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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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At the root of addiction is longing, a vital spiritual force. But by longing for things that drain them rather than fulfill them, addicts court idolatry and then enslavement. Addiction is a complex, progressive, injurious, and often disabling attachment to a substance (alcohol, heroin, food, money) or behavior (sex, work,...

Adultery is, at minimum, unchastity within marriage, a violation of the marital vow of sexual exclusivity or fidelity.

Adulthood refers to a legal status, an emotional maturity or a collected set of responsibilities. While often understood as a developmental or psychological term, adulthood also is applied by metaphor to one's spiritual state.

The poignant and inevitable process of growing older, aging is a pilgrimage toward the City of God with opportunity for sanctification along the way.

Ambition is a strong desire to achieve. Ambition may be noble or selfish, and it's often hard to figure out which type of ambition is dominant in another person and even in ourselves. Christians shouldn't shrink from attempting fine things just because they are unsure whether they are selfishly or...

Angels are supernatural spirits who serve as God's heavenly choir of praise and as God's agents — particularly as God's messengers.

Culpable anger is vengeful or destructive passion, often barely controlled, that flames up against a person or thing; or smoldering irritability.

Anti-Intellectualism

Anti-intellectualism is opposition to or dismissal of the healthy life of the mind.

Ascension refers to the bodily departure of Jesus from this earth and his return to the right hand of God the Father Almighty, where already now he rules the cosmos as King and Lord. Following the 40 days after his resurrection when Jesus appeared regularly to his disciples, Jesus was...

Atonement is an event or process that makes up for sin, typically through a sacrifice of something valuable by the sinner. Israel sacrificed food, oil, wine, and especially animals. The gospel's central claim is that Jesus Christ's sacrificial death has overwhelmed and replaced the older forms of sacrifice. He is...