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Radical discipleship, pacifism, and the church as a distinct counter-cultural community.
Key question: “How does this text call the community of faith to live as a distinct, counter-cultural witness to the Kingdom?”
23,290 sermon illustrations through the Anabaptist lens
2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17 Jeremiah 18:1-11 is read aloud, hope gets a voice and fear loses the microphone.
Galatians 5:1, 13-25 is a mirror—if it offends, it’s doing honest work—today, not someday.
Amos 8:1-12 shows the gospel pattern—God initiates grace, then forms a people who obey in love.
Psalm 80:1-2, 8-19 is a mirror—if it offends, it’s doing honest work—today, not someday.
Revelation 22: In context, it doesn’t flatter us—calls us to live the text’s core truth with integrity.
Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24 Timothy 1:12-17 is a mirror—if it offends, it’s doing honest work—today, not someday.
Romans 5:1-11 Hosea 11:1-11 irritates you, it may be because God is touching the idol you protect.
Amos 8:1-12 invites weary hearts: receive God’s promise, then take the next faithful step—today, not someday.
If Acts 2:1-31 irritates you, it may be because God is touching the idol you protect.
Luke 16:19-31 is a mirror—if it offends, it’s doing honest work—today, not someday.
If Luke 14:25-33 irritates you, it may be because God is touching the idol you protect.
Micah 6:1-8 Timothy 6:6-19 shows the gospel pattern—God initiates grace, then forms a people who obey in love.
Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12 invites weary hearts: receive God’s promise, then take the next faithful step.
Luke 10:25-37 invites weary hearts: receive God’s promise, then take the next faithful step—today, not someday.
Luke 11:1-13 shows the gospel pattern—God initiates grace, then forms a people who obey in love.
Romans 15:4-13 119:97-104 doesn’t flatter us; it exposes our excuses and calls them unbelief—today, not someday.
Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19 Psalm 71:1-6, the text presses one question: will we trust God’s Word and live it?
Micah 6: In context, it doesn’t flatter us—calls us to live the text’s core truth with integrity.
Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 invites weary hearts: receive God’s promise, then take the next faithful step.
Mark 1:9-15 confronts comfortable faith—obedience delayed is obedience denied.
Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16 is a mirror—if it offends, it’s doing honest work—today, not someday.
In John 10:22-30, the text presses one question: will we trust God’s Word and live it?
1 Peter 1:3-9 Jeremiah 2:4-13 irritates you, it may be because God is touching the idol you protect.
Exodus 17:1-7 13:1-8, 15-16 doesn’t flatter us; it exposes our excuses and calls them unbelief—today, not someday.