Topical Sermon Calendar - Volume 1

Topical Sermon Calendar: Volume 1

A 52-week roadmap through topics like purpose, disappointment, fear, hope, joy and more.

DNA: The Core of the Local Church

This four-week series addresses our DNA in Christ. Our Christ-centered DNA describes the center of who we are as a church. Our mission, values, vision, and strategy for ministry all come from our DNA. We will define this DNA in our love, truth, fellowship, and the transforming power of the Holy Spirit.

Rebrand: Refocusing Our Mission and Purpose

This four-week series addresses one of the most pressing issues for many Christians today: the image problem of the church. Do we need to “rebrand” our ministry for a world that has increasingly negative perceptions of the Christian faith? Or, should our makeover be more than cosmetics? Could our image problem be a love problem? This series explores these ideas by examining the factions in the church at Corinth and contrasting their behavior with the believers in Acts.

Guest Speaker

Use this bundle to welcome and announce a guest speaker sharing in your service. Included in the bundle is an announcement slide, bulletin graphic, Facebook cover photo, postcard graphic, along with several other multi-purpose layouts.

Hidden Figure

This six-week series explores the stories of six women in Jesus’s genealogy and life, revealing the various ways they have been misunderstood or marginalized. Through these stories, we witness the way the biblical narrative was uniquely communicated through their lives and are reminded to listen and learn from other perspectives. Where the culture may have silenced or rejected these women, their inclusion in Jesus’s genealogy or his elevation of them during his life give us a guide for using our influence and power to build up the marginalized in our own story.

Easter Sunday

This one-week series for Easter shows how Jesus’s death and resurrection constitute the most important event in history—an event that requires multiple images to form a full understanding of the hope and life that it offers.

God On Film

This 4-week series is ideal for the summer blockbuster season. With so many big-budget movies hitting theaters this time of year, the people in your congregation and community can’t help but discuss each week’s latest theatrical release. Why? Because films move our imagination and capture our attention like good art does. The films in this guide were chosen to reflect the series topic and passages. “God on Film” contains a singular theme: What is God like? We all like to think we’re the writer and director of our own lives, but we all live under the sovereignty of another power. God is in control of the universe, yet his love and goodness compel him to provide us redemption through Jesus’s death, burial, and resurrection.

Guest Speaker

Serpents And Doves

This five-week series addresses what the Bible says to Christians who want to stand firm in their convictions and engage both with people outside the church and people inside the church who are in need of repentance. When trying to persuade others, we should be motivated by Christ’s love, expect hostility, act with gentleness and respect, and model our approach after biblical examples.

Guest Speaker

Binge-Reading the Bible

This seven-week series focuses on how God reveals his will and desires for humankind through each specific section of the Bible. Each genre, including the Pentateuch, Historical Books, Wisdom Literature, the Prophets, the Gospels, the Epistles, and Apocalyptic Literature, provides a unique and special way God has communicated throughout history and helps us understand the Bible as a whole. This series is a great way to help your people to dig into the library of the Bible, helping them to understand its beauty and relevance for today.

The Letdown

This four-week series deals with the disappointments we face in a broken world full of broken people. Using different passages from the book of Psalms, this series wrestles with issues like personal expectations, relational disappointment, waiting on God, singleness, marriage, abusive relationships, boundaries, and forgiveness. The anthem throughout each week is that even though life is full of trouble, our hope must be fixed on God and his faithfulness. He remains faithful even when those we care about let us down.

Guest Speaker

Haunted House

This four-week series guide considers the ineffectiveness of fear. When we live in fear, we can become a church that is like a haunted house. We become stuck inside with the shutters drawn, haunted by fear that jumps out at any corner. Fear makes the church an inward-focused house rather than an outward-focused sanctuary. We can become dim, dark, and closed off, the opposite of what the church should be. The following guide discusses the purpose of the church, overcoming fear of the unknown, and overcoming fear of pain in order to be effective followers of Christ in the world.

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 contentment in his love and grace.

Guest Speaker

Sounds of the Season

This four-week series provides an opportunity to appreciate the theological expressions of hope, lament, joy, and devotion in Christmas music. Christmas is a time to sing what we believe. Each week features a passage of Scripture, as well as a well-known Christmas carol that illustrates the true message of the season.

The Old You

Designed as an evangelistic series at the close of the year, this sermon explores the new life we have in Christ, in contrast to the old life we possessed in sin.