This two-week message set helps us understand the important role that mothers and fathers have in teaching their children the gospel. Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are times we can celebrate parents and challenge them to be disciple makers in their homes. Through analyzing Psalm 78, we see that God wants parents to teach and…
This two-week message set helps us understand the important role that mothers and fathers have in teaching their children the gospel. Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are times we can celebrate parents and challenge them to be disciple makers in their homes. Through analyzing Psalm 78, we see that God wants parents to teach and…
Over and over again, the Bible describes God’s love as steadfast. This two-week series is about the fixed and unchanging love of God that pursues the lost and remains sure for the believer through every trial and temptation we face on our journey toward sanctification.
This sermon series spends three weeks reflecting on Psalm 46’s worshipful meditation on God as our refuge. The ESV places a pause (Selah) at the end of Psalm 46:1–3, 4–7, and 8–11, so each week we’ll spend time in one stanza of this worship song. This psalm inspired Martin Luther’s hymn “A Mighty Fortress Is…
This three-week series helps students answer questions about their purpose in life and shows them that true meaning and purpose ultimately come from a relationship with God. Each week we discuss someone who had a life-changing encounter with Jesus, which helped them see how they fit into God’s plan and purpose for the world.
This series challenges us to stop keeping a tally of who owes us, what we think God owes us, and what we deserve. Instead, it invites us to choose to lose count: to lose count of offenses against us and forgive as Christ called us to; to lose count of what our “right hand” has…
This Pentecost Sunday sermon reminds us that God is faithful. We can see that faithfulness first through the prophets and then through Jesus. All through the Scriptures we see the same beautiful truth: that God is faithful to his promises.
This four-week adult series is well suited for preaching leading up to Easter. We’d all like to think we’re nothing like Judas the betrayer, who traded Jesus for thirty pieces of silver. An honest look at our hearts reveals, however, that we all have things we trade for Christ every day. Whether it’s comfort, power,…
This Pentecost Sunday sermon reminds us that God is faithful. We can see that faithfulness first through the prophets and then through Jesus. All through the Scriptures we see the same beautiful truth: that God is faithful to his promises.
This series helps us see the many ways the disciples were like you and me: imperfect. Throughout the Gospels, we see them misunderstand Jesus, vie for power and position, doubt, fear, and fail in many other ways. And yet Jesus uses these disciples to spread his message and build his church. This is great news…
This three-week series connects youth to the popular comeback of “same!” to the unity found in Paul’s words of Ephesians. The series reminds us that although we have different experiences and backgrounds, we can all be part of the unified body of Christ and find commonality among other believers.
When Jesus rose from the dead, he gathered the disciples and gave them a mission to go into the world and be his witnesses. This one-week message shows the disciples taking the message of Jesus’s resurrection into their community, in Acts 1–2.
This three-part series follows Jesus and his disciples after the resurrection. The good news of Jesus’s resurrection isn’t something that we celebrate just one Sunday a year. It is good news that needs to be shared all year. Once we’ve encountered the risen Savior, we are sent to share this message of hope to the…
The first chapter of Ephesians is full of rich language describing God, his redemptive work in the world, and the identity and vocation of his people. This four-week study looks at Paul’s words in that first chapter in order to explore what salvation means after saying yes to Jesus. It shows that our salvation is…
The good news of the resurrection was first experienced by a diverse group of eyewitnesses. These men and women saw that Jesus had risen, and then they quickly shared that news with others. This five-week series will look at five eyewitness accounts of the resurrection of Jesus in the New Testament.
The good news of the resurrection was first experienced by a diverse group of eyewitnesses. These men and women saw that Jesus had risen, and then they quickly shared that news with others. This five-week series will look at five eyewitness accounts of the resurrection of Jesus in the New Testament.
This four-week series looks at some of the lessons taught and the wisdom prescribed in the Bible through animal imagery. The series will cover the wisdom and innocence seen in serpents and doves, the unruly nature of a donkey, the foolishness of a dog returning to its vomit, and the hardworking nature of ants.
It is no exaggeration to say the current era has created a challenging and often uncertain time, for people all over the world. This two-week series focuses on the goodness and faithfulness of God and reminds us that we can be assured that God is taking care of us during times such as these.
