Unscheduled sermon series ideas:

Below are sermon ideas that have been brewing for a while and well probably slot them in sometime in the next 2 years.

Audacious

A book study on Acts. Probably around 22 weeks, approx 1 chapter per week, skipping a couple of chapters. at look at the birth of the early church and the practices of the early Christians. The goal of theseries is to show tangibly how people live by faith and what life looks like fueled by Gods Spirit.

God@work

a series on how the workplace/the place where youre not at home or in church, can be your mission eld. Church@work

Everybodys Welcome, Nobodys Perfect, Anything Can Happen.

series on the church God has designed, where we nd true community with each other as awed and broken people and we all are fueled and sustained by Gods Spirit who can do anything among us and through us. Cool tshirt ideas too for this series. more found here: http://withoutwax.tv/ 2008/08/18/is-this-kind-of-community-still-possible-today/comment-page-1/ #comments 1. Everybodys Welcome. 2. Nobodys Perfect 3. Anything Can Happen 4. 1st Century Church, 21 Century people.

Temple Politik

5 or 6 week series. 1 or 2 weeks on The tabernacle in the OT, 1 week on New Testament temple and how it was the meeting place of the divine and mundane, 1 week on Jesus temple talk I will rebuild in in 3 days and why it got him crucied basically that he claimed to be the temple (the place where you meet God) and God coming to you outside the veil.

1 or 2 weeks on Acts and the Holy Spirit how Paul says that we are the temple of God and we should live in this new reality that the Spirit of God is in us. Finally, Paul implies that the whole world is Gods temple - in us, through us, around us - not pantheism, but personal God indwelling his people and his places. all places are his places.

Divine Sexuality

4 - 6 weeks on biblical view of sexuality. Ive been wary of preaching on sexuality for a couple of reasons: 1. I dont wish to exclude singles and 2. I dont believe I can appropriately cover homosexuality in one sermon. So perhaps its time to do a long series on the theology of sex. two weeks on homosexuality, one week porn, one week on sexual abuse, one week of heterosexuality.

Christmas Revolution A Season of Advent and Protest

Birth stories from Matthew and Luke and how God brought revolution to every facet of society: blue collar (shepherds), families (mary and jo), power (herod) etc. graphic the baby in manger with st pounding out of manger. Also Brueggemanns quote, no wonder Jesus was a revolutionary - his mother sang him protest songs as lullabies! - in reference to Marys Magnicat song.

The Grudge Report

A 3 week series on forgiveness. The challenge of forgiving others, living in ongoing community, what it means to be forgiven by God. This series will be based on Mephibosheth from 2 Samuel 4-9. 1: When someone drops you 2: When you need forgiveness 3: letting go of past hurts.

Please Hammer Dont Hurt Them

A series on the life of Samson (Judges 13 - 16) and the lessons for us from his tragic life. Interesting to note that the author of Judges mentions that, many more were killed by Samsons death than through his life. Is this a

foreshadowing of Christ? Many more were saved through his death than through his life. For purely frivolous reasons, each sermon is named after an M.C. Hammer song or album. 1: Pray 2: Cant Touch This 3: Have You Seen Her? 4: 2 Legit to Quit

Washed and Waiting - sacrament 2011

Wesley Hill writes, my identity as one who is forgiven and spiritually cleaned and my struggles as one who perseveres with a frustrating thorn in the esh, looking forward to what God has promised to do. A series on living as a disciple between the now and the not yet. Maybe a good title for a sacraments series?

Fear Not

a series on fear. how fear holds us back from living by faith, what the bible teaches about fear, and maybe even fear mongering that happens when we rally against people we disagree with. (This American Life episode 234 has the man who listed his 183 fears.)

One Another

in the book of John where Jesus mentions one another 43 times. A series on the importance of faith and community outside the one hour church gathering.

Consuming or Being Consumed?

We live in a consumer society and we approach many things from a consumer mentality. The Bible also talks about consuming, but in those passages, we are being consumed, were not the one consuming. God is consuming us. It seems that the path of discipleship is a journey from consumer to being consumed.

Body Armor

Two primary metaphors for Gods church are body and army. The body of Christ is centered on community; the army of God is centered on cause.

Healthy community ows out of a unied causenot the other way around. A sermon series on the church that God has in mind - cause oriented (the cause of Christ and his Kingdom) and community is the result as people come join the cause and join with each other, in community with God through worship.

Counterfeit

A series on the idols in our life the things that look true, but are fake and make shallow promises they cant deliver on.

