A Safe Place
A Safe Place

This four-week series digs deep into Psalm 91, exploring God as our refuge and how his presence—a very safe place in times of trouble—is available for believers to run to when they face the storms of life.

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Can I Trust The Bible?
Can I Trust The Bible?

This series seeks to persuade students of the trustworthiness of the Bible. By helping them better understand the Bible, they’ll be more equipped to engage it, and more open to trust and apply it to their daily lives.

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Working It Out
Working It Out

This youth series is anchored in Philippians 2:12, where Paul tells the Philippians to “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.” The series will help students understand what it means for Christians to work out their salvation, while emphasizing that we work from our salvation and not for our salvation. We’ll explore four…

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Homecoming
Homecoming

This two-part sermon series for youth looks at the parable of the prodigal son. The first week examines God’s love for those who repent and come back to him. The second week examines how we respond to God’s unconditional love toward others.

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Grown-Ups
Grown-Ups

Parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles love to give advice. “Back in my day…” they begin, and often we close our ears. This four-week series explores some commonly heard wisdom from the grown-ups in our lives, along with their foundation in biblical truth. What if the generations before us have some things to teach us? What…

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Let It Go
Let It Go

While the new year is typically about adding new things—new goals, new habits, and new routines—this series challenges us to let go. To let go of things that weigh us down, regrets that hold us back, and harmful mindsets that are based on lies instead of on God’s truth.

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Awesome God
Awesome God

This four-week series shows us how extraordinary God is and why he deserves not only our praise but also our utmost respect. This series asks: What does it mean that God is holy? What does God’s holiness say about his character? How can we come close to a holy God?

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Following Jesus
Following Jesus

This four-part series challenges us to follow the example of Jesus. To do so, we must learn to recognize and practice the spiritual disciplines Jesus practiced. Each week focuses on a different discipline from the life of Jesus.

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The Gift Of Easter
The Gift Of Easter

This Easter sermon is anchored in Paul’s words about the wages of sin and helps us understand how Christ’s life, death, and resurrection have provided the incredible gift that he purchased and prepared for us.

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Better Than a Fairytale: The Story of Esther
Better Than a Fairytale: The Story of Esther

This four-week series explores the story of Esther. Through understanding the book’s backstory and context, we can see that the story is not a fairy tale but an understanding of how God can work behind the scenes with imperfect people in a hostile environment.

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You Belong
You Belong

This four-week series looks at the great invitation of the gospel: to become part of God’s family and grow in our faith. Over the course of this series, students will learn why it’s important to grow in their relationship with God and why we are told to go and proclaim the good news to others.

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A Safe Place
A Safe Place

This four-week uses Psalm 91 to show us how God serves as our refuge and how his presence—a very safe place in times of trouble—offers believers a place of safety and comfort when a situation feels overwhelming.

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A Full Heart
A Full Heart

In anticipation of the Christmas season of feasting, this four-week series examines the idea of food in relationship to the Christian walk. The Bible teaches us to hunger after the things of God and to taste and see that God is good. By examining key verses, we will see the connection between physical food and spiritual…

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Christmas Light
Christmas Light

This four-week series examines the deeper meaning behind the Advent season, using Isaiah 9 as a foundation for this year’s celebration. Sometimes called the “little Lent,” Advent is the anticipation and celebration of the arrival of Christ. It’s a season that is meant to draw our attention once again to Christ and keep him at…

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Our Father
Our Father

This five-week series for students walks us through the Lord’s Prayer and invites us into a deeper relationship with our heavenly Father. This prayer guides our prayer practice by acknowledging God’s holiness, participating in his kingdom and will, trusting him to be our provider, asking for and accepting forgiveness, and trusting him to lead us…

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Sharing Good News
Sharing Good News

This four-week series examines the idea of being witnesses for Christ. Acts 1 calls all believers to witness and testify about the good news of Christ. As we study this chapter and others, we’ll learn how to live as witnesses for Christ every day in our normal activities and interactions with others through the power…

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Summer Vacation
Summer Vacation

This six-week series takes summer vacation themes and asks what we might learn about God from them. We will look at nature, frustrating vacation moments, and habits that show us more of God and how we are formed in his image.

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Christmas Together
Christmas Together

This series shows us how Christmas and the gospel can bring us together and how a focus on Christ through the holidays can inform our attitudes and actions toward others.

