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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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Eric Liddell's Contentment at Weihsien

In February 1945, Eric Liddell was dying of a brain tumor inside a Japanese internment camp in Weihsien, China. The Olympic gold medalist who had...

Psalm 16Universal

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The Empty Chair at Table Nine

Every year, the Rotary Club of Decatur, Georgia hosts its annual awards banquet at the old Courtyard ballroom on Ponce de Leon Avenue. The front...

Luke 14:1, 7-14Universal

258 words

Movie Analogy

Gravity: Learning to Let Go and Live Again (Philippians 3:13-14)

In the gripping film *Gravity*, we meet Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant astronaut whose world shatters in an instant when debris from a destroyed satellite obliterates her spacecraft. Suddenly, she is left floating in the vast emptiness of space, untethered,...

Philippians 3:13-14Universalgriefrebirth

287 words

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The Climb Above the Clouds

In 2019, mountaineer Sarah Marquis described something that every serious climber knows but few expect the first time. On the ascent of a major peak,...

Exodus 24:12-18Universal

252 words

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The Cellist of Sarajevo

During the siege of Sarajevo in 1993, mortar shells had reduced the city's beloved National Library to a smoldering skeleton. Bread lines became killing fields....

Habakkuk 3:17-19Universal

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The Refugee Whose File Was Already Open

In 2019, a Syrian family arrived at a resettlement office in Louisville, Kentucky, exhausted from eighteen months of waiting. The father, Marwan Haddad, carried a...

John 1:43-51Universal

242 words

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One More

*Hacksaw Ridge* tells the true story of Desmond Doss, a Seventh-day Adventist medic who refused to carry a weapon into combat during World War II....

Universalcourage

256 words

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The Burn Ward at Dawn

In 2004, Dr. Sylvia Martínez worked the overnight shift at the burn unit of Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. Her patients — soldiers...

Malachi 4:2Universal

245 words

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The Stream from Herrnhut

In 1722, a handful of persecuted Moravian refugees stumbled onto the estate of Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf in Saxony. They were exhausted, homeless, and few...

Ezekiel 47:1-2, 8-9, 12Universal

233 words

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The Coats She Left Behind

When Miss Rosa Lee Patterson died in 2019, the members of her small church in Albany, Georgia, expected a modest funeral. Rosa had never held...

Acts 9:36-43Universal

236 words

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The Archbishop Who Would Not Be Silent

On February 16, 1977, Anglican Archbishop Janani Luwum walked into Ugandan President Idi Amin's conference hall in Kampala, knowing he might not walk out. For...

Isaiah 50:4-9aUniversal

217 words

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The Bible That Took a Hundred Hands

In 1525, William Tyndale hunched over a desk in Cologne, Germany, translating the New Testament into English for the first time from the original Greek....

1 Corinthians 3:1-9Universal

222 words

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Florence Nightingale and the Voice She Could Not Yet Name

On February 7, 1837, a sixteen-year-old girl sitting in the garden of Embley Park in Hampshire, England, heard something she could only describe as "God...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

233 words

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The King Who Stayed in the Ruins

In September 1940, German bombs struck Buckingham Palace while King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were inside. Advisors urged the royal family to evacuate to...

Matthew 3:13-17Universal

255 words

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The Planet They Knew Before They Saw

In 1821, French astronomer Alexis Bouvard noticed something strange. Uranus wasn't following its predicted orbit. Something unseen was pulling at it — something massive and...

Hebrews 1:1-4Universal

244 words

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The Boy Who Couldn't Shed His Own Skin

In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, a disagreeable boy named Eustace Scrubb wanders into a dragon's cave and falls asleep on a...

Universalredemption

222 words

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Augustine's Garden

In the summer of 386 AD, a thirty-one-year-old rhetoric professor sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden. Augustine of Hippo had spent...

Colossians 3:1-11Universal

245 words

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The Nurse Who Kept the Night Watch

In 2014, when Ebola swept through Liberia and the world recoiled in fear, a Liberian nurse named Salome Karwah did something remarkably simple. She held...

Isaiah 42:1-9Universal

231 words

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A Miner's Thirst That Flooded a Nation

In the autumn of 1904, twenty-six-year-old Evan Roberts trudged out of the Welsh coal mines each evening with lungs full of dust and a soul...

John 7:37-39Universal

221 words

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The Emergency Room at 3 A.M.

Sarah Chen had never run so fast in her life. Her four-year-old son, Marcus, was burning with fever, limp in her arms, and she burst...

Hebrews 4:16Universal

252 words

Vivid Retelling

One Body, Many Members: 1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Theological meditation on the body of Christ metaphor

Universal

953 words

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The Roommate Who Came Back Different

In 1987, Marcus Chen dropped out of the University of Michigan halfway through his sophomore year. His roommate, David Okafor, woke up one Tuesday to...

Philemon 1:15-16Universal

236 words

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What the MRI Reveals

Dr. Sarah Chen, a radiologist at Johns Hopkins, once described her work this way: "Patients walk into my office looking perfectly fine on the outside....

Hebrews 4:12Universal

256 words

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The Night the Sand Began to Whisper

In 2019, twenty-two-year-old Maria Chen joined a sea turtle conservation team on the beaches of Padre Island, Texas. Her job during the night shift was...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

244 words