Customer Service

A series on how the church should exceed in customer service and how the challenge of 21st C discipleship is for people to realize that they are not the customer. God is always the customer and we should exceed in serving Him.

Youre the Man

A series on the Bible and gender. What does it mean to be a man of God/woman of God? Give clear teaching on the Eph passage about submission and the sheer absurdity of a man using it to power over his wife. Also address the common dynamic of a woman wanting her man to lead the household spiritually, and the man not stepping up because his wife keeps asking him to.

AC/DC - a series addressing Power.

God is a God of the powerless, notices the powerless. Becoming a Christian is an act of giving up power. Many public Christians today seem to seek power or gather people to inuence decisions, but God gives us power to serve and invites us to use our power to serve, not to dominate. A series on how a Christian is to relate to their power.

7 Respectable Sins.

Covering the 7 deadly sins, and the sins that we all let each other get away with, focusing on the sins of the heart and sins of omission. 7 week series.

Gods Concern: dignity, solidarity, reciprocity, relationship

Several weeks on the obscure but very tangible laws in Leviticus and Exodus showing Gods concern for the needy neighbor. (gleaning, loan, interest rate laws.) (interesting article: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/774419/ the_commandments_in_the_old_testament_pg4_pg4.html?cat=34)

Stockholm Syndrome

Inspired by the name of a Derek Webb album. Stockholm syndrome happens to someone who has been kidnapped/abducted and who shows loyalty to his or her abducter. A series about how modern Christians have fallen in love with their captors this prosperous culture. The culture is more in us than the gospel.

Practical Atheist

Alternative title, The Christian Deist. A series about people who believe in God in their mind, but show no evidence in their life. Based on Craig Groeschels book. Free graphics from Lifechurchs open website.

It Came From Within: The Shocking Truth of What Lurks in the Heart

A 4 week series on guilt, anger, greed, jealousy. Anger says, "You owe me"; greed says, "I owe me"; guilt says, "I owe you"; and jealousy says, "God owes me." based on Andy Stanleys book of the same name.

Heavy Cloud No Rain

Book study on Jude who talks about people who are clouds without rain and faithless in their actions. Interesting that Jude is James brother, as they both have a polemical tone to their writing.

Show and Tell

A series on evangelism. How we share our story. How our good deeds display the gospel. Words and actions based. 2 or 3 weeks. Maybe this is a good series before our Fall kickoff.

Kings

A study on the lives of the Kings in the books of 2 Samuel and Kings. The author of these books judged each King by two criteria: did the King appropriately worship YHWH and did the King care for the orphan and widow? A series on loving God and loving neighbor

The Fine Print

A series on the ne print of the Bible/ Either obscure texts that people arent familiar with, or perhaps the Brauch Difcult Texts of the Bible. Would be neat to do a survey of folks, asking them to suggest ne print texts Anyway, it would be texts that we dont read, but that have implications in our life kind of like the ne print of terms and conditions when we click for software or web pages etc.

The Way, The Truth, The Life

Three week series on John 14 starting with the way on the ways that Jesus is the way, to quote Eugene Peterson.

The Numbers of Hope

A series on John 3:16 (and maybe 1 john 3:16.) a series of messages on the Gospel. Or maybe, preaching on each phrase in Jn 3:16. Max Lucado has a book called 316, The Numbers of Hope.

Jesus is Lord of.

A series seeking to put tangible action to the Lordship of Christ in our lives. Jesus is Lord of (one each week) heart, mind, soul, money, time?

Biography Channel: Peter.

Take a look at Peter through the progression of his life of following Christ. Call to follow, Acknowledgement of his sin, acknowledgement of Jesus as Messiah, Power of Holy Spirit, Acknowledgment that Gods grace is for everybody.

Book study on Revelation

Start with the 7 churches and move into the rest of the book. approx a 12 - 15 week series.

Book Study on Galatians

Focusing on being saved by Grace, and the temptation for believers to start believing another gospel which is no gospel at all.

Momentum, Entrope, Impulses and Intertia

A physics approach to discipleship in 21st century United States. How do we wither in our faith, what direction do we set on our own, how hard is it to change, how do we receive Gods direction? We have a momentum away from Christ that needs an external force (impulse) to change our direction.

Lent and Lament

Denying yourself a pleasure to prepare to receive the power of Christs resurrection through prayer, repentance, giving, self denial. a literary study of Lamentations and a participatory time of Lent.

Putting on, Taking Off

Paul has several put on passages, Put on the armor put on love etc. Should also check on take off or remove passages. make for a good series. http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/januaryweb-only/soulwork1611.html