Attention-Grabbing Series

1. 

   Hot Seat: Conversations on Controversies

   ‘Hot Seat’ is a four-week sermon series dissecting tough issues that are often challenging to talk about in church. Each week looks at a different passage from the Psalms, and investigate not only the biblical stance on each topic, but also how believers can approach God concerning these often-divisive issues. This series guide will assist you as you explore biblical answers to “hot seat” questions. Each week also includes a relevant New Testament passage for further input on these challenging matters. Topics include: politics, depression, sexuality, and materialism. Compare to You Asked for It (adult) and Youth Asked for It (youth).

   4 Weeks
2. 

   The Dragon and the Sea: The Book of Revelation

   The book of Revelation uses imagery of both a dragon and the sea to describe the evil believers face in their pursuit of spiritual faithfulness. In many ways, these metaphors provide a telling snapshot of Revelation as a whole, digging deep into its modern-day personal and corporate application. This four-week series, which offers a brief overview of John’s apocalyptic vision, focuses on these themes, centering on the importance of Christians persevering even in the midst of powerful opposition.

   4 Weeks
3. 

   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 God’s kingdom. Compare to We Are (youth) and We Are the Church (children).

   3 Weeks
4. 

   How Not To Lead: Mistakes Leaders Make

   What can we learn from the Bible about what it means to be a good leader? How can we learn from the mistakes of others, using their faults to fuel our journey to becoming effective guides in our homes, jobs, communities, and churches? This 4-week series examines four biblical leaders, detailing how each experienced acute failure at specific points in their lives. Each week’s message contrasts that leader’s shortcomings with Jesus’ redemptive role as the perfect leader. Touching on the topics of responsibility, endurance, discipline, and fear, ‘How Not To Lead’ both explores what godly leadership is, and what it isn’t.

   4 Weeks
5. 

   The Worship Playlist: Illustrations From God’s Word

   This four-week series analyzes the spiritual and theological depths of four contemporary worship songs. Through these songs, we connect with biblical teaching about atonement, love, sanctification, and the Christian creeds.

   4 Weeks
6. 

   Let’s Talk About It: Stigmas In The Church

   This four-week series tackles a different social stigma each week. God offers believers healing and hope instead of condemnation as they struggle with mental health, physical health, singleness and infertility, and aging. Scripture guides our understanding of how to live and serve despite the stigmas that sometimes surround our realities.

   4 Weeks
7. 

   Culture Wars

   This four-week series explores the church’s relationship with politics. It begins by distinguishing between Jesus’s kingdom and the kingdoms of this world. While we should not be politically disengaged, we should also avoid centering our lives on the pursuit of power and influence. Jesus’s words help guide our political participation by kingdom ideals instead of party platforms, since God’s kingdom supersedes every political party. The Bible guides us in how to live out our faith in the public square, even with people we disagree with politically—including our government leaders and other brothers and sisters in Christ.

   4 Weeks
8. 

   The Liturgy of Politics

   This four-week series, based on The Liturgy of Politics by Kaitlyn Schiess, explores the way Christian worship shapes the holistic lives of the people of God. While we are all shaped by the political forces in our lives, we are also powerfully shaped by the habits and practices of the church. The church has powerful resources—corporate worship, Scripture, personal spiritual disciplines, and historic practices—for addressing the power of political idolatry. The way forward may not require an entirely new strategy but a return to the historic practices of the global church. Based on Liturgy of Politics by Kaitlyn Schiess. Copyright (c) 2020 by Kaitlyn Schiess. Used by permission of InterVarsity Press. Cover artwork is limited to use with the sermon series The Liturgy of Politics and may not be edited without the expressed written permission of InterVarsity Press. (https://www.ivpress.com/the-liturgy-of-politics).

   4 Weeks
9. 

   Coffee Mug Christianity: Bringing Clarity to Cliches

   The Bible is filled with passages that can be used to encourage, correct, and challenge. However, we often struggle to give context to these passages, and that leads us to confuse the message. It’s not enough to place a verse on a coffee mug if we don’t understand it or let it affect our lives! This four-week series will focus on one familiar verse each week and help the hearers better understand that verse.

   4 Weeks
10. 

    Blockbusters: Living God’s Story

    This four-week series uses Scripture and scenes from blockbuster movies over the last few decades to remind us that we all play an important part in the story of God’s plan of salvation for the world. Whether through public demonstrations of our faith, or creating a place of belonging for the lost, we are called to participate in the story of God’s love for this world. This series is designed to pull films from across various decades. Movies can be substituted based on the needs of the group.