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Light of the World
Light of the World

This four-week Christmas series emphasizes how Jesus offers us a chance to exchange the darkness in our lives for light. The series begins by looking at the incarnation of Jesus as the revelation of God’s light. It ends by calling believers to fulfill the mission of God and carry the message of the gospel to…

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The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Greatest Story Ever Told

This Christmas sermon looks at the cosmic Christmas story told in Revelation 12. It challenges the audience to reframe the meaning of Jesus’s birth within the cosmic worldview of the Bible. Jesus’s birth was an attack against the powers of Satan.

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The Prince of Peace
The Prince of Peace

This four-week Advent series looks at the one Isaiah describes as the “Prince of Peace.” What does it mean that Jesus is the Prince of Peace and how is that relevant in today’s world?

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Make Room: An Advent Series
Make Room: An Advent Series

This four-week series examines the Advent season and the idea of making room. We must make room for Christ and the hope he has given, make room for others whom God loves and has given peace to, make room for seekers like the Magi who found Jesus, and make room for enemies since God showed love…

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Son of Heaven: The Incarnation of Jesus
Son of Heaven: The Incarnation of Jesus

The Son of God came to us from heaven as a child, and the world has never been the same. This four-sermon series seeks to help us better understand the incarnation, giving us both theological explanation and devotional inspiration to help us grow in knowledge and faith in Jesus.

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O Come, O Come Emmanuel
O Come, O Come Emmanuel

This Advent sermon series helps us imagine the longing the Israelites felt as they waited for Jesus the Messiah to come, and it helps us to grapple with the longing we feel now as we wait for his return.

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Dining With Jesus
Dining With Jesus

This series follows Jesus to the different meals he shared with people throughout his earthly ministry. He ate with sinners and saints, teaching, loving, and extending grace from table to table.

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Halo: Pursuing Holiness & Humility
Halo: Pursuing Holiness & Humility

This four-week series explores the meaning of true holiness and compares it to what our culture tends to think holiness means. Halos are symbols of holiness typically reserved for art, but symbols of perceived holiness are plentiful in our culture, whether it’s halos of religious acts, good works, political affiliation, or personal pride. We will…

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Searching: What We’re Seeking When We Scroll
Searching: What We’re Seeking When We Scroll

This five-week series for youth shines a light on some of the motivations behind our overuse of digital devices and social media. Are we searching for meaning, connection, validation, escape, or maybe something else? This series reminds the believer that a lot of what we’re seeking online we already have in Christ.

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Thanking Through It
Thanking Through It

Gratitude comes easily when things are going well, but how do we manage to be content during hard or lean times? This four-week series examines the intersection of Scripture, mindfulness, and gratitude, showing the importance of being able to thank God regardless of what you are going through.

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The First and The Last
The First and The Last

This stand-alone message looks at Jesus’s parable of the vineyard workers in Matthew 20. The message examines what the parable teaches us about God’s heart, human hearts, and the priorities of the kingdom of heaven.

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The First and the Last
The First and the Last

This stand-alone message looks at Jesus’s parable of the vineyard workers in Matthew 20. The message examines what the parable teaches us about God’s heart, human hearts, and the priorities of the kingdom of heaven.

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The Way of Gratitude
The Way of Gratitude

This four-week series examines the way of gratitude that we see in Scripture. Looking at the Old and New Testaments we find that gratitude is to be part of our relationship with God, that gratitude is a corporate and communal exercise, that even in times of suffering we can still be thankful for God, and that…

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I Give Thanks
I Give Thanks

This series looks at the thanksgiving prayers in Paul’s epistles and uses four different points of thanks that Paul offers to God as a way to help inspire gratitude and praise in our hearts as we enter the Thanksgiving and holiday season.

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More Than Enough
More Than Enough

This one-week series explores the theological and practical implications of the riches and spiritual blessings that Paul describes in Ephesians. By understanding the context of the term blessing in biblical themes, we can rediscover the Christian view of riches and blessings in the life of the Spirit, beyond our expectation, and in the fullness of our inheritance in Christ.

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Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving

This series looks at the thanksgiving prayers in Paul’s epistles and uses four different points of thanks that Paul offers to God as a way to help inspire gratitude and praise in our hearts as we enter the Thanksgiving and holiday season.

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