Preachers and Bible Teachers are always looking for a word, an idea, or a phrase, to help capture the thought of a passage or a chapter.  This blog is designed to help the preacher/teacher generate that thought.

Wouldn’t it be helpful to have the minds and thoughts of multiple pastors sitting around a table who could brainstorm with you during sermon preparation!  If we could only brainstorm with someone who was as interested in and excited about putting together a message on that passage with you.  If you do not have that person around when you need him/her, this provides you with an alternative just when you need it!

That is what these pages are designed to do!  Read through the various words, phrases, common sayings, and see if they can . . . .

• generate new thought, or
• remind you of a past idea, or
• suggest a different way to handle the passage, or
• capture a way to introduce your message, or
• frame the main thought of your message, or
• phrase a Big Idea which will stick, or
• or just kick-off some other thought or vantage on the passage, or
• or use that word or phrase throughout your message to leave with your audience when they go home

Sometimes it only takes a word, a phrase, a simple idea, a quip, or a quote to generate an idea that can be useful in preparing a sermon.

Here are IDEA Generators on Genesis 1!

• • Divide The Dirt
• • If animals could talk
• • The Facts of Life
• • Intelligent Design means an Intelligent Designer.
• • The Heavens declare Creation!
• • The Great Debate
• • The Battle for Beginnings
• • The Battle from the Beginning
• • Reasons to believe
• • The Wonder of it All
• • By FAITH we UNDERSTAND that
• • What are we debating about?
• • Genesis 1: True North
• • Creation or Evolution: Does It Matter?
• • Relationships designed by God
• • Designer Genes
• • The “C” word (Creator)
• • Evolution: Out of nothing comes something?
• • Something from nothing
• • From chaos to redemption
• • The past determines your future.
• • Evolution: a fairytale for adults
• • You look like your dad.
• • What God can do with nothing!
• • A family resemblance
• • You look just like your dad!
• • The power of the Word
• • The power of the spoken word
• • Awesome potential out of nothing
• • Creation, because out of nothing comes nothing!
• • What we believe about people.
• • A difference in degree or a difference in kind
• • The POTENTIAL that is in it
• • Lost: Our true potential
• • Body by God
• • We’re all on life support
• • The origin of time
• • Once upon a time
• • The rest of the story
• • When they knew God (Romans 1)
• • Mankind: Sorry, “out of order”
• • Just speak/say the word
• • The WEDGE of Intelligent Design
• • That’s the way I’m wired
• • Genesis: race relations
• • Genesis: a worldview
• • Reflection
• • God is a Creationists
• • Marriage: equal but different
• • Working in the dark
• • It’s dark out there.
• • Evolution: Tornado in a Junk Yard
• • Star Wars
• • For the record
• • Two Different “Models”
• • Someone, please turn on the lights.
• • Where’s the lights?
• • Creativity
• • Creativity: Where did we get it from?
• • Out of chaos, order
• • Monkey Business
• • What the world needs now
• • The collosion of two worlds (of throught)
• • No, it wasn’t just dumb luck
• • Like father, like son
• • Ape or Adam?
• • This big light of mine I’m going to let it shine.
• • Two Great Lights
• • Would the true Creator please standup.
• • Why life is sacred!
• • THINK: It could NOT just happen
• • After Creation: Really, is anything too difficult?
• • I’m only human
• • Evolution: Leap of Faith
• • Unformed and Unfilled
• • No excuses please
• • The first tree grew the second tree
• • The very beginning of . . . Work, rest, sin, family, marriage
• • Please check that blueprint!
• • A Masterpiece gone all wrong
• • The whole problem in one chapter
• • Let’s go back to where it all started
• • Talking to the animals
• • The first great wonder of the world
• • The first . . . sentence, marriage, spoken word, relationship
• • What’s the game plan
• • Aren’t you creative!
• • I spoke, therefore you are
• • It was supposed to be like this . . .
• • But then it all took a wrong turn
• • When we were at our best.
• • Put first thing first.
• • Priorities: Things in their right place.
• • Mommy, where did I come from?
• • Go green
• • Operation Creation!
