The Summer of the Other
The Summer of the Other

This four-week series is aimed at mobilizing young people to use the summer as a way to show God’s love to the most vulnerable in society. Loving our neighbor is not an option we are called to simply tack onto life. Rather, it must hold a central purpose within our faith in Christ.

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Come Together: Gathering Around the Lord’s Table
Come Together: Gathering Around the Lord’s Table

What does the Bible say about food and eating together? This three-week youth series examines how coming together around the table becomes a setting for joy, unity, and vulnerability. When Christians have a healthy biblical theology of food, they are able to recognize God’s provision through the table as a way to meet our need…

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Sermon On The Mount: A Kingdom Upside Down
Sermon On The Mount: A Kingdom Upside Down

This seven-week series will encourage the Christian to go beyond the superficial and search deep into their heart to see themselves as Christ sees them. Christ’s bold Sermon on the Mount challenged his hearers to understand that God was seeking internal righteousness from them, not just external acts. This is only possible through God’s work…

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Translate: A Simple Guide to Big Words
Translate: A Simple Guide to Big Words

This six-week youth series will look at the “big words” found in the Bible, providing a theologically rich and digestible explanation that will help students to understand the death and resurrection of Jesus and apply its meaning to their lives. Each week will focus on one word: atonement, expiation, propitiation, justification, sanctification, and resurrection.  

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Is It Just Me: Building Christ-Centered Community
Is It Just Me: Building Christ-Centered Community

This four-week series for youth addresses how the Enemy uses isolation to attack and destroy us. When we confess our sins to God and other trusted Christians, as well as learn to be open and honest about our struggles and pain, we can find strength in the power of spiritual community.

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To The Future
To The Future

This stand-alone message is great following or on New Year’s Day. It will help the children focus on the future and not on the past as they begin a new year. It is a good reminder that because God is making us new, we should focus on the new creation we are becoming!

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Hebrews: The Journey of Faith
Hebrews: The Journey of Faith

This eight-week series charts a course through the book of Hebrews, describing the supremacy of Christ as God’s revelation, high priest, sacrifice, and giver of faith. Rather than looking to other things, people, or feelings to bring us meaning and redemption, we must look to Jesus.

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The Games
The Games

This four-week series examines how the Bible uses several different sports metaphors to describe the Christian life. As followers of Jesus, we are called to seek after an eternal crown through faithfully running the race God has set before us, by fighting the good fight of faith, and by working together with other believers to…

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God And My Country
God And My Country

This message would work well around Independence Day in the United States. What is the goal of the faith we are teaching our children? To seek after the kingdom of God or to pursue the American dream? In this stand-alone message, we will examine what it means to God put before the American dream.

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Behold
Behold

This four-week Christmas (or Advent) series for kids celebrates how faith in Jesus Christ allows us to see and experience the world in wonderful and unique ways. Using texts from the New and Old Testaments, we’ll recognize that the gifts of faith—trust, joy, determination, and commitment—have come to us through the birth of our Savior….

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The Church
The Church

Some people think that the church is in trouble. Many people are willing to learn about Jesus, but they don’t want to be around some of the people you meet at church. This four-week series uses the two letters of Paul to Timothy to talk about what the church is and why it’s important in…

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My Neighborhood
My Neighborhood

This four-week children’s series examines our responsibility to our neighbors. Neighborhood watch programs came about to help communities look out for one another. Sometimes people felt fearful of others, worried that there were bad people that we needed to watch out for. God says instead of being fearful, we should take time understand who our…

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Dinner Is Served
Dinner Is Served

What does it mean to feast? Eating together has always been important throughout the Bible and in our homes. This four-week children’s series examines how the table becomes a setting for joy, unity, and being yourself. When Christians have a healthy biblical view of food, they are able to recognize how God provides through the…

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Gold: Running Your Race
Gold: Running Your Race

This four-week youth series examines how the Bible uses several different sports metaphors to describe the Christian life. As followers of Jesus, we are called to seek after an eternal crown through faithfully running the race God has set before us, by fighting the good fight of faith, and by working together with other believers…

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The Main Thing
The Main Thing

This four-week children’s series will help young people understand what it means to keep Jesus and his kingdom at the center of their lives, every day. It will challenge the young believer to live in the power of Christ’s forgiveness and provision, while providing practical suggestions on how to live that life.

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Prayer Postures
Prayer Postures

This four-week series highlights kneeling, dancing, and raised hands as common postures of prayer that believers should be comfortable using when communicating with or worshiping God. Youth should be able to learn and understand why physical postures during their worship experience are a vital part of the Christian life, and how to overcome the fear…

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Neighborhood Watch
Neighborhood Watch

This series examines our responsibility to our neighbors. The term “neighborhood watch” often evokes a fear-based mentality: “We must watch over our neighborhood because others are out to get us.” This series flips that image on its head: rather than fearing others, we must widen our idea of what our “neighborhood” is.  