    4 Weeks
11. 

    Bad Religion: When Good Christianity Goes Wrong…

    Bad religion is something that plagued God’s people throughout the Bible. Leaning on the words of the prophets, Jesus’s encounters with religious leaders, and James’s practical definition of religion, this four-week series examines how the Bible deals directly with hypocrisy. By learning common ways we get in the way of God’s purposes, we can also break out of our religiosity—imperfect but faithful to the gospel of Jesus Christ.

    4 Weeks
12. 

    More Than A Feeling

    Our emotions are “more than a feeling.” They often tie back to what we love. In this four-week series we will explore how our anger, apathy, grief, and joy can work as barometers of health in our relationship with God. Our emotions shouldn’t tell us where to go—Scripture does that—but they can help us realize where we are currently and where we need the transforming work of the Spirit in our lives.

    4 Weeks
13. 

    Airplane Mode: Practicing Spiritual Disciplines

    We live in a noisy world. Even when alone, apart from sound, we’re bombarded with texts, emails, and social media messages. The desire to seek solitude and silence isn’t only about finding a quiet place. It’s about discovering the gift of removing ourselves from the cacophony of messages to find our rest in the Word, Jesus. Drawing from the life of Jesus and the apostle Paul, this four-week series extends that invitation at four critical life junctures: a big decision, a big loss, a big job, and a big change. At each point, a time of silence and solitude in God’s presence can heal us of the past and prepare us for our futures.

    4 Weeks
14. 

    Cool: Searching For Fashionable Christianity

    This four-week series reminds us of the true purpose of authentic Christianity and why we are called to live radically different lives than the culture around us. In contrast to the ultracool cultural Christian church stereotypes we see in the media, authentic Christians serve, sacrifice, submit, and seek God’s kingdom first rather than their own. Often, we search for a “fashionable” Christianity. However, in reality, we should realize that biblical Christianity is the only fashionable faith we need.

    4 Weeks
15. 

    Cool Christianity

    This four-week series reminds us of the true purpose of authentic Christianity and why we are called to live radically different lives from the culture around us. In contrast to the ultracool cultural Christian church stereotypes we see in the media, authentic Christians serve, sacrifice, submit, and seek God’s kingdom first rather than their own.

    4 Weeks
16. 

    Church Words: Bringing Clarity To Words In Scripture

    Oftentimes, people who have been in church awhile use language that is unfamiliar to new believers and unbelievers. Sometimes, even the Christians who use those words don’t understand their significance. In this five-week series, we will use the book of Romans to help us better understand some commonly used “church words” and their application for believers.

    5 Weeks
17. 

    Messy Spirituality: A Series For Imperfect Christians

    This is a four-week youth series for imperfect Christians. Have you ever felt like you are riding the “spiritual struggle bus”? Feelings of spiritual inadequacy can make us fearful of God but not in the healthy way. This series explores how knowing the loving, gracious God of Scripture can overcome our constant feelings of guilt and imperfection. “Messy Spirituality” examines the realities of our human weaknesses and the grace of God that meets us in those struggles, empowering us to change.

    4 Weeks
18. 

    The Good Place: Honest Talks About Heaven and The Afterlife

    The afterlife is mysterious, and it can lead us to ask some interesting questions: What is the resurrection? Will we be just nebulous spiritual blobs in the afterlife? Do I need to earn rewards to build my heavenly mansion? Is heaven going to be boring? What will we do there? This three-week series for youth and adults examines what the Bible teaches about the afterlife, directly confronting our misconceptions of heaven and allowing Scripture to inform our understanding of eternal life.

    3 Weeks
19. 

    Cancel Culture

    As we see more and more people “cancelled” in the public forum, it can be challenging for believers to know how to respond to the rise of public scrutiny and condemnation. This four-week series brings up questions about how we handle such scrutiny, how we deal with false teaching in the church, the biblical model for repentance, and how we keep people (and ourselves) accountable for wrongdoing while leaving room for grace and redemption. God’s call is for repentance and restoration, not cancellation.

    4 Weeks
20. 

    Belong

    This four-week youth series considers the reality of belonging to God and others. When we realize that we belong to God and to other believers, we discover God-given gifts and purpose that help the church and the world around us.

    4 Weeks
21. 

    At The Movies

    This six-week series uses classic movies to explore biblical passages and topics. By inviting the congregation to reminisce about movies from a few decades ago, this series offers an engaging way to explore topics such as God’s sovereignty, the redemption of all creation, and the correct perspective on life.

    6 Weeks
22. 

    God on Film: The Classics Edition

    This six-week series uses classic movies to explore biblical passages and topics. By inviting the congregation to reminisce about movies from a few decades ago, this series offers an engaging way to explore topics such as God’s sovereignty, the redemption of all creation, and the correct perspective on life.

    6 Weeks