The Bible: Prioritizing God’s Word In Our Lives

4 Weeks

Big Idea of the Series

God’s Word reveals who God is and his purposes for believers, but we often struggle to engage with Scripture in a meaningful way. This four-week series, used in conjunction with Dwell, a Scripture-listening app (https://dwellapp.io/), helps modern disciples prioritize God’s Word in their lives. By using Dwell’s daily Bible reading plans, special features like Dwell Mode, and playlists curated specifically for your church community, interacting with Scripture becomes more than just another item on the to-do list. Focusing on practical disciplines like consistency, memorization, meditation, and group study, this series helps believers be informed and transformed by God’s Word.

Dwell has created a four-week (five days a week) scripture playlist for pastors to offer to their congregants during this series. Each day features a different text that works in conjunction with the prior week’s message. The playlist can be found here: https://dwellapp.io/C+2IYK (desktop link); https://dwellapp.io/link/abiding (mobile link).

Simultaneously, pastors can offer their entire church a Dwell membership for free with a free church account trial: https://dwellapp.io/churches.

What is the Series Guide?

Included in each guide is:

A sermon series outline that breaks up the teaching set into a specific number of weeks.
A "big idea" of the series.
A passage, "big idea" of the sermon, topic list, and a number of illustrations and talking point ideas are included in each weekly section. The "Sermon Ideas and Talking Points" area is filled with observations about the text, relevant applications, creative ideas, and illustrations.
A small group discussion (located in a separate document in this bundle).

What is the Series Guide Not?

This guide isn't a set of sermon manuscripts. While sermon manuscripts can be both useful and a powerful training tool, our sermon series guides are different. Rather than tell you what to say, our aim is for this material to spark your imagination, assist you in planning your sermon, and offer a boost to your study time.
This guide isn't ironclad. While we hope you use our material, the pieces of this document are designed to be moved, tweaked, and altered. As you study the suggested passages, and pray through your message, this guide will hopefully be a launching pad, rather than a landing net.

How Do I Use this Series Guide?

Plan ahead. Our guides are best utilized in advance versus the day or night before. Read over the ideas and illustrations provided, thinking through how you can possibly utilize them in your message. We've purposely kept our guides simple so as to give you the best opportunity to create your own, unique message.
While we give you a passage and "big idea" of the message, take time to study the text.
Utilize the media contained in this bundle to promote and communicate your series message.