Sentences with phrase «good preaching»

Good preaching cuts through what's only real for a moment to get to what has been and can be true.

I just believe that the church in the U.S. is comfortable stopping at simply hearing good preaching about race and reading books that propose colorblindness as the path towards reconciliation.

To me, this seems to cut against the grain of good preaching, which ought to be both interpersonal (ideally, we have a good relationship of trust with our preacher) and incarnational (as the word of the homily rooted in the word of Scripture proclaims and makes present the Word of God, Jesus Christ).

Good preaching comes, of course, in a variety of styles: long and short, plain and rhetorically elevated, interpretive and narrative.

Kellen spent many years looking for a church that fit his desire for good preaching, quality music, and ministry options he could plug into.

Anyone interested in good preaching can learn from these sermons.

He continued that even the NDC manifesto and Green Book which had all the good works of John Mahama, was not well preached by the communicators.

I have heard great preaching, awful preaching, and everything in between - though I am happy to report that on balance I have encountered more good preaching than bad.

Most good preaching involves just such an act of creative imagination.

Good preaching generally involves a tone of authoritative proclamation, but the use of microphones encourages a quieter, conversational tone from the pulpit.

It is all about knowing right from wrong some peoples brains never get that far no matter how well the preaching.

It was filled with a few «Amens» and «Good preaching last Sunday»....

I love good preaching.

Good preaching always gives the impression of dealing with matters freshly chosen from among competing topics and yet which are mellow from sufficient time in the cellar.

The goal is to present good preaching and music so that people start coming.

The other tendency to which good preaching is opposed is a kind of subjectivity that assumes we are free or able to conjure up private worlds that may exist in a domesticated sphere without accountability to or impingement from the larger public world.

I like how Chisholm provided good preaching tips for how to teach Judges and Ruth, and also provided a list of recommended commentaries.

As I grew into adolescence, I came to regard good preaching as that which could bring the three - point formula to life.

Good preaching engages, in Lutheran terms, the dialectical conversation of sin and grace.

Good preaching directs us out of our crippling self - preoccupation and toward the promises of the gospel.

Good preaching tells the kings of this world (of everything and nothing) about all the great things God has done.

I praised people who came to my church from other churches because they wanted good preaching.

Enjoy good preaching, the outdoors, music, and movies.

Friends told us we should attend his masses there if we wanted to hear good preaching.

It has been said that the aim of good preaching is to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.

It is often urged that to listen to good music and good preaching by radio is better than to expose oneself to the halting, feeble efforts of the churches.

Indeed, better preaching has become a major concern for Catholics recently.

Change in ministerial role performance: better preaching, counseling, other skills; improved relations with laymen, more effective use of community resources, etc..

Instinctively we know that our best preaching comes about when we have discovered the ways in which the biblical writers sought to change minds, hearts, and lives and then have taken those «available means of persuasion» with us into the pulpit.

It is this kind of in - depth, verse - by - verse study that the best preaching pastors do for the sermon preparation as they preach through books of the Bible.

To be well preached a sermon on prayer must answer some of the hearer's questions and give him assurance that through prayer he can find power in God for any situation, including his own deepest need.

To be well preached they ought not merely to be exhortations to pray — which most of the hearers have heard many times — nor should they consist mainly of stories of remarkable answers to prayer in which apparently God was persuaded to manage affairs according to the petitioner's request.

If you love preaching (either preaching to others, or listening to good preaching), I would really appreciate your input on these posts.

In the best preaching, the sermon becomes both an explanation of and apology for the Christian world view.

You better preach Man of God!!!!

I still love listening to good preaching.

Osteen's feel - good preaching is another fulfilled prophecy of the end times!

None of the above factors — membership growth, financial stability, a friendly congregation, quality worship, or good preaching — is necessarily evidence that members are committed to participation in the Body of Christ.

Studies of growing multiple - staff congregations indicate that the two most important factors that attract new members are good preaching and worship and «a friendly congregation.

Heard any good preaching lately Joe?

There is some evidence that when church - shoppers look for a church with lively worship and good preaching this includes a concern for moral values they can affirm.»

Why do I need to have disposable income and the ability to travel to get access to the best teaching and the best preaching and the best music and the best church experience, arguably to the best Gospel, money can buy?

Just what is «good preaching»?

There may be better preaching, better music, better voicing of prayers over the radio than one hears at his own church.

Whatever strategy is undertaken, it is most important that the preacher — and hopefully the congregation — is aware that good preaching (