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Imagine having instant fresh help in preparing your sermons right at your fingertips, especially during those weeks when your words and ideas are not flowing easily. Homiletics Online won't write the sermon for you, but once you've used this treasury of solid content, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it.

In The Current Issue

YouTube It!
James 1:17-27

You can learn how to do anything if you just watch a YouTube video. Can we find a tutorial about living a good life?

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Dreamwork
Song of Solomon 2:8-13

Is it possible the speaker of these lyrical verses was dreaming? And what does this say about her fears?

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Dead Faith
James 2:1-10, 11-13, 14-17

When is a person really dead? How does a doctor know? How do we know when our faith is dead?

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Taming Your Tweet
James 3:1-12

Celebrities tweet and often need to delete their tweets. What they posted was insensitive or stupid. James urges us to learn how to tame our tweets.

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The Survey
Mark 8:27-38

Businesses and organizations will go to great lengths to capture our opinions and turn them into data.

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The Believer Tree
Psalm 1

More than 60,000 species of trees inhabit the Earth. What kind of tree does the psalmist describe?

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Death Cleaning
Mark 9:38-50

Swedes have a word — döstädning — for the cleaning you do so that when you die, your children don’t have to. Jesus suggests we all do this cleaning.

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A Brief History of Communication
Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12

Groans and moans, and then speech. Stone tablets, scrolls, printing presses, telegraph and telephones. Prophets, priests and Jesus Christ.

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Changing Up
2 Corinthians 12:2-10

Beyond the Lectionary
She founded a religious order in India. She was known as Mother. She died in her 80s in the 20^th century. And she is not Mother Teresa. Who is she?

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The 100 Percent Rule
Mark 10:17-31

Google is known for its 20 percent policy. God is known for another policy, and it’s more than 20 percent.

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Homiletics Online has over 15 years' worth of weekly installments pulled from the preaching journal. Each sermonic installment online is comprised of the following categories:

Bringing the Text to Life >> Cutting-edge material designed to spark your creativity and help you write your sermon
Commentary >> An exegetical probe into the cultural, historical, grammatical and contextual meaning of the weekly pericope that provides a scholarly background for your sermon preparation
PowerPoint Presentations >> Linked to related articles, providing virtually everything you need to prepare compelling sermons, week after week
Animating Illustrations >> Insights, anecdotes, quotations and references to current events that dovetail with the sermon material or your preaching point
Children's Sermons >> Simple stories help you reach the smallest members of your congregation
Worship Resources >> Calls to worship, prayers, responsive readings and hymns relating to the Scripture theme that help create a worship experience that ties in seamlessly with your sermon
Preaching Column >> Ideas to help your preaching throughout the church year
Participation Pointers >> Will help you make your worship experience interactive and meaningful
Movie Clip Suggestions >> Ideas for using movie clips to support your sermon material - for every Sunday from a leading media expert

Each of the above categories is fully searchable by keyword, topic, category, Scripture or Lectionary date to make it simple and fast to find exactly what you're looking for when you need it. Start reaping all the benefits today!

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