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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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Hardheartedness

Hardheartedness is an unwillingness or inability to be moved to love or joy or compassion or sorrow or any other religious affection.

In its classic form, hatred is the disposition deep inside one's will and emotions to destroy something or someone. The hater wants the object of his hatred to be negated, removed, gone. Hatred is morally ambiguous, depending on its object. Thus Christians have been biblically taught to hate evil, but...

The biblical testimony of healing, especially in miracles, confronts us with both the blessing and the mystery of God's healing work in Jesus Christ. Healing is another way of describing the redeeming work of God. The Creation is infected with sin that causes spreading disease in every area of life,...

In Scripture the heart is the seat of emotion, of desire and, especially, the governing center of a human being — the human being at her core, considered in her fundamental orientation to life.

In the three-tiered cosmology of the ancient world, heaven or "the heavens" referred literally to that which is above our heads in creation.

In traditional Christian doctrine, hell is the sphere of eternal, tormented alienation from God endured by demons and impenitent sinners.

A transliteration of the Greek haíresis, from hairéō (to take, to choose), heresy in the New Testament originally meant a faction or sect: "Indeed, there have to be factions [haíresis] among you, for only so will it become clear who among you are genuine" (1 Corinthians 11:19).

The central concept of history is an inquiry into the past. At the core of the Christian understanding of history is the enduring faithfulness and sovereignty of God: History is God's story. God's people are rooted in the story of what God has done in the past and therefore they...

Holy Saturday is the Sabbath between Jesus' crucifixion on Good Friday and his resurrection on Easter Sunday. Holy Saturday is a Sabbath, a time for resting from the hardest work since creation. Some Christians believe atonement must have been even harder work than creation. In creation God could start from...

The Holy Spirit ("the Advocate" in John) is the third person of the Holy Trinity in Christian ecumenical creeds and in Christian theology. One would not guess from the smooth, symmetrical treatment of the Holy Spirit alongside the Father and the Son in the creeds that there are real biblical...