{"id":3205,"date":"2021-11-09T20:03:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T20:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/?page_id=3205"},"modified":"2025-05-21T10:49:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T16:49:55","slug":"sermon-guides","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/sermon-guides\/","title":{"rendered":"Sermon Guides"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"guides-for-talking-to-your-congregation\"><strong>Guides for Talking to Your Congregation<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Faith intersects with all areas of life, including health. Health goes beyond physical well-being; it involves body, mind and spirit. The Health Fund is dedicated to improving the health and wholeness of Kansans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Healthy Congregations churches have asked us for more resources to discuss important topics such as mental wellness and maternal health. The Health Fund worked in partnership with Lisa Hancock, PhD, to develop a series of sermon guides that bring together scripture, theology, and health to help congregations connect their faith to health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sermon Workshop Recording<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2022 Connecting Faith and Health: A Sermon-Planning Workshop for Preaching with Impact\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tvfzAkbB7Cw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022-Connecting-Faith-and-Health-slides.pdf\">Workshop slides<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022-Sermon-Workshop-Notes-Pages.pdf\">Workshop notes sheets<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tvfzAkbB7Cw&amp;t=1514s\">0:25:14<\/a> Overview of the Liturgical Year <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tvfzAkbB7Cw&amp;t=2698s\">0:44:58<\/a> Journey Toward Mental Wellness (Advent) <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tvfzAkbB7Cw&amp;t=4199s\">1:09:59<\/a> Naming Trauma and Practicing Resilient Love (Lent) <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tvfzAkbB7Cw&amp;t=5741s\">1:35:41<\/a> Tending the Civic Soil <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tvfzAkbB7Cw&amp;t=7143s\">1:59:03<\/a> God\u2019s Temple<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tvfzAkbB7Cw&amp;t=8413s\">2:20:13<\/a> Wrapped in God\u2019s Embrace<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tvfzAkbB7Cw&amp;t=9796s\">2:43:16<\/a> Let the Little Children <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Liturgical Calendar<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sermon-Guide-Series-Liturgical-calendar.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sermon-Guide-Series-Liturgical-calendar.png 940w, https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sermon-Guide-Series-Liturgical-calendar-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sermon-Guide-Series-Liturgical-calendar-768x644.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"available-sermon-guides\">Available Sermon Guides<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/faith-in-vaccines\">Faith in Vaccines.<\/a><\/strong> <em>Supporting Empathetic Congregational Conversations on COVID-19 Vaccination<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/health-and-wellness-sermon-guide\/\">God&#8217;s Temple. <\/a><\/strong><em>Health and Holiness in the Body of Christ.<\/em> (Ordinary Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/mental-wellness-sermon-guide\/\">Journey Toward Mental Wellness.<\/a> <\/strong><em>Supporting Meaningful Congregational Conversations on the Importance of Mental Wellness<\/em> (Advent or Ordinary Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/childhood-health-sermon-guide\/\">Let the Little Children.<\/a> <\/strong><em>The Body of Christ and Childhood Health and Well-Being<\/em> (Ordinary Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/trauma-sermon-guide\/\">Naming Trauma and Practicing Resilient Love.<\/a><\/strong> <em>A Lenten Sermon Guide and Toolkit<\/em> (Lent)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/tending-the-civic-soil\/\" href=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/tending-the-civic-soil\/\"><strong>Tending the Civic Soil<\/strong>.<\/a> <em>A Worship Resource for Election Season<\/em> (Ordinary Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/maternal-health-sermon-guide\/\">Wrapped in God\u2019s Embrace.<\/a><\/strong> <em>Maternal Health, Flourishing, and Building Communities of Care<\/em> (Ordinary Time)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guides for Talking to Your Congregation Faith intersects with all areas of life, including health. Health goes beyond physical well-being; it involves body, mind and spirit. The Health Fund is dedicated to improving the health and wholeness of Kansans. 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