This four-week series will explore a biblical understanding of what it means to be married in today’s world. With much of our culture having various understandings of marriage, its benefits, and its value, this series will cover God’s intention for the marriage relationship and why it’s more than an expression of love but also one…
This two-week sermon series includes a Father’s Day Message and a Mother’s Day Message. These sermons are designed to encourage, challenge, and strengthen men and women, boys and girls, to leave a lasting legacy. A person’s legacy is not determined by who the person is, but rather, a person’s legacy is determined by what is…
The Bible encourages believers to understand parenting as a picture of the gospel. Humans were created for connection. The gospel is the story of how God is reconnecting with us through love, empowering us for his work, and correcting us for a restorative purpose. Likewise, the Christian parent will seek to connect with their child…
The Prayers of Jesus is a four-week series that examines a number of Jesus’s prayers to his Father. By studying how Jesus prayed, we learn how to pray for ourselves in different seasons of our lives.
In this four-week series, we explore how Jesus teaches us to pray. Prayer is simply talking to God and also making time and space to let God talk to us. Prayer is a back-and-forth continual conversation with God. It comes out of a relationship of intimacy that happens in a secret place void of distractions….
This four-week series tackles a different social stigma each week. God offers believers healing and hope instead of condemnation as they struggle with mental health, physical health, singleness and infertility, and aging. Scripture guides our understanding of how to live and serve despite the stigmas that sometimes surround our realities.
This four-week youth series explores how biblical teachings can guide our media interaction. Screens are a part of daily life and they influence how we see the world—both positively and negatively. The biblical precepts that teach us about community, loving our neighbor, obedience, and communicating the gospel help us allow our faith to intersect with…
This four-week series analyzes the spiritual and theological depths of four contemporary worship songs. Through these songs, we connect with biblical teaching about atonement, love, sanctification, and the Christian creeds.
This six-week series will walk through the book of Judges. What happens to a society when everyone feels they can do whatever they want? Though Judges can be dark, it will also lead us to yearn for a loving King who gives order and meaning to life: Jesus Christ.
These days, the secular world is deeply interested in the topic of justice. All too often, however, God’s people can lag behind. And yet, we have the greatest resource on the topic of justice: God’s Word. God is just and justice matters to God. This four-week series focuses on how God addresses oppression, judges with…
We often hear the command “Love your neighbor as yourself,” but what does that mean exactly? It’s easy to love the people closest to us (at least most of the time), but how well do we show love to the people we come into contact with at the grocery store, on the highway, or even…
This six-week series describes the lives of six villains from the Bible. Through understanding their context and possible motives, we will learn how anyone can become a villain who destroys others, but we will also discover that God can redeem even the worst of villains.
This five-week series directs us to hope in the face of extraordinary adversity. In the book of Lamentations, we find the admission of sin, the need for repentance, the value of lament, and the reality of hope, all resting on the foundation of faith in the righteousness of God. Through in-depth study and reflection from…
This four-week series encourages every person to experience a breakthrough. It highlights four people within the Gospels who experienced a personal breakthrough that completely changed their life. No life is too far gone for the all-sufficient, forgiving Savior. Jesus can take any life at any stage and make it a trophy of grace.
This six-week series describes the lives of six villains from the Bible. Through understanding their context and possible motives, we will learn how anyone can become a villain who destroys others, but we will also discover that God can redeem even the worst of villains.
This four-week youth series approaches the practical issues of life with gospel-centered wisdom. Encountering the realities of adulthood can sometimes be overwhelming, but God’s Word guides the young adult. Learning how to handle finances, spiritual doubts, dating, singleness, and marriage and family, while contributing to the flourishing of society, are crucial to growing in maturity…
This five-week series looks at the life of one of the greatest people in history: Moses. This series focuses on what we can learn from his faith, his triumphs, and his failures.
