Technology is a tool. Like all tools, it can be used to harm or to help. It’s up to us to decide what role it plays in our lives. This four-week series emphasizes the importance of discipleship in the life of a Christian and helps equip believers to engage in discipleship in our digital age.
This four-week series helps Christians answer the question “Am I called?” with a resounding “Yes!” By exploring the primary calling of all Christ-followers, we’ll see that we are all called to follow Jesus and make disciples.
This series explores the nature of God’s judgments throughout the Bible and what they reveal about his hatred of evil, his love for his creation, and his great mercy for those who would repent. The sermons highlight the role God’s judgment plays from the beginning of the story (Genesis 3), through the middle (1 Kings…
This four-week series looks at biblical principles that build a strong family and a loving, Christ-centered home. Family life is filled with joyous wins and troubling struggles. Finding stability, safety, and community in Christ allows us to persevere through whatever comes with an enduring hope for ourselves and our families.
This four-week series helps us foster safe spaces for those struggling with mental health and encourages constructive, faith-filled conversations about mental health in the church.
This four-week series examines the Nicene Creed and its development from the Council of Nicaea. Through examining the Jerusalem Council, we see the importance of leaders being led by the Spirit to help clarify issues. We also see the heresy that led to the need for the creed and the importance of affirming the divinity…
This eight-week series encourages us to read 1 Corinthians 13 with the rest of the letter in mind. If we look closely, we will see that each characteristic of love that Paul describes in 1 Corinthians 13 addresses a behavior that he confronts or corrects elsewhere in the epistle. Therefore, this sermon series gives your…
A well-ordered life can lead to a great experience of God’s presence. This four-week series looks at the spiritual disciplines we can practice on a regular basis that can form a trellis on which our faith and spirituality can grow and flourish.
This four-part series is a study of the Greek word koinonia, and seeks to help the congregation understand the word’s use and meaning throughout the New Testament. Each week considers a different use of koinōnia in the New Testament.
This four-week series examines the importance of not just knowing about God but actually knowing God in a relationship. God knows us and fully loves us, even with our faults and struggles. As we continue in our walk with Jesus, we continue to learn and grow in our knowledge and love of God. Yet, this…
The early church was a place of excitement as the Holy Spirit grew new believers in faith. It was also a place where men and women of vastly different backgrounds and experiences endeavored to live together as a household of God. It wasn’t easy then, and it still isn’t easy today. With lessons learned in…
This four-week series examines how we can experience God’s presence every day in his creation, in prayer, through the reading of the Bible and the illumination of the Holy Spirit, and through friendship and Christian community.
In this three-part series, we’ll look at three different layers of belief: how it plays out intellectually, emotionally, and practically in the Christian life. Looking at passages in Proverbs, Colossians, and James, this series endeavors to help your congregation gain a better understanding of how God designed the believer’s mind, heart, and will to interact…
This four-week series takes us back to the Sunday school classroom and reminds us about the basics of our faith. We cover the lessons that are foundational to our faith and provide a strong footing upon which we can be further formed into the image of God.
This four-week series explores the pivotal times of change in the lives of four people in the Bible. We will observe God’s invitation in each of these moments to change and grow in in a deeper relationship with him.
This series celebrates God’s love for all people, God’s inclusive plan of redemption, and the global reach of the gospel. Each week looks at one passage from various parts of God’s plan of salvation (Abraham, Jesus, Paul, and the book of Revelation). By the end of the series, the congregation will find encouragement to receive…
This four-week series looks at the concept of peace. In the New Testament, peace is both a relational and a theological term. What does it mean to be at peace with God, and how is that different from but related to finding inner peace?
This four-week series examines the idea of being unashamed of our faith in Christ. Scripture associates shame with sin; yet God has forgiven our sin in Jesus, and has removed our shame. Paul describes himself as being unashamed of the gospel. But, like Peter, we may sometimes act as if ashamed of Jesus, worried of…
This five-week series points to prayers in God’s Word that can help us when we can’t find our own words. We will observe prayers about transitions, loss, discouragement, sickness, and wavering faith.
This four-week series examines the biblical and theological understanding of God’s providence. Through examining God’s work in creation, the teachings of Jesus and Paul, and the work in the early church, we see that God’s providence relates to his knowledge and his compassion to guide and care for his creation and people.
This four-week series examines Scriptures in which Paul uses running or athletic metaphors to describe the life of faith. Paul uses these metaphors to outline what our lives look like when we run the race of faith. Faith is not a place in which we stand still and everything comes to us. When Jesus calls…
As society’s attitudes toward the church grow dimmer and participation wanes, this four-week series helps us reframe our experience, expectations, and engagement as churchgoers. Scenes from the early church, taken from the book of Acts, challenge us not just to go to church but to be the church.
Life often brings us to the question of meaning and purpose. This four-part series helps us answer the question of our existence through a biblical perspective. By the end of the series, the congregation will be confident in God’s purpose for their lives.
This four-week series applies a biblical perspective to an examination of the importance of the discipline of remembrance. Remembrance connects us to the story of faith and, through this connection, helps our faith grow.
This four-week youth sermon series helps students understand what it means to be salt and light in the world around them. It highlights God’s promise to guide us and the command to be a wise influencer while warning against being too “salty” in a world that is full of snark and anger.
This series invites us to join travelers in the Bible on their journeys across deserts and through wildernesses. Recounting the stories of Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, Philip, and Paul, the next six weeksare designed to help believers glean meaningful lessons from arduous travel across desert sands. This series reminds us that sometimes the journey is…
This eight-week series moves through Deuteronomy—exploring the setting, themes, theology, and enduring relevance of the final book of the Pentateuch. Deuteronomy revolves around a set of sermons that were preached by Moses—the first of a long line of prophets in the Jewish tradition—to the people of Israel in his final days on earth. Thus, this…
This four-week series takes summer vacation themes and asks what we might learn about God from them. We will look at nature, frustrating vacation moments, and habits that show us more of God and how we are formed in his image.
The apostle Paul took three major missionary journeys throughout the Roman Empire. This four-week series will look at each of these trips from a high overview and then in the last week examine the overlapping themes present for each of them as we explore what it means to be a missionary today.
From Coachella to the backyard barbecue, warm weather brings out the celebration in all of us. This five-week series introduces students to some of the significant feasts and festivals in the Bible, starting with the Passover in Exodus and ending with the marriage supper of the Lamb in Revelation. Unlike many of our celebrations, these…
This four-week series uncovers some of the heaviest baggage we carry and invites us to exchange it for the peace Jesus offers. We learn that our luggage is often filled with emotions we might be unaware we feel, but God invites us to release the burdens and trust him to restore our brokenness and help…
This four-week series looks at some misunderstandings of theology and challenges us to break the bad thinking before it breaks us. We will discuss commonly used phrases or assumptions that are not only unbiblical but that turn people away from a welcoming relationship with Christ.
This four-week series looks at Jesus’s lessons on greatness and encourages us to seek opportunities to be “great” in the kingdom by serving, loving, and following the example of our humble King.