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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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The Easter morning service is a time of joy, celebration, and renewal. Even churches that do not customarily follow the church year celebrate this day as the culmination of all that the gospel is about. "The hopes and fears of all the years" culminate in the resurrection of Jesus Christ...

Some traditions begin their Easter celebration with an Easter Vigil service, either late Saturday evening or very early Sunday morning. The vigil recapitulates the biblical theme of redemption history through readings, helping worshipers see the powerful sweep of God's actions throughout history. In this way it provides the entrance into...

Because the good news of Easter can hardly be contained in a single day's celebration, Easter is only the first of fifty days of Eastertide, the "Great Fifty Days" that lead up to Pentecost. This season is designed for extended celebration, for exploring the ramifications of Easter for the redemption...

Election is the sovereign choice of God by which God chooses, from out of the whole of fallen humankind, those who are to be grafted into Christ and so saved by grace alone through the blood of the cross and the power of the resurrection.

Envy is resentment of the goods of another, plus the desire to despoil him or her of the goods (and typically, but not necessarily, to have them for oneself: on 9/11 terrorists did not want to occupy the twin towers; they wanted to destroy them.

Our word epiphany comes from a Greek word meaning "manifestation or appearance," and in church history this word has become closely associated with the revelation of Christ in connection with the visit of the Magi. Epiphany has been observed throughout much of the Western church as occurring on January 6,...

When we know where we're headed, we have the best possible chance of fashioning our journey in that direction. Eschatology is the study of last things, a way of defining a destination for the world, for human history, and for our own bodies and souls. After confusing experiences with Christian...

Evangelism is generous faith facilitating a living encounter with the living God. Derived from the Greek word for "gospel" (euangelion), evangelism is God's good news made manifest in word and deed. It is the gregarious outworking of genuine faith so that the truth of the gospel is presented clearly, attractively,...

Evil is disturbance of the way God wants things to be — that is, disturbance of the justice, fulfillment, harmony, and delight among God, all humanity, and all creation. Evil is vandalism of shalom.

Although primarily associated with the act of expelling a demon or demonic force from a person, the words "exorcize" and "exorcism" actually refer to a spoken or sworn oath or other spoken formula and as such could be applied to many contexts where oaths or formulaic expressions are invoked or...