How We Grow: Implementing Spiritual Disciplines
This five-week series invites us to investigate spiritual disciplines and how they help us grow. We will look at guarding, giving, observing, journaling, and participating in a community of believers.
This five-week series invites us to investigate spiritual disciplines and how they help us grow. We will look at guarding, giving, observing, journaling, and participating in a community of believers.
This sermon series for the new year is all about mission. Each week will look at a tenet of biblical Christian mission and how that plays out in the church and in the life of the believer. Use this sermon series to help inspire your congregation to carry on the mission of Jesus Christ in…
Deciding to follow Jesus (or to recommit your life to him) is like a journey. This five-week series starts off the new year by looking at the important elements of a successful journey and then applies that to our walk with Christ.
This series for the new year is all about getting into step with the things the Bible tells us to walk in. We are encouraged to walk in obedience, wisdom, love, and light. What does it mean to live those things out? How do we come to grips with those ideas and make them something…
All year round, but especially as a new year begins, many of us long for a fresh start. Our work, homelife, or hobbies can feel stale. In our relationship with God, we may have fallen into what some have called “practical atheism,” as we believe but fail to live out that belief in our everyday…
Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 3:14–21 is rich with hope for spiritual growth and flourishing through the God who is able to do above and beyond what we could ever ask or think! This sermon series for the new year uses Paul’s prayer to encourage hope in the heart of believers.
God shows us in his Word that he is concerned about our whole and present lives (not just where our souls will be in the hereafter). This three-part series looks at what the Bible says about our whole lives and what it means to be healthy in mind, body, and soul.
This four-week series describes God’s miraculous works in the Bible. Through seeing God’s use of miracles in his plan of redemption throughout Scripture, the miracles of Jesus and of the early church, we can grasp that God is a God who works miracles and we can place our faith in him, no matter what we…
1 John emphasizes God’s loving nature as revealed through Jesus’s death on the cross. This sermon challenges the congregation to recognize God’s love and to strive to reflect that love into the world.
The apostle Paul wrote many letters to different churches. This nine-week series is an overview of Paul’s epistles to these churches. Each week will look at a different letter and provide a summary and themes from that letter.
Several decades ago, there was a phenomenon called WWJD. This stood for “What would Jesus do?” People, especially teenagers, wore bracelets and shirts with the logo. The popularity may have waned, but the importance of the question remains. This four-week series asks WWJD? about contemporary issues.
1 John emphasizes God’s loving nature as revealed through Jesus’s death on the cross. This sermon challenges the congregation to recognize God’s love and to strive to reflect that love into the world.
The apostle Paul wrote many letters to different churches. This nine-week series is an overview of Paul’s epistles to these churches. Each week will look at a different letter and provide a summary and themes from that letter.
As we navigate the increasingly polarizing topic of faith and politics, we take guidance from Jesus as he himself tackled a time of religious and political upheaval. What were the politics of Jesus’ time? How did Jesus interact with governing authorities? When we have fellow believers on opposing sides of the party line, how can…
This four-week series examines biblical examples of evangelism, extracting from them what we need to know about obeying God’s command to share his message with our world. We will look at evangelism with our words, with our actions, with our lifestyle, and with our friendships.
This four-week series is intended to explore the full spectrum of intersections between money and our lives as Christians. Many Christians have heard “tithe 10 percent” and “money is the root of all evil.” But that hardly touches the surface of the impact of our relationship with money on our personal and spiritual lives. How…
As we navigate the increasingly polarizing topic of faith and politics, we take guidance from Jesus as he himself tackled a time of religious and political upheaval. What were the politics of Jesus’ time? How did Jesus interact with governing authorities? When we have fellow believers on opposing sides of the party line, how can…
As we navigate the increasingly polarizing topic of faith and politics, we take guidance from Jesus as he himself tackled a time of religious and political upheaval. What were the politics of Jesus’ time? How did Jesus interact with governing authorities? When we have fellow believers on opposing sides of the party line, how can…
This series looks at four popular psalms. In the vast collection of songs and prayers in the Psalms, there are several that have been popularized in church (and sometimes mainstream culture), such as Psalms 23, 139, and Psalm 121. There are also psalms that were popular with the New Testament writers and made their appearance…
This series explores God’s self-revelation to Moses in Exodus 34:6–7. Each week will examine one of the characteristics by which God describes himself: merciful and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, forgiving sin, judging the guilty.
