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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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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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Wisdom
In Scripture wisdom is, broadly speaking, the knowledge of God's world and the knack of fitting oneself into it.
Woman
Women make up about half the human race, so it might seem irrelevant to think about them as a separate entity. However, the place of women in the economy of creation and Scripture has always been an issue for the church, not least of all in contemporary life. Historically, women...
Words of Praise or Adoration
Praise is an expression of enthusiasm for excellence. Its classic object is God, in which case praise both arises from faith and strengthens it. Praise of God often centers on God's greatness, including God's glory, holiness, majesty, power, and (especially) saving grace. Praise may be quiet or noisy, notably when...
Words of Welcome
Public worship is an expression of the church's hospitality. Words of welcome make that hospitality explicit.
Work
Work is not just something humans do to survive; it's an essential quality of what it means to be human. Without work, we tend to lose our sense of identity. When we almost instinctively ask someone we meet, "What do you do?" the question may represent too narrow a conception...
Worship
Each week Christians gather for worship in mud huts and Gothic cathedrals, in prisons and nursing homes, in storefront buildings and village squares, in sprawling megachurches and old country chapels. In these diverse contexts the style of worship varies greatly. Some congregations hear formal sermons read from carefully honed manuscripts;...
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