Voices (3 Lessons): Jan. 3, Jan. 10, Jan. 17 (Break Away Jan 24)
Series Overview
This is going to sound weird, but every one of us hears voices in our heads. It’s the voices that say, “Life would be easier if only I could or had . . . ” It’s the voices that whisper when we look in the mirror or compare ourselves to someone else. These voices are trying to lead each one of us somewhere, but is it somewhere we really want to go? Or is there a better voice to follow? Yes, there is a voice that has our best in mind. A voice that knew us before we uttered our first cry. A voice that is designed not to bring out the worst in us, but the best.



Lovesick (3 Lessons): January 31, Feb. 14, Feb. 21 (Break Away Feb.28)
There’s something pretty amazing about being in love, isn’t there? The butterflies in your stomach. The dreamy gazes. No wonder so many of us are so in love with being in love. But if you look around—in the media, at school, in life—we’ve taken what God created and twisted it, morphed it and configured it into something it was never meant to be—an obsession. When romantic relationships become an obsession, balance goes out the window. We miss out on opportunities and experiences we might otherwise have had. And sometimes we even forget who we are. There’s got to be healthier way to do this. There’s got to be another way than being so lovesick.

Superbowl Party on February 7

WE (3 Lessons): March (dates will coincide with Spring Break)
In following Christ, there is one truth that most of us forget—we were never meant to do this alone. We need other people. It’s critical not just because we need friends, but also because in community we understand more about who God is. We see how He is working in other people’s lives. We learn things that God has taught them, and we get an opportunity to love and serve others. The WE series helps us discover the “WHY” behind community—why we need it, why we should pursue it.



What Goes Around (3 Lessons): April
Have you ever heard about something bad happening to someone and found you were excited about it? I mean, you knew this person deserved the very worst. You felt like the universe owed him or her horrible, nasty things. There’s a word for that—it’s called karma. Karma is the idea that what goes around comes around. This philosophy states that when a person does good things, good things will happen to them, and when a person does bad things, well, you get the idea. As Christians, we are called to live by another standard—grace. Over the next three weeks we will be talking with your student about what it means to really live by grace.



Upside Down
In the Upside Down series, we are going to look at something Jesus talked a lot about—the kingdom of God. Many of the people who heard His message firsthand thought that He was talking about a kingdom where Jesus would be in political power, and that their lives would be easier than their present circumstances under Roman rule. But Jesus was talking about something bigger than that—a kingdom where His desire for broken things to be restored is met. Jesus was talking about ushering in an upside down kingdom