This six-week Ezekiel sermon series tells the story of Ezekiel’s ministry, and God’s desire to give each of us a new heart. God desires to change our hearts for his glory. Ezekiel 36:26 says, “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart…
God’s desire for us is that we grow in becoming like Jesus. This will necessarily mean change in partnership with the Holy Spirit. This four-week series examines how believers can implement a personal change process in their lives in partnership with the Holy Spirit. To grow in discipleship, we must identify the areas of our…
Youth often struggle with the fear that they are going to miss out on something. So much is going on that waiting on God to move seems a waste of time. However, the Scriptures repeatedly assure us that God’s plan is always better than ours. In this four-week series we focus on stories from the…
As false teachers have arisen against the church, Jude encourages believers to contend for the faith by putting forth an intense effort to fight for the truth of the gospel. Jude also assures them that Jesus will protect them and preserve them until he returns and presents them to the Father.
This four-week series addresses the importance of faithfulness to God, even when we are bombarded with other options. How can we be steadfast, committed, and live with integrity and devotion when each day offers us a cacophony of choices? Many of us have trouble committing to a worldview, to other people, to the Christian faith,…
Pastors are asked to preach many types of funeral messages. This template is designed to be used when a faithful saint has finished their race well. Under each point is a place where you can tell stories about the deceased. It’s recommended that you talk to friends and family members about the life of the…
Even if we don’t remember it, most of us recognize that we saw the world and people differently when we were young. We learned lessons that we would be wise to remember today. This four-week series looks at lessons we learned when we were young and sees how they were related to the teachings of…
This four-week series reminds us not to center ourselves as we exercise our spiritual gifts; it’s the Holy Spirit who is the giver of the gifts, and he deserves all the glory. Our gifts exist to build up the body of Christ; we are blessed in order to bless others. And since spiritual gifts will…
This series examines stories of various biblical characters and how, in their darkest moments, God met with them. We may hit rock bottom in seasons of fear and weariness, despair and depression, sin and anger, and pain and loss. Yet God never leaves us or abandons us; instead, God pursues and seeks to encounter us…
During the summer, students often meet new challenges. Life changes. New friends come, and old friends go. How does the Bible speak to the emotions we routinely face throughout life? This four-week youth series (each week highlighting a different emotion in a psalm) helps students bring their feelings and experiences to God.
This four-week series captures the attention of those who are feeling the heaviness of the summer, whether due to social upheaval, the responsibilities that increase as the help decreases, the stress of keeping up with the family down the street and their big summer vacation, or past experience of difficult summers. We will meet some…
This five-week series examines the life of King Saul in 1 Samuel. How did Saul move from a humble young man to a vindictive and jealous king? This series explores the pride, jealousy, and lack of faith factors that were present from the beginning of Saul’s story and led to his eventual demise, offering biblical…
This five-week series explores the dysfunctional family dynamics in Genesis. We see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob’s families carry forward dysfunctional traits of broken humanity across the generations. While we look honestly at that reality, we also see that God in his goodness chose them. How can we apply their stories to the dysfunction in our…
Often, during the spring and summer, many families use their time off to take a vacation. These trips can be a great opportunity for families to spend time together, show each other love, and model grace to the world. But what if we took this same approach even when we aren’t able to travel together?…
This stand-alone message for Easter Sunday unpacks and drives home Jesus’s claim (and the evidence for it): “I am the resurrection and the life.” This special streaming version includes all the graphics you need for your online Easter service.
As Christians, when we think about Easter we tend to focus on Jesus dying on the cross for our sin; however, the hope of the Gospel in found in Jesus being alive through his resurrection! This special streaming version includes all the graphics you need for your online Easter service.
Intended as a stand-alone sermon for Easter Sunday, this guide looks at the idea that Jesus conquered evil, sin, and death in his resurrection. Believers share in this victory and can live an overcoming life of peace and redemption. This special streaming version includes all the graphics you need for your online Easter service.
This stand-alone message for Easter Sunday unpacks and drives home Jesus’s claim (and the evidence for it): “I am the resurrection and the life.” This special streaming version includes all the graphics you need for your online Easter service.
This stand-alone message for Easter Sunday unpacks and drives home Jesus’s claim (and the evidence for it): “I am the resurrection and the life.” This special streaming version includes all the graphics you need for your online Easter service.