Topical Sermon Calendar - Volume 2

Topical Sermon Calendar: Volume 2

A 52-week roadmap through topics like community, Lent, faith, pop culture, God and country, Jesus and more.

The Main Thing

This four-week series will help empower listeners to keep Christ and his kingdom the center of daily living. It will challenge the believer to live authentically in the power of Christ’s forgiveness and provision, while providing practical suggestions on how to live that life.

Neighborhood Watch

This series examines our responsibility to our neighbors. The term “neighborhood watch” often evokes a fear-based mentality: “We must watch over our neighborhood because others are out to get us.” This series flips that image on its head: rather than fearing others, we must widen our idea of what our “neighborhood” is.

Lent: Remembrance, Repentance, Renewal

This six-week series for the Sundays during the season of Lent (plus Ash Wednesday) takes congregations from a serious reflection on their mortality on Ash Wednesday toward a joyful vision of the New Heavens and the New Earth on the last Sunday of Lent. This pathway—from death to everlasting life—will bring the congregation to a place of expectant hope in preparation for Resurrection Sunday.

Easter Sunday

As Christians, when we think about Easter we tend to focus on Jesus dying on the cross for our sin; however, the hope of the Gospel in found in Jesus being alive through his resurrection!

God On Film

This four-week sermon series discusses what it’s like to live in the “in-between.” How do we prepare for the resolution to God’s great story? How do we live out the resurrection of Jesus today? As the Bible makes clear, God’s work in the world brings us into right relationship with him and empowers us to live out that redemption to others.

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.

Heresies

This four-week series deals with common heretical beliefs held by those in society—and many in the church. Through examining some of these beliefs through a biblical lens and seeing the struggles Christians have had throughout the centuries, we can see the truth of God’s Word and how to gain a better appreciation of the importance of correct doctrine.

Guest Speaker

God And Country

Are we seeking the kingdom of God or the kingdom of the United States of America? With elaborate patriotic worship services and flags flying, it can become confusing to discern which kingdom we are truly living for. This one-week adult message helps the believer understand that it takes humility, honesty, and a heart turned toward God to maintain a healthy perspective of our earthly purposes. This message can be used around Independence Day.

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The Games: Running Your Race

This four-week series examines how the Bible uses several different sports metaphors to describe the Christian life. As followers of Jesus, we are called to seek after an eternal crown through faithfully running the race God has set before us, by fighting the good fight of faith, and by working together with other believers to advance the kingdom of God.

Social Faith: Living Out Your Christianity Online

This four-week series walks through the positive and negative effects that social media has on our faith, our relationships, and our overall character and integrity. For all of us, social media can be a useful tool to spread the love of Christ and to enjoy sweet, everyday moments with family and friends. However, we must remain careful to balance the negative aspects that come with it. This series will cover common bad practices we see in online behavior, the balance of physical community and online community, the proper treatment.

I Love Jesus, But Hate...

This four-week series uses the letters that Paul wrote Timothy to anchor a number of foundational principles that detail what the church is and its importance in the life of the believer. “I Love Jesus, But Hate” wrestles with areas that cause people hesitation in church.

The Sting

This series follows “death” from Genesis to Revelation, recounting its beginning, its sting, its reign, and its multiple losses until its final defeat through the work of Christ on the cross. One day, the last enemy, which is death, will be destroyed and its sting neutralized removed forever!

At The Table

What does feasting look like for the modern believer? This four-week series examines how the table becomes a setting for joy, unity, and vulnerability. When Christians have a healthy biblical theology of food, they are able to recognize God’s provision through the table as a way to meet our need for physical and relational sustenance.

Behold: The Savior Comes

This four-week Christmas (or Advent) series celebrates the ways in which faith in Jesus Christ allows us to see and experience the world in wonderful and unique ways. With texts from the New and Old Testaments, we’ll recognize that the gifts of faith—trust, joy, determination, and commitment—came to us through the birth of our Savior.

To The Future

This New Year’s message focuses on forgetting the former things and singing a new song to the Lord—and on staying in tune all year long!