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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.

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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Garden

A garden is a plot of irrigated, fertile ground that typically produces fruit, vegetables, herbs, or flowers. In the Bible, flourishing gardens can be symbols of thriving, while devastated gardens can symbolize God's people under judgment. Sermons can examine the role or symbolism of gardens in the Bible.

Generosity

An exhibit of self-giving love, generosity is the glad readiness to give liberally to others and the practice of doing so. Our prayers, songs, and sermons can celebrate God's generosity and encourage our generosity in response.

Gentleness

Gentleness is a fruit of the Spirit listed in Galatians 5 and is a key Christian virtue in the New Testament. Rooted in the example of Jesus, gentleness is what enables Christians to treat all people — including those who oppose the Christian faith — with humble and respectful courtesy....

Gifts of the Spirit

Gifts of the Spirit is a New Testament phrase referring to the range of differing abilities the Spirit enables in believers. In sermon, prayer, liturgy, and song, we can celebrate these gifts, given to believers for the benefit of others.

Glory

Where God is concerned, glory is radiant presence. It's recognized weightiness or worthiness. In John's gospel, Jesus' recognized weightiness or worthiness consists especially in self-spending love. Our sermons, liturgies, and prayers can incorporate the concept of glory from the Old and New Testaments.

Gluttony

Gluttony is inordinate indulgence in or preoccupation with food or drink. At first, gluttony seems too banal to count as a deadly sin. And yet gluttony can become idolatrous, and this is a topic worth exploring in sermon.

God

The proper object of Christian faith and worship, the triune God is king of the universe. In worship, prayer, liturgy, and sermon, we can explore and extol the presence, person, character, work, and mystery of God.

God the Father

God the Father is the first person of the Holy Trinity, who, with the Son and the Holy Spirit, is the creator of all, the elector of Israel, and the supreme savior, provider, and protector. Our sermons, homilies, prayers, and liturgies rightly glorify God as Father, Son, and Spirit.

God's Attributes

God's attributes are God's traits—such as tri-unity, holiness, omnipotence, and infinite love—which are revealed through God's words and deeds. These traits can be pondered and celebrated in sermon, homily, prayer, and liturgy.

God's Oneness

God's oneness in the Bible and Christian tradition consists especially of three things: there is one God, the Father; there is oneness exhibited by the Father and the Son, who are united by their mutual will, work, word, knowledge, love, and glory; and there is one Holy Trinity. We can...