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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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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...

Though often overlooked, the ascension of Christ is filled with theological significance. Christ's ascension means that in heaven there is one who, knowing firsthand the experience of suffering and temptation, prays for us and perfects our prayers. The ascension is a witness and guarantee of our own bodily resurrection as...

Ash Wednesday marks the shift of the liturgical calendar into Lent and the preparation of the journey to Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, ending at Easter. The aim of Ash Wednesday worship is threefold: to meditate on our mortality, sinfulness, and need of a savior; to renew our commitment...

Assurance of Pardon

The good news of the gospel is that in Christ we are forgiven! The announcement of this truth is one of the most beautiful moments in worship. Using scriptural words reinforces the truth that our assurance is based on God's words of promise, not merely on our own hopes and...

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...

Avarice, also known as greed, is easily accepted in any culture that venerates wealth. Isn't greed the motor of success? Yet greed is a notorious folly, a root of all kinds of evil.

Baptism is a physical ritual mandated by Jesus through which God acts to nourish, sustain, comfort, challenge, teach, and assure us. A richly symbolic action, the celebration of baptism stirs our imaginations to perceive the work of God and the contours of the gospel more clearly. Baptism also signifies the...

Baptism of Our Lord Sunday

The baptism of Jesus is one of the most theologically profound events in the gospel narratives. When the Father spoke, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased" (Matt. 3:17), the divine sonship of Christ was announced in a vivid, dramatic way. The event gives...

Beatitudes are special blessings of divine favor that are pronounced on people who find themselves in difficult circumstances but through whom and in whom the kingdom of God can shine nonetheless. Although there are beatitude-like blessings proffered in the psalms and elsewhere in Scripture, most people immediately think of Jesus'...