Tag Archives: Jesus

Jan 20 2012

Following Jesus: Through His Temptation (Luke 4:1-13)


Free files for youth pastors, small group leaders, etc:
4 – Following Jesus – Temptation (mp3)
4 – Following Jesus – Temptation (handout).pdf
4 – Following Jesus – Temptation (ppt).ppt
4 – Following Jesus – Temptation (outline).doc
4 – Following Jesus – Temptation (small groups).doc

My guess is that Christians normally think Jesus was a cheater when it came to temptation. Most Christians seem to believe that Jesus never gave into temptation because He is God. While its true that He was and is fully God, Jesus resisted temptation totally out of His humanity as He was filled with the Spirit. Jesus could not have sinned because He’s God, but Jesus did not sin because He was the perfectly obedient man. Jesus gave us incredible insight on how to resist and fight against temptation. Warning…this is a deep sermon, but I promise it will give you life-long and life-changing principles to battle against temptation for victory like Christ, through Christ, and for Christ.

Jan 13 2012

Following Jesus: In His Baptism (Matthew 3:13-17)


Free files for youth pastors, small group leaders, etc:
3 – Following Jesus – Baptism (mp3).mp3
3 – Following Jesus – Baptism (handout)
3 – Following Jesus – Baptism (ppt)3 – Following Jesus – Baptism (outline).doc
3 – Following Jesus – Baptism (small groups).doc
3 – Following Jesus – Baptism (service order).doc
Do we really understand why Jesus HAD to be baptized? Jesus did not need to be baptized to identity with us, but we need to be baptized to identify with Him. Jesus was baptized to fulfill the faults of the nation of Israel, and to identify with His coming death and resurrection. The way we are baptized communicates our belief in God’s judgment for sin, Jesus’ death for forgiveness, and Jesus’ resurrection for eternal life. We don’t get baptized to be saved, but we get baptized because we are saved. But for those who refuse to be baptized, they may be showing that they aren’t truly saved. To find out more about Jesus’ baptism and a fuller understanding of baptism itself, check out this CBSM message.

Nov 18 2011

One Hit Wonders: (Don’t Just) Jump Around (Book of Haggai)


Free resources for youth pastors, small group leaders, etc:
Haggai (mp3).mp3
Haggai (handout).pdf
Haggai (ppt)
Haggai (commentary).doc
Haggai (notes).doc
Haggai small group discussion questions coming soon…
You’ll be shocked by the message of Haggai. God literally tells His people through Haggai that His temple in the Old Testament is more important than their homes, their jobs and careers, their food and drink, their finances, etc. How does that apply today since the OT temple no longer exists? We find in the NT that the OT is fulfilled first in Jesus, then the church, and third the body of the Christian. So what do we gather from that? Worshiping Jesus with His church as a Christian is not a priority in our lives…but it is THE priority! Check out this study.

Nov 17 2011

CBSM Small Groups: The Apostle #12: Paul’s Epitaph – Discussion Questions


CBSM Small Group Leaders:
Here are your discussion questions for a successful small group session with your students for this Sunday!
The Apostle Small Group Outline 12 – Paul’s Epitaph.pdf
The Apostle Small Group Questions 12 – Paul Epitaph.doc
You can listen to the sermon again at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/maximum-life-pastor-zach-terry/id111108397

Aug 4 2011

One Hit Wonders: Tainted Love (Book of Jonah)


Free resources for youth pastors and small group leaders:
Jonah (mp3).mp3
Jonah (ppt).ppt
Jonah (handout).pdf
Jonah (sermon notes).doc
Jonah (service order).doc
I won’t do any small group questions with this lesson on Jonah. Our small groups this Sunday we be a promotion. All the students are promoting up to their next grade for the new school year. They will be getting new small group leaders and a new small group room. So this Sunday, I want all our small group leaders to focus on getting to know their small group students. I want all our small group students to focus on getting to know each other and their small group leaders.

The book of Jonah rocked my world! Talk about having a tainted love. Jonah had a very skewed view of love for God and for people. Jonah did not want to go and tell Nineveh about God’s forgiving love because Jonah didn’t want God to forgive them. Jonah knew that Nineveh was the capital city of Assyria…who was about to attack the northern kingdom of Israel and send them into exile. How could God forgive His enemies?! Jonah seemed to love God but hate Nineveh. I think our problem is the opposite. It seems to me that we don’t witness because we love people and hate God. Could that be your problem? Check out this study on the book of Jonah, listen to the podcast, and let God rock your world as well. He will use you as a great witness!

Jul 13 2011

One Hit Wonders: Who Let The Dogs Out (Book of Amos by Jacob Fowler)


Free resources for student pastors and small group leaders:
Amos (mp3).mp3
Amos (handout).pdf
Amos (notes).doc
Amos (outline).doc
Amos (small groups).doc
Myself and several of our CBSM high schoolers were out of town, so I asked Jacob Fowler to guest teach CBSM for me. Jacob graduated out of CBSM in 2008. He is a student at the University of Mobile where he is studying theology to become a full-time youth pastor. You will love Jacob’s humor, stories, and understanding of the Bible as he preaches on the whole book of Amos in a Christ-centered and applicational kind of way.

