Youth Ministry Curriculum and Resources

The Thread is a small group bible study curriculum designed to accomplish two simple things. First, your students will learn the big-picture story of Scripture. Your students will learn what the Gospel is, and how it courses through the narrative of Scripture. The Thread will teach your students God’s story, and how God wove His thread of love through every page of it. 

The Jesus Studies cut through the confusion, teaching your students a Christ-centered look at the major issues they deal with in their lives. These lessons are not watered-down, topical Bible studies. This studies reveal how Jesus weighs in on the very issues your students are confronted with on a daily basis. Your students will learn to see life through the person of Christ. 

Activate: The Building Blocks of Faith, 52-lesson Bible study curriculum, will help your students lay the foundation of a lasting relationship with God through a study of the core concepts of their faith.

Amplify: Growing a Faith That Lasts is a powerful 52-lesson youth ministry Bible study curriculum that equips students to grow a dynamic faith by studying core spiritual truths.

Students live in a world full of news. Some of it is good, and some of it is bad. Students turn to multiple sources for their daily news, doing their best to find truth in what they learn. But what if you could share the ultimate Good News with them? What if you could help them see that the Gospel is Good News that impacts every single day of their life?

Using the book of Luke, Pictures of Jesus, a 4-week sermon series, will look at four incredible pictures of Jesus, prompting students to a deeper love for and faith in their Savior Jesus.

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.

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.

Sophomore: Stepping Into Maturity is a 30-day devotional that will help high school sophomores answer some of the unique questions they are presented in their 10th grade year: what role do friends play in their lives? Who are their role models? What life-shaping habits are they developing?

What would happen if you, your ministry leaders, and your students chose to live for God’s glory for 100 days? There’s really only one way to find out! 100 Days of Choosing God’s Glory: A Devotional Challenge is a must-have for anyone who wants to learn how to make God famous. This one-of-a-kind devotional will challenge readers, young and old, to glorify God, teach them what glorifying Him means, and help them figure out how to do it. God is going to glorify Himself one way or another because He deserves it, but you and everyone who is a part of your ministry have a chance to participate. 

Grab a copy of 100 Days of Choosing God’s Glory for every person in your ministry, take the challenge together, and experience what it feels like to let God work in and through you. You’ll be blessed! 

How To Be A Man: Learning From Real Men Of The Bible [Student Edition] is a 40-day devotional experience that uses the lives of eight men of the Bible as an example and challenges teenage guys to live a life of impact and influence, changing the world around them for the sake of the Gospel.

What if our students want to engage with God in the Bible, but no one has shown them the way? Wake Up: Rediscovering A Passion for God and the Bible [Student Edition] is a 31-day devotional experience designed to unlock the Bible for teenage Christ-followers.

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.

God’s Glory, one of the studies in the Activate line of Bible study curriculum, will help your students know exactly what God's glory is, how it is expressed through Christ's work on the cross, and what it means to reflect God's glory in the world around them. 

God’s Love, one of the studies in the Activate line of Bible study curriculum, will help your students understand how much they are loved and valued by God, and how this powerfully impacts how they see their value and purpose.

God’s Judgment, one of the studies in the Activate line of Bible study curriculum, will help your students will see God's faithfulness, and justice demonstrated in His desire to clear our records of wrongdoing. This clearing of our debt makes life possible. And not just eternal life, but a powerful life here on this earth, as well.

Grace, one of the studies in the Activate line of Bible study curriculum, will help your students understand that God's grace is tied to His very character. The loving-kindness that He loves to show us is utterly undeserved on our part. And in Christ, the ultimate kindness was shown: we can know forgiveness from sins and eternal life through Christ only because of God's grace.

God’s Compassion, one of the studies in the Activate line of Bible study curriculum, will help students see that God has placed them in unique situations and circumstances and given them great opportunities to model His love and kindness to those around them.

Forgiveness, one of the studies in the Activate line of Bible study curriculum, will help your students see how this forgiveness is carried out most vividly in the person and ministry of Jesus. And your students will be challenged to carry this message of forgiveness with them wherever they go.

God’s Presence, one of the studies in the Activate line of the Bible study curriculum, will help your students live their faith through good times and bad; the notion that God is always with them is one that has great relevance in their lives.

God’s Knowledge, one of the studies in the Activate line of the Bible study curriculum, will help your students rest in the truth that God is in control, that He sets things right, and that we are truly and forever known.

God’s Power, one of the studies in the Activate line of the Bible study curriculum, will help your students draw strength and comfort from the fact that we serve an all-powerful God that is at work in and through us.

The Trinity, one of the studies in the Activate line of Bible study curriculum, will help your students interact with one of the biggest mysteries of our faith. They should leave with a better faith vocabulary, as well as a more reverent understanding of God.