It can be easy to feel like you’re not enough in this world. To fit in or be accepted, you need to be smart, funny, fashionable, rich, popular, or athletic. But the beauty of the gospel is that Christ loves us as we are. This four-week youth study reminds youth that they are loved right…
This four-week series explores how we can live a life led by the Holy Spirit—both in a general sense and in specific choices. We will come to better understand the role of the Spirit in our lives and in the church based on how Jesus talks about the third person of the Trinity. This series…
In this four-week series, we explore how Jesus teaches us to pray. Prayer is simply talking to God and also making time and space to let God talk to us. Prayer is a back-and-forth continual conversation with God. It comes out of a relationship of intimacy that happens in a secret place void of distractions….
Our identities are formed and fortified as we spend time with God. We are compelled to act in response to meeting God. This four-week series connects our experience of beholding God with how he changes us.
Our emotions are “more than a feeling.” They often tie back to what we love. In this four-week series we will explore how our anger, apathy, grief, and joy can work as barometers of health in our relationship with God. Our emotions shouldn’t tell us where to go—Scripture does that—but they can help us realize…
This series highlights four of the ordinances of the church (baptism, communion, confession, worship). While these are practiced many ways in the church due to different doctrinal viewpoints, this four-week series focuses on how they apply in terms of congregational community and what roles they play in corporate worship.
This four-week series explores the role of spiritual gifts in the church and in believers’ lives. Looking at what gifts are for and how they’re used, this series will help believers gain a more holistic view of spiritual gifts.
Our identities are formed and fortified as we spend time with God. We are compelled to act in response to meeting God. This four-week series connects our experience of beholding God with how he changes us.
This four-week series highlights kneeling, dancing, and raised hands as common postures of prayer that believers should be comfortable using when communicating with or worshiping God. Youth should be able to learn and understand why physical postures during their worship experience are a vital part of the Christian life, and how to overcome the fear…
This four-week series explores the role of spiritual gifts in the church and in believers’ lives. Looking at what gifts are for and how they’re used, “Gifted” will help believers gain a more holistic view of spiritual gifts.
This four-week series uses illustrations from the natural world and the impending new life seen in spring as reminders that Jesus offers us new life, hope, and a trustworthy plan. While we watch winter fading away and spring beginning to unfurl, we can remember that Jesus’s resurrection is our sure and certain reason for hope,…
This series highlights four of the ordinances of the church (baptism, communion, confession, worship). While these are practiced many ways in the church due to different doctrinal viewpoints, this four-week series focuses on how they apply in terms of congregational community and what roles they play in corporate worship.
This series is a four-week journey through the book of Romans. This Pauline epistle encompasses a vast amount of foundational theological truths for the Christian life. The series is bird’s-eye view from thirty-thousand feet, describing the sinfulness of humanity, the atoning work of Christ, the transforming power of the Spirit, and the new ethic for…
Throughout Scripture, fatherly metaphors are used to describe the relationship of God to believers. This series meditates on God as Father. What does the fatherhood of God mean to us as believers, in light of the brokenness we often experience with our earthly fathers?
Bad religion is something that plagued God’s people throughout the Bible. Leaning on the words of the prophets, Jesus’s encounters with religious leaders, and James’s practical definition of religion, this four-week series examines how the Bible deals directly with hypocrisy. By learning common ways we get in the way of God’s purposes, we can also…
This ten-week series examines a number of unique passages in the book Luke, helping us to better understand Jesus’ work and ministry. We’ll learn how the nativity teaches us to expect the unexpected with God. We’ll see the centrality of prayer in the life and ministry of Jesus, the special place for women among his…
This ten-week series examines a number of unique passages in the book Luke, helping us to better understand Jesus’ work and ministry. We’ll learn how the nativity teaches us to expect the unexpected with God. We’ll see the centrality of prayer in the life and ministry of Jesus, the special place for women among his…
The Scriptures paint a picture of God’s ongoing work from creation up to the birth of the church. As we read, we realize that the Old and New Testaments speak to one another about what God is doing in the world. This four-week series will show the connection between the Old and New Testaments in…
This six-week series explores the highs and lows of Jacob in Genesis. Through Jacob’s birth, family conflict, and relationship with God, we see God’s redemptive plan on the move. God transforms Jacob from a deceptive young man into Israel: the one who wrestles with God.
This four-week series uses the fruit of the Spirit as a test for spiritual maturity and potential growth. When looked at as a cohesive list, the fruit of the Spirit describe Jesus himself. And as one star forms an even more majestic picture with other stars in a constellation, so the spiritual fruits listed in…
This stand-alone Easter message reminds us that Jesus’s resurrection is the basis of our belief that death does not have the final say. Because Jesus is raised to life, we will also be raised to life.
This stand-alone Easter message reminds us that Jesus’s resurrection is the basis of our belief that death does not have the final say. Because Jesus is raised to life, we will also be raised to life.
This stand-alone message for Resurrection Sunday unpacks and drives home Jesus’s claim (and the evidence for it): “I am the resurrection and the life.”
All families fight. But do Christian families fight fair? This four-week series will look at weaknesses that often show up when families experience conflict, and then offer the Bible’s guidance about how we should approach and handle our disagreements.
The story of Jesus’s path to the cross is important for all people to consider—especially followers of Christ. This series, for use leading up to Easter, is framed around roads Jesus took en route to Calvary. Each road points to the essential purpose of Jesus’s journey and what we must learn from it in order…
The death and resurrection of Christ is one of the most well-known stories in history—for Christians and non-Christians alike. But can we still depend on a promise that was made over two thousand years ago? This standalone youth message focuses on the promise the resurrection holds for believers today.
This four-week series investigates our potential, still today in the twenty-first century, to commit idolatry. Idols are not just statues but are strongholds in our lives that are pulling us away from God.
This stand-alone Easter message reminds us that Jesus’s resurrection is the basis of our belief that death does not have the final say. Because Jesus is raised to life, we will also be raised to life.
Looking at the story of the Emmaus road, this message shows how the resurrection of Jesus brings clarity to the Scriptures and to our lives.
Unity is essential for the church, as the body of Christ, to succeed in preaching the gospel to a lost world. The Western world is filled with fragmentation, most notably due to the Enlightenment ideal of individualism. By contrast, the church is meant to be a place where unity is encouraged and lived out, a…
This four-week series uses the fruit of the Spirit as a test for spiritual maturity and potential growth. When looked at as a cohesive list, the fruit of the Spirit describe Jesus himself. And as one star forms an even more majestic picture with other stars in a constellation, so the spiritual fruits listed in…
In this three-week series, we examine the temptation of Jesus as recorded in the Gospel of Luke. We’ll gain a better understanding of what it means to be tempted, what form temptation can take, and how to respond like Jesus did when we encounter temptation.
This stand-alone Easter message reminds us that Jesus’s resurrection is the basis of our belief that death does not have the final say. Because Jesus is raised to life, we will also be raised to life.
This stand-alone Easter message reminds us that Jesus’s resurrection is the basis of our belief that death does not have the final say. Because Jesus is raised to life, we will also be raised to life.
We live in a world of ongoing conflict and unrest. All around us are signs of the reality that so many live in a state of fear—or worse, hopelessness. Many centuries ago, John, the author of Revelation, penned a letter to seven churches. In it, he reminded them that Jesus’s death and resurrection had brought…
Looking at the story of the Emmaus road, this message shows how the resurrection of Jesus brings clarity to the Scriptures and to our lives.
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