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Home›Traditions›Anabaptist

Anabaptist Illustrations

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?”

23,674 sermon illustrations through the Anabaptist lens

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Wired for Renewal

In the year 2000, neuroscientist Eleanor Maguire at University College London made a remarkable discovery. She scanned the brains of London taxi drivers who had...

Universaltransformation

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Movie Analogy

Left Behind: Israel's Prophetic Future - Dispensational (Jeremiah 29:11)

Imagine for a moment, a sun-drenched afternoon in the vibrant streets of Jerusalem. People bustle about, the aroma of fresh pita wafting through the air, mingling with the scent of spices from nearby markets. In the heart of this ancient...

Jeremiah 29:10-14Universal

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The Forest That Teaches Us to Love

In 1997, ecologist Suzanne Simard published a discovery in Nature that changed how we understand forests. Beneath the soil of British Columbia's old-growth woods, she...

Universallove

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The Architect Who Built Through the Laughter

In 1954, a young Brazilian architect named Oscar Niemeyer unrolled his blueprints across a dusty table in the middle of nowhere — literally. The Brazilian...

Nehemiah 2:20Universal

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When the Sea Took Everything and the Song Remained

In 1873, Horatio Spafford put his four daughters on a steamship crossing the Atlantic. He planned to join them later. Days into the voyage, the...

Universalfaith

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Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Matthew 17:22-27

Vivid sensory description for preaching Matthew 17:22-27

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

adults

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The Chains That Aren't There

In 1967, psychologist Martin Seligman conducted a groundbreaking experiment at the University of Pennsylvania that revealed something heartbreaking about captivity. Dogs were placed in a...

Universalfreedom

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Vivid Retelling

The Glory Descends: Exodus 40:34-38

Cinematic retelling of God's glory filling the tabernacle

Universal

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Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Genesis 11:1-9

Imagine standing on the bustling construction site of the Tower of Babel, where the sun beats down mercilessly on the workers. The air is thick with the scent of sun-baked mud, as men and women skillfully mold the earth into...

Universal

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Movie Analogy

Chariots of Fire: Sensing God's Pleasure in Calling - Anglican (Exodus 3)

Picture a chilly Scottish morning, the sun just beginning to cast its golden rays over the misty hills. Eric Liddell, a young man with a heart full of passion, stands at the starting line, the air thick with anticipation. He...

Exodus 3:1-15Universal

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Polycarp's Eighty-Six Years

In 155 AD, Roman soldiers marched into the hills outside Smyrna to arrest an elderly bishop named Polycarp. He was eighty-six years old, a disciple...

2 Timothy 4:6-8, 17-18Universal

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The Zinc Spark

In 2016, a team of researchers at Northwestern University led by Teresa Woodruff captured something extraordinary on camera. At the exact moment a human egg...

Genesis 1:1-3Universal

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Vivid Retelling

The Laughing God: Psalm 2

Cinematic retelling of Psalm 2 depicting God's response to rebellion

Universal

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The Music That Waited Two Hundred Years

In 1890, a thirteen-year-old boy named Pablo Casals wandered into a secondhand music shop in Barcelona and discovered a dusty, forgotten collection of sheet music:...

Universalpurpose

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The Password on the Sticky Note

In 2017, a cybersecurity firm called Keeper reported that the most common password in the world was still "123456." Millions of people — people with...

Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7Universal

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The Song That Started with a Stammering Testimony

In 1886, Daniel Towner was leading music at a D.L. Moody evangelistic campaign when a young man stood during the testimony time. He was no...

Universalobedience

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The Love No Wall Could Contain

In 1917, Frederick Lehman sat down to write a hymn about the boundless love of God. He composed two verses easily enough, but the third...

Universallove

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The Player Who Obeyed by Not Swinging Back

In 1945, Branch Rickey sat across from Jackie Robinson in a Brooklyn office and made an extraordinary demand. Rickey wanted Robinson to break baseball's color...

Universalobedience

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When Peace Like a River Ran Through Grief

In 1873, Horatio Spafford put his wife and four daughters on the SS Ville du Havre, bound for England. He planned to follow in a...

Universalcourage

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From the Depths of Nickajack Cave

In October 1967, Johnny Cash crawled into Nickajack Cave near Chattanooga, Tennessee, with every intention of dying there. Years of amphetamine and barbiturate addiction had...

Universaltransformation

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A Cantata Every Sunday

In 1723, Johann Sebastian Bach accepted the position of cantor at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. The job came with a staggering requirement: compose a...

Universalobedience

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The Octopus Mother Who Gave Everything

In 2007, researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute discovered a deep-sea octopus clinging to a rocky ledge nearly a mile beneath the Pacific....

Universalsacrifice

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The Young Man's Simple Promise

In 1887, at a Dwight L. Moody evangelistic meeting, a young man stood during the testimony time. He wasn't eloquent. He didn't have a dramatic...

Universalobedience

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Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Matthew 13:44

Imagine for a moment a sun-drenched afternoon in a bustling village, where the rhythmic sound of a plow cuts through the air, accompanied by the distant laughter of children playing. Meet Samuel, a humble farmer, known for his unwavering work...

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

adults

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