How To Pray When…
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.
Providence
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.
Run the Race
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…
You are the Church
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.
How to Tell People About Jesus
This series helps us understand why we should evangelize, and it also gives us practical applications that show us how we can evangelize.
Kingdom Come: 1 and 2 Thessalonians
This series looks at 1 and 2 Thessalonians to help us understand Paul’s teaching about Christ’s return.
What Was I Made For?
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.
Rhythms of Remembrance
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.
Like Jesus
This series looks at the life and ministry of Jesus and encourages us to love, lead, serve, pray, and more like Jesus as we follow him today.
Salt and Light
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.
Summer in the Sand
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…
Summer Study: The Book of Deuteronomy
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…
Summer Vacation
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.
A Summer’s Journey: Following The Apostle Paul Through His Missionary Journeys
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.
Summer Fest
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…
Summer Baggage
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…
Summer Break: Breaking From Bad Theology
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.
The Greatest Summer Ever
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.
Summer Mixtape
This six-week series is built from one message each from six of the Pauline epistles. Mixtapes are made for specific people and usually carry a specific theme, as do the letters Paul wrote to those he loved. This series touches on the topics of freedom, doing good works, growing in grace and peace, steadfastness, knowing…
Summer Slow Down
This four-week series for youth and adults encourages people to use the summer as an opportunity to slow down and disconnect. The series does not make slowing down an end in itself, but rather, a means to create space for God and others.
Summer Survival Guide
This four-week series helps students prepare for the summer by providing helpful tips for challenges they might face during the summer months such as boredom, loneliness, temptations, and worry about the future. We will look at people form the Bible who faced similar challenges and learn how they handled them with God’s help.
Missed Calls
This four-week series examines the tough reality of missing calls and opportunities in life. As Christians, we might miss out on important calls for a variety of reasons: overlooking opportunities to help others, grasping on to our own desires instead of God’s plan, focusing too much on our own expectations, and just not seizing the…
Picture This
This four-week series examines the biblical, and theological definitions of the words salvation, justice, freedom, and peace. We can interpretate and define these words by our culture and personal experiences, but God wants us to see the important words in his way and not our own.
Forget Not
This series (along with much of Scripture) encourages us to remember what God has said, what God has done, and what it means for us.
Fearless
“Fearless” is a three-week series that looks at the story of Gideon and what it means to have fearless faith. God wanted Gideon to be a man of valor—ruled by peace and marked by courage, rather than being ruled by fear and marked by cowardice. God wants the same for us. This series will demonstrate…
The Parables of Jesus
This four-week series considers a selection of parables from the Gospel of Matthew and emphasizes the importance of leaving a legacy of faith and commitment.
How to Talk to People
This four-week series examines how Christians are to handle conflict and speak to others. The Bible tells us that anger is not sinful but can lead to sin if unresolved conflicts are left to fester. Our conflicts stem from our selfish desires being at odds with others’ desires and with God’s desires. We must learn…
Praise The Lord
This five-week series explores the final five psalms, also known as the closing Hallel, of the book of Psalms. Psalms 146–150 share many commonalities, primary among them the “Praise the Lord” refrain. They also explore various aspects of the praise of God, connecting humanity, creation, and the heavens under the rule and reign of a…
The End Times
This series helps us separate myth from what the Bible actually teaches us about the end times. Focusing mainly on the book of Revelation, we’ll look carefully at John’s visions and the hope they give to believers who wait for the end of this age and the arrival of the age to come.
Face to Face
This four-week series examines the necessity of community, vulnerability, and in-person fellowship among believers. By looking at images used in the Bible to describe communities of believers, we will discover why it is essential to be face-to-face with other believers.
To Know Him
Despite Israel’s unfaithfulness to God’s covenant, God remained faithful in his commitment for his people to intimately know him.
Whatever Is Good
This four-week series takes us through Paul’s words in Philippians 4:6–8. We will be challenged to counteract the temptations toward negativity and anxiety by rejoicing, giving thanks, trusting in God’s protection, and staying focused on God’s character.
Amazing Grace
This four-week series examines theological truths throughout the book of Galatians. Galatians helps us see the importance of the good news beyond being just good advice. It shows how hypocrisy hurts the gospel, that salvation changes how we live, and that true freedom is shown in service to others.
Grace Abounds: The Book of Galatians
This four-week series examines theological truths throughout the book of Galatians. Galatians helps us see the importance of the good news beyond being just good advice. It shows how hypocrisy hurts the gospel, that salvation changes how we live, and that true freedom is shown in service to others.
Memento Mori
This four-week series encourages us to think about death and our mortality seriously and through a Christ-centered mindset. Believers are those who are learning how to die with courage, dignity, and acceptance throughout their lives, being prepared for the moment when they will commit their spirit to God at the end of their earthly existence….
Ordinary People. Extraordinary God.
This six-part series looks at the lives of ordinary people God used in extraordinary ways. By the end of the series, members of the congregation will be confident that God can do great things through them too.
