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Creative Youth Ideas
“Creative Sermon
Ideas”
All The Help You Need To Prepare
Powerful, Life-Changing Youth
Sermons That Will Turn Your
Preaching Around And Make Your
Youth Sit Up And Listen!

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Dear Friends,

Here’s Where It All Began…

I still remember the first time I was given
the opportunity to preach in front my
youth congregation. I had been a youth
volunteer with my church for a few years
and when I was first asked, the news was
met with a sense of excitement mixed
with dread. I had questions like, How do I
even prepare a sermon? Where do I start?
What am I going to preach about?



I did my best with what I knew and put
together what I thought would be an
epic sermon; one that was funny,
dramatic at some points, had tons of
life lessons, and spiritual applications.
I felt like I had prepared well. The time
came and I stood up front, delivered
my sermon with confidence, and gave
the response.



I wish I could have told you I had crowds
of youth in my church coming forward,
flooding the aisles, and on their knees
with tears of repentance flowing freely
from their faces. Well, that didn’t happen.
In fact, the response was closer to one or
two tentatively raised hands and more
than a few bewildered stares in my
direction. I had no idea what went wrong
or what I missed out.



Well, that was only my first attempt,
surely I’d get the hang of this. Well it
didn’t, not for a long while. I’m not
sure if you ever had the same
learning experience as me but if
you’re at all like me, you probably
spent the time second guessing
yourself, doubting your calling,
questioning your abilities and feeling
like you’ve let your youth down.



Eventually, I had the opportunity to attend
a few preaching classes in seminary, the
assistance of a great spiritual mentor and
it wasn’t long before I was able to
understand and apply the lessons I learnt
from them. It wasn’t rocket science and it
was a simple process once I knew how.
My preaching isn’t perfect, but being
familiar with the process has saved me
from many failures at the pulpit. I’m
thankful that a few youth have come to
thank me over the years for preaching
what was to them, a life-changing
message from God.



Through all of this, I do have one regret: I
still kind of wish I found out sooner, or
known how to get to the resources
available, or found someone to hold my
hand earlier through that process of
writing and delivering those first few
sermons I preached.

I’m pretty sure my early experiences as a
preacher aren’t unique to me alone.
We’ve all been there before. We’ve felt
that sense of inadequacy and uncertainty,
like an artist staring at a blank canvas,
wondering how his painting would turn
out.



The Art of Preaching
“You do not know how paralyzing that
staring of a blank canvas is. It says to the
painter, you can’t do anything … Many
painters are afraid of the blank canvas,
but the blank canvas is afraid of the really
passionate painter who is daring.” ~
Vincent van Gogh



The blank canvas represents so many
possibilities. In fact, to many, it can be
outright intimidating. Hands poised above
the canvas. Palettes of wonderful colors
waiting to take on so many hues and vivid
passionate colors. There is incredible
power, but also great apprehension in the
waiting. What will be created? Will I have
the right perspective? Is it true to my
vision? Did I see it right? – The depth, the
fill, the background, the highlights. Will I
get everything right? Will they
understand? And more importantly, will it
stir up their hearts and excite a response?



Fingers on the keyboard. Pen poised
above paper. You know how it feels. That
sermon slot in the program says to you,
“You can’t do anything.” But God says,
“You can do all things through me.” Relax,
set it aside for a moment. Let’s remember
why we are here. We are here to deliver
His message, we are the brush in the
Master’s hands. Yield to him. Like a brush
on a palette of paints, your life will take on
the colors and hues of the experiences of
life. More importantly, you will take on
the colors and hues of God's passions as
well.



All artists desire to create greatest
masterpieces. But rather than dabs of
paint touched to a piece of canvas, the
masterpieces we yearn for are changed
hearts touched by God.



The Lost Art

Ask any youth what the high point of
the Sunday service is and I’m quite
certain few of them would say it was
the sermon. It’s not surprising. Youth
today are bombarded with hundreds of
thousands of messages a day;
messages from the TV, movies, radio,
internet, advertising, Facebook,
Twitter, their friends, parents, to name
just a few. They are well versed in using
these channels of communication. Just
look around you on a Sunday morning.



You’ll see any number of young people
discreetly whipping out their mobile
phones, their fingers an unbelievable
flurry of motion, probably texting their
friend in the next row about where
they’ll be having lunch after service. No,
I’ve not been spying on your
congregation, I see it happen in my
church too. Shhh! Don’t tell my pastor,
but I’ve been known to be guilty of
doing the same myself!



This is the world we have been thrust into.
Our goal is to make a difference in the lives
of youth, to be a contact point to recapture
the attention of our youth and point them
back to God. You may have been faced with
the weight of the unenviable and daunting
task of preaching a sermon. You must
deliver one that will engage a diverse
audience: the son of the Senior Pastor (who
after indirectly hearing what you’ve said
over the pulpit will approach you a few days
later to critique the message for its lack of
theological and doctrinal accuracy; the high
school youth who’s struggling with the real
issue of being bullied in school; a middle
school youth who just accepted Christ last
week; the teenager girl who just found out
she will soon be a mom.



Like an artist, you have a message to
communicate. But the medium is not
paint on a canvas, stone beneath a chisel,
or notes on a staff. The vehicle entrusted
to us to communicate God’s truth is the
spoken word - the sermon. Some of you
get the importance of recovering this lost
art. But some of you might be wondering
why we should spending so much time on
preaching if your youth aren’t even
interested in listening anyway? Why not
just give them what they want and have
an extended worship service? Or a small
group meeting? Or some games that
they’ll enjoy so much more?



Why Even Bother?

