Youth Ministry Curriculum and Resources

Irrational Hope, a four-session sermon series, will help your students about the experience of exile and how it echoes much of our spiritual experience. It will then give them inspiration and tools for holding hope in the midst of seasons of exile.

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Kairos: is a four-session sermon series that will challenge your students to set aside “tick-tock” time to engage God intentionally and expect Him to break into their lives in timeless ways. By examining four stories of Jesus, this series will encourage your students to look beyond what sits immediately in front of them so they can see that God’s will, goodness, and grace are always working beneath the surface, setting up a framework designed to propel their lives deeper into His Kingdom.

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Live Differently, a four-week sermon series, teaches students God's intent for sex and and challenges them with God's call to live a holy life in a world of sexual immorality.

Now To Him is a four-session sermon series that will help your students realize that we aren’t walking through life alone. We have a powerful, capable, loving God who has a plan for our lives, keeps us, and strengthens us for His glory and our good.

One Charge: is a four-session sermon series that will explore four separate parts of the life of Joseph. This series will challenge your students’ perspectives on power, authority, and their responsibilities in the Kingdom of God. They will learn that God has much more planned for their lives than they think and will be better equipped to handle the weight of God-given authority.

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.

Seven Letters is a four-session sermon series that will call your students to carefully examine their current spiritual life and walk with Jesus. By walking through the letters to the seven churches in Revelation, your students will be challenged to see the potential dangers in their lives and equipped to overcome them to grow in their faith.

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.

Coming up with fun and engaging games for your youth group can be a daunting task. Through years of creating summer camps and working with youth ministries, J. Roger Davis has created SEVEN Youth Group Games books, each packed with 25 field-tested must-play games. The Youth Group Games: Book Bundle includes Water Games, Relay Games, Group Building Games, Large Group Games, Stage Games, Messy Games, and Dodgeball Games. This bundle is the perfect resource to help you hit a home run with your students at your next mid-week service, retreat, or event! 

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! 

Jesus’s intent is to bring all people into the community of faith—and to give each person a significant role to play. What does this mean for you as a student leader? Through real-life anecdotes, practical tips, and key passages of Scripture, Becoming a Student Leader will help you discover more about who you are and the purpose you serve.

How To Be A Man: Pursuing Christ-centered Masculinity [Student Edition] is a 40-day devotional experience that will challenge teenage guys to a more passionate pursuit of growing in to the man God is calling them to be.

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.

Best-Ever Games for Youth Ministry contains over 200 field-tested games that are easy to use in many settings and include classic games with new twists, indoor and outdoor, games that teach, and games that build community.

(EXTRA)Ordinary: 365 Ordinary Moments with an Anything-But-Ordinary God is a year-long devotional journal your students will actually want to read. Divided into three sections, students can go in any order based on their unique life circumstances. But, each day they will come face-to-face with God in these biblically-centered devotions.

Facing Your Fears is a 40-day devotional resource for teenagers and young adults that will allow the Lord to reveal where fear has taken hold of their lives and guide them to put an end to these strongholds through a powerful, Scripture-driven experience.

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.