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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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Palm Sunday or Passion Sunday

The first Sunday of Holy Week is commonly called either "Palm Sunday" or "Passion Sunday." Those who call it "Palm Sunday" tend to focus on the entry of Christ into Jerusalem to shouts of "Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!" (Mark 11:9). Those...

Parables as told by Jesus drew on familiar, everyday images and situations in order to convey less familiar truths about the kingdom of God, God's grace, and God's judgment. Although we tend to think parables were always intended to make hard-to-understand concepts easier to grasp, many parables confused the original...

Passing of the Peace

In worship, we hear words of God’s peace and blessing extended to the congregation. Following these words of peace, the congregation can then turn to each other and extend the peace of Christ to each other—passing on the gesture of reconciliation and peace.

At the original Passover, God "passed over" the houses of the Israelites while striking down the firstborn of the Egyptian people and their animals. This was the last event Israel experienced before they were released from captivity in Egypt. Passover is also the annual festival to celebrate this event.

For Christians, patience is a combination of steadfastness and endurance. Patience involves a certain long-suffering (the literal translation of the Greek word makrothumia) that allows us to stick with God and with our faith in God through often trying and difficult outward circumstances. In this sense, patience is tightly bound...

Peace describes a life — and indeed an entire creation — that experiences the full flourishing God intended in the beginning. Vastly more than the absence of war, peace in Scripture involves myriad behaviors that seek not just to head off conflict but actively to build up all other people...

Pentecost symbolizes a new beginning. It celebrates the unleashing of the Holy Spirit on the world and the empowering of the church to reach the world with the gospel. In celebrating Pentecost, the church expresses its gratitude for the faithfulness of Christ in fulfilling his promise to send “another counselor”...

Perichoresis (para-cor-AY-sis) is a Greek term from the ancient Christian church describing the mutual indwelling of the three persons of the Holy Trinity. Stemming from Jesus' testimony in John's gospel that the Father and the Son are "in" each other, the doctrine of perichoresis describes an intra-trinitarian hospitality of each...

A pilgrim is a person on a journey (pilgrimage) to a holy place, life's true destination. While the word itself is not found in the Bible, the concept is woven into the biblical story as a whole. God's exodus deliverance of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt to the promised...

Pilgrimage may not be high on the list of spiritual practices for most Protestants, but the Bible points us to the spiritual value of holy places. The problem is that many Protestant traditions turned away from what might be called a sacramental view of the world — the idea that...