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Feb 11 2016

So Many Emojis: God, are you trying to kill me? (Genesis 22)

So Many Emojis – 2 – Isaac – Gen 22 (notes)

So Many Emojis – 2 – Isaac – Gen 22 (curriculum)

So Many Emojis – 2 – Isaac – Genesis 22 (keynote)

We call this series “So Many Emojis: Riding the Relational Roller Coaster” because a relationship with God can be a crazy ride filled with many different emotions! Take Isaac’s life for instance when God called for his death by his own father. What are we even supposed to do with that? But God called for this sacrifice in order to bring a bigger blessing! Check out to see what all this means, how it applies to the Gospel, and what it means for our lives.

Jan 2 2013

My 4 Favorite Sermons for the New Year

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Looking for challenging messages for teens around New Years that are Christ-centered, gospel-grounded, biblically-based, and life-changing? Look no further! Here’s our top 3:

How To Be a Teenager Like Jesus This Year (Luke 2)
https://youthgrouptruth.com/2012/01/09/following-jesus-in-his-childhood/

Why Do We Do What We Do? (Acts 2:36-47)
https://youthgrouptruth.com/2011/01/06/cbsm-service-cbsm-in-2011-acts-236-47/

Your Best Year Yet (Nehemiah 1-2)
https://youthgrouptruth.com/2010/01/07/storyline-69-nehemiah-1-2-“the-city-life-cbsm-in-2010/

What Will This Year Be Known For? (1 Timothy) https://youthgrouptruth.com/2013/01/03/i-love-my-church-because-i-love-jesus-1-timothy/

Dec 20 2012

Bringing THE CHURCH Back 2 Life: 2 Thessalonians (Christmas Sermon)

Free downloads and resources for youth pastors, small group leaders, parents, and teens:
9 – The Church B2L – 2Thessalonians (audio).mp3
9 – The Church B2L – 2Thessalonians (handout).pdf
9 – The Church B2L – 2Thessalonians (ppt).ppt
9 – The Church B2L – 2Thessalonica (notes).doc
9 – The Church B2L – Thessalonica (service order).doc
9 – The Church B2L – 2Thessalonians (small groups).doc
This is a Christmas sermon with a huge twist. It may not even sound like a Christmas sermon at first, but then it gets REAL! I honestly believe that people during Christmas focus on “baby Jesus” so much that they lose their awe and worship of the glory of Jesus. We seem to keep Him in the manger over Christmas and not view Him as the resurrected, reigning, and ruling King over the universe. This message will help refocus your mind on who you’re truly to worship this Christmas holiday.

Dec 9 2011

Following Jesus: In His Birth (CBSM’s Christmas Sermon)


Free resources for youth pastors, small group leaders, etc:
1 – Following Jesus – Birth (mp3).mp3
1 – Following Jesus – Birth (handout).pdf
1 – Following Jesus – Birth (ppt).ppt
1 – Following Jesus – Birth (outline).doc
1 – Following Jesus – Birth (service order).doc
1 – Following Jesus – Birth (small groups).doc
You may think you’ve heard it all before. We talk about the birth of Jesus every year as Christians. One of the hardest parts of a pastors job is to find a new perspective on the birth of Jesus year after year, while telling the story like its the first time. I believe God gave me this specific message for our CBSM Christmas worship service. We looked at 5 different perspectives of how to respond to Jesus’ birth in life-changing faith. Through the lenses of Joseph, the Wisemen, Mary, the Shepherds, and SImeon, we saw how each one of them responded to Jesus’ birth in great faith. Check out how the truthfulness of Jesus’ birth makes a huge difference in your life!

Mar 1 2011

CBSM Sermon Video – “SEX TALK: For Beauties and Beasts”


This is our second and final sermon in our SEX TALK series for this February. This message is all about how super important gender roles are to God and in His Word. God created us in specific gender with specific roles to each gender. God did this because He was reflecting Himself (different roles within the Trinity), and He’s reflecting His Gospel. Through this message, we want to turn-out biblical BEASTS (dudes) and BEAUTIES (ladies) who want to glorify Jesus through their gender. Godly guys need to be MENNN, and godly girls need to be LAIDIESSS. So feel free to check out anything on here, and use it for your ministry or life.

