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.

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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Sabbath

An antidote to various forms of restlessness, God's gift of a sabbath is meant for relief from work, for replenishment, for worship, and for kindness to the poor.

Sacraments

Sacraments are outward and visible signs of inward and invisible grace. Preaching on the gospel sacraments (baptism and the Lord's Supper) helps people understand their significance as the visible Word, the gospel in material form, the "handles" of faith for embodied people. Other Christian communions, such as Roman Catholic and...

Sacrifice

As far back as one can go in human religion, making sacrifice to the gods has been at the center of religious practice. The same is true of Christianity. The difference is that in Christianity, God, in the person of the Son, is the atoning sacrifice for the sins of...

Salvation

Salvation is restoration to health or wholeness of a fallen creation. For human beings and for a whole creation to be saved, God must forgive, justify, restore to righteousness, reconcile, give life, liberate, redeem, perfect — all these acts having overlapping meanings.

Sanctification

Sanctification is the theological term for being shaped by the Holy Spirit into the holiness that defines the moral character of God. "I am the Lord your God; sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy" (Lev. 11: 44; cf. 1 Pet. 1:16).

Scorn

Scorn is intense dislike and rejection of anyone or anything thought to be worthless, offensive, or despicable. Its immediate family members are disdain and contempt. Its typical expression is scoffing. Scoffing is audible or visual scorn. Scorn of what's offensive may sometimes be righteous, but scorn is often motivated by...

Self-Control

Self-control conjures images of athletic-like discipline and rigor as one denies oneself certain things in order to hone one's strength, skill, and abilities in other areas of endeavor. The self-controlled person knows when to say "No" to certain possibilities in order to allow other, more productive behaviors to flourish. The...

Self-Deception

Self-deception is a shadowy phenomenon in which we pull the wool over some part of our own psyche. We put a move on ourselves. We become our own dupes. Self-swindlers have an advantage: their victim is, when conscious, always available and usually willing. But self-deception has discouraging outcomes.

Self-love

Self-love is, in Christian perspective, an ambiguous term. It might refer to healthy benevolence toward oneself, or it might refer to conceit.

Sermon on the Mount

To experience the Sermon on the Mount and walk away unscathed with your good opinion of yourself intact is to read Jesus' words — and yourself — all wrong. Jesus' multiple "You have heard it said . . . but I say to you" constructions are meant to unsettle, to...
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