Sermon Series Ideas

By ministry_matters
Created on August 19th, 2011

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These are articles with ideas for sermon series. Some suggest a theme, some give an outline, and a few have full-text sermons!

Articles Sermon Series: Vital Elements of Worship
- By Kenneth H. Carter, Jr.
- Posted on September 17th, 2012
4 Week Series Week 1: Passionate Worship Isaiah 6 Worship, very simply, is not for us. Worship is a gift that we give to someone else. Worship is for God. The origin of our…
Articles Sermon Series: Set Free (The Fruit of the Spirit)
- By Rodney E. Wilmoth
- Posted on August 3rd, 2012
3 Week Series Week 1: Set Free to Live Galatians 5:1, 13-18 Are you ready for a pop quiz? We’re going to have one on the fruit of the Spirit. Question: How many fruit are …
Articles Sermon Series: The Sermon on the Mount
- By Scott Bullard
- Posted on March 4th, 2012
4 Week Series Week 1: Called to Be Blessed Matthew 5:1-11 As we approach Matthew 5, this Gospel already seems to be moving at an alarming rate. Following Jesus’ baptism…
Articles Light (Four-part series with FREE graphics)
- By Ministry Matters
- Posted on September 19th, 2012
This four-week series outline includes free graphics for projection and printed materials (see downloadable file below). The title and imagery could easily be used for a longer or …
Articles Sermon Series: Sabbath
- By Dave Barnhart
- Posted on July 4th, 2012
2 Week Series Week 1: Keeping Sabbath Time Genesis 2:1-3 Rest seems like a waste of time. Most of us have a difficult time imagining a day devoted to rest. We admire people who …
Articles Be Still (Sermon Series and Devotional)
- By Jacob Armstrong
- Posted on May 7th, 2012
Life is full of movement. Movement is not a bad thing. If we are moving, we are living. We are making progress. Movement, though, is also exhausting—physically and mentally. …
Articles Sermon Series: ChurchLife
- By Jeffery Smith
- Posted on August 15th, 2011
4 Week Series Week 1: Building the Church 1 Corinthians 14:1-12 Today we begin a series on life in the church. In this series, we will be exploring what it means to belong to…
Articles Sermon Series: Ephesians
- By Kenneth H. Carter, Jr.
- Posted on September 8th, 2011
6 Week Series Week 1: The Interesting Thing About Religion is God Ephesians 1:3-14 The apostle Paul speaks in the first chapter of Ephesians, movingly and confessionally, about …
Articles 5 Things that Will Destroy Your Marriage
- By Pete Wilson
- Posted on September 26th, 2011
A 6-week sermon series from Pete Wilson, Cross Point Church. This series is the essential guide for anyone who is married. And a cheat sheet for anyone who hopes to be someday…
Articles Sermon Series: Generous Living
- By J. Michael Lowry
- Posted on September 19th, 2011
4 Week Series Week 1: A Little Is Enough Mark 6:30-44 “You give them something to eat,” said Jesus. Jesus can be unreasonable. I mean that not as blasphemy but as…
Articles Sermon Series: How Sweet the Sound
- By William A. Ritter
- Posted on September 5th, 2011
4 Week Series Week 1: Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of . . . ? Romans 7:13-25; Matthew 15:10-20 My daughter is home for the weekend, which means that the stations on…
Articles Sermon Series: The Holy Spirit
- By Travis Franklin
- Posted on September 1st, 2011
4 Week Series Week 1: Suddenly! Acts 2:1-2 It had been a difficult eight months: a change in leadership of the ministry where I work, a move to a new home, a son leaving home…
Articles Sermon Series: Vital Lessons from the Early Church
- By Gary G. Kindley
- Posted on August 10th, 2011
3 Week Series Week 1: When Death Is Yesterday’s News John 11:1-4, 14-44; John 20:19 Today’s sermon begins a three-part series addressing three vital lessons that…
Articles Job: A 6-Week Study
- By Ben Reed
- Posted on May 2nd, 2011
The book of Job explores one of the most enduring questions of humanity: Why do bad things happen? Lead your congregation in a church-wide study of this faithful--yet…
Articles Recession-Era Stewardship: A Sermon Series
- By Martin Thielen
- Posted on July 5th, 2011
Several months ago my clergy support group discussed stewardship. We eventually got to the topic of stewardship sermons. When we did, a member of the group said, “When …
Articles Christmas is Not Your Birthday: Sermon Series
- By Mike Slaughter
- Posted on July 25th, 2011
I stood before our congregation in the fall of 2004 and said, “I want you to have a slim Christmas this year . . . and whatever you spend on your family, bring an equal…
Articles Sermon Series: Prayer
- By Dan Flanagan
- Posted on August 9th, 2011
4 Week Series Week 1: Divine Persona Luke 11:1-4 Psychiatrist Gerald May begins his book Addiction and Grace with a bold statement: “I am convinced that all human beings…
Articles Who is this Man? (Why Jesus?, week 1)
- By Mike Slaughter
- Posted on May 2nd, 2011
Calling ourselves Christians doesn’t mean we know the Christ we claim to follow. It is easy to contrive our own version of Christianity when getting to know the real Jesus…
Articles Heaven on Earth (Sermon Series)
- By Chris Seidman and Joshua Graves
- Posted on December 11th, 2012
An 11-week sermon series on the Beatitudes, based on the book Heaven on Earth: Realizing the Good Life Now, by Chris Seidman and Joshua Graves Every so often we hear of fighter…
Blog Eight Weeks on Romans
- By Matthew L. Kelley
- Posted on August 2nd, 2011
Paul’s epistle to the Romans occupies much of the lectionary this summer (Year A, from the second Sunday after Pentecost through the thirteenth), so while I’ve focused …