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13 illustrations for sermon preparation
In 1881, scholar B.B. Warfield stood before his Princeton seminary students and made a declaration that would echo through generations: the words of Scripture are...
When Rachel Held Evans wrote about her journey back to faith, she described confession not as a transaction — say the right words, punch your...
When the earliest Christians whispered "Jesus is Lord," they were not reciting a doctrinal password. They were committing treason. In a world where Caesar demanded...
A friend of mine volunteers at a community kitchen in downtown Portland where the only rule posted on the wall reads: "Everyone eats." Not "everyone...
In the tradition of *lectio divina*, we do not merely read Scripture — we allow Scripture to read us. A monk once described his decades-long...
In 1787, when the delegates at Philadelphia debated every comma of the Constitution, they understood something we often forget: the precise wording of a document...
Teresa of Avila described the soul as a castle with many mansions, and at the very center, in the innermost room, Christ waits. Most of...
When Rachel Held Evans wrote about her journey back to faith, she described finding Jesus not at the end of a theological exam but at...
In 1923, a family in rural Kentucky discovered a deed to forty acres of prime timberland tucked inside the family Bible. The deed was legitimate,...
In the monastery at Gethsemani, Thomas Merton once described how words spoken from the surface of the mind remain merely words. But a word that...
In the writings of John of the Cross, there comes a season he calls the dark night — when every familiar consolation withdraws, when prayer...
There is an old practice among the Desert Fathers and Mothers of praying with the breath itself. Not words arranged into petitions, not careful theological...
When Paul wrote "if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord," he was not handing us a password to whisper at heaven's gate....
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