Sermon Ideas
About Sermon Ideas
Zeteosearch.org offers sermon ideas 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. Sermon Ideas 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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Addiction
At the root of addiction is longing, a vital spiritual force. Addiction is a complex, progressive, injurious, and often disabling attachment to a substance (alcohol, drugs, food, money) or behavior (sex, pornography use, work, gambling) in which a person compulsively seeks a sense of wholeness or a change of mood....
Adultery
Adultery is, at minimum, unchastity within marriage— a violation of the marital vow of sexual exclusivity or fidelity, a violation of the seventh commandment. Viewed more broadly, adultery has implications for honor, purity, faithfulness, and morality in all human relationships. We are therefore called to pray and preach about adultery and...
Adulthood
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. In worship and preaching, we minister in integenerational communities, where adults are present. Preaching and praying about this...
Aging
Aging, the poignant and inevitable process of growing older, is a pilgrimage toward the City of God with opportunity for sanctification along the way. In intergenerational communities, we do ministry with people of all ages. In our worship services, we can pray for those who are aging; in our sermons...
Ambition
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 their aim is selfish...
Angel
Angels are supernatural spirits who serve as God's heavenly choir of praise. Angels also serve as God's agents — particularly as God's messengers on earth. Bible passages throughout the Old and New Testaments mention angels, and our sermons and music can explore the important roles these heavenly beings play.
Anger
Culpable anger is vengeful or destructive passion, often barely controlled, that flames up against a person or thing. It is a vice that can also manifest as a smoldering irritability. Culpable anger is distinct from righteous indignation, which is anger at injustice, cruelty, or other forms of wrongdoing. Sermons about...
Anti-intellectualism
Anti-intellectualism is opposition to or dismissal of the healthy life of the mind. Instead of being opposed to intellectualism, we should oppose unhealthy intellectualism. Sermons about human knowledge and intellect can show that in order to seek first the kingdom of God, Christians need discernment, thought, and study. Faithful learning...
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