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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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Ascension Day

Ascension Day marks the theological significance of the ascension of Christ to heaven.

Ascension of Christ

Ascension refers to the bodily departure of Jesus from this earth and his return to the right hand of God the Father Almighty. Following the forty days after his resurrection when Jesus appeared regularly to his disciples, Jesus was lifted up and out of their sight, leaving behind the promise...

Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, marking the beginning of the time of preparation for the remembrance of Christ's death and celebration of Christ's resurrection during Holy Week and Easter. Ash Wednesday services help us to think about our own mortality, our own sinfulness, and ultimately, the need...

Atonement

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...

Baptism of Our Lord Sunday

Found in Matthew 3:17, this Sunday marks and remembers one of the most theologically profound events in the gospels, the baptism of Jesus. In this narrative, God announces the divine sonship of Jesus Christ and we bear witness to the picture of the Trinity, when God the Father gifts the...

Beatitudes

Beatitudes are special blessings of divine favor ("Blessed are those…") 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 beatitude-like blessings are offered in the Psalms and elsewhere in the Bible, most people think...

Beauty

A beautiful face, or flower, or car, or poem, or sunset– all the world's beauty is but a ravishing hint of the beauty at the heart of the universe: the glory of God the Creator. In the Bible, beauty is synonymous with glory, spelndor, radiance, and goodness. Our sermons, songs,...

Blasphemy

Blasphemy is defamation of God, whether by direct or indirect assault on God's holiness. The Bible mentions blasphemy in the context of slandering God's name, denying God's purity, and breaking God's law. Our sermons and prayers can emphasize the importance of keeping God's name and reuptation holy.

Blessing

Blessing is the effectual goodness of God in verbal form. It is the authoritative speaking forth of God's shalom over another (as a pronouncement) or the experience of that shalom (as a condition). Blessing is typically a translation of the Hebrew beraka or Greek eulogia, literally meaning to speak well....

Blood

Blood is liquid life, and the Bible drips with it — from the blood of Abel "crying out" from the stained earthly soil of Genesis 4:10 to the heavenly rider wearing a "robe dipped in blood" while leading the celestial army in Revelation 19:13. As blood is intimately connected with...