Sermon Resources on Presidential Elections

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Living in Light of Eternity

Author

Trinity Lutheran Church, Lisle, Illinois

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Ecclesiastes 3:11, Psalm 103:1-4, Galatians 3:27-29, Colossians 3:1-2, 2 Corinthians 4:17-18

Pastor: Lord, we confess that too often we don’t live as people filled with the light of eternity. People: We complain. We focus on the problems we face and not the blessings you give. Pastor: W...

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One Night I Went to Church — Sermon Illustration Tuesday

Author

Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.

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Justice

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Galatians 3:28, Romans 12:21, James 2:1-4, Jeremiah 22:3, Amos 5:24, Micah 6:8

One night I went to church Confronted by rampant inequality and discrimination built into the laws, Black Christians were a driving force in making the American public confront the racism in our mid...

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Author

John Rawls

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Justice

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Galatians 3:28, Isaiah 56:1, Proverbs 31:8-9, Leviticus 19:15, James 2:1

The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.

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MLK Day Prayers for Church Services: Liturgy & Sermon Resources

Author

The Pastor's Workshop

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Scripture

Micah 6:8, Amos 5:24, Isaiah 1:17, Galatians 3:28, James 2:1, Ephesians 2:14

Updated for 2026. January 19, 2026 is Martin Luther King Jr. Day— the only U.S. national holiday commemorating a pastor. Under his leadership, non-violent civil rights advocacy achieved leaps f...

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Never Attack an Individual

Author

Justin Trudeau

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John 13:34, Colossians 3:12, Matthew 5:9, 1 Peter 2:17, Galatians 3:28, Proverbs 15:1, Philippians 2:3

In a speech given at his father’s (former Canadian PM Pierre Trudeau) funeral, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shares this story about an experience he had with his father when he was a young b...

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The Covenants of Scripture

Author

Merrill F. Unger

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Covenant

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Hebrews 13:20, Genesis 1:26-28, Genesis 1:26, Genesis 3:14-19, Genesis 3:14, Genesis 8:20-9, Genesis 9:5-6, Genesis 12:1-3, Galatians 3:16, John 8:56-58, 2 Corinthians 3:7-9, Deuteronomy 30:1-10, Deuteronomy 30:1, 2 Samuel 7:4-17, Luke 1:31-33, Acts 1:6, Revelation 19:16, Matthew 26:28, Mark 14:24, Luke 22:20, Hebrews 8:8-12, Galatians 3:13-20

Eternal covenant, Heb 13:20—The redemptive covenant before time began, between the Father and the Son. By this covenant we have eternal redemption, an eternal peace from the ‘God of peace’, through th...

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Race and Friendship

Author

Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.

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Colossians 3:11, 1 Corinthians 12:25-26, Romans 12:10, James 2:1, Galatians 3:28

In a 2009 stand-up special, Chris Rock made a funny, and perhaps true, statement: “All my black friends have a bunch of white friends. And all my white friends have one black friend.” It turns out, R...

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A Jagged Symbol of Equality & Inequality

Author

Tony Evans

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Isaiah 59:1-3, Micah 6:6-8 , Ephesians 2:13-18 , Galatians 3:26-28, Romans 12:4-5 , Psalm 85:10

My friend Ray McMillan introduced me to the Liberty Bell as a perfect object lesson for America’s racial divide. In addressing why “the bell won’t ring,” Ray describes the crack as a perfect illustrat...

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Author

George W. Truett

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Scripture

Hebrews 13:8, Galatians 3:28, John 10:16, Matthew 28:19-20, Acts 1:8, Revelation 22:13

Christ was born in the first century, yet He belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries.

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The Segregated South: Separate and Unequal

Author

John M. Perkins

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Scripture

Exodus 23:9, Leviticus 19:33-34 , Isaiah 1:17, Luke 10:25-37 , Galatians 3:28, Psalm 82:3-4

Desegregation was one of the big goals of the civil rights movement. “Separate but equal” in the South became “separate and unequal.” The disparities were in things as small as water fountains and as ...

