2026 Youth Sermon Calendar
52-Week Youth Roadmap designed to equip and inspire youth with biblical truth.
New Can't Fix You
This four-week New Year sermon series invites us to consider what Scripture teaches us about true change and transformation and how that differs from the hype and gimmicks that come with a new year. We will look at ways our culture has replaced what is proven and trustworthy with new methods and decide whether the new is as good as the old. Rather than placing our trust in quick fixes, we will discover God’s wisdom for change and transformation.
Pursuing Purity
This four-week series gives students a compelling vision for a life of purity, including sexual purity. Scripture study helps remove the shame component and allows young people to navigate the natural curiosities, temptations, and questions they have at their age.
Accepted
This four-week series helps students view challenging feelings and experiences like rejection, insecurity, and loneliness in light of the love and acceptance Christ offers.
Guest Speaker
From Resurrection to Return
This series follows the biblical timeline from Christ’s resurrection to his promised return. It also helps us understand where we live right now, between the inauguration of God’s kingdom and its consummation. The congregation will be encouraged to share the gospel while eagerly anticipating Christ’s return.
Prayers For An Anxious Heart - Pink
The book of Psalms offers us relatable expressions of the human experience in our relationships with God. This series looks at prayers in the Psalms that express feelings like anxiety, worry, and fear and remind us that God will always see us through our circumstances.
Encounter
This series can be preached as a pre-camp or pre-retreat series for youth. It helps students see that God readily and faithfully encounters his people when they seek him. The series is meant to fuel faith-filled expectation in students as they prepare for a dedicated time in prayer, Scripture, and worship.
Guest Speaker
Bonfire Stories
This four-week youth series “brings us around the fire,” retelling the stories of significant events that happened around fires in the Old Testament. This series focuses on crucial ways God shows up and reveals his presence, power, provision, protection, and the purification of his people.
Reset
The new school year is the perfect time for students to examine and realign their priorities. This four-week youth series looks at people in the Bible who had “reset” moments in their lives when they experienced changes in their priorities, direction, or identity.
Guest Speaker
The Gap
This series speaks to the “sanctification gap” between who Christ is perfecting us to be and who we are in the meantime.
Questions We Have About Hell
Most Christians believe in hell. Far fewer believe they will be there someday. This four-week series answers some of the most common questions we have about hell, both for others and ourselves: What is hell? Is it real? Do I have to believe in hell to be a Christian? Why would a loving God condemn his people to suffer? Am I going there?
Gratitude Challenge
During the time of Thanksgiving, a lot of people will do a gratitude challenge. This three-week series examines Scripture to see what gratitude might look like if it was practiced every day, and if we found reasons to be grateful even for the hard things in life.
No Youth Service
Go Tell It On The Mountain
This series looks at the angelic messages around Christ’s birth: the angel’s message to Elizabeth (Luke 1), the angel’s message to Mary (Luke 1), and the angels’ message to the shepherds (Luke 2).
No Youth Service: Christmas
New Year Fear
If last year was more bummer than banner, then this New Year’s sermon could help stave off fears of impending doom. By accepting life's difficulties and relying on the steadfast love of the Lord, we can find hope in the possibilities of the coming year.
New Can't Fix You - Week 3
Big Idea: Our transformation is unique to us, and God takes it seriously.
Pursuing Purity - Week 1
Big Idea: As we grow in maturity in Christ, we learn to practice self-control in all areas of our lives, including our bodies and actions. We are called to live a life of holiness.
Pursuing Purity - Week 2
Big Idea: We keep our way pure by keeping our focus on God.
Pursuing Purity - Week 3
Big Idea: Love is our motivation and isn’t rooted in self.
Pursuing Purity - Week 4
Big Idea: Through the Spirit, we find strength to walk in the Spirit. When someone inevitably stumbles, may we meet them with gentleness and a heart for restoration.
Accepted - Week 1
Big Idea: Our acceptance is based solely on God’s love for us.
