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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
Colossians 3:1-4 Luke 18:1-8 irritates you, it may be because God is touching the idol you protect.
Job 1–2: In context, it calls us to live the text’s core truth with integrity.
Luke 18:9-14 anchors us in God’s character: He speaks, acts, and calls us to faithful response.
Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18 confronts comfortable faith—obedience delayed is obedience denied.
Matthew 25:31-46 32:1-3a, 6-15 anchors us in God’s character: He speaks, acts, and calls us to faithful response.
Matthew 17:1-9 Isaiah 5:1-7 irritates you, it may be because God is touching the idol you protect.
If 2 Timothy 1:1-14 irritates you, it may be because God is touching the idol you protect.
In John 14:8-17, the text presses one question: will we trust God’s Word and live it?
Haggai 1:15b-2:9 12:32-40 invites weary hearts: receive God’s promise, then take the next faithful step—today, not someday.
In Matthew 2:1-12, the text presses one question: will we trust God’s Word and live it?
1 Peter 1:17-23 Luke 12:49-56 irritates you, it may be because God is touching the idol you protect.
1 Corinthians 12:1-11 shows the gospel pattern—God initiates grace, then forms a people who obey in love.
When Psalm 119:97-104 is read aloud, hope gets a voice and fear loses the microphone.
Acts 2:1-31 is a steady hand on the shoulder: God is near, and you are not alone in obedience.
Proverbs 1: In context, it doesn’t flatter us—calls us to live the text’s core truth with integrity.
Isaiah 50:4-9a anchors us in God’s character: He speaks, acts, and calls us to faithful response.
Matthew 4:1-11 Luke 13:10-17 is read aloud, hope gets a voice and fear loses the microphone.
Psalm 97 invites weary hearts: receive God’s promise, then take the next faithful step—today, not someday.
Luke 4:1-13 invites weary hearts: receive God’s promise, then take the next faithful step—today, not someday.
Isaiah 55:10-13 doesn’t flatter us; it exposes our excuses and calls them unbelief—today, not someday.
Matthew 5:1-12 17:5-10 anchors us in God’s character: He speaks, acts, and calls us to faithful response.
John 2:1-11 is a steady hand on the shoulder: God is near, and you are not alone in obedience.