Jul 7 2011

One Hit Wonders: What Is Love? (Book of Hosea)


Free resources for youth pastors and small group leaders:
Hosea (mp3).mp3
Hosea (handout).pdf
Hosea (outline).doc
Hosea (ppt).ppt
Hosea (service order).doc
Hosea (small groups).doc
Hosea is a super edgy and risque story filled with sex, adultery, whoredom, cheaters and…forgiveness, love, faithfulness, and real life stuff. Its a story that truly happened historically to teach us the most important spiritual truth ever: God’s gracious love through the gospel. We normally don’t like to read the Minor Prophets because they call us out on our sin, and we love our sin too much to let go of it. So we usually skip them. But we need them. We need that confrontation. We need to hear how we constantly cheat on God, and we need to hear about His persistent, relentless, loving pursuit of us. Hosea is a must read!

Jun 30 2011

Sermon Intro Video: One Hit Wonders (Series on the Minor Prophets)


Here is our sermon intro video for our series on the Minor Prophets that we’re calling: One Hit Wonders. You will enjoy the smooth dance skills of our own Andrew England (media guy) and Jason Cunningham (worship guy). And since they are so smooth, they take away from my dance skills. So you might notice me a little off beat, out of step, and maybe even mumble through some of the words. I think this is what they might call a “ministry killer.” Even though Jason and Andrew got about 10 takes, I only got 2. Just wanted to make that clear. Either way…enjoy the show…our students sure did!

Jun 16 2011

Sweet Dreams: A Vision of Eternity (Ezekiel 47)


Free downloads for youth pastors and small group leaders:
3 – Ezekiel 47 – Vision of Eternity (mp3)
3 – Ezekiel 47 – Vision of Eternity (handout).pdf
3 – Ezekiel 47 – Vision of Eternity (ppt).ppt
3 – Ezekiel 47 – Vision of Eternity (outline).doc
3 – Ezekiel 47 – Vision of Eternity (service order).doc
3 – Ezekiel 47 – Vision of Eternity (small groups).doc

What will eternity really be like? Everyone wants to know! Country music sings about it constantly! “Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die. Lord, I want to go to heaven, but I don’t want to go tonight.” “If heaven ain’t a lot like Dixie, I don’t want to go.” “Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go now.” “When I get to where I’m going…” One of the latest movies on eternity was called the “Hereafter” produced by Clint Eastwood and starred by Matt Damon. Have our Christian views of eternity been tainted by entertainment’s attempts to describe it? Absolutely!

What if I told you that absolutely no one will end up in heaven forever? We have called eternity “heaven” for so long that our view of eternity has become unbiblical. NT Wright rightly said, “Don’t worry, heaven won’t be the end of the world.” I agree with him fully on that because Revelation 21 and 22 says that Christians will live ON the New Earth which will be in the New Heavens. “Heaven” and the dwelling place of God will come down to Earth rather than us going up to Heaven for all eternity. Eternity will be spent in a very physical world, and not some immaterial, spiritual heavenly realm.

For more truths, thoughts, and contemplations on a biblical eternity…make sure to check out this sermon and study on Ezekiel 47 “Sweet Dreams: A Vision Of Eternity”. By the way, for you youth pastors, the powerpoint in this post has all the videos, mp3, and pics of the country music introduction. You’ll love it!

Apr 21 2011

REBUK’D: Rebuke and Repentance by David Munoz (Jeremiah 21-29)


Free resources for youth pastors, small leaders, parents, and teens:
4 – Jeremiah 21-29 – The Rebuke (mp3)
4 – Jeremiah 21-29 – The Rebuke (handout).pdf
4 – Jeremiah 21-29 – The Rebuke (ppt).ppt
4 – Jeremiah 21-29 – The Rebuke (David sermon notes).doc
4 – Jeremiah 21-29 – The Rebuke (service).doc

David Munoz (CBSM & Sparkman Junior) absolutely LIT IT ON FIRE last night with his sermon on Rebuke and Repentance. This whole REBUK’D series has been building up to this point in the book where Jeremiah just unleashes on God’s people and starts rebuking everyone for their sin. David talks about the four different groups of people that Jeremiah rebukes, how Jesus fulfilled Jeremiah’s ministry of rebuke, and how we need to rebuke others just like Jesus. I wonder if there is this much sin in our own lives, our own families, and our own churches because we aren’t bold enough to rebuke others and not humble enough to receive rebuke from them? But honestly, the problem is that we don’t take sin as seriously as God takes it. If we took sin as seriously as Him (who killed His own Son for the payment for our sin), then we would rebuke each other, hold each other accountable, and repent of sin. So check out David’s sermon. This biblical concept that he is communicating would change every single student ministry out there for the glory of Christ…if our students would live it out!