Comments on: Hot Weekend Series Ideas

By: Flaviu

Flaviu — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:05:54 +0000

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i’m starting it with our students tonight!
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By: Flaviu

Flaviu — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:05:52 +0000

myspace
{clearly me}

i’m starting it with our students tonight!
1. about me
2. myfriends
3. mycomments
4. myheroes
5. mybackground
…

By: Rich Schmidt

Rich Schmidt — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 07:41:56 +0000

I’m not sure how much “buzz” there is in ‘em, but here are some we’ve done or are doing…

1. CliffsNotes on the Bible – Our current series, hitting the whole Bible in 8 weeks (and one of those was an intro!). Attempting to get at the big picture & build biblical literacy in our seeker/stranger crowd. (The OT is a bit intimidating…)

2. Summer Blockbusters – series where each message tied into a current movie.

3. Can You Hear Me Now? – series on spiritual disciplines that help us clear the airwaves to hear God clearly. (God’s the one asking the question.)

4. Your Tough Questions – We’ve done this one a couple times, where people submit questions a couple weeks in advance & then we deal with the top ones for 3-4 weeks.

Honestly, most of our most buzzworthy series were swiped from you guys, Community Christian (Naperville), Crossroads Community (Ohio), or somewhere else! We just did Desperate Households this past fall, and it was definitely buzzworthy!

By: Luke Dooley

Luke Dooley — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 13:19:24 +0000

See your e-mail!

-Luke-

By: Matt McKee

Matt McKee — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:32:31 +0000

I know this came from Fellowship Church, but one of the best series I have seen done was called “Tank U”. It was on spiritual war fare. To see Ed Young on stage with a tank was incredible. The buzz was at an incredible point around the community.

For Horizon Community Church, I would say the series that has had the most buzz and the biggest community draw would be the one we are in now. It is called “Science Friction”. We are talking about God the biologist, God the Astronomer, and yes even God the OB,GYN. It really is hitting a cord with peeps.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 13:06:05 +0000

Can I post twice on this?

Another series I hope to teach some day: “Why Does Bad Stuff Happen to Me and What Can I do About it Anyway?”

1. John 11 — Wait and watch. “Bad stuff” happens to give God a chance to reveal, or glorify, himself (vs. 4) Jesus made the sisters wait for an answer to their prayers. In the end, they gained greater understanding of who he was and Jesus accomplished purposes greater than they could ever have imagined.

2. Be thankful, even for the “bad stuff.” Philippians 4:6 Lots of bad stuff happened to Paul, yet he was always thankful and God did things through him that were beyond imagining.

3. Reach out, even in the midst of the “bad stuff.” I Samuel 1. Eli had lots of troubles in his life, but when he reached out to help Hannah, God delivered a son to him, he worshipped the Lord for it and God did something through that son that no one could have imagined.

By: eric bramlett

eric bramlett — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 12:56:09 +0000

At http://www.communitychristian.org, we are getting ready to start planning a three-week series in June called “STDs (Spiritually Transmitted Diseases).” – I think it’s going to be cool – diseases like “Judgementalism” and “Loophole-ism” will be treated. I’m pretty sure most of these diseases are spread by sharing Testamints…

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 12:53:33 +0000

How about “The Gospel in the Movies.” Sort of a spin-off (rip-off) from “The Sacred Romance” use of movies to illustrate the greatest story ever told.

The Fall — Best I can come up with right now is the descent of Gollum, from “Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.” (“We wept to be so alone. …And we forgot the taste of bread… the sound of trees… the softness of the wind. We even forgot our own name. My Precious.”)

The Quest — God’s quest to rescue us. Illustrated by the waterfall scene from “The Last of the Mohicans.” (“I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I will find you. I will find you.”) Idea stolen from Sacred Romance.

The Rescue — The Lord rescues us from those in whom we trust. The rescue scene on the beach from “The Wind and the Lion.” Sean Connery plays a noble desert chieftain at war who kidnaps Candace Bergen and her children. Thinking she is in the hands of a an evil pirate, she arranges to escape with a group who turns out to be real pirates who intend to enslave her and her children. Sean comes to the rescue, a one man wrecking crew. (“You are a great deal of trouble Mrs. Pedecaris.”)

Enslisting in God’s Army — God is waging a guerilla war or counterattack on Satan in order to rescue the lost. He enlists us in this guerilla army. Illustrated by The Ride of the Rohirrim from “Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.” (“Courage Merry. Courage for our friends.”)

Dying to Self — As Christ died for us, so we are to die for one another. The Matrix, when Agent Smith kills Neo, fulfilling the Oracle’s prophecy to Trinity that she would “fall in love with a dead man.”

Becoming who God made us to be — “Chariots of Fire.” (“I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure.”)

The Victory Party — One day, the battle will be won and we will be united forever with Him and with each other. Can’t think of a real good one yet for this.

By: Richard H

Richard H — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 11:55:07 +0000

Two series come to mind:
1. What’s the Difference?
In this series I talk about the difference between Christianity and other options out there. Last time I did it the first message dealt with relativism – the claim that differences are irrelevant. Other messages dealt with Islam, Eastern religions, American religions (Mormonism, JW) and I finished with the Difference between being a Christian and being an American.

2. The Truth is Better than you thought.
This series also aimed at confrontation with the world. I pick a number of positions the world argues for and show how what the bible teaches is better. One example: ‘It’s my body! I can do with it as I choose!’

By: Chris Whitehead

Chris Whitehead — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 11:06:38 +0000

I asked my wife what was the best series I have every done. She said it was my series called “Toolbox”. I looked at the spiritual disciplines and related each one to a different tool in my toolbox. We did up the stage to look like a worksite. I brought out my big metal toolbox and removed a different tool each week.

For example: Silence – The plane – Remove the layers of noise from our life to hear clearly from God

Service – The hammer – Serving one another in love, not to be noticed, but as a revealer of God in us

Study – The drill – We are to be deeply saturated in scripture so we can live lives that are more like Jesus down to the last detail.

Confession – The level – Removes the sins from our lives. Confession should be specific, concrete, and particular.

Fasting – The Crowbar – Removing and/or revealing the deepest most difficult aspects of being a follower of Jesus.