Back To The 90s
This youth series uses four psalms from “the 90s”—Psalms 91, 94, 95, and 99—to meditate on the attributes of God: his protection, justice, kingship, and holiness.
Second Chances: Grace Upon Grace
This stand-alone sermon for the New Year grounds the hearers in the firmest footing for the future: the grace of God that brings salvation to everyone and gives us the ability to grow in faith and holiness.
Overwhelmed
This four-week series helps teens consider anxiety and depression in a biblical way and equips them in how to get help for the struggles they face. Each week of this guide looks at a different priority and/or habit to help root students to Jesus and his church when they feel overwhelmed. Additionally, each has an…
Help My Unbelief
This four-week series examines doubt in the life of a Christian. The experiences of biblical characters show us that doubt pushes believers toward a deeper understanding of faith. God desires that we walk with him in our seasons of doubt.
We Shall Overcome: Through Many Dangers, Toils, and Snares
This four-week series points the church to God’s grace during hardship. Chronicling tribulations in church history, we will see that our problems today are not unique to us. Like the saints of the past, we are invited to focus our eyes on God’s promises, his Word, and his faithfulness—and the certainty that we too shall…
Blockbusters: Living God’s Story
This four-week series uses Scripture and scenes from blockbuster movies over the last few decades to remind us that we all play an important part in the story of God’s plan of salvation for the world. Whether through public demonstrations of our faith, or creating a place of belonging for the lost, we are called…
Ten: A Look at God’s Unwavering Commands
This ten-week series looks at the Ten Commandments that God has given to all who love him. As we look each week at a different commandment, we see how there is a corresponding passage in the New Testament; this will remind us that God’s way of living for us is still valid and relevant today.
Help My Unbelief
This four-week series examines doubt in the life of a Christian. The experiences of biblical characters show us that doubt pushes believers toward a deeper understanding of faith. God desires that we walk with him in our seasons of doubt.
Second Chances: New Year, New Opportunities
This stand-alone sermon for the New Year gives kids a firm foundation to build on in the year ahead: the grace of God that brings salvation to everyone and gives us the ability to grow in faith and holiness.
Easter Sunday
This stand-alone message emphasizes the confidence believers and seekers can have in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Satisfied
Thanksgiving is a time of reflecting on what one has and giving thanks. Yet sometimes our habit is to compare ourselves with others and become fixated on what we don’t have. Jesus calls his followers to a radical commitment to satisfaction and contentment with what we have.
Hindsight: Looking Back to Move Forward
This one-week, end-of-the-year series leads us to reflect on all that God has done over the last twelve months. We will remember God’s work in our community, as well as how we have responded to him in baptism, discipleship, and more.
Sucker For Love
This four-week series for teenagers examines Christian discipleship through the lens of romance, love, and dating. Rather than prescribing a set way to date, it will emphasize character traits, issues around sexuality and attraction, and how we can live as Christians in a “sexually liberated” world.
Easter Sunday
This stand-alone message emphasizes that we can trust God’s promise that everyone who believes in Jesus will have eternal life.
Looking Back, Looking Forward: A Year of God’s Faithfulness
This one-week, end-of-the-year series leads us to reflect on all that God has done over the last twelve months. We will remember God’s work in our community, as well as how we have responded to him in baptism, discipleship, and more.
Exiles: The Power of Repentance
Returning to God in worship can be challenging. The weight of having been absent and the struggle to make sure it is done right is palpable. When the Hebrew people returned from exile, they had to relearn how to worship God as he expected. This five-week series will take passages from the postexilic period that…
The Characters of Christmas
This four-week series will look at different characters in the Christmas story to see how the birth of Jesus was good news of great joy for all of them, whether an elderly couple like Zechariah and Elizabeth, a poor young couple like Joseph and Mary, the marginalized shepherds, or even cosmic beings (angels).
You’ve Got A Friend In Me
This four-week series looks at the theme of hospitality through Scripture. Through biblical exposition and practical tips, children will be able to experience and live out the hospitality of God.