Feb 24 2011

SEX TALK: Beauties and Beasts

Free downloads for youth pastors and small group leaders:
2 – Sex Talk – Gender Roles (mp3)
2 – Sex Talk – Gender Roles (handout).pdf
2 – Sex Talk – Gender Roles (ppt)
2 – Sex Talk – Gender Roles (outline).doc
2 – Sex Talk – Gender Roles (small groups)
2 – Sex Talk – Gender Roles (service)
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SEX TALK Sermon Intro Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpFGSOS3GIE
This is our second and final sermon in our SEX TALK series for this February. This message is all about how super important gender roles are to God and in His Word. God created us in specific gender with specific roles to each gender. God did this because He was reflecting Himself (different roles within the Trinity), and He’s reflecting His Gospel. Through this message, we want to turn-out biblical BEASTS (dudes) and BEAUTIES (ladies) who want to glorify Jesus through their gender. Godly guys need to be MENNN, and godly girls need to be LAIDIESSS. So feel free to check out anything on here, and use it for your ministry or life.

Feb 21 2011

CBSM Sermon Video “CBSM on Cutting: When Pain Feels Good”


Since we hit the tragedy of suicide hard last week, God directed us to take one more week in the hard issues of teenage life…and talk about cutting, self-injury, self-abuse, and self-harm. God surfaced so many struggles in the lives of the students through this sermon. I literally stayed for an hour after the service just counseling teens who were hurting and admitting struggles. I was up past midnight responding to all kinds of texts and emails over the topic. I believe many times, youth ministries aren’t coming close to scratching the surface of the real issues in students lives. And at other times, the student ministries who do focus on all the immediate issues…aren’t pointing them to Jesus thru the gospel. There has to be a real balance here of being proactive and reactive. Proactively letting the Holy Spirit deal with issues from the Word, and reactively preaching the issues that we’re aware of when they become urgent. Feel free to check out and use all of our media on cutting and self-abuse for your own life and ministry.

Feb 17 2011

CBSM on Cutting: When Pain Feels Good


Free files for youth pastors and small group leaders:
Cutting (mp3).mp3
Cutting (handout).pdf
Cutting (ppt).ppt
Cutting (notes).doc
Cutting (small groups).doc
Cutting Teen Testimony.doc
Cutting (service).doc
We used a “Teenage Cutting Story” from youtube as our sermon intro video.
Since we hit the tragedy of suicide hard last week, God directed us to take one more week in the hard issues of teenage life…and talk about cutting, self-injury, self-abuse, and self-harm. God surfaced so many struggles in the lives of the students through this sermon. I literally stayed for an hour after the service just counseling teens who were hurting and admitting struggles. I was up past midnight responding to all kinds of texts and emails over the topic. I believe many times, youth ministries aren’t coming close to scratching the surface of the real issues in students lives. And at other times, the student ministries who do focus on all the immediate issues…aren’t pointing them to Jesus thru the gospel. There has to be a real balance here of being proactive and reactive. Proactively letting the Holy Spirit deal with issues from the Word, and reactively preaching the issues that we’re aware of when they become urgent. Feel free to check out and use all of our media on cutting and self-abuse for your own life and ministry.

Feb 15 2011

CBSM Sermon Video “SEX TALK: What Every Teen Wants to Hear” (by Zach Terry)


Our book for the month of February “just happened” (in a Divinely sovereign way) to land on Song of Solomon. Bonus! I “just happened” (in a Divinely sovereign way) to be out of town for a conference on the night of this new series start, so our much wiser senior pastor came in to deliver the message “SEX TALK” to our students. He absolutely tore it up. The students loved it. They said, “It was AWESOME!” “It was HILARIOUS!” “It was AWKWARD!” I’m so thankful for a senior pastor who loves teenagers, and who is sincere enough to talk with them about anything. We went super straight-forward with this talk, because the teenagers need to hear it. So feel free to check out how he handled “SEX TALK” to a ton of teens.

Feb 14 2011

CBSM Sermon Video: “CBSM on Suicide: The Let Hope Rise Movement”


We have had a devastating week with two teens in our area ending their own lives by suicide. There have been at least two other teen suicides in the past two months, and statistics tell us that there are another 100 attempts for ever suicidal success. THIS HAS GOT TO STOP! So we’re going to do everything we can at CBSM to start a movement on spreading the hope of Jesus Christ. We did our best to hit the topic of suicide head-on last night and talked straight-up about why it happens, how to help, and where hope can be found. Feel free to check out and use all of our resources for your life and ministry dealing with suicide as well.