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Offerings from Preachers
Sometimes all we need to get our creative juices flowing are a few good ideas. Here are some sermon series ideas that may spark your own. Feel free to borrow these ideas wholesale if you think they will be helpful to you and your congregation!
Advent/Christmas series ideas (show | hide)
- The Songs of Advent: A series which looks at the poetic words uttered around the birth of the Messiah. The texts of the songs are below, more verses can be added to flesh out the stories.
- Mary's song - Luke 1:46-55
- Zechariah's - Luke 1:67-79
- John the Baptist's - Luke 3:1-18
- Angels' - Luke 2:14
- Simeon's - Luke 2:28-32
- Hidden Characters of Advent: A series which looks at the characters in the Advent story not usually highlighted.
- Elizabeth - Luke 1:23-25; 39-45; 57-66
- Joseph - Matthew 1:18-25
- Herod - Matthew 2:1-18
- Jesus - John 1:1-18 [The perspective here is that we can forget that Jesus existed before all time, and that creation was made through him, and will be remade through him as well.]
Epiphany (Light; Revelation; Ministry of Christ) (show | hide)
- Use the Magi to launch into a series on Christian Wisdom
- Sermon 1 on the Magi (Matthew 2: 1-12)
- Sermon 2 on Wisdom in the book of Proverbs (Proverbs 3)
- Sermon 3 on Paul's call to right thinking (Phil 4:4-9)
- "I Am" sayings (John)
- I am the bread of life (8:12)
- I am the light of the world (9:5)
- I am the gate for the sheep (10:7,9)
- I am the good shepherd (10:11,14)
- I am the resurrection and the life (11:25)
- I am the way, the truth, and the life (14:6)
- I am the vine (15:1,5)
- All the stories about the blind regaining their sight in the gospels
- Two blind men - Matthew 9:27-31
- Two blind men, including Bartimaeus - Matthew 20:29-34; Mark 10:46-52; Luke 18:35-43
- Blind man at Bethsaida - Mark 8:22-26
- Man born blind - John 9:1-7
Lent (show | hide)
- Seven Deadly Sins - text suggestions
- Pride - Prov. 26-18
- Envy - Prov. 14:30
- Anger - Eph. 4:26-27
- Sloth - Prov. 6:6-11 , Prov. 13:4
- Greed - Luke 12:13-21
- Gluttony - Phil. 3:17-4:1
- Lust - 2 Samuel 13:1-22; Matthew 5:27-30
- A series on the Psalms assigned for the Lenten Sundays in the lectionary
Eastertide (show | hide)
- New Life
- Losing It (Genesis 3:1-24)
- Choosing It (Joshua 24:1-27)
- Giving It Away (Matthew 10:39
- Getting It Back I (I Corinthians 15:35-58)
- Getting It Back II (Revelation 22:1-6)
Pentecost (Spirit; Ecclesiology) (show | hide)
- "Only by the Spirit's Power": a series on the Holy Spirit as revealed in the book of Acts
- The Shaping of a New Community (Acts 2:1-4, 42-47; 4:32-37)
- Conviction of Sin (Acts 5:1-11)
- Philip's Amazing Encounter (Acts 8:26-40)
- Peter and Cornelius (Acts 10; Deuteronomy 10)
- Sent Out (Acts 13:1-12)
- Setting the Course (Acts 15:1-35)
- The Word Spreads (Acts 19:1-10)
- Facing Our Fears (Acts 21:1-16)
- What Now? (Acts 28)
Ordinary time (show | hide)
- Great Stories of the Old Testament
- Daniel in the Lions' Den (Daniel 6)
- David and Goliath (I Samuel 17:1-58)
- The Midwives in Egypt (Exodus 1:1-21)
- Noah and the Ark (Genesis 6-9:17)
- Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego (Daniel 3)
- The book of Ruth
- Ruth 1
- Ruth 2
- Ruth 3
- Ruth 4:1-12
- Ruth 4: 13-22
- The shorter books of the NT
- Titus
- Philemon
- 2 John u
- 3 John
- Jude