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Faith and Doubt Sermon Series Ideas and Graphics

A faith series has two audiences in the room: the person who wants their beliefs reinforced and the person who's quietly deciding whether to stay.

The ideas here are written for the second one, because a series that takes doubt seriously keeps both people listening.

The work in the gallery is ours. We’ve designed 15 approved pieces that match this topic for churches around the country, and you’re seeing the most recent of them.

The ideas

6 Faith and doubt series to steal

  1. 01

    Real Faith

    Four weeks on what belief looks like when life doesn't cooperate. It hands a struggling attender permission to keep showing up on the weeks they would rather not.

  2. 02

    Honest Questions

    A week per question the church usually dodges: suffering, science, hell, hypocrisy. Take the questions from your own congregation and say that's where they've come from.

  3. 03

    Why I Believe

    An apologetics arc framed as personal reasoning rather than as debate. It equips people for a conversation instead of an argument.

  4. 04

    Doubt

    Three weeks treating doubt as part of faith rather than as its opposite. It's the series people forward to a friend who's left.

  5. 05

    Contending

    A study through Jude or a similar short letter on holding the line with grace. Good for a church whose congregation is used to heavier teaching.

  6. 06

    Evidence

    Weeks on the resurrection and the historical case for it. Strong ahead of Easter at a church that wants more than a holiday message.

Real work

Faith and doubt graphics we designed

Approved pieces from real churches. Title slides, promo sets, print and apparel, at each piece's true proportions because we don't crop work to fit a grid.

Faith that Works Sermon Design, church design work for Christ Church Nashville
Anthem Students Series: Tested and True...Why I believe in the Bible Sermon Design, church design work for Anthem Church
Faith Refresher Sermon Series, church design work for iNgage Community Church
Faith Refresher Sermon Series, church design work for iNgage Community Church
Faith and Work * Event Design, church design work for Northstar Church
Defending The Faith Sermon Series, church design work for First Baptist Church
Faith Driven Entrepreneur Discipleship Group Event Design, church design work for CityBridge Community Church
Reset: Faith & Technology Sermon Series, church design work for Lakewood Ranch Baptist Church
Faith Through Chronic Illness Event Design, church design work for Rolling Hills Community Church
Fit In Faith Life Group Event Design, church design work for Valley Real Life
Advancing in Faith — brand system, church sermon series design work
Real Faith Sermon Series, church design work for Fellowship Denver Church

Graphics like these come with every plan. See how your Squad’s graphics team works or check what a plan costs.

Planning

What To Build and When

Make this the series you build invite tools for. A questions series is the easiest thing your congregation'll ever hand to a skeptical friend.

Keep the design plain. Heavy visual metaphor on a doubt series reads as marketing, and that's exactly what this audience is watching for.

Every other topic we’ve built is on the sermon series ideas hub.

Faith and doubt

Questions Churches Ask

How long should an apologetics series run?

Four to six weeks. Each question needs a full message, and stacking two into one week won't satisfy anybody.

Where do the questions come from?

Collect them from your own congregation a month ahead. Real questions from real people beat a list of the usual four.

Is a doubt series risky?

Less than the alternative. People who don't hear their questions named leave quietly rather than argue about it.

Want the artwork handled?

Tell us the series and the date. Your Squad builds the slides, the social set and the print, and you'll spend that week on the message instead of on the artwork.

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