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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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Reconciliation

The Belhar Confession speaks as a confession and a prophetic challenge when it says, "God has entrusted the church with the message of reconciliation in and through Jesus Christ . . . God's life-giving Word and Spirit has conquered the powers of sin and death, and therefore also of irreconciliation...

Recreation

The linguistics here are tricky — do we mean "re-creation," as in being made new in Christ, or do we mean "recreation," as in having fun and enjoying something? Perhaps we ought to venture that the answer to this question is "Yes."

Redemption

In classic Christian theology, redemption is broadly the same thing as salvation. Thus theologians speak of "the history of redemption," or of the creation/fall/redemption sequence. Redemption is restoration of a fallen creation, including human beings, to health, harmony, and righteousness. It is the establishment of shalom (Old Testament) or the...

Refugees

As a child, he fled violence with his parents. As an adult, he confronted all who would listen: "Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me." Jesus was a refugee and challenges all those who would follow him to welcome refugees in his name.

Regeneration

Interpretable in a narrower or broader sense, regeneration is either 1) the one-time act of God in which a sinful human being is reborn "from above," or else it's 2) the gradual, lifelong renewal of heart and behavior, also described as sanctification or vivification or repentance or conversion or rising...

Religion

Religion refers to a set of organized beliefs and practices around the basic meaning of life and existence. Christianity is one its many expressions. Some have tried to separate Christianity from religion, claiming it is a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ. While Christianity embraces this personal aspect of...

Repentance

God's assignment for sinners, repentance is deep remorse over transgressions and shortcomings and significant turning away from them. Repentance has psychological, emotional, and active components. It means recognizing sin, feeling sorry for it, and turning away from it. It usually starts with a guilty conscience, stirred by the Holy Spirit,...

Reverence

Reverence is not a word that can be easily applied to our society or even our churches. "Irreverent" is a term often used to make novels and movies seem more attractive. Churches tend to tout their informality of dress and demeanor in worship and emphasize their intimacy with God rather...

Revival

Revival is a supernatural work of the Spirit of God to restore spiritual life to the dead or dying. By God's grace, revival may come to individual persons, to families, to congregations, to groups of churches, or even to a whole region. Revival is God's work, often by way of...