Youth Ministry Curriculum and Resources

If someone asked you to tell them who Jesus was and what His mission on Earth was, what would you say? The answers to these questions have an eternal significance. John knew that, and that’s why he wrote his account of Jesus’ life. This four-week devotional will help you reflect on the purpose behind Jesus’ life, ministry, miracles, teachings, and divine claims. John: The Way, The Truth, The Life will come alongside this disciple of Jesus to help illuminate the truth that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. By reading and praying through the Gospel of John, you will have the opportunity to learn what Jesus came to do, why He came to do it, and how He calls us to live as His followers. John goes to great lengths to show us that the only place we can find true, everlasting life is in the Light of the world, the Lamb of God, the Good Shepherd, the Way, the Truth, and the Life. 

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Have you ever struggled to know what God wanted you to do in any given situation? Whether you’ve just given your life to Jesus or you’ve been following Him for years, living like He wants us to isn’t always as clear or easy as we’d like it to be. This four-week devotional will confront this very problem. James: The Walk of Faith will take on one of the biggest questions that all believers ask every day, “How should my faith in Jesus change the way I deal with ______?” Whether it’s sin & temptation, trials, wisdom, speech, money & possessions, time, or just the people around us, Jesus has a plan for how we should walk with Him. Our faith in Him, over time, should move us to live and look more like Him day after day. A relationship with Jesus is a lifelong journey, and in his short letter, James shows us how Jesus’ life and teachings should forever change the way we walk with Him through our lives. 

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Do you ever find that it can be lonely living as a believer? For thousands of years, God’s people have had to balance living out their faith while being surrounded by those who do not follow God. Sometimes, they may even live among people who are hostile toward God’s people. This four-week devotional is meant to address this very feeling. In Esther: The Time is Now, you will spend time getting to know a cast of people, including Esther and Mordecai. As Jewish people in the Persian Kingdom, they deal with what it means to be God’s people in the midst of a culture that does not honor or worship God. We are continually faced with the same question that Mordecai asked Esther: What if you are meant for a time such as this? The answer is that we are made for such a time. And the time? The Time is Now.

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What if there was a resource to challenge and equip students to grow in their faith, overcome sin, move to maturity, and boldly live out their beliefs? Introducing Hebrews: Jesus is Better, a four-week devotional journal that will guide your students through the Book of Hebrews and help them discover why Jesus being a better prophet, priest, and king matters just as much to us today as it did to the original readers.

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Prepare Him Room is a two-session Christmas series that helps students pause in the middle of the season and focus on what matters most. Christmas isn’t about tradition, lights, or gifts; it’s about Jesus who came near and came to save.

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King and Kingdom is a 4-session series that invites students to encounter Jesus in a fresh way. By exploring key moments in the Gospel of Mark, students will discover what it means to follow a King who defies expectations and to live in a kingdom that transforms everything.

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Grace and Transformation breaks down the powerful truths found in the book of Romans. Through this journey, students will gain a fresh understanding of God’s grace and be challenged to live lives that reflect the gospel they believe. Each week unpacks a key teaching of Paul’s letter, guiding students to experience the freedom, hope, and purpose that come from a transformed life in Christ.

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Have you ever thought to yourself, I can’t hear God? In a world filled with noise—social media, friends, pressures, and expectations, it can be hard to know if God is speaking, let alone what He’s saying. Louder will help students recognize God’s voice. This series will guide students to discover what it looks like to hear from God, to know the power behind His voice, to know that He will never speak shame and fear into their hearts, and to learn how to respond when God speaks. 

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Foundations series takes us back to the beginning. In a world that often feels chaotic and uncertain, we’ll discover how the foundations God laid in the book of Genesis offer us stability, purpose, and hope today. Students will walk away with a clearer understanding of God’s design for their lives and the world around them. 

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Joy. It’s a good word—a happy word. But it’s often confused with the word happiness. Happiness depends on circumstances, like a fun event or good news, and it can feel just out of reach when things go wrong. Joy, however, is different. As promised in the Bible, joy isn’t tied to emotions or situations. It’s rooted in Christ—real, solid, and lasting—so it endures through fear, pain, and challenges, offering hope no matter what life brings.

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Extraordinary Life, a series on Elijah, will help your students see their own story echoed in one of the most human stories in the Bible. Through Elijah’s story and all of his ups and downs, students are going to learn what an authentic life of faith and passion looks like.

The ironic call of God is that to ultimately find our life, we must lose it first. Not only does this sound a little wild, but it begs the question “How do we die to ourselves” or “walk the plank”, practically? In this series, we’ll explore real-life, examples of men and women throughout the pages of Scripture who “Died to Themselves” and explore their “Death Moment” which will give us clues into what areas in our own lives we need to lay down at the feet of Jesus.

Overcoming Elephants in the Room is a series all about how to address some of the biggest issues facing your students. These are issues that we may be unwilling to address because it’s awkward, uncomfortable, or it feels unnecessary. It’s like having an elephant in the room, everyone knows it’s there, but nobody wants to talk about it- it’s weird but it’s daunting, it’s uncomfortable but it’s unavoidable. The best thing to do when there’s an elephant in the room is to call it out, in this series, we’ll do just that!

Colossians 1 lays the foundation for our lives as followers of Jesus. It shows us who Jesus is and why our walk with God matters. Walk This Way will help students stay grounded in their faith even when they feel lost, overwhelmed, distracted, or unsure. 

