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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

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: John 1:19-28

Vivid sensory description for preaching John 1:19-28

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Movie Analogy

The Gardener Who Saved the World

In *The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring*, there is a moment that has always moved me. Samwise Gamgee, a simple gardener...

Universalpurpose

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Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Psalm 136

Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 136

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Luke 7:36-50

Vivid sensory description for preaching Luke 7:36-50

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: John 11:1-16

Vivid sensory description for preaching John 11:1-16

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Matthew 27:57-66

Vivid sensory description for preaching Matthew 27:57-66

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

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The God Who Repairs What Breaks

Every single day, the DNA inside each of your cells suffers between ten thousand and one hundred thousand points of damage. Radiation, toxins, even the...

Universalrestoration

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Psalm 63

Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 63

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Psalm 141

Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 141

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

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The Friends We Cannot Spare

In *The Four Loves*, C.S. Lewis makes a striking observation about friendship and community. He writes that in every circle of friends, each person draws...

Universalcommunity

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Psalm 7

Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 7

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: John 8:31-47

Vivid sensory description for preaching John 8:31-47

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

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The Organ Nobody Needed

For over a century, the human appendix was medicine's favorite punchline. Surgeons removed it without a second thought. Textbooks called it vestigial — a leftover...

Universalpurpose

Sermon Illustration

The Fellowship We Were Never Meant to Walk Alone

In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Fellowship of the Ring*, there is a moment at the Council of Elrond when the great powers of Middle-earth cannot stop...

Universalcommunity

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: John 19:17-27

Vivid sensory description for preaching John 19:17-27

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Matthew 27:45-56

Vivid sensory description for preaching Matthew 27:45-56

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

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The Dragon Skin That Had to Be Torn Away

In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, a selfish boy named Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's treasure hoard and wakes to...

Universalrestoration

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The Hands of the King

In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Return of the King*, there is a scene that has stayed with readers for generations. After the great battle before Minas...

Universalhealing

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Psalm 101

Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 101

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: John 4:46-54

Vivid sensory description for preaching John 4:46-54

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Psalm 5

Vivid sensory description for preaching Psalm 5

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The Mending You Never Feel

In 2015, Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a discovery that should stop every one of us in our tracks....

Universalhealing

Show Don't Tell

Show Don't Tell: Luke 19:1-10

Vivid sensory description for preaching Luke 19:1-10

Universalhomileticspreaching technique

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The Millimeter That Makes the Miracle

In the 1950s, a Soviet orthopedic surgeon named Gavriil Ilizarov developed a remarkable technique called distraction osteogenesis. When a patient's bone was too short or...

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