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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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Christianity defines marriage as a covenant relationship built on a solemn promise of mutual love and fidelity. So foundational is marriage that it is hard to imagine a thriving, healthy human society without it. Along with family, marriage is one of the foundations of social cohesion, affecting nearly every area...

Various forms of the Greek verb martureo or the noun martus occur with some frequency in the Bible but almost always in the straightforward definition of the word: a witness, or someone who bears testimony, often in a legal setting. A martyr is someone who bears witness to what he...

Maundy Thursday

On Maundy Thursday the church remembers the last evening Jesus shared with his disciples in the upper room before his arrest and crucifixion. Maundy Thursday marks three key events in Jesus’ last week: his washing of his disciples’ feet, his institution of the Lord’s Supper, and his new commandment to...

The spiritual discipline of meditation consists in reflecting on God's word and works, seriously thinking about them in context and at length, conversing with oneself about them, poring over them, absorbing them, and pondering how one's life needs to change in order to mesh with them.

The annual Memorial Day holiday honors the heroism and sacrifice of all Americans who have died in military service to the country.

An exhibit of God's steadfast love, mercy is relief for sufferers.

The coming Messiah was long foretold and Jesus Christ's coming as the Messiah fulfilled the prophesies that God would send an anointed one to fill Israel's sacred offices of prophet, priest, and king.

It's humbling and life-changing to understand that the biblical word for ministry (diakonia) ultimately comes from the Greek word for "slave." Ministry is always, first and foremost, service to God and to others.

Miracles are powerful, extraordinary acts of God intended to create, to heal, to save, to attest divine authority, or to anticipate the coming of shalom.

One of two main exhibits of the fall of creation (the other being sin), misery is significant distress owing to someone's sin, or to disease, or to divine retribution, or to demon possession, or to accident, or to natural catastrophe.