Youth Pastor Sermon Calendar: Volume 5
- January - December
- 52 Weeks
A 52-week roadmap for students through topics like loneliness, identity, evangelism, and friendship.
Wrapped
- January
- 1 Week
This one-week youth sermon gets its title from Spotify’s popular end of the year listener report: Wrapped. This sermon gives youth ministries a chance to look back at the incredible stories that have come from the year that just passed. Much like the Israelites did in Joshua 4, when they set up stones to commemorate what God had done up to that point of their journey, this sermon encourages students to look at their year “wrapped” and see all the ways God has moved in their lives and community.
Do Not Fear
- January
- 4 Weeks
This three-week series looks at some of the great “do not fear” passages found in the Scriptures. By considering these passages, students are encouraged to know that no matter what their future holds, God is with them.
Suggested Friends
- February
- 3 Weeks
Social media algorithms suggest friends to us based on our mutual connections and interests. While that’s well and good, we would do well to apply Scripture’s wisdom on friendship and relationships when we choose which relationships we should pursue and invest in. This series encourages students to seek the outsiders, to seek mentors, and to seek community among other believers, and to seek dating partners who display godly character.
Never Alone
- March
- 4 Weeks
This series looks at times in the Bible where men and women felt alone or abandoned and found that God was with them. Stories like Dinah and the Widow of Zarephath’s son show us that even when those we should be able to lean on and trust have betrayed or abandoned us, God still sees, cares, and intercedes on our behalf—even if we can’t see His loving hand in the midst of our grief and hurt.
True Religion
- April
- 4 Weeks
What does faith look like? How does faith change my life? How does my faith change the world around me for the better? This five-week series from the Letter of James answers these questions as it moves through James’s teachings on faith in action. This is practical theology for all believers, but especially younger and newer followers of Jesus. With one teaching from each of James’s five chapters, we’re encouraged to read through the whole letter and discover what true religion might look like.
You Might Have Heard This One Before
- May
- 4 Weeks
This four-week series unpacks a few repeated concepts, phrases, or words found in the Bible. We will discover why they are frequently repeated and how they apply to our lives.
Who Am I?
- May - June
- 4 Weeks
This four-week series helps youth connect to the deep inner struggles of identity and inner pain that many Christians throughout history and biblical characters have endured. Identity is a huge issue. Teens are presented with infinitely more categories than previous generations had to figure out, and there is a sense they need to know themselves right away. The resulting inner confusion and chaos feel out of control. How is a teenager supposed to know who they are? Rather than didactic lessons, this series explores the stories of those who have walked through struggle and yet continued to be held by the hand of God. Maybe God didn’t take away their questions, but he did walk beside them.
Guest Speaker
- June
- 1 Week
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.
Free Indeed
- July
- 1 Week
This is a single-week sermon for Independence Day. It’s not necessarily about celebrating our democratic freedom, where we are free from institutions/people. It’s about celebrating true freedom in Christ where we are free to love, live according to the Spirit, etc.
Summer Blues
- July - August
- 4 Weeks
This four-week series looks at the struggle everyone can have with the “post-event” blues. Whether it is a camp, conference, or the end of an amazing experience we can struggle to move forward. Through looking at the unchanging nature of God, the seasons of life, and the dangers of nostalgia we can move our walk with God beyond high moments to an everyday renewal of the Christian life.
Faith Goes To School
- August
- 4 Weeks
Being a witness for Christ was never intended to be an obligation and it’s so much more than standing up on a stage and calling others to repentance, it’s also a way we honor and reflect the work God is doing in and through our lives. Living as witnesses allows us to develop relationships with those around us and invites them to ask us why our lives look different—and how they can trust Jesus as their Savior as well. In this 4-week back-to-school series for youth, we look at what it means for students to be a Christian and a witness in their schools and communities.
The Young Church
- September
- 4 Weeks
This four-week series explores the life and characteristic of the early church. The early church we find in acts was young and just starting. Yet even though the church was just being started they were a people that were diverse, marked by truth, relationship, community, and life transformation that led to loving the world around them.
Scared Of The Ghost
- October
- 4 Weeks
This four-week series invites students to walk with the Holy Spirit as friend, teacher, comforter, and guide by looking at how the Holy Spirit interacted with believers in the New Testament. We will talk about what the Holy Spirit offers us and how we can respond accordingly.
Guest Speaker
- November
- 1 Week
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.
Blessed: The Beatitudes
- November
- 2 Weeks
This three-part series explores Jesus’s Beatitudes in Matthew 5. It considers what it means to live a blessed life in God’s kingdom. Over the three sermons, students will discover that Jesus’s idea of a blessed life is very different from the world’s idea.
No Youth Service (Thanksgiving)
- November
- 1 Week
Take this week off and enjoy Thanksgiving with your family!
Blessed: The Beatitudes (Cont.)
- November
- 1 Week
This three-part series explores Jesus’s Beatitudes in Matthew 5. It considers what it means to live a blessed life in God’s kingdom. Over the three sermons, students will discover that Jesus’s idea of a blessed life is very different from the world’s idea.
He Is Here
- December
- 3 Weeks
This three-part Christmas series unpacks each word of the title. It will challenge students to recognize the significance of Jesus’s incarnation for our daily lives.
No Youth Service: Christmas
- December
- 1 Week
Take this week off and enjoy Christmas with your family!
