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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
“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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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….
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.
This four-week series helps us see that faith and science are not at odds. We will discover how the natural world reflects the Creator, and we’ll learn to hold intelligent conversations about both topics.
This series encourages believers to be peaceable, gentle, and loving people in an age of division and rage. Drawing from passages like 1 Peter 3:15–16; Philippians 4:5; Titus 3:2; and James 3:17, this four-week series calls us away from the chaos of sensationalized media, culture wars, and angry echo chambers that divide us and damage…
Jesus marks the time of his betrayal by Judas and arrest by his accusers as the “hour…[of] the power of darkness” (Luke 22:53). This Good Friday message soberingly tells the story of Christ’s passion through the lens of this hour when evil appeared to reign.
This four-week series looks at Jesus’s frequent interactions with the “least of these.” From these interactions, we gain a greater understanding of the heart of God in Christ for his children.
This four-week series takes a deep dive into the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. This meal is something Christians universally agree is important. Why is that? What is significant about this meal, and how does it point us toward Christ?
This six-week series profiles the twelve disciples who followed Jesus. Looking at Peter, Matthew, John, Thomas, Judas, and the Twelve as a whole, this series will remind your congregation what it means to be a disciple of Jesus Christ, encouraging the faithful in your community to persevere in the faith.
This six-week series profiles the twelve disciples who followed Jesus. Looking at Peter, Matthew, John, Thomas, Judas, and the Twelve as a whole, this series will remind your congregation what it means to be a disciple of Jesus Christ, encouraging the faithful in your community to persevere in the faith.
This Easter sermon looks at how Jesus’s crucifixion and resurrection fulfilled his words in John 12:32–33, and also highlights the paradox at play here in the way Christ was lifted up by laying himself down.
This sermon helps us see John 3:16 in a trinitarian light so that we can fully appreciate the true nature of God’s self-giving through his Son. We will consider the benefit of acknowledging the entire Trinity in all our circumstances.
This sermon helps us see John 3:16 in a trinitarian light so that we can fully appreciate the true nature of God’s self-giving through his Son. We will consider the benefit of acknowledging the entire Trinity in all our circumstances.
This Easter sermon seeks to establish the idea that Jesus’s work through the cross was a rescue mission. He didn’t come just to teach, love, or leave a good example to help good people become better. He came to rescue us from death, darkness, and a captivity only he could break.
This Easter sermon helps us see John 3:16 in a trinitarian light, so that we can fully appreciate God’s self-giving through his Son. John 1:1–18 announces Jesus as the Light of the World. John 3:16 summarizes what the Light of the Father was destined to reveal, even before the creation of the world, through the…
This Easter sermon takes John’s account of the disciples who went to see the empty tomb and draws from one disciple’s experience of looking and then looking again at the empty tomb. This sermon invites us to look hard at the fact of Jesus’s resurrection, its invitation, and its implications.
This Easter sermon takes John’s account of the disciples who went to see the empty tomb and draws from one disciple’s experience of looking and then looking again at the empty tomb. This sermon invites us to look hard at the fact of Jesus’s resurrection, its invitation, and its implications.
A placard reading “Jesus, King of the Jews” hung above Christ’s cross. Why was this title chosen, and what does it mean for us? This Easter sermon examines the significance of this title, and the significance of Christ’s death and resurrection.
This four-week Easter series examines Jesus’s repeated references to “his hour” throughout the Gospel of John, following the trail all the way to the cross. These sermons are designed to deepen your congregation’s affection for Christ, as the hour of Jesus is that moment in time when God in Christ reveals his unconditional and unwavering…