• • I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist!
• • Students, let’s begin
• • Take a rest!
• • I intended to, but  . . .
• • Temporarily out of order.
• • This is my father’s world.
• • Who Is God that man should worship Him?
• • Who is the most powerful man in the whole world?
• • Glory!
• • Made with his own hands
• • Please do it my way!
• • When the lights came on
• • Alpha and Omega: More than two Greek letters.
• • Lies we believe about ourself.
• • You look so much like your father.
• • The Commencement Address
• • Don’t make a monkey out of me!
• • The author is . . .
• • “To God Be The Glory For The Things He Has Done”
• • Let me start from the beginning.
• • Creator: Design that makes sense.
• • Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
• • In His Image: An acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree
• • If Creator, all bets are off.
• • Give it a rest
• • All in a day’s work.
• • Go figure!
• • Landlords and tenants
• • Ground rules
• • Jack of all trades & master of all
• • It was the best of times, and the worst of times!
• • “Big Bang” is a religion.
• • “Science is a Sacred Cow” (Anthony Standen)
• • On a scale of one to ten, how strong is God?
• • Rank Him for me.
• • “Evidence That Demands a Verdict” (Josh Mac Dowell)
• • The hidden years of Jesus.
• • A carpenter!
• • Why a Carpenter?
• • More than a Carpenter
• • Long before Bethlehem, Jesus was the Son of a carpenter.
• • All palls in comparison to this
• • All talk and all action
• • Then it all went haywire.
• • The big picture
• • At the end of the day
• • Creator: You can bank on it!
• • Talk about “Fast food”!
• • Image is everything!
• • Big as Life
• • Creation: Just business as usual
• • Who turned on the lights?
• • Whoever turned the lights on, will turn them off.
• • Born with a silver spoon in his mouth
• • Your work matters to God!
• • Who are you working for?
• • But who created Him?
• • Creation: No brain drain there
• • First thing first
• • We believe in God the Father, Maker of heaven and earth.
• • For Heaven’s sake . . .
• • Creation by the book
• • You can’t hold a candle to this
• • Day 7 – Chill Out
• • It was chaos!
• • Spitting image
• • Mirror image.
• • Genesis 1: So you know where you stand
• • That was the Highpoint.
• • Light are on, but nobody’s home
• • The Heavens declare the glory.
• • You ended up wrong because you began wrong!
• • Let me introduce you to . . .
• • Putting the cart before the horse
• • What does it matter?
• • Does it matter?
• • Genesis 1: Getting on the same page
• • Creation: A piece of cake!
• • A Kodak Moment
• • Where did matter come from and does it matter?
• • Now that has implications.
• • I have a theory!
• • The beginning of life, AS WE KNOW IT
• • Creation: It’s over my head.
• • And to crown it all off. . .
• • Declaring the END from the Beginning
• • The master plan
• • Let me sketch it out for you.
• • How great Thou art.
• • The unknown God
• • Old as dirt
• • The floor plan
• • That was then.
• • If you want to make sense of it all. . . you will have to go back to the beginning.
• • Creation: what’s the point?
• • If you believe in God!  What is His name?
• • The B – I – B – L – E
• • It was an accident !
• • No, it was done on purpose!
• • I’m not that old, really!
• • How old do you think I am?
• • With one hand tied behind my back
• • It all depends on where you start!
• • The beginning and the end
• • I know, because I was there.
• • You can’t handle the truth!
• • Who made that?
• • The battle for Beginnings
• • It’s is all null and void.
• • Still Groping In The Dark
• • The seed plot
• • No Creator, No Morality
• • The FACT is . . .
• • There is a God, and we are not Him.
• • The first 24 hours
• • Don’t let people play with your family tree.
• • Fact or fiction?
• • Creator: A Reality Check
• • Where would I be without You?
• • Making a mountain out of a molehill
• • No monkey business
• • Twisted Thinking
• • Mudslinging
• • The more we learn, the less we know.
• • Waiting for the dust to settle
• • What on earth is wrong with me/you?
• • We make the rules now.
• • When all is said and done
• • Who died and left you in charge?
• • The honor you are due
• • You ain’t seen nothing yet!
• • You CAN go home again.
• • Small world, isn’t it?
• • Sounds like a plan!

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