This three-week series invites us to practice the discipline of healthy rest. Often, we find ourselves mindlessly scrolling on our devices or distracting ourselves in some other way when what we need is permission to rest. We will learn what resting in the presence of Jesus looks like.
The early 2020s have been marked by unexpected events and worldwide phenomena. But even apart from the global mayhem, life is always unpredictable. Life gets busy, people change, cultures change, we change, and it can all be very disorienting. This sermon series brings perspective through God’s Word to settle our hurried, worried, and busied hearts.
This four-week series examines four sayings of Jesus from his Sermon on the Mount. We will unpack Jesus on salt, sin, sharing, and storage.
This seven-week series covers several chapters in the book of Joshua and examines this time of transition within the nation of Israel. Then it considers our own seasons of uncertainty, decision-making, and life change, as well as the grace we can find in Christ. This series will equip teens to engage with the inevitable changes…
The heart of this four-week series is to focus on the power of joy in the life of the believer. It will focus on seeing joy as a gift, having joy when God moves, finding joy when God feels distant, and the way joy changes the hearts of believers working together.
This three-week series emphasizes the call for unity found in Paul’s words of Ephesians. It reminds us that although our unity is rooted in Christ no matter how many different cultures and backgrounds are represented in our community.
The book of Exodus tells the epic story of God’s deliverance of Israel from Egyptian slavery. Though the story revolves around the person of Moses, Exodus is really about the faithfulness of Yahweh, a God who always provides for his people—even amid much grumbling and complaining. The book teaches us that God will not allow…
The book of Exodus tells the epic story of God’s deliverance of Israel from Egyptian slavery. Though the story revolves around the person of Moses, Exodus is really about the faithfulness of Yahweh, a God who always provides for his people—even amid much grumbling and complaining. The book teaches us that God will not allow…
The book of Exodus tells the epic story of God’s deliverance of Israel from Egyptian slavery. Though the story revolves around the person of Moses, Exodus is really about the faithfulness of Yahweh, a God who always provides for his people—even amid much grumbling and complaining. The book teaches us that God will not allow…
The book of Exodus tells the epic story of God’s deliverance of Israel from Egyptian slavery. Though the story revolves around the person of Moses, Exodus is really about the faithfulness of Yahweh, a God who always provides for his people—even amid much grumbling and complaining. The book teaches us that God will not allow…
Matthew’s Gospel is centered on the inauguration of the kingdom of heaven. The message of the kingdom is first championed by John the Baptist, who prepares the way for Jesus Christ, the Messiah of God. In Matthew, we find that the only proper response to the message of the kingdom is repentance, faith, and discipleship….
Matthew’s Gospel is centered on the inauguration of the kingdom of heaven. The message of the kingdom is first championed by John the Baptist, who prepares the way for Jesus Christ, the Messiah of God. In Matthew, we find that the only proper response to the message of the kingdom is repentance, faith, and discipleship….
Matthew’s Gospel is centered on the inauguration of the kingdom of heaven. The message of the kingdom is first championed by John the Baptist, who prepares the way for Jesus Christ, the Messiah of God. In Matthew, we find that the only proper response to the message of the kingdom is repentance, faith, and discipleship….
This two-part series pack provides a series guide for a Mother’s Day message and a Father’s Day message. Each week focuses on the legacy left by a parental figure in the Bible.
This single message, intended for use on Independence Day in the United States, explores the reality that in the resurrection, Christ has made believers free from the bondage of sin and free to live in his fullness.
This four-week series examines meal and food-related passages in Scripture and culminates in a deeper understanding of Jesus’s invitation to “take and eat” the bread and wine as part of our communion practices.