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Zeteosearch.org offers resource guides because, week by week, preachers must say something intelligent on an intimidating list of topics raised by biblical texts. To do so they need to become minor experts on a good number of them. Resource Guides help you prepare for whatever you’re doing – preparing a sermon, planning worship, teaching a class, or just studying to deepen your faith – and find inspiration that spans across a vast range of Christian church traditions.

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At the root of addiction is longing, a vital spiritual force. But by longing for things that drain them rather than fulfill them, addicts court idolatry and then enslavement. Addiction is a complex, progressive, injurious, and often disabling attachment to a substance (alcohol, heroin, food, money) or behavior (sex, work,...

Adultery is, at minimum, unchastity within marriage, a violation of the marital vow of sexual exclusivity or fidelity.

Adulthood refers to a legal status, an emotional maturity or a collected set of responsibilities. While often understood as a developmental or psychological term, adulthood also is applied by metaphor to one's spiritual state.

Advent is not itself a biblical word, but it means "a coming." Advent is both a preparatory season for remembering the coming of Christ in Bethlehem and the anticipation of the coming of Christ at the last day. Advent is one of two penitential seasons in the liturgical calendar. For four...

Affirmation of Faith

To affirm or confess faith is to join others in publicly avowing belief or trust, usually in someone divine ("I believe in God the Father, Almighty"). In a secular culture, confessions of faith may be fantasy, heresy, idolatry, or commercial blather, but for Christians they are serious business. They put...

The poignant and inevitable process of growing older, aging is a pilgrimage toward the City of God with opportunity for sanctification along the way.

All Saints' Day

All Saints' Day is an occasion to celebrate the communion of the saints and call attention to the profound gifts God gives us through others in the body of Christ. All Saints' Day worship can involve reflection on and thanksgiving for the gifts of all who have given witness to...

Ambition is a strong desire to achieve. Ambition may be noble or selfish, and it's often hard to figure out which type of ambition is dominant in another person and even in ourselves. Christians shouldn't shrink from attempting fine things just because they are unsure whether they are selfishly or...

Angels are supernatural spirits who serve as God's heavenly choir of praise and as God's agents — particularly as God's messengers.

Culpable anger is vengeful or destructive passion, often barely controlled, that flames up against a person or thing; or smoldering irritability.