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Easter Sunday
Easter Sunday

As Christians, when we think about Easter, we often focus on Jesus dying on the cross for our sin. In this message, children are reminded that the true hope of the gospel is found in Jesus being made alive through the resurrection!

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Lent
Lent

This six-week series for the Sundays during the season of Lent (plus Ash Wednesday) helps children navigate the concept of death on Ash Wednesday and moves them toward a joyful vision of the new heavens and the new earth on the last Sunday of Lent. This pathway—from death to everlasting life—helps them understand the true…

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The Movies
The Movies

This four-week sermon series discusses what it’s like to live in the “in-between.” How do we prepare for the resolution to God’s great story? How do we live out the resurrection of Jesus today? As the Bible makes clear, God’s work in the world brings us into right relationship with him and empowers us to…

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Mission Sunday
Mission Sunday

Use this bundle to promote your special missions services and encourage your church to advance the Gospel through global missions.

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What’s Next
What’s Next

This New Year’s message focuses on forgetting the former things and singing a new song to the Lord—and on staying in tune all year long!

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God and Country
God and Country

Are we seeking the kingdom of God or the kingdom of the United States of America? With elaborate patriotic worship services and flags flying, it can become confusing to discern which kingdom we are truly living for. This one-week adult message helps the believer understand that it takes humility, honesty, and a heart turned toward…

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God On Film
God On Film

This four-week sermon series discusses what it’s like to live in the “in-between.” How do we prepare for the resolution to God’s great story? How do we live out the resurrection of Jesus today? As the Bible makes clear, God’s work in the world brings us into right relationship with him and empowers us to…

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God On Film
God On Film

This four-week sermon series discusses what it’s like to live in the “in-between.” How do we prepare for the resolution to God’s great story? How do we live out the resurrection of Jesus today? As the Bible makes clear, God’s work in the world brings us into right relationship with him and empowers us to…

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Disciple: Hope in the Book of Mark
Disciple: Hope in the Book of Mark

Mark was written to a group of Roman Christians who were suffering under persecution. This eight-part series looks at the Gospel of Mark through the lens of living as a disciple of Christ in a world filled with persecution and crisis. Yet, even in such a world, the hope found in Jesus brings encouragement and…

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To The Future
To The Future

This New Year’s message focuses on forgetting the former things and singing a new song to the Lord—and on staying in tune all year long!

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The Book of Malachi: Fresh Faith
The Book of Malachi: Fresh Faith

This four-week series teaches us to love the things that God loves. Through the words of the prophet Malachi, we learn God’s love for his people, his name, his covenant, and his messenger. These same passions are to be present in the lives of his people today.

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Fresh Faith: The Book of Malachi
Fresh Faith: The Book of Malachi

This four-week series teaches us to love the things that God loves. Through the words of the prophet Malachi, we learn God’s love for his people, his name, his covenant, and his messenger. These same passions are to be present in the lives of his people today.

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The Book of Job: When Life Hurts
The Book of Job: When Life Hurts

By studying the book of Job, church communities can learn how to provide comfort and encouragement to those experiencing a difficult circumstance. Everyone has experienced moments like Job where you feel broken. And like Job, you may have wondered why and what to do when life hurts. This sermon series will empower your church to…

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Foundation: The Book of Romans
Foundation: The Book of Romans

This series is a four-week journey through the book of Romans. This Pauline epistle encompasses a vast amount of foundational theological truths for the Christian life. The series is bird’s-eye view from thirty-thousand feet, describing the sinfulness of humanity, the atoning work of Christ, the transforming power of the Spirit, and the new ethic for…

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The Fix
The Fix

This four-week youth series emphasizes that it is often in undramatic and unseen ways that God aims to shape our lives for him. It will help show that discipleship is something that is crucial to one’s development but can also take time to work out. It will explore how this is done within the community…

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The Book of Job
The Book of Job

This six-week series will speak to problem of human suffering and God’s plan by considering the story of Job. It will link the speeches of both Job and his friends with the overarching themes of God’s character, faithfulness in all things, and wisdom in dealing with human beings.

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The Book of Acts: To The Ends of the Earth
The Book of Acts: To The Ends of the Earth

This six-week series examines the remarkable spread of the gospel and the kingdom of God from Jerusalem, to Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the world. Jesus has commissioned every one of his followers to be his witness by the power of the Holy Spirit. Despite challenges from outside and within, the kingdom…

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Grace Alone
Grace Alone

This four-week series examines the role of grace in the life of the believer. We know we are saved by grace alone, but what happens then? Do we still need grace—and if so, why? What does that look like?

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Unstoppable: The Kingdom of God in the Book of Acts
Unstoppable: The Kingdom of God in the Book of Acts

This six-week series examines the remarkable spread of the gospel and the kingdom of God from Jerusalem, to Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the world. Jesus has commissioned every one of his followers to be his witness by the power of the Holy Spirit. Despite challenges from outside and within, the kingdom…

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