Prayer Sermon Series

1. 

   Pray At Your Own Risk

   We’re told to “pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:17), but what if we’re angry, hangry, or tired? This four-week series challenges us to pray faith-filled prayers of surrender, trust, and submission to God at any time, even risking our comfort and illusions of control. It invites us to imagine how vast God’s mercy really is and how we might be changed when we fully surrender our lives to him. 

   4 Weeks
2. 

   Sacred Stations – Interactive Prayer Journey

   This bundle is a single-service interactive prayer journey. During this prayer journey, students will visit eight different stations, learning and praying at each.

   Weeks
3. 

   Teach Me to Pray

   This 4-week series breaks down the Lord’s Prayer, providing a blueprint for how children can model Jesus’ words in their prayer life.

   4 Weeks
4. 

   The Prayers of the Psalms

   This six-week sermon series offers a snapshot of the book of Psalms, examining the different types or categories of psalms, as well as what they mean to us today. By focusing on the need for honest communication with God, traversing the range of human experiences and emotions, this series will encourage your congregation to use God’s Word as fuel for both personal and corporate prayer. We can come to God with our hopes, fears, anger, and praise, knowing he hears us and wants to draw us near to him.

   6 Weeks
5. 

   Spiritual Habits

   This four-week series guide explores four spiritual disciplines: Bible reading, prayer, fasting, and Christ-centered community. This series emphasizes the clear application of biblical truths so that your congregation can confidently put into practice the key ideas of each week’s message. By ending with a message on authentic community, this series will be a helpful tool to use for introducing a small group ministry or refreshing your church’s understanding and commitment to basic discipleship tools. Equivalent to The Power of Routine (adult) and Good Habits (children).

   4 Weeks
6. 

   Praying

   This four-week series approaches what it means to live a life of prayer. Starting with the difference between the joy of a real relationship through the gospel versus empty religious duty, this series will encourage students to develop a meaningful prayer life by overcoming distractions, prioritizing God’s presence, and using God’s Word as fuel for effective prayer.

   4 Weeks
7. 

   Learning to Pray

   This four-week series discusses what it means to live a life of prayer. Starting with the difference between the joy of a pure, holy relationship through the gospel versus empty religious duty, this series will encourage children to develop a meaningful prayer life by overcoming distractions, prioritizing God’s presence, and using God’s Word as fuel for effective prayer. Compare to Praying (youth).

   4 Weeks
8. 

   Be Still: Finding Silence

   This four-week series looks at the vital need to cultivate the spiritual practices of solitude and silence in the midst of our always-connected, digital world. Jesus, himself, modeled the importance of withdrawing from the busyness of life for times of prayer and rest. By developing practices of withdrawing, entering the secret place of prayer, resting, journaling, sharing meals with others, and celebrating communion, we, as followers of Jesus, can find physical, emotional, and mental rest and spiritual refreshing in God.

   4 Weeks
9. 

   The Prayers Of Jesus

   The Prayers of Jesus is a four-week series that examines a number of Jesus’s prayers to his Father. By studying how Jesus prayed, we learn how to pray for ourselves in different seasons of our lives.

   4 Weeks
10. 

    How To Pray

    This four-week series highlights kneeling, dancing, and raised hands as common postures of prayer that believers should be comfortable using when communicating with or worshiping God. Youth should be able to learn and understand why physical postures during their worship experience are a vital part of the Christian life, and how to overcome the fear of engaging in these postures while in public. Prayer postures serve as a reminder that we communicate with God not only through our mouths but with the bodies he gave us as well.

    4 Weeks
11. 

    Praying Through

    This four-week adult series explores barriers to prayer, such as busyness and guilt, how to pray, and the struggle of doubt. By understanding what the Bible says about prayer, we can learn to make prayer a priority rather than an afterthought, embrace the love of God in our inadequacies, and trust more fully in God when prayer seems like it isn’t working.

    4 Weeks
12. 

    And All God’s People Said

    Throughout history, there have been times when God’s people came together and prayed, and then God showed up and responded. This four-week series looks at biblical accounts of times that prayer changed things.

    4 Weeks
13. 

    If My People: A Call to Prayer

    Throughout history, there have been times when God’s people came together and prayed, and then God showed up and responded. This four-week series looks at biblical accounts of times that prayer changed things.

    4 Weeks
14. 

    Honest to God

    This four-week series for youth and adults looks at prayers in the Bible that express pain, frustration, doubt, disappointment, and hopelessness. Through them we see that God welcomes honest prayers and longs to hear the deepest cries of our hearts.

    4 Weeks
15. 

    Our Father

    This five-week series for youth walks us through the Lord’s Prayer and invites us into a deeper relationship with our heavenly Father. This prayer guides us in prayer practice by acknowledging his holiness, by participating in his kingdom and will, by trusting him to be our provider, by asking for and accepting forgiveness, and by trusting him to lead us away from trials.

    5 Weeks
16. 

    The Lord’s Prayer

    This six-week series looks at the Lord’s Prayer as taught by Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew. Each week will consider the words of Jesus and what it means to pray in the manner he taught his disciples to pray.

    6 Weeks