Grow In Grace: A Study in 2 Peter
The body of Christ, the church, must be diligent in recognizing false teachers and doctrine while trusting the Scriptures and recognizing true ministers of the Word. By learning to recognize false teachers, Christians will also be able to identify those who teach truth and by living into that truth they can grow in the grace…
Generous Grace
This four-week series for children, grounded in the book of 2 Peter, focuses on holding on to what is true and setting aside what is false. As members of the body of Christ, the church, we must learn how to distinguish false teachers and teachings from those who correctly teach what the Bible says. When…
Strange Encounters: Examining Puzzling Aspects of Scripture
This four-week series looks at some of the more bizarre passages in the Bible—the ones that make us think, “What on earth?” Along the way, we’ll see how even the strangest parts of the Bible reveal God’s nature to us and encourage and strengthen our faith.
Advent
This four-week series will focus on how the arrival of Jesus answers our deepest longings in life: our longing for Jesus to come anew into our lives (hope); his arrival in Bethlehem answering our longing for God to move in our lives (joy); our longing for a Savior (peace); and finally, the return of Jesus…
Adulting: How to Become a Responsible Adult
This four-week series challenges listeners to rise to the occasion of growing up to fit the crown God has for them as godly, virtuous adults. We can become godly adults by building a solid foundation as we learn to prioritize what God cares about, get our focus off of ourselves as we practice caring for…
Convictions: What We Believe
Do Christians have nonnegotiable beliefs, and if so, what are they? This eight-week series looks at eight key topics in evangelical theology that all Christians agree about. Our faith will be challenged as we ask ourselves, “When it comes to my beliefs, what is important and why?”
Resurrection Sunday
Christ the Lord is risen! Christ’s death and resurrection has freed us from sin and condemnation, and we are called in this freedom to live in the light of his resurrection glory.
All I Want For Christmas
During the Christmas season, we often think first of what we want to receive. This three-week youth series encourages believers to instead live a life of generosity and love because of the gift of Jesus Christ.
Rethrone
Within certain segments of popular culture, it’s become “cool” to follow Jesus. A slew of recent celebrity conversions—Justin Bieber and Kanye West, to name a few—as well as the ever-growing popularity of some young pastors, have turned Christianity into a hot topic these days. But faith in Christ is more than something on trend: it’s…
I’ll Do It Tomorrow
This four-week series explores the difficulties of change in the Christian life. Through understanding procrastination, sanctification, and the power of cultivating spiritual habits, we see the life-giving process of change in the Christian life.
The Greatest Month of Generosity Ever
This four-week series examines the biblical understanding of generosity. By looking at the character of God, the good Samaritan, the widow’s offering, and Paul’s encouragement to give generously, we will see that God wants us to be generous in all areas of our life.
Open House: Hospitality in the Bible
This four-week series looks at the theme of hospitality through Scripture. Through biblical exposition and practical tips, congregants will be able to experience and live out the hospitality of God.
The Characters of Christmas
This four-week series examines the different characters in the Christmas story to see how the birth of Jesus was good news of great joy for all of them—whether an elderly couple like Zechariah and Elizabeth, a poor young couple like Joseph and Mary, the marginalized shepherds, or even cosmic beings (angels).
Trust & Obey
As we seek to trust and obey Christ, we will discover that obedience often means suffering and even persecution. Using the biblical context of Peter’s message to the diaspora of persecuted believers in his first epistle, we will learn how to suffer well amid obedience and faithfulness. Following from Peter’s counsel to early believers, this…
Disillusioned: What To Do When We Doubt
This four-week series examines doubt in the life of a Christian. The experiences of biblical characters show us that doubt pushes believers toward a deeper understanding of faith. God desires that we walk with him in our seasons of doubt.
Counter-Culture
This four-week series for youth examines several ways Jesus calls his people to be counter to the culture so that they can ultimately love it well. Jesus does not call us to simply oppose the culture or to blindly assimilate to it but rather to be a loving counterculture in the midst of it—a community…
Proclaim: The Gospel Has Come
This seven-week series examines seven sermons in the book of Acts. What did the early church’s first proclamations of Jesus look like? We will discover in them a consistent message of sin, grace, and salvation in the name of Jesus.
Trust And Obey
As we seek to trust and obey Christ, we will discover that obeying God sometimes means we will experience being made fun of, bullied, or even persecuted because of our faith in Jesus. Using the biblical context of Peter’s message to the displaced and persecuted believers in his first epistle, we will learn how to…