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Scripture Guide, Matthew 22:1-14

Author

Jeff Volkmer

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Scripture

Matthew 22:1-14, Matthew 21:28-32, 33-44, Matthew 20:1-16, Matthew 24:null, Galatians 3:8

Kingdom Reversals This parable of Jesus is like the other two before it (cf., Matt. 21:28–32, 33–44) in that its focus is on kingdom reversals. Continuing the theme begun in Matt. 20:1–16 where the l...

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Why They Were Invited

Author

Stanley Hauerwas

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Scripture

Romans 6:3-4, 1 Corinthians 12:13, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Galatians 3:26-27, Ephesians 1:11-14

Peter Storey, the former Methodist bishop and president of the South African Council of Churches, a white man who opposed apartheid, tells a story about a party at which he and Archbishop Desmond Tutu...

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Scripture Guide, Galatians 3:23-29

Author

Darren Pollock

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Scripture

Galatians 3:23-29, Galatians 3:null, Romans 3:20, Revelation 5:null

The Law The ambiguous place of the law in Christian thought can be seen historically in battles between antinomians and legalists, each side finding New Testament support, and the present text would ...

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Gracious and loving God, Father, Son

Author

Richard Herman

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James 5:15, Psalm 147:3, Galatians 3:28, Matthew 5:44, 2 Corinthians 5:17, 1 Corinthians 15:54-55, Ephesians 4:32

Gracious and loving God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit: We praise you for how wide, how high, and how deep is Your vast love for all people. Incarnate in Jesus, You offered Your life for the healing of ...

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Prayer for the Unity of the Church

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Romans 12:4-5, Colossians 3:14, Galatians 3:28, John 17:20-23, Ephesians 4:3-6

O God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, our only Savior, the Prince of Peace: Give us grace to take to heart the great dangers we are in by our unhappy divisions. Take away all hatred and prejudice...

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Tell Them About the Dream, Martin!

Author

Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.

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Scripture

Matthew 5:9, James 2:8, Proverbs 21:3, Romans 12:21, Isaiah 1:17, Galatians 3:28

Most of us in the United States know the famous “I have a Dream” speech Martin Luther King Jr. gave at the Lincoln Memorial as part of the 1963 March on Washington. On a sweltering, humid day in the n...

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Baptism: Eternal Life in Christ

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Romans 6:3-4, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Colossians 2:12-13, Ephesians 4:22-24 , Galatians 3:26-27 , Titus 3:4-7, Acts 2:38-41

Almighty God, by our baptism into the death and resurrection of your Son Jesus Christ, you turn us from the old life of sin: Grant that we, being reborn to new life in him, may live in righteousness a...

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Author

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Galatians 3:28, Malachi 2:10, Romans 10:12-13, Colossians 3:11, Revelation 5:9-10

I think it is one of the tragedies of our nation, one of the shameful tragedies, that eleven o’clock on Sunday morning is one of the most segregated hours, if not the most segregated hour, in Christia...

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Pious Irrelevancies and Sanctimonious Trivialities

Author

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Scripture

Luke 4:18-19, Matthew 23:23, Galatians 3:28, Jeremiah 22:3, Amos 5:24, Isaiah 1:17

In his now famous Letter from a Birmingham Jail , Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. offers a scathing rebuke of his white clergy colleagues, whose inaction caused him much frustration: I have heard numero...

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The Prime Sacrament

Author

Martin Luther

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Baptism

Scripture

Romans 6:3-4, 1 Corinthians 12:13, Galatians 3:27, Colossians 2:12

Baptism is the prime sacrament, the foundation of them all…There are two things which baptism signifies, namely, death and resurrection…We call this death and resurrection a new creation, a regenerati...

