Welcome
Use this bundle to open your service with a warm welcome.Included in the bundle is an announcement slide, bulletin graphic, Facebook cover photo, postcard graphic, and several other multi-purpose layouts.
Welcome
Use this bundle to welcome guests and members to your services this fall.
Thanksgiving Food Drive
Use this bundle to promote your Thanksgiving Food Drive.
“I’m Stuffed”
Leadership involves sacrifice. This scene from the movie Cinderella Man shows what personal sacrifice looks like and how, sometimes when you are leading, you have to lead by example: https://www.wingclips.com/movie-clips/cinderella-man/im-stuffed.
Welcome Bundle
Use this graphics bundle throughout your service. Four slides are included: Welcome Announcements Offering See You Next Week
Welcome Bundle
Use this graphics bundle throughout your service. Four slides are included: Welcome Announcements Offering See You Next Week
Welcome Bundle
Use this graphics bundle throughout your service. Four slides are included: Welcome Announcements Offering See You Next Week
Welcome Bundle
This bundle includes everything you need for your service transitions, including welcome, announcements, offering, and dismissal.
The Book of II Corinthians
2 Corinthians is one of Paul’s more difficult writings to outline, the theme of reconciliation arises throughout. This six-week series uses the theme of reconciliation as a lens through which to view the letter. The call of God both to Paul and us is to be people who live out the ministry of reconciliation. The…
Generosity & Weightlifting
Practicing generosity is like weightlifting. If you start lifting thirty-pound reps (roughly one-third of your body weight when you’re still one hundred pounds), you are going to have a much easier time lifting larger and larger weights as time progresses. If you wait until you make it close to three hundred pounds without working out,…
Generosity
Use this special Christmas bundle to share opportunities to be generous this holiday season.
Giving
Use this holiday-themed bundle to share giving opportunities with your congregation.
All Eyes On Me
Have you ever tried to draw attention to yourself? Like a child who acts out in order to get attention from their parents, or maybe a teenager who really wants to impress someone,
Crabs In A Bucket
If you ever see a bucket full of crabs, you’ll see the crabs continually try to get themselves out of the bucket by crawling on top of each other and pulling each other down.
The Content Life
This three-week series explores what it means to appreciate God’s goodness. Gratitude helps protect us from living a life of selfishness, gluttony, or pride while enabling us to see the beauty in what God brings to us. When we offer thankfulness to God for his work in our lives, it allows us to better find…
Thanks and Giving
This three-week Thanksgiving series addresses how we can develop a heart of gratitude to God, which in turn leads to generous giving. Thankfulness is not an occasional act but a lifestyle of intentional and spontaneous appreciation that leads us into the presence of God, empowers us to be grateful in all circumstances, and generates an…
Denying Our Desires
In 1986, Alan and Eric Barnhart started a crane-and-rigging company. They viewed their company as God’s company, though, and decided to cap their income at the same level as the average middle-class families in their hometown, Memphis, so they could give their money to causes that advanced God’s kingdom.
A Generous Life
This four-week series takes an uplifting look at the topic of giving, showing the blessing to be found in a consciously generous life, one which imitates the generosity of God himself. Biblical generosity seeks to please God rather than seeking human reward or acclaim. A giving life is one that does not compare giftedness or…
Re-Gifting
Have you ever received a gift and thought to yourself, How much effort went into this? Sometimes we receive gifts we don’t really like. Some of those gifts we end up regifting to others. In fact, US News & World Report did an article about dos and don’ts of regifting.
Homecoming
In No Wonder They Call Him Savior, Max Lucado shares a story about a woman seeking her lost daughter: “Longing to leave her poor Brazilian neighborhood, Christina wanted to see the world.
The Vigilante Pastor
The documentary Almost Holy covers the work of Gennadiy, who calls himself “Pastor Crocodile.” His mission is to take homeless and drug-addicted children off the streets of Ukraine to rehabilitate them, however, he draws controversy because of his vigilante methods.
The Prodigal Returns
A recent episode of the podcast Invisibilia covered a story of how one small Danish town responded to young Muslim men leaving to go join ISIS in Syria. Instead of condemning the young men and describing them as terrorists, two police officers declared that they were welcome to come back and when they did, they…
Living In Community
One episode of the podcast Invisibilia highlighted the efficacy of community-based treatment for mental illness. In Geel, Belgium, families have “fostered” those with mental illness for centuries.
Falling Into Trust
Trust falls are an important way to build confidence between two people. See this awkwardly humorous video about trustfalls:
The Visitor
The Visitor is a film about a withdrawn professor getting tangled up in the lives of two undocumented immigrants.
We Are the Church
This three-week series has a compact theme: what is the purpose of the local church? By calling out the selfish deceitfulness of consumerism, this sermon set defines what church is supposed to be, and declares what it is not. The church is a place to serve, to be connected, and to live on mission for…
Take Down The Flag
In the 2016 Southern Baptist Convention, Southern Baptists passed a resolution calling for Christians to stop displaying the Confederate Flag so as to be sensitive to brothers and sisters of color and to bring further unity to the Body of Christ.
Talk Is: Putting Words Into Action
This two-week series is a brief reminder for students to reflect God’s glory by acting on the faith they profess. Honoring the Lord with our hearts, minds, and words is only the first step in our journey. Real faith moves us toward loving and compassionate acts that change the world around us.
What’s So Dangerous About Grace?
In an interview with Christianity Today, John M.G. Barclay speaks about Paul’s view of grace in his book, Paul and the Gift. When asked, “You argue that Paul’s view of grace is bizarre and unsettling, even ‘dangerous.’
A Generous Gift
Hattie May Wiatt was a little girl who lived in Philadelphia in the late 19th She died and left her life savings of $0.57 to Grace Baptist Church so they could build a bigger building for the children’s Sunday school.
The Essence Of God
“The same writer of John 3:16 says in 1 John 4:8, “God is love.” Which I take to mean at least this: giving what’s good and serving the benefit of others is closer to the essence of God than getting and being served. God is without needs. God inclines to meet needs. God is a…
A Song Lived Out
The hymn “Take My Life and Let It Be” contains the line “Take my silver and my gold; not a mite would I withhold.” The lyric author, Frances B. Havergal, was a renowned musician and poet.
A United Church
In an article for The Reformed African American Network, Dr. Jarvis Williams explains that unity in the church must be centered around Christ. He writes, “Often, Christians wonder why certain people refuse to trust in Jesus by faith.
A Poured Out Life
In an article titled “When Wasting Your Life Is Worship,” Jon Bloom compares how Mary and Judas each responded to Jesus in John 12. In our lives, we have to either choose the Pearl (earthly wealth; Matthew 13:45) or the puddle (a life of sacrifice for God).
10 Tips to Sustain Giving During the Summer Slump
Every year, churches like yours face a depressing dip in attendance and giving during the summer months. For many, the “summer slump” has become an accepted part of the church calendar—but it doesn’t have to be. With a little help, your church can turn those seasonal trends around! The 10 Tips to Sustain Giving During…
First Fruits
This three-week series examines the significance of being a good steward of the resources God provides to us, and of the willingness to offer him our best. We follow Christ’s example when we use our money to serve God, rather than serving our money.
