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Home›Traditions›Anabaptist

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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?”

23,791 sermon illustrations through the Anabaptist lens

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The Forest That Feeds Itself

In 1997, ecologist Suzanne Simard at the University of British Columbia made a discovery that changed how we understand forests. She found that trees in...

Universalcommunity

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Movie Analogy

The Ring You Didn't Choose

In *The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring*, there is a quiet moment deep in the Mines of Moria where Frodo Baggins...

Universalpurpose

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The Lighthouse Keeper of Cape Bonavista

For thirty-seven years, Gerald Howell climbed the spiral stairs of the Cape Bonavista Lighthouse in Newfoundland every evening at dusk. Even after the Canadian government...

Matthew 5:13-20Universal

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Luke 16:1-15

Vivid sensory description for preaching Luke 16:1-15

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

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The Bend in the Wood

In the hill country outside Asheville, North Carolina, a furniture maker named Harold Rigsby spent forty-three years bending white oak into Windsor chairs. His workshop...

Proverbs 22:6Universalparenting

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Broken Wells in Flint

In 2014, the city of Flint, Michigan switched its water source from the Detroit system — clean, treated, reliable — to the Flint River, a...

Jeremiah 2:4-13Universal

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Luke 20:27-40

Vivid sensory description for preaching Luke 20:27-40

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

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Notebooks Full of Spanish

Elena Rodriguez signed up for Spanish classes the year her abuela moved from San Salvador to the apartment downstairs. For eighteen months, she filled three...

James 1:22Universal

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When a Star Breaks Through the Shadow

In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Return of the King*, there is a quiet moment that nearly every reader remembers. Sam Gamgee lies exhausted in the land...

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The Promise Jackie Robinson Kept

When Branch Rickey signed Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, he did not simply ask Robinson to play baseball. He asked him to...

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Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Luke 11:14-28

Vivid sensory description for preaching Luke 11:14-28

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: John 8:48-59

Vivid sensory description for preaching John 8:48-59

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Psalm 40

Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 40

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Matthew 27:11-26

Vivid sensory description for preaching Matthew 27:11-26

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Mark 11:27-33

Vivid sensory description for preaching Mark 11:27-33

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Psalm 96

Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 96

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: John 3:22-30

Vivid sensory description for preaching John 3:22-30

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Psalm 17

Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 17

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Psalm 27

Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 27

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Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Psalm 58

Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 58

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Luke 10:38-42

Vivid sensory description for preaching Luke 10:38-42

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

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The Grandmother Who Knew Before Anyone Else

In 2019, a young teacher named Rosa Gutierrez walked into her abuela's kitchen in San Antonio carrying a secret she hadn't told a soul. She'd...

Luke 1:39-56Universal

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Mark 7:24-30

Vivid sensory description for preaching Mark 7:24-30

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Luke 5:1-11

Vivid sensory description for preaching Luke 5:1-11

Universalhomileticspreaching technique