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Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors: Volume 4
Fifty-two sermons, four series, and the holidays covered.
Volume 4 is a year arranged as four complete sermon series — the walk toward the cross, the questions life keeps asking, forty days of focused prayer, and Paul's answers to a church in Corinth. Each series carries your people through a whole season of preaching, one message building on the last.
Sermon Outlines for Busy Pastors: Volume 4 holds 52 complete sermon outlines — a full year of Sundays plus mini-series for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Every outline is a complete message, expository, rooted in God's Word, and written from the notes I preach from in my own pulpit. These are not bare three-point skeletons; the structure, the flow, and the Scripture are all opened up, with room for your illustrations, your application, your voice.
Inside are four full series: The Road to the Cross, Life: What's the Point?, 40 Days of Prayer, and Questions from Corinth — plus the holiday mini-series. Preach a series straight through, or pull a single sermon when it's the one your church needs that week. The outlines stand on their own and leave room for your own direction.
You bring the prayer, the study, and the Spirit's leading. The outline hands you the faithful skeleton and the time to make it yours.
See every sermon and its text in the reference list below.
Sermon Reference List
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| # | Sermon | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boldly Into the New Year | Joshua 1:1-9 |
| 2 | The Choice is Yours | Psalm 1:1-6 |
| 3 | Too Busy for Jesus | Luke 10:38-42 |
| 4 | Perform and Impress? | Proverbs 29:25 |
| 5 | Lessons from the Thorn | 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 |
| 6 | Proud or Humble? | Isaiah 66:1-2 |
| 7 | The Atoning Blood | Leviticus 16:1-9; Hebrews 9:7-14 |
| 8 | Blindness | 2 Corinthians 4:1-6 |
| 9 | The Road to the Cross: Who Then Can Be Saved? | Luke 18:18-30 |
| 10 | The Road to the Cross: He’s Coming Back | Matthew 24:36-44 |
| 11 | The Road to the Cross: The Haves and the Have-Nots | Luke 18:9-14 |
| 12 | The Road to the Cross: The Big Picture | Isaiah 53:1-10 |
| 13 | The Road to the Cross: It Is Finished | John 19:16-30 |
| 14 | Second Chances | 2 Timothy 4:11 |
| 15 | Taking a Risk | Luke 8:43-48 |
| 16 | The Book Will Bring Revival | 2 Chron. 34:14-21; 29-33 |
| 17 | The Woman God Blesses | 1 Samuel 1:1-2:2 |
| 18 | What it Takes to do the Work of the Lord | Judges 7:1-15 |
| 19 | Men on Fire | Colossians 1:3-8; 4:12-13 |
| 20 | Identity Confusion | Luke 22:54-62 |
| 21 | At the Crossroads | Jeremiah 6:16 |
| 22 | A Building Dedication | 2 Kings 6:1-7 |
| 23 | Thanksgiving | Psalm 73:1-28 |
| 24 | Thanksgiving | Psalm 100:1-5 |
| 25 | Thanksgiving | Psalm 96:1-13 |
| 26 | Christmas - The Big Picture | Luke 2:1-14; John 1 |
| 27 | Christmas - The Incarnation | Luke 2:1-14 |
| 28 | Christmas - This Baby’s Life | Isaiah 53:1-12 |
| 29 | Following God into the New Year | Genesis 12:1-4 |
| 30 | Life: What’s the Point? - What’s the Point of a Church in My Life? | Acts 2:42-47 |
| 31 | Life: What’s the Point? - What’s the Point of a New Life? | John 3:1-3 |
| 32 | Life: What’s the Point? - What’s the Point of a Right Life? | Romans 12:1-2 |
| 33 | Life: What’s the Point? - What’s the Point of My Life? | Jeremiah 1:5 |
| 34 | 40 Days of Prayer - Week 1 | Acts 1:1-13 |
| 35 | 40 Days of Prayer - Week 2 | Exodus 34:1-9 |
| 36 | 40 Days of Prayer - Week 3 | Acts 4:23-32 |
| 37 | 40 Days of Prayer - Week 4 | Matthew 5:13-16 |
| 38 | 40 Days of Prayer - Week 5 | Acts 18:1-11 |
| 39 | 40 Days of Prayer - Week 6 | 2 Chron. 7:14-15 |
| 40 | 40 Days of Prayer - Week 7 | 2 Chron. 7:1-10 |
| 41 | Questions from Corinth - Reminders | 1 Cor. 1:1-9 |
| 42 | Questions from Corinth - What About Divisions in the Church? | 1 Cor. 1:10-11 |
| 43 | Questions from Corinth - Flee Immorality | 1 Cor. 6:13-20 |
| 44 | Questions from Corinth - What About the Lord’s Supper? | 1 Cor. 11:17-30 |
| 45 | Questions from Corinth - Who’s The Most Important? | 1 Cor. 12:12-27 |
| 46 | Questions from Corinth - What About Temptation? | 1 Cor. 10:6-13 |
| 47 | Questions from Corinth - What about Gray Areas? | 1 Cor. 8:1-13 |
| 48 | Questions from Corinth - Is Marriage Important? | 1 Cor. 7:1-16 |
| 49 | Questions from Corinth - The Do’s and Don’ts of Love | 1 Cor. 13:4-8 |
| 50 | Questions from Corinth - What About the Cross? | 1 Cor. 1:17-25 |
| 51 | Questions from Corinth - What is the Gospel? | 1 Cor. 15:1-4 |
| 52 | Questions from Corinth - What About the Resurrection? | 1 Cor. 15:12-19 |