Resources by Renew.org:
Top 10 RENEW.org Articles in 2021
In our list of the most-read articles which RENEW.org published in 2021, you’ll notice a common thread through many of them: it’s the theme of VS. You’ll see progressive Christianity VS historic Christianity. LGBTQ+ activism VS biblical views of sexuality. Marxism VS Western civilization. We aren’t out to be pugnacious or pick fights, but we...
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Who is King Herod in the Bible?
Who is King Herod in the Bible? He was a great builder, dynasty namesake, and paranoid king who killed any perceived threat. In the opening pages of the New Testament, King Herod is just there. He’s the tyrannical leader who provides a scary outer backdrop when you zoom out beyond the serene nativity scene. But...
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Theology for the Church: 3 Ways to Use Real Life Theology in Your Church
Theology is for the church. Below are three ways Renew.org’s Real Life Theology series can be helpful for teaching theology in a local church amid a cultural moment of biblical illiteracy and cultural confusion. When we put together the Real Life Theology (RLT) series, we did not intend for it to sit on the shelf. We...
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God’s Word Sermon Tools
Would you like your church to know more about God’s Word, why we trust it, and how we should interpret it? To help churches engage with Orpheus J. Heyward’s God’s Word: The Inspiration and Authority of Scripture, we have put…
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Christian Convictions Sermon Tools
Would you like your church to know more about the essentials of the faith? How to know the difference between what’s an important element of our faith and what’s just a matter of personal preference? To help churches engage with…
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The Gospel Precisely Sermon Tools
Would you like your church to know more about what the gospel is? Why we need it and how it benefits all creation? How to share the gospel? To help churches engage with Matthew Bates’s The Gospel Precisely: Surprisingly Good…
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Faithful Faith Sermon Tools
Would you like your church to know more about biblical faith—as opposed to the watered down faith of many forms of Christianity? What is faith? Why is faith the right response to God’s grace? What is faith without works? To…
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New Birth Sermon Tools
Would you like your church to know more about what the new birth is and how to be born again? Why we need the new birth? The point of baptism? To help churches engage with Michael Strickland and Anessa Westbrook’s…
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Holy Spirit Sermon Tools
Would you like your church to learn to be led by the Holy Spirit? To trade a secularized worldview for a biblical worldview? To let the Holy Spirit draw them to Jesus and make them like Jesus? To help churches…
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Disciple Making Sermon Tools
Would you like your church to get clear on the core mission Jesus gave the church? To know what a disciple of Jesus is—and how to make one? To make Jesus’ life and teachings their curriculum for being and making…
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Kingdom Life Sermon Series
Would you like your church to know more about what it looks like to live out God’s kingdom on earth? What holiness and love look like? What the “kingdom of God” is in the first place? To help churches engage…
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Countercultural Living Sermon Tools
Would you like your church to know more about what the Bible teaches about life’s most pressing cultural questions? What does it mean to be human? How should we view race? Gender? Marriage? To help churches engage with Carol Swain’s…
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The End Sermon Tools
Would you like your church to know more about the major events of the end times? To know what the Bible says about Jesus’ second coming and the final judgment? To be clearer on heaven and hell? To know how…
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9/11: A Scary Realization and a Needed Prayer
It was a scary realization: We are hated. If you were old enough to take in what was happening on 9/11, you remember snapshots of horror and heroism. Horror: Planes full of people bulleting into towers full of people. Skyline of smoke. Jumping from top stories. Dazed and debris-blown survivors. Bloody stretchers. Heroism: First responders...
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