Youth Ministry Curriculum and Resources

SMOKE: a four-session sermon series, will explore four incredible Old Testament stories where God interacted with His people through smoke and fire. This series will challenge your students to step into God’s presence, power, provision, and priority. As they stare into the smoke and see how God reveals Himself, their hearts will be set on fire by God’s present-tense presence

Table Talk is a four-session sermon series that will focus on four conversations Jesus had while sharing meals with His disciples and others. This series will challenge your students to evaluate their heart posture toward things like repentance, love, busyness, and pride and consider how their lives can reflect the heart of Jesus at the table.

The Change-Up: Switching Our Approach to Fear, a four-session sermon series, looks at how we’re not defenseless against fear and the lies fear tells us. God’s love provides everything we need to pull the plug and change the narrative on the false ideas of fear.

The Cycle: Having Faith in Tough Circumstances, a four-part sermon series, is a challenge for students to look at their lives and be willing to make a change. Christians are called to much more on this earth than sin, repent, worship, repeat. Let us be the generation to break the cycle.

Uncharted: Living Off The Map As A Pioneer, a four-session sermon series, will challenge your students to become pioneers who are willing to trust and to listen for God’s direction, look to the Holy Spirit as a guide, and use His Word as a compass to discern the best way to move in that direction.

What Will You Say? is a four-session sermon series that will invite your students into a deeper conversation about and belief in four core tenets of their faith. By establishing a Scriptural and rational foundation for these doctrinal topics, your students will be challenged to deepen and be equipped to guard their faith as they live in an increasingly antagonistic world.

With All You Are is a four-session sermon series that will help your students understand that because God has given Himself to us, we are called to love Him with all we are. Your students will realize that when they give all of themselves to loving God, they become who they were made to be.

On the Verge: Taking the Right Step Forward, a four-part sermon series, will help your students examine the moments right before our lives change and how we can look to the stories of the Israelites for understanding how God wants us to live through these crucial times.

The Whole Story is a four-session sermon series that will challenge and equip your students to understand that unlike the story of separation that the world has told them is true about themselves, Jesus is telling a different story. Jesus’ story is one of wholeness, where all are loved no matter who they are or what they have done. Jesus’ story of wholeness will satisfy and transform those who believe it. And this same Jesus is inviting each and every one of your students to begin to allow His story of wholeness to take root in their own hearts so that they can then begin to love the world as Jesus did.

He Is, is a four-week series that looks at the story of the burning bush and what God says about Himself while revealing Himself to Moses. Oftentimes we make up characteristics about God or have no clue who God really is. Our belief is formed by the culture around us and how we grew up. The goal of this series is to take this story and focus on how God reveals Himself so students can have a better idea of who God is.

Follow: Learning What It Means To Be A Disciple, a four-session sermon series, will help your students understand that when they give their lives to Jesus, they aren’t just making a decision about their life after death; they are making a decision about their present life and what it means to follow Jesus as His disciple.

We have a lot of questions about our faith — how do I read my Bible, how do I pray, or how do I make a difference? What if the answers to these questions are not as difficult as we think they are? In How Do I, a four-week sermon series, we will be answering some of these questions to help us grow in our faith.

I Am: Learning From Moses' Encounter With God is a four-session sermon series that explores Moses' burning bush account in Exodus to launch into an in-depth look at who God is and how He relates to us.

Teach YM360's Sermon Series "God Is Not: Who God Is & Who God Isn't" to help your students question their ideas about God so that they can let go of any burdensome concepts of God that may weigh them down, so they can see God as He is.

Teach YM360's Sermon Series "God Is: Exploring the Many Sides of God" to help your students know that they can have a relationship with a God who is real and who loves and understands them.

To the Ends of the Earth is an interactive, four-week devotional journal designed to help your students get the most out of their missions experience.

Therefore Go is an interactive, Gospel-centered, four-week devotional journal designed to help equip your students for a transformational missions experience.

Now: Mission Trip Edition is a four-week devotional experience for your mission trip will help your students understand the purpose God has in store for them, catch God's vision for exactly how He wants to use their mission trip; and practice real, practical ways to impact their world.

NUEVO: First Steps for New Christ Followers [Spanish Edition] is a powerful 4-week devotional journal that will help students take the first steps on their new journey with Christ.

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The 7 Best Practices for Teaching Teenagers the Bible is a resource for youth workers that teaches seven meaningful practices they can use to help teach the Bible in a transformative and dynamic way.

"The Holy Spirit", a three-lesson Bible study, will help students understand who the Holy Spirit is and what His presence in their life means, the role Jesus played in ushering in a new way of relating to the Holy Spirit, and what exactly the Bible means by the “fruit of the Spirit.”

Worship, a three-lesson Bible study, will help your students understand that worship is the response that results from our encountering God; that seeing Jesus for who He is and responding to Him in worship is vital; and that responding to God looks a lot of different ways, each of them a vital way of interacting in relationship with Him.

Holiness, a three-lesson Bible study, will help your students understand what holiness is, how Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross makes holiness available to them, and that choosing to live a holy life means choosing to identify with God instead of the world.

God’s Word, a three-lesson Bible study, will help your students see the power of God’s Word throughout the Old Testament, how Jesus was the physical embodiment of God’s Word (God’s living, breathing Word to us), and how their lives can be used to spread God’s Word.

Spiritual Gifts, a three-lesson Bible study, will help your students understand that the Holy Spirit works in Christ-followers to grow the Church, that Jesus paved the way for the Holy Spirit to empower all believers to serve, and to understand what spiritual gifts they’ve been given.

Humility, a three-lesson Bible study, will help students learn that humility is one of the core components of a Christ-follower’s identity, that humility is the mark of a true Christ-follower, and that living out God’s vision of what it means to be a Christ-follower means having an overall posture of humility towards others.

Prayer, a three-lesson Bible study, will help students understand that prayer is an essential component of a personal relationship with God, that their prayers are made possible and effective through the person and work of Jesus Christ, and that they would understand the Lord’s Prayer and why Jesus uses it as a model for us to follow.

Obedience, a three-lesson Bible study, will help students understand that the foundation of our relationship with God is built on obedience to His commands, that our obedience of God must be motivated by our love for Christ, and that because of Jesus, they’ve been set free from sin to live lives of obedience.

God’s Mercy, a three-lesson Bible study, will help students learn that God is a merciful God, showing goodness to those in need, that Jesus’ mission of redemption was born out of God’s great mercy, and that as people who have been on the receiving end of God’s mercy, we are to show mercy to others.

God’s Sovereignty, a three-lesson Bible study, will help students understand that God is the all-mighty Creator King that calls us to follow and obey Him, that Jesus set aside His rights as Sovereign King to come and suffer on behalf of sinners, and that true freedom and rest can be found in the truth of God’s sovereignty.

The Unchanging God, a three-lesson Bible study, will help students realize that God’s unchanging nature leads to being able to express great confidence in who He is, that God’s unchanging plan has always been to call people to Himself, and that God takes an eternal perspective on our trials and challenges, promising to make all things right.

Service, a three-lesson Bible study, will help students understand that the heart of service is seen in God’s desire to provide for us, His children, that Jesus was the ultimate Servant, and that life as a Christ-follower is marked by service that ultimately serves to share the Gospel with the world.

Stewardship, a three-lesson Bible study, will help students understand that we’re called to see every resource we have as belonging to God, that Jesus modeled stewardship for us in His willingness to step away from heaven to purchase salvation for His children, and that living out the principle of stewardship means giving of yourself to serve others and God.