This four-week youth series focuses on lesser-known characters in the Bible. The idea of being the “main character” has become sort of a meme these days, and it’s not uncommon to hear someone with a big personality jokingly diagnosed with “main character syndrome.” This series encourages youth to make Christ the center (or main character) of…
Scripture is filled with teaching about money: how to use it, the effect that it has on us, the problems it causes in our communities. Why does money have such a hold on us? How can it end up being so destructive in our relationships, our communities, and our relationship with God? How can we…
Oftentimes, people who have been in church awhile use language that is unfamiliar to new believers and unbelievers. Sometimes, even the Christians who use those words don’t understand their significance. This one-week sermon uses the book of Romans to help us better understand the word ‘justification’, one of those commonly used “church words”.
This Easter sermon series looks at Jesus’s final prayers, his final words on the cross, his final words to his disciples, and the final word of the resurrection over death, hell, and the grave. These final words exhort believers to make disciples, seek unity in Christian community, and to live as people of forgiveness, joy,…
Jesus described himself with powerful “I am” statements throughout the book of John. Each statement reveals him as the source of true fulfillment for every human heart. When Christ says he is the true guide (Light of the World), the source of truth (“the way, and the truth, and the life”), the sustainer of life…
This three-week series reminds us of why relationships matter, and of the wisdom Jesus modeled regarding intentional relationships and welcoming others. Christians can carefully build their circles of friends for the purposes of Christ-centered companionship, as well as befriending others who may need someone to model Jesus’s kindness to them.
This series charts the life of Jesus in a biographical format, highlighting the big events of his life and giving insight into his background, upbringing, and the world he walked in as the Word made flesh. This biography unpacks major themes in his teachings and tells us more about his followers, his death, and his…
This six-week series from the Gospel of John focuses on a block of teaching by Jesus concerning the Christian life and the role of the Holy Spirit in living out our faith. In this series, we will see the relevancy of Jesus’s teaching for our lives today as we seek to be his faithful witnesses…
A visit to a church supplies store or website presents us with a choice of crosses: with corpus or without corpus. For Jesus, there was no choice. His cross was by necessity, with corpus—his own body. Jesus’s body was the means of our salvation, so we’ll explore the meaning of the wounds his body received…
This series charts the life of Jesus in a biographical format, highlighting the big events of his life and giving insight into his background, upbringing, and the world he walked in as the Word made flesh. This biography unpacks major themes in his teachings and tells us more about his followers, his death, and his…
This six-week series from the Gospel of John focuses on a block of teaching by Jesus concerning the Christian life and the role of the Holy Spirit in living out our faith. In this series, we will see the relevancy of Jesus’s teaching for our lives today as we seek to be his faithful witnesses…
This three-week series reminds us of why relationships matter, and of the wisdom Jesus modeled regarding intentional relationships and welcoming others. Christians can carefully build their circles of friends for the purposes of Christ-centered companionship, as well as befriending others who may need someone to model Jesus’s kindness to them.
This four-week Lenten series deals the with the call for repentance. But what is true repentance? Through understanding the severity of sin, the way unrepentant sin affects the Christian walk, and the strength and power that comes through repentance, we can understand the need for true repentance and its integral part in Christian growth.
This four-week series follows Jesus’s suffering, death, and resurrection. His journey seems tragic, especially to his disciples who expected him to defeat Israel’s political enemies and rule victoriously like King David. But Jesus teaches them, and us, that the way to victory is through the cross. What does it mean for us to take up…
This Easter Sunday sermon tells the Easter story from the Gospel of John. John 20 works through the story of several different people as they encounter the resurrected Jesus. The whole chapter is designed to persuade people to believe in Jesus and receive eternal life.
This Easter Sunday sermon tells the Easter story from the Gospel of Matthew, revealing that the resurrected Lord is a living and active presence in the church and world today, calling us to worship and obey him.
Easter Sunday is a time of joy and triumph, but many of us enter the season with doubts and fears that feel inconsistent with the celebration. How does the Easter story address our doubts? How does the resurrection impact our faith? Stories of Jesus’s followers facing doubt after his death can bring us comfort and…