April: Physical Wellness Month
Theme: “Honoring God Through Your Body”
Sermon Series: “Honoring God Through Your Body”
Texts: 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, Mark 7:19, Colossians 3:23, 1 Peter 5:1-4
Sermon #1: Honoring God Through Our Spiritual Temple
Text: 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
SCI: Your Body Doesn’t Belong to You—Your Body Belongs to the Lord
Billboard: Honor God Through Your Temple!
Sermon #2: Honoring God Through Our Internal Purity
Text: Mark 7:19
SCI: Holiness Is Not a Food Issue—Holiness Is a Heart Issue
Billboard: Honor God Through Your Purity!
Sermon #3: Honoring God Through Our Vocation
Text: Colossians 3:23
SCI: We Don’t Work Hard to Please Men—We Work Hard to Please the Lord
Billboard: Honor God Through Your Vocation!
Pastor Crenshaw’s 19th Pastoral Celebration (29 years of Pastoral Ministry)
Speaker: Rev. Dr. George Brooks
Sermon #4: A Paradigm for Effective Pastoral Ministry
Text: 1 Peter 5:1-4
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 April 5, 2026 – April 26, 2026
All outlines are subject to divine adjustment.
Helpful Quotes
St. Augustine of Hippo: “The body is a temple, and a temple belongs to God. Therefore, the body is not to be despised, but to be offered as a living sacrifice.”
John Calvin: “We are not our own; therefore, let us not propose it as our end, to seek what may be expedient for us according to the flesh. We are not our own; therefore, let us, as far as possible, forget ourselves and all things that are ours.”
St. Irenaeus of Lyons: “The glory of God is a human being fully alive; and the life of man consists in beholding God.”
George Swinnock: “The body is the soul’s house; and if the house be out of repair, the inhabitant will be ill-at-ease.”
Thomas Brooks: “A man’s body is the temple of the Holy Ghost; and shall a man defile the temple of God? No! He must keep it holy, as he would keep his soul holy.”
Oswald Chambers: “Your body is the ‘temple of the Holy Spirit.’ Therefore, be careful how you treat it. It is not yours; it is God’s gift to you for a season, to be used for His glory.”
C.S. Lewis: “God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.”
Dallas Willard: “The body is the first place of our ministry. We cannot serve God if we do not bring our bodies into subjection to His Spirit.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: “The body is not a prison, but a temple. It is the place where the Holy Spirit dwells, and where God is to be glorified.”
J.I. Packer: “Our bodies are not our own to do with as we like, but are God’s to be used as He likes. Wellness is not an end in itself; it is the means by which we are made fit for the Master’s use.”
N.T. Wright: “What you do with your body in the present matters because God has a future for it in His new creation. The resurrection of the body means that physical life is not a disposable ‘wrapper’ for the soul.”
Wendell Berry: “The body is a portion of the world that each of us is given to take care of. To treat the body as a machine or a commodity is to deny its sacredness as a creature of God.”