Selah is a four-session sermon series studying different types of Psalms: Lament, Praise, Thanksgiving, and Remembrance. Each session explores the authors, their challenges, emotions, and how God met them in their chaos. The prayers of those who have gone before us are significant and encouraging for us today.

The Maze: Navigating the Christian Life, a four-session sermon series, will help students learn how to understand and follow God's will for our lives despite the numerous distractions in our lives.

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Little Sins is a four-session series that will confront your students’ misbelief that there are such things as “little” sins. By discussing four sins they are sometimes tempted to see as less severe than others, Little Sins will challenge your students to see all sins as equally destructive and urge them to love God and their neighbor more sincerely.

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Connected: Building a Foundation of Prayer is designed to help students understand how important prayer is in the life of a believer. Prayer is not just tossing up some words with our eyes closed, but rather it is a gift allowing us to stand in the presence of a loving God.

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BABYLON: is a four-session series that will help your students understand that as they follow Jesus, their liveswill look drastically different than the world around them. Students will learn what it looks like to stand strong in their faith even when they are faced with all the world’s temptations, and they will be better prepared to live for God in our modern-day Babylon.

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WARRIOR: a four-session sermon series that will help your students better understand and be prepared for the spiritual battle that rages all around us. Students will learn that, as followers of Jesus, we are all warriors in a daily high stakes spiritual battle, but we can have confidence because Jesus has already won the war. In addition, they’ll learn to understand and utilize the different pieces of spiritual armor God has gifted us to fight this battle so that we can experience victory in Jesus.

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Kings is a four-session series that will walk through key moments in the lives of four kings of Israel and Judah. Kings will teach your students to wait on God’s timing, take ownership of their faith, consider the voices they listen to, and be consistently faithful in their walk with the Lord.

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By Name takes a deep dive into the life of one of the Bible’s most cunning characters: Jacob. Over four sessions, this series will challenge students to reflect on how they see themselves versus how God sees them. By looking at key moments in Jacob’s story, they’ll explore how God knows them personally and invites them into His greater purpose.

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Good Vibes Only, a four-session sermon series, will help your students realize the goodness of God all around them and in their own lives. God is all-good, all-powerful, all-loving– all the time. He shows His goodness, power, and love in our lives as He leads us and meets our needs, just like a good shepherd. Even in hard times or when we aren’t seeing His goodness, He is there and He is working. There is no limit to God’s goodness- we’ll discover that through this series, Good Vibes Only. 

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This series, Golgotha, invites students to explore powerful stories of those who encountered Jesus during His crucifixion and resurrection. In this series, students will wrestle with their own response to the Cross as they look at themes of faith, surrender, restoration, and doubt. This series will show students that the Cross is more than just a historical event. It’s a personal invitation to follow Jesus with their whole lives.

Idols is a four-session sermon series that will challenge your students’ idea that idols are merely ancient statues that have no power over our lives. This series will explain to your students that, even though they may not look like they used to, many idols are still at work today. Idols will equip your students with the tools they need to recognize and identify the idols in their lives and give them the steps to reorient their lives to God.

In Audacious: Having Faith That Changes History, a four-session sermon series, we’ll look at the lives of four people in the Bible who lived out an audacious faith and changed the course of history. We’ll unpack their stories and talk about how we can live out an audacious faith today.

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Teach Big Questions: Questions That Leave a Mark to your students to help them think about the questions that they encounter and how to bring those questions to God, trusting Him to lead them to Himself as they search for the answers.

In Difference Maker: Impacting the World for Christ, a four-session sermon series, your students will learn what it means to be a difference-maker as they learn from four biblical leaders that made a tremendous difference.

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Teach YM360's Sermon Series "Elemental: The Foundation for a World-Changing Life" to challenge your students to be elemental people who move beyond a mere passion for becoming people of mission who change the world.

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Filtered: Learning to Love God Through Technology, a four-session sermon series, will help your students become serious about loving God by giving them handles to place technology in its rightful place.

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Finish Strong is a four-session sermon series that will challenge your students to evaluate how they’re running their race of faith and equip them to run so that they may obtain the prize that awaits them. Your students will be encouraged to know that perseverance isn’t all up to them but rests on the power of God within them.

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Four-Letter Words: Learning To Make More Of Jesus And Less Of Ourselves, a four-session sermon series, will challenge your students to shift their perspective on the priorities in their life and ask the questions: What could our faith look like if we actively put Jesus in the number one spot in our life? What could God do in us and through us if we began placing everything we want secondary to everything God wants for us?

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God’s Got This, a four-session sermon series, will help your students see that God is working in our lives even when we don’t see it. We can trust God in the big and the small things of life…because GOD’S GOT THIS.

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Good Enough is a four-session sermon series, explores what it means to be good enough for God to use us. Here's the truth: none of us are good enough on our own. Yet, God chooses each of us for a glorious purpose within His plans, and only He can help us fulfill it. Join us as we discover how God's strength is made perfect in our weakness and how He can use anyone for His purposes.

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Growing is a four-session sermon series that will challenge your students to start seeing spiritual growth, prayer, Scripture memory, and serving not as some oppressive Christian obligation but instead as their response to a love relationship with Jesus. In this series, we will lay out the purpose and reasons for spiritual growth and focus on three disciplines that will help your students grab hold of, digest, and make them a habit in their lives.

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