September: Recovery Month
Theme: “New Beginnings”
Sermon Series: “New Beginnings”
Texts: Ezekiel 36:26, Ruth 1:16-17, John 4:13-14, 2 Corinthians 5:17
Sermon #1: New Beginnings Through a Changed Heart
Text: Ezekiel 36:26
SCI: New Beginnings Are Not Human Makeovers—They Are Divine Takeovers
Billboard: Let God Take Over!
Sermon #2: New Beginnings Through a New Commitment
Text: Ruth 1:16-17
SCI: It’s Not a Temporary Commitment—It’s a Lifetime Commitment
Billboard: Be Committed to a New Life!
Sermon #3: New Beginnings Through a Consistent Source
Text: John 4:13-14
SCI: We Don’t Need a Broken Source—We Need a Consistent Source
Billboard: Find Satisfaction in the Consistent Source!
Sermon #4: New Beginnings Through the New Creation
Text: 2 Corinthians 5:17
SCI: God Doesn’t Remodel Our Old Life—God Regenerates Our New Life
Billboard: Live As a New Creation!
Each Sermon Central Idea is developed in the form of an indicative.
Each Billboard is developed in the form of an imperative.
Sermon Series Overview and Outline
Prepared by Pastor Trevor Crenshaw for September 6, 2026 – September 27, 2026
All outlines are subject to divine adjustment.
Helpful Quotes
“God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man.” C.S. Lewis
“If you have been truly born again, you have a new and holy nature, and you are no longer moved towards sinful objects as you were before. The things that you once loved you now hate... your thoughts and tastes are radically changed.” Charles Spurgeon
“You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.” Augustine of Hippo
“God does not give us overcoming life; He gives us life as we overcome.” Oswald Chambers
“Every experience is a training ground for the next new beginning.” Corrie Ten Boom
“The user of the new heart is the new man, and he looks out upon a new world with new eyes.” A.W. Tozer
“God loves a human being; God loves the world. Not an ideal human being, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“To see the world’s rebels turned into friends of God is, after all, a God-centered goal... For in coming to Christ their hearts will be changed. They will be made new men throughout.” Charles Spurgeon
“You cannot go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” C.S. Lewis
“The joyful news that He is Risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work...” Augustine of Hippo