
Questions We’re Afraid to Ask
This four-week series challenges us to face some of the questions we’re afraid to ask God, each other, and ourselves.
This four-week series challenges us to face some of the questions we’re afraid to ask God, each other, and ourselves.
This four-part series challenges us to follow the patterns of Jesus. To do so, we must learn to adopt the spiritual disciplines Jesus practiced. Each week focuses on a different discipline from the life of Jesus.
This four-week series looks at the great invitation of the gospel: to join the household of faith and become a child of God. Over the course of this series, congregants will be inspired not only to go deeper into their relationship with God but also to go and proclaim the good news to others.
This Christmas series looks at prophetic songs of worship and adoration of Christ in the Old Testament, and songs and prayers sung in the wake of the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies in the New Testament.
This sermon series seeks to help adults better understand what challenges children and youth are facing today in an effort to encourage greater empathy and equip adults for greater discipleship of the next generation. Each week we will look at a unique challenge “kids these days” are facing, not just as individuals but as Christians,…
This Easter sermon is anchored in Paul’s words about the wages of sin and helps us understand how Christ’s life, death, and resurrection have provided the incomprehensible gift that he purchased and prepared for us.
While the new year is typically about adding new things—new goals, new habits, and new routines—this series challenges us to let go. To let go of things that weigh us down, regrets that hold us back, and destructive mindsets that are grounded in lies instead of in God’s truth.
This four-week series for adults calls us to meditate deeply on the holiness of God. This series asks: What does it mean that God is holy? What does God’s holiness say about his character? How can we come close to a holy God?
This series invites us into the Lenten season, a time of repentance and mourning over our sin. In mourning for our sin, we are reminded what it was like to come to Christ for the very first time. This Lent, we will remember what it means to encounter Christ with afresh, taking nothing for granted—neither…
This six-week series looks at Old Testament passages that foreshadowed Jesus. The Bible points to Jesus, and the Old Testament is filled with stories that show how God’s redemptive plan was to be fulfilled in Jesus.
This six-week series explores the book of Lamentations and its descriptions of grief and sorrow in the nation of Judah. In its clear language of pain and suffering, we see a reflection of our own. As Lamentations struggles with God, we struggle with God as well, and seeing how its grief progresses can help us…
This four-week series explores the story of Esther. Through understanding the book’s backstory and context, we can see that Esther is not a fairy tale, but an understand of how God a work behind the scenes with imperfect people in a hostile environment.
The end days are a subject people often debate. Though various Scripture passages might suggest multiple meanings, we can find some basic instructions or guidelines to interpret the end days and prepare for them. This four-week series draws timeless truths about the end from Matthew 24-25.
This four-part series looks at love as the fundamental characteristic of the Christian faith. The Bible returns repeatedly to the theme of love, calling us to love God with every part of our being. The spillover effect of this will be Christlike love for those around us.
This four-week series examines the deeper meaning behind this Advent season, using Isaiah 9 as a foundation for this year’s celebration. Sometimes called the “little Lent,” Advent is the anticipation and celebration of the arrival of Christ. It is a season that is meant to draw our attention once again to Christ and keep him…
This Easter Sunday sermon looks at the Christ Hymn in Philippians 2:5–11. It challenges the congregation to recognize that Christ’s incarnation is the model we are called to imitate. If we imitate Christ’s humility, we will make greater progress in building unity in the church.
God is both merciful and just. The justice of God demands that sin be dealt with in our lives, but mercy calls for God to be compassionate in his judgments. The book of Isaiah called Israel to repentance in many ways and yet also set the stage for both her redemption and the ultimate redemption…
This four-week series examines the downward spiral of God’s people in the book of Judges. The book centers around people having a relativism that caused them to do whatever they wanted to do. Through understanding the context, theology, and relevance to our own idolatries, we can see that the only hero in Judges is a…
This six-week series looks at the Lord’s Prayer as taught by Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew. Each week will consider the words of Jesus and what it means to pray in the manner he taught his disciples to pray.
The work and ministry of Jesus were not done in a vacuum, free from all outside impact or influence. Rather, we can best understand Jesus’s work when we understand the culture in which he lived. This series will look at some of the underlying challenges Jesus faced within his culture. Along the way, we will…
This eight-week series during the season of Pentecost invites the congregation to hear Jesus speak truth to a variety of situations. Whether he is addressing issues of morality, economics, or relationships, he is calling us to follow him—the way, the truth, and the life.
Even in the busyness of the Christmas season, Christ calls us to keep him at the center of our lives. This three-week series, including Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, draws on themes of celebration and proclamation, so that we are guided back again to the true reason for the season.
Epiphany is the celebration of the revelation of who Jesus is: the Savior of the world. This seven-week series looks at different events in Jesus’s ministry and shows how they fill out our picture of Jesus.
Advent invites us to celebrate more than the birth of Christ. It invites us to look back at history and remember God’s promises to us. During this time of reflection, we consider our own lives and how God uses life’s high and low moments to beckon us into a closer, more personal relationship with him….
This Lenten series contemplates the reasons why Jesus is going to the cross. Our lives are hard—because of our own sinfulness, but also because of the actions of the world. God knows this and has promised to deliver us from the pain of this world. He promises the ultimate redemption of the world and of all…
This four-week Pentecost series looks at the important actions believers take in their lives and how faith shapes these actions. The Holy Spirit was sent on Pentecost to be our guide, and so the Spirit is guiding us to confess and share our faith in Jesus with others.
This six-week series examines the Christian’s path of life. It starts in the feeding of our life by Jesus Christ, both for physical and spiritual needs. Once we have been fed, we are then to feed those around us by contemplating our own sin, working to support our brothers and sisters in Christ in their…
This ten-week sermon series covers part of the season of Pentecost. This special season revolves around the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the church. In this series, we will see that the Holy Spirit performs many functions. He is the Spirit of truth, the Spirit of unity, the Spirit of love,…
In this seven-week series, we reach the peak of the story of God’s work with his people: the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. But what comes after that? During the weeks spanning the season of Easter, we examine the implications of Jesus’s resurrection, how it impacts those who bear witness to it, and what…
This four-week series challenges students to say yes to Jesus every day by looking at four people from the Bible who said yes to him. As we encounter daily opportunities to say yes, we are encouraged to choose wisely and faithfully, making our relationship with Jesus our top priority.
For most people, the new year means a fresh start, but for students, it marks the halfway point in the school year. With just a few short months of school left, students face questions about the end of the year, the summer, and the transition to a new grade or school. Seniors, especially, are facing…
This three-week series exposes the lies behind our consumer-driven culture filled with consumption, desire, and fulfillment. We will examine the virtues of generosity, sacrifice, and contentment found in the Bible.
This three-week series explores what it means that God moved into the neighborhood when Jesus was born. We will learn what gifts we are offered because of Christ’s incarnation and his embodiment of both God and neighbor.
This four-week series digs deep into Psalm 91, exploring God as our refuge and how his presence—a very safe place in times of trouble—is available for believers to run to when they face the storms of life.
This series seeks to persuade students of the trustworthiness of the Bible. By helping them better understand the Bible, they’ll be more equipped to engage it, and more open to trust and apply it to their daily lives.
This youth series is anchored in Philippians 2:12, where Paul tells the Philippians to “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.” The series will help students understand what it means for Christians to work out their salvation, while emphasizing that we work from our salvation and not for our salvation. We’ll explore four…