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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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The Lady with the Lamp at Scutari

When Florence Nightingale arrived at the British military hospital in Scutari, Turkey, in November 1854, she stepped into a darkness that had nothing to do...

Ephesians 5:8-14Universal

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The Cathedral That Refused to Cut Corners

In 2019, when fire tore through Notre-Dame de Paris, the world watched in horror as the spire collapsed and the roof caved in. But engineers...

1 Corinthians 3:9c-11, 16-17Universal

241 words

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The Hands of the Healer

In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Return of the King*, after the catastrophic Battle of the Pelennor Fields, three beloved characters lie dying in the Houses of...

Universalhealing

255 words

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The Smallest Dot on the Map

In 1809, the world's attention was fixed on Napoleon. He was redrawing the borders of Europe, marching armies across Austria, and crowning himself master of...

Micah 5:2Universal

224 words

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Nature Illustration: Creation Groaning and Hope

As I stood on the edge of a tranquil lake at dawn, the world was wrapped in a gentle hush, like a child tucked in for the night. The sky was a canvas of soft pastels, and the water mirrored...

Genesis 1:1-5Universal

263 words

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The Diary She Kept in the Dark

In the year 203 AD, a young noblewoman named Vibia Perpetua sat in a Carthaginian prison, nursing her infant son through iron bars. She was...

1 Peter 1:3-9Universal

223 words

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The Refrigerator on Marconi Avenue

Every Sunday morning, the congregation at Grace Fellowship in Sacramento sang about God's provision. They tithed faithfully, attended Wednesday night Bible study, and fasted during...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

254 words

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The GPS That Led to a Dirt Road

In 2018, a couple from Chicago named Marcus and Elena drove through rural Kentucky searching for a renowned woodworker whose hand-carved furniture had gained a...

Matthew 2:1-12Universal

256 words

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The Well That Broke Through Every Fence

In 1904, in the coal-dusted hills of Loughor, Wales, a twenty-six-year-old former miner named Evan Roberts stood in a small chapel and prayed with such...

Joel 2:28-29Universal

230 words

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The Foster Child Whose Name Was Already on the Door

When Marcus arrived at his fourth foster home in two years, he didn't bother unpacking his trash bag of clothes. He'd learned not to settle...

John 1:43-51Universal

241 words

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The Hummingbird's Crossing

Every autumn, the ruby-throated hummingbird — a creature weighing barely three grams — launches itself from the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and flies five hundred...

Matthew 6:25-34Universalanxiety

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Bonhoeffer's Restless Weeks in New York

In June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer arrived in New York City with every reason to stay. Friends at Union Theological Seminary had arranged a safe position...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

260 words

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The Last Lucid Moment on Maple Street

For eleven years, Dorothy Ainsworth bathed her husband, tied his shoes, and answered the same question — "Do I know you?" — sometimes forty times...

Revelation 21:1-4Universal

237 words

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The Table He Built With His Hands

For eleven months, Robert Callahan worked in his garage in Asheville, North Carolina, hand-planing black walnut boards for a dining table. He joined each piece...

John 2:13-22Universal

247 words

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The Night Shift at St. Luke's

Dr. Amara Osei had delivered over three thousand babies in her twenty-two years at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City. She thought she understood birth....

John 3:1-17Universal

238 words

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The Hallelujah He Could Not Hold Back

In the autumn of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. His health had failed him — a stroke years earlier had briefly paralyzed...

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232 words

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The Choir That Needed No Translator

In 2015, a video went viral from a packed church in Beirut, Lebanon. Syrian refugees, Iraqi Christians, Lebanese believers, and a handful of Filipino migrant...

Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14Universal

239 words

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The Light Before Dawn

In April 2019, scientists at the Event Horizon Telescope project unveiled the first-ever photograph of a black hole — a glowing ring of superheated gas...

2 Peter 1:16-19Universal

234 words

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The Master Potter of Staffordshire

In the 1760s, Josiah Wedgwood walked the factory floors of his Etruria Works in Staffordshire, England, with a wooden cane in one hand and an...

Isaiah 64:1-9Universal

230 words

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The Ropes Came Down

In the spring of 1953, Billy Graham arrived in Chattanooga, Tennessee, for a crusade and found the auditorium divided — ropes strung down the center...

Acts 10:34-43Universal

237 words

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The Dove Returns: Genesis 8:1-19

Cinematic retelling of the flood waters receding and Noah leaving the ark

Universal

625 words

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The Word That Walked Through the Door

When Dr. Margaret Chen arrived in the remote Hmong village of Ban Nam Hia in northern Laos, she had already spent three years studying the...

John 1:1-14Universal

256 words

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Bartolomé de las Casas and the Sermon He Could Not Preach

In 1514, a Spanish priest named Bartolomé de las Casas sat in his study on the island of Cuba, preparing a Pentecost sermon for his...

Isaiah 1:1, 10-20Universal

245 words

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The Women Who Winterized Garfield Avenue

In January 2019, during the polar vortex that dropped temperatures to thirty below in Detroit, a group of women from New Bethel Church realized something...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

246 words