GuidesFor your congregation

Follow a study guide

Every sermon can have a three-page guide: follow along, dig in, take it home.

3 minute read

Open the guide

  1. Sermons with a guide say so

    When staff have approved a guide, the sermon links to it. Nothing reaches this page until someone at the church has read it.

    Open the study guide.

    The sermon Come to Me, opened, with a Study guide link beneath its summary.

Page 1: follow along

  1. The sermon in a sentence

    The guide opens with the big idea, in words a home group can repeat.

    The study guide for Come to Me. Page 1, Follow along, begins with the big idea in a tinted box.
  2. How the message moves

    The sermon is laid out beat by beat. Each time is a link into the video.

    Go to 11:00, What a yoke is for.

    A list of six movements, each with a time, a heading and a one-line note.

Page 2: dig in

  1. The passage, and questions that open it

    The text is shown in the church's translation, followed by questions written for this sermon.

    Page 2, Dig in: Matthew 11:28-30 printed in full, followed by three questions.
  2. Something you might have missed

    Each guide points out one detail in the text that repays a second look.

    A panel headed Notice this, with a short paragraph about the yoke.

Page 3: take it home

  1. Questions for the table

    Four questions for a home group or a family, moving from the text to the week ahead.

    Page 3, Take it home: four numbered discussion questions.
  2. One thing to do, one verse to keep

    A practice for the week and a memory verse sit side by side, with a prayer beneath them.

    Two cards, This week and Memory verse, above a short prayer.
  3. Print it, or copy it

    The guide prints as three clean pages. Copy puts the whole guide on the clipboard for a newsletter or a slide.

    Copy the guide.

    The top of the guide, with Print and Copy buttons.

Emberwick Community Church is fictional. Its sermons were written for this demo.