Accepted - Week 2
Big Idea: We can be confident in God’s love and acceptance, even after seasons of discipline.
Guest Speaker
From Resurrection to Return - Week 1
Big Idea: Jesus’s resurrection must not remain a secret.
From Resurrection to Return - Week 2
Big Idea: The ascension is good news because Jesus will return.
From Resurrection to Return - Week 3
Big Idea: We live between Jesus’s individual victory over death and the time when death is defeated for all of humanity.
From Resurrection to Return - Week 4
Big Idea: We will be reunited with Christ and other believers when Christ returns.
Prayers For An Anxious Heart - Pink - Week 1
Big Idea: This week looks at a psalmist’s prayer when he experienced fear.
Prayers For An Anxious Heart - Pink - Week 2
Big Idea: This week we look at a psalmist’s prayer when experiencing hardship.
Prayers For An Anxious Heart - Pink - Week 3
Big Idea: This week examines the psalmist’s prayer while experiencing shame.
Prayers For An Anxious Heart - Pink - Week 4
Big Idea: This week we examine a psalmist’s prayer for trust in God.
Encounter - Week 1
Big Idea: God readily and faithfully encounters his people when they seek him.
Encounter - Week 4
Big Idea: Encountering God now allows us to taste and see what eternity will be like.
Guest Speaker
Bonfire Stories - Week 1
Big Idea: God makes his presence known to Moses through the burning bush.
Bonfire Stories - Week 2
Big Idea: God’s power is on display when Elijah calls for him at Mount Carmel.
Bonfire Stories - Week 3
Big Idea: God provides boldness, strength, and rescue for Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
Bonfire Stories - Week 4
Big Idea: God prepares Isaiah for his role as prophet and purifies him for the job.
Reset - Week 2
Big Idea: Esther chooses whether to follow her purpose or to go her own way and protect her life.
Guest Speaker
The Gap - Week 1
Big Idea: Apart from Jesus’s sacrifice, we cannot hope to be transformed.
The Gap - Week 3
Big Idea: The Holy Spirit shapes us in the likeness of Christ.
The Gap - Week 4
Big Idea: Paul calls believers to acknowledge the freedom they have in Christ and the different ways freedom will be confirmed.
Questions We Have About Hell - Week 1
Big Idea: Hell is a state of punishment after death, and the New Testament affirms its reality.
Questions We Have About Hell - Week 2
Big Idea: Although believers vary in their understandings of it, a belief in judgment after or at the time of death is part of the Christian tradition.
Questions We Have About Hell - Week 3
Big Idea: God loves us enough to hold us accountable.
Questions We Have About Hell - Week 4
Big Idea: Jesus gives us assurance of salvation by examining our actions and seeing how we reflect his love to others.
Gratitude Challenge - Week 1
Big Idea: Every day you wake up is a gift that God has given you.
Gratitude Challenge - Week 2
Big Idea: Bad situations may not help you but can still advance the gospel.
Gratitude Challenge - Week 3
Big Idea: God can even take our sin and foolish mistakes and turn them to the purposes of his will.
No Youth Service
Go Tell It On The Mountain - Week 1
Big Idea: The announcement of John the Baptist’s birth was an answer to prayer at what seemed like the most unrealistic time. Zechariah and Elizabeth were to be parents of the forerunner to the Messiah of God.
Go Tell It On The Mountain - Week 2
Big Idea: The appearance of the angel to Mary is significant in that it sets the stage for the arrival of the hope of Israel and of the world. But the circumstances could not have been more miraculous—or concerning.
Go Tell It On The Mountain - Week 3
Big Idea: The shepherds could represent many things in the birth account of Jesus, but one of the most important might be that God chose people who were not highly regarded by others. The shepherds were the first conduit that God would use to begin getting the word out.
No Youth Service: Christmas
New Year Fear - Week 1
Big Idea: The goodness of God in your life is not measured by circumstances but by an enduring hope in the faithfulness of God.