Youth find sermons dull not because the
Word of God is boring, but because they
don’t see how it is relevant to them. They
complain that, “It’s always the same old
thing.” because the application is always
the same, or worse, there is no
application at all! Another complaint is,
“Sure, I get what they’re trying to say, but
so what?” Our sermons have to speak to
the hopes, dreams, hurts, fears, cries and
struggles that youth face every day.



When Jesus spoke, he met His hearers
where they were – in their fishing boats,
in the fields, at the well, at their times of
celebration, in their times of mourning
and when they needed a healing touch.
When we deliver our sermons, we
provoke our youth to ask, “How did the
characters in the Bible relate to one
another? What choices did they make?
What might have gone through their
minds?” And we relate it to our youth
here and now by giving them pause to
ask, “How do we relate to one another?
What choices do I struggle with making?
What goes through my mind?”



We believe so much in the power of the
sermon that we made a decision to put
together the best youth sermon resource
we could imagine. Even if you don’t have a
youth service in your church or an
opportunity to share from the pulpit, you
can still apply the lessons in this resource
to preparing for a Bible study series, a
teaching session, or to share a powerful
lessons at camp.



Here’s a little disclaimer: I did NOT
stumble upon these ideas by chance. We
meticulously searched for PRACTICAL,
PROVEN, and APPLICABLE ideas.
Whatever your needs may be, we made a
wish-list of everything that we only
dreamed of having in our hands when we
first started out. All our knowledge,
research, feedback we received from our
website, things our readers from our
website have been asking for; We poured
them all into a blueprint that we call…



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Listen to what other
youth leaders who have
discovered and used my
sermon ideas have said:



“I’m so thankful for these resources”

“My husband and I were just hired as Youth
Pastors. Being new at this without a lot of
money and resources I began to search the
web and found... I am learning to prepare
sermons and events for our growing youth
ministry [and] I am so thankful for these
resources. [It] will help me prepare for a
growing ministry to youth in our
community as my desire is to reach the
youth of this city. Thank You!”

- Victoria Craig, Youth Pastor, Lynn Haven
Church of God, Panama City, Florida, USA.



“Building a library of lessons”

“I am the Worship Pastor/Leader here at
Solitude and recently I have added student
minister to my role. I have been working with
youth for several years now from a
supporting role... I was searching the web to
begin building a library of lessons, activities,
sermons, illustrations, etc. Your website
seems to fill in a lot of missing pieces that I
needed. I haven’t had the time to completely
search the site but plan to in the upcoming
week. So far, thanks for the valuable info I
have found. Be blessed!”

- Lee Fleming, Worship Pastor, Solitude
Baptist Church, Albertville, Alabama, USA.



Everything you need to know about
preparing for and preaching awesome
Sermons!

“Creative Sermon Ideas” is a 100 page e-
book that explains everything you need to
know when planning your very own
sermons. It contains all that you need to
get you started and everything else you
need to help you prepare and present
your own sermon.



There are quite a few free ideas on the
web, that may not cost you any money
but will certainly cost you plenty of time
to download and sort between the trash
and the treasure.

You’ll get it immediately, even if you need
it at 2:00 am in the morning! (I hear that’s
prime time when youth leaders hunt for
ideas)



Still Want More?

I’m trying so hard to convince you to get
this book because I believe that our youth
deserve so much more from our pulpit
ministry. They need to hear the truth, the
Word of God in ways that will cause them
to experience defining moments in their
Christian journey and YOU are the vessel
God has chosen to bring that truth to
them.



So to encourage you to take action and
purchase Creative Sermon Ideas now,
I’m going to include some awesome
resources that compliment all those
great sermon ideas and be an even
more effective minister.



BONUS #1 – Ultimate Youth
Sermon Library
We’re going to give you a growing library
of sermons. What that means is we’re
going to not only share with you all the
best sermons that we’ve heard but all the
best sermons we will ever hear in the
future. That means every time someone
submits a sermon that blows us away, we
hear an impactful one at church, we
prepare fresh sermons to preach, and we
rediscover sermons we’ve preached
before in our own libraries, we’re going to
add them into the book and send you
updates at no extra charge. That’s our
commitment and our gift to you.



BONUS #2 – Awesome Preaching
Calendar Guide
Preaching Calendars save you save you
time and rescue you from the stress of
wracking your brain on what to preach
next. This guide is comprehensive enough
to give you a huge head start at your next
youth leaders’ retreat so you and your
team can come together prayfully and
begin planning the spiritual journey of
your youth ministry!



BONUS #3 – Step-by-Step Sermon
Prep Checklist
You’ll receive a Step-by-Step checklist of
the process we’ve outlined throughout
the book so you can track your progress
while you craft your sermon. It contains all
the important key questions we ask
ourselves through the stages of sermon
preparation to guide ourselves along the
way.



It’s not unusual for bookstores to charge
you over $30 for a single book, with
EITHER (and not both) how to prepare a
sermon from start to finish OR a collection
of sermons that serve as examples. These
books don’t specifically mention how to
prepare a sermon for youth either. Believe
me, we looked ourselves and the
resources available for youth sermons are
sadly lacking.



We’re giving you a resource you can use
over and over again. It’s not just beginner
stuff but everything we learnt in Seminary
related to preaching. In fact, as you grow
more confident in your preaching – and
we know you will – we encourage you to
re-read the book and go more in depth
with what we’re saying and continue to
take your preaching to a whole other
level. Remember, we’re also committing
to giving you an unlimited, growing
collection of sermon ideas for ONLY
$29.97!



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Wishing you a Blessed Bible Study
Experience.

With Youth on Our Hearts,
Ken Sapp & Joshua Goh



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