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Defining What it Means to Be Blessed

Author

H. Norman Wright

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Genesis 12:2-3, Psalm 103:1-2, Deuteronomy 28:4-5, Genesis 47:7, Psalm 1:1-3, Galatians 3:8-9, Genesis 12:2-3, Genesis 27:1-40

To bless generally means to speak good or to do good things for another. There are many types of blessing in Scripture. The first is the blessing God communicates to people. When God blessed Abraham b...

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For years, Bible scholars have danced around

Author

Bryan C. Loritts

Keywords

Scripture

Exodus 21:16 , Deuteronomy 15:12-15, Isaiah 58:6, Philemon 1:8-16 , Galatians 3:28, Psalm 146:7

For years, Bible scholars have danced around the matter by saying slavery in Rome was far different from slavery in the first few centuries of American history. No doubt their observations carry a mea...

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20th Sunday after Pentecost

Author

Jeff Volkmer

Keywords

Scripture

Matthew 22:1-14, Matthew 21:28-32, 33-44, Matthew 20:1-16, Matthew 24:null, Galatians 3:8

Preaching Commentary Kingdom Reversals This parable of Jesus is like the other two before it (cf., Matt. 21:28–32, 33–44) in that its focus is on kingdom reversals. Continuing the theme begun in Ma...

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Experiencing Racism at a Bible College

Author

Bryan C. Loritts

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Scripture

Genesis 1:26-27, Numbers 12:1-10, Isaiah 56:6-7 , Luke 10:25-37, Galatians 3:28, Psalm 34:18

While I was born much too late to be the legal property of a person in America, I have been the recipient of racism. When a classmate called me a racial epithet in my first year of college, I was deva...

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A New Thing Has Been Made

Author

Jonathan Cornell

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Scripture

Matthew 3:1-12, Galatians 3:26-29, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Ephesians 2:14-16, Colossians 3:10-11

My kids love the movie Remember the Titans . It’s the story of the integration of the TC WIlliams High School Football Team in Alexandria, Virginia, in the 1960s Civil Rights era. The white players a...

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John Perkins’ Journey from Segregation to Reconciliation

Author

Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice

Keywords

Scripture

Ephesians 2:14-16, Galatians 3:28

In 1970 John Perkins, an African American pastor and community organizer who lived on “the black side” of rural Mendenhall, Mississippi, was nearly beaten to death by white state police officers. The ...

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The Problem with the Human Race

Author

Timothy Keller

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Scripture

Galatians 3:10, Psalm 130:3-4, 2 Corinthians 5:10, Ecclesiastes 12:14, James 2:10

Imagine you have an invisible recorder around your neck that, for all your life, records every time you say to somebody else, “You ought.” It only turns on when you tell somebody else how to live. In ...

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The Ancestry of Jesus

Author

Nancy Guthrie

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Scripture

Matthew 1:1-6, Luke 5:31-32, Matthew 9:12-13, Matthew 5:3, Galatians 3:26-28

We find hope in the ancestry of Jesus that no matter what we’ve done or where we come from, we too can be included in Jesus’ family. Jesus does not look for people who are perfect and have never faile...

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Author

N. T. Wright

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Scripture

Ephesians 4:3-6, Romans 9:30-32, Acts 15:7-9, John 10:16, Colossians 3:11, Acts 28:28, Acts 14:27, Ephesians 3:8-10, Romans 3:29, Galatians 3:28, Acts 10:1-48, Romans 15:9-12, Romans 11:11, John 3:16, Luke 13:29, Ephesians 3:6, Romans 1:16, Revelation 7:9

Paul’s insight that Gentiles are co-heirs, co-members, and co-participants in the gospel is not a mere sociological adjustment—it is a radical theological revelation.

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Tension Leads to Breakthrough

Author

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Keywords

Justice

Scripture

1 Peter 3:8-9, Galatians 3:28, Proverbs 31:8-9, Matthew 5:9, Romans 12:18

Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and ob...

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