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Anglican Illustrations

Scripture, Tradition, and Reason — the "three-legged stool" — seeking the via media.

Key question: “How do we faithfully interpret this text using the wisdom of Scripture, Church tradition, and God-given Reason?”

23,760 sermon illustrations through the Anglican lens

Vivid Retelling

From Glory to Glory: 2 Corinthians 3:7-18

Theological meditation on the glory of the new covenant ministry

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Vivid Retelling

The Great Divide: Antichrists, Children, and the Coming Unveiling

A vivid retelling of 1 John 2:18-3:10, narrating the schism in John's churches when false teachers departed and exploring the stark divide between children of God and children of the devil. Examines the marks of antichrist theology, the mystery of what we shall become, and the tests that reveal spiritual family.

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Wangari Maathai and the Trees That Sang

In 1977, Wangari Maathai stood on the eroded hillsides of central Kenya and saw what decades of deforestation had done. The streams her mother once...

Isaiah 55:10-13Universal

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The Midnight Drive to Safety

In 2017, a young father named Ahmad gathered his wife and two small children in the darkness of their Aleppo apartment. Neighbors had whispered that...

Matthew 2:13-23Universal

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The Librarian Who Waited Forty Years

In 1983, Margaret Chen began volunteering at the Oak Park Public Library in Chicago, shelving books in the children's section every Tuesday and Thursday. She...

Luke 2:22-40Universal

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Maximilian Kolbe's Final Offering

In the summer of 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz. The SS guards, following brutal protocol, selected ten men from Block 14 to die by...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

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The Checkpoint No One Dared to Cross

On the night of November 9, 1989, East German border guards received confused orders: the crossings were open. Thousands gathered at the Bornholmer Strasse checkpoint...

Mark 16:1-8Universal

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Thirty-Six Hours in the Deep End

Dr. Amara Osei still had confetti in her hair from the Emory University School of Medicine graduation ceremony when her phone buzzed at 4:47 a.m....

Mark 1:9-15Universal

Vivid Retelling

Heaven Torn Open: Mark 1:9-13

Cinematic retelling of Jesus' baptism and wilderness temptation

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The Church That Knelt on Concrete

In the autumn of 1857, a quiet businessman named Jeremiah Lanphier reserved a room on the third floor of the Old Dutch Church on Fulton...

2 Chronicles 7:14Universal

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The Kitchen Light on Crawford Street

Margaret Holloway kept her porch light on during every storm. Her grandchildren knew this. When thunder cracked over their neighborhood in Joplin, Missouri, and the...

Nahum 1:7Universal

Vivid Retelling

Where Are You?: Genesis 3:8-13

Cinematic retelling of God confronting Adam and Eve after the fall

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Water from the Last Place You'd Look

In 2010, a severe drought gripped the Turkana region of northern Kenya. Wells ran dry. Livestock collapsed in the dust. Families walked hours to find...

Exodus 17:1-7Universal

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Calm Singing on a Sinking Ship

On January 25, 1736, a violent storm tore across the Atlantic and slammed into the small ship carrying John Wesley toward the colony of Georgia....

Psalm 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9Universal

Vivid Retelling

Seed and Soil: Matthew 13:1-23

Cinematic retelling of the parable of the sower and its explanation

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The Gates of Berlin

On November 9, 1989, tens of thousands of East Berliners surged toward the concrete barrier that had divided their city for twenty-eight years. For nearly...

Psalm 24:7-10Universal

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Prone to Wander, Still Held Fast

Robert Robinson was twenty-two years old when he wrote the words that would haunt him for the rest of his life. It was 1757, and...

Vivid Retelling

Discerning the Body: 1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Historical reconstruction of Lord's Supper abuses in Corinth

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When Forgiveness Became a Product

In 1517, a Dominican friar named Johann Tetzel traveled through German towns with a wagon and a catchy slogan: "As soon as a coin in...

John 2:13-22Universal

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The Fruit That Crosses Cultures - Missional (Galatians 5:22-23)

A missionary observed: in every culture, the fruit of the Spirit is recognized as beautiful. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness—these translate. Cultures may differ on what's intelligent or successful, but everyone recognizes genuine love.

Galatians 5:22-23Universal

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The Stradivarius in the Attic

In 2006, a music teacher in the Spokane, Washington area brought an old violin to an appraiser. It had been sitting in a closet for...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

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The Medic Who Carried No Weapon

When Desmond Doss enlisted in the United States Army in 1942, his commanding officers wanted him gone. A Seventh-day Adventist from Lynchburg, Virginia, Doss refused...

Matthew 5:13-20Universal

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The Prayer That Burned for a Century

On August 27, 1727, a small community of refugees in Herrnhut, Germany, made a quiet decision that would echo across generations. Under the guidance of...

Psalm 89:2-5, 27, 29Universal

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Underground Seminary of Peace

In 1935, Dietrich Bonhoeffer gathered twenty-five young seminarians in a crumbling estate at Finkenwalde, Germany, to form an illegal seminary. The Nazi regime had fractured...

2 Corinthians 13:11-13Universal