A 2 Year Plan for
Preston Road Church of Christ

Our staff, elders, and servant leaders have been planning and praying since spring of 2024, and we are excited to announce a 2-year theme plan. Our first year (2024-2025) will take us DEEP, and our second year (2025-2026) will take us WIDE.

Watch the kickoff sermon from August 17, 2025

Preaching and Teaching

Fall 2025

Sermon Series and Adult Classes: Wide: A Study of Acts

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Here’s what went on during our “Deep” year:

Watch the kickoff sermon from August 18, 2024

Key Scriptures

• “like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built” (Luke 6:48).
• “Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!” (Romans 11:33).
• “that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight” (Philippians 1:9)
• “how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ” (Eph 3:18)

Submit Your Deep Questions

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Preaching and Teaching

Fall 2024

Sermon Series and Adult Classes: Deep Discipleship (Gospel of Luke)

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Suggested reading:

• Justo L. Gonzalez, The Story Luke Tells: Luke’s Unique Witness to the Gospel

Winter 2025

Sermon Series: Deep Calling (Discernment)

Suggested reading:

• Ruth Haley Barton, Pursuing God’s Will Together
• Nancy Bieber, Decision Making & Spiritual Discernment: The Sacred Art of Finding Your Way
• Luke Timothy Johnson, Scripture & Discernment: Decision Making in the Church
• Elizabeth Liebert, The Way of Discernment and The Soul of Discernment
• Mark Love, It Seemed Good to the Holy Spirit and to Us
• J. Michael Sparough, Jim Manney, and Tim Hipskind, What’s Your Decision? How to Make Choices with Confidence and Clarity

Adult Classes: Forgotten God (Holy Spirit)

Suggested reading:

• Francis Chan, Forgotten God

Spring 2025

Sermon Series: Deep Conviction (Book of Jeremiah)

Suggested reading:

• Walter Brueggemann, A Commentary on Jeremiah: Exile and Homecoming
• Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination
• John Goldingay, The Theology of Jeremiah
• Tremper Longman, Jeremiah, Lamentations
• Andrew G. Shead, A Mouth Full of Fire: The Word of God in the Words of Jeremiah
• Christopher J.H. Wright, The Message of Jeremiah

Sermon Series: Deeply Formed

Suggested reading:

• Rich Villodas, The Deeply Formed Life

Adult Classes: The Psalms

Suggested reading: TBD

Events

Listening sessions with leaders

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