repentance, fasting, and lament, we can realize our mortality, finitude, and need for God’s strength. We can humble ourselves, receiving God’s grace and knowing that God is changing us to be more like his Son.

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Loyal Love
Loyal Love

This four-week series looks at the book Ruth, highlighting the theme of God’s loyal and redeeming love in Ruth’s story.

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Authentic
Authentic

This four-week youth series looks at what it means to have an authentic relationship with God. What components come together to form an authentic relationship with God? How do we make that relationship last? How can we come to know God and become like him? All these questions will be addressed in the next four…

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Revolution
Revolution

When we think of “revolution,” we might think of governments being overthrown and wars being waged. Revolutions are often against something: a government, a state, a culture. For Christians, however, revolutions are for something: for the benefit of a world and a people that God loves. In this four-week series, we will examine ways Christians…

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Connect
Connect

This four-week series challenges church attendees to move from the seats of observing the work and movement of God into circles to enfold the community and participate in the work and movement of God. We will learn from what James told the readers of his letter regarding living out their Christian faith in their community.

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Finding Community
Finding Community

This four-week series challenges church attendees to move from the seats of observing the work and movement of God into circles to enfold the community and participate in the work and movement of God. We will learn from what James told the readers of his letter regarding living out their Christian faith in their community.

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Refined
Refined

This six-part series looks at the gift of God’s refining work in our lives. Like a loving parent, God nurtures and disciplines us so we can grow into the people he wants us to become. This sermon series will remind the congregation that God’s refinement process is not always easy, but it is always good.

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They Will Be My People
They Will Be My People

Throughout the book of Jeremiah, we see God’s judgment against the sin and infidelity of his people. But we also see God’s determination to save and restore them. God’s words through the prophet in Jeremiah 32:38 (“They shall be my people, and I will be their God”) show us that God’s ultimate purpose is to…

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Words From the Wise
Words From the Wise

This series looks at three of the Wisdom Literature books of the Bible (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Job) and shows us how they all fit together.

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Show Up: A Call to Everyday Faithfulness
Show Up: A Call to Everyday Faithfulness

This four-week adult series is all about everyday faithfulness and the power of simply showing up. Being faithful in our homes, workplaces, and communities can be a powerful witness to unbelieving friends and neighbors, and it can also be a valuable gift to the faith communities we’re a part of.

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Luke and Acts
Luke and Acts

While separated by the Gospel of John in our Bibles today, the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles form one cohesive story written by the same author and addressed to the same person, Theophilus, likely a patron. In Luke and Acts, we see the life of Jesus, the beginning of the church,…

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Bethlehem to the World
Bethlehem to the World

While separated by the Gospel of John in our Bibles today, the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles form one cohesive story written by the same author and addressed to the same person, Theophilus, likely a patron. In Luke and Acts, we see the life of Jesus, the beginning of the church,…

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Atonement
Atonement

This special five-week series looks at five different atonement theories. Each week will be devoted to a different model. The models of suffering love, selfless substitution, loving sacrifice, union and participation, and Christus Victor will be unpacked for the edification of your congregation and for the glory of God. We trust that this five-week series will enrich your church as its…

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Exiles
Exiles

A recurring idea in the New Testament letters is that Christians are citizens of heaven. Being citizens of another world makes Christians foreigners in this one. This series is about the idea of being away from our true home and how Scripture instructs believers to live meaningful lives in this world while waiting to enter…

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Overheard
Overheard

This four-week series invites us to listen in on four different conversations that people had with or about Jesus in the Gospels. We will look at a moment when Jesus caused someone to make an immediate change, at someone who walked away from a gift Jesus offered, at someone restored to her rightful place in…

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Anchored
Anchored

This series holds up truths we can cling to and rules of life we can model to help us stay anchored through the ebbs, flows, and storms of life. By grounding our lives in the love of God, the hope of God, Christ, and the values of the kingdom, we will remain firmly rooted in…

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The Power of Grace
The Power of Grace

This two-part series looks at the power of grace we have received through Christ. God’s grace not only saves us, but it also empowers us to live holy lives. God’s grace is the foundation for the development of Christian character.

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Don’t Be That Guy
Don’t Be That Guy

This four-week series peeks at the “fool” character in Proverbs and helps students apply wisdom to avoid being “that guy” who despises wisdom, spreads slander, consistently avoids work, and doesn’t value spending time with Jesus. After we point out what makes “that guy” so foolish, we’ll learn what it means to live wisely.

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In God We Trust
In God We Trust

It’s easy to say “Trust in God,” but it can be very hard to do. This four-week series looks at the challenges we can face when trusting in God, while also looking to Scripture for a reminder of why we can always trust God.

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The Blessed Hope
The Blessed Hope

In our songs and prayers, we regularly confess our faith in the “blessed hope” (Titus 2:13) of Christ’s return. Yet, many of us still wonder what the promise of Christ’s return in the future means for us now. This four-week series explores the ways in which the promise of Christ has the power to transform…

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Not Your Jesus
Not Your Jesus

This series challenges us to fight against (and recognize where we’ve given in to) the temptation to make Jesus in our own image, turning him into a means to gain power or comfort.

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The Blessed Hope
The Blessed Hope

In our songs and prayers, we regularly confess our faith in the “blessed hope” (Titus 2:13) of Christ’s return. Yet, many of us still wonder what the promise of Christ’s return in the future means for us now. This four-week series explores the ways in which the promise of Christ has the power to transform…

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Truly Human
Truly Human

This four-week series looks at God’s plan and purpose for humanity. It also shows us how the world and the sad effects of sin de-form us as creatures formed in God’s image. Covering epic themes of creation, the fall, and eschatological restoration, this series will teach your congregants what it means to be truly human,…

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Divine Disruptions
Divine Disruptions

This four-week series shows how Jesus responded to disruptions in his ministry. Disruptions almost always came from people who were seeking healing. However, in different situations, Jesus responded in different ways. We examine four stories, where Jesus responds to the disruptions in exactly the ways that he needed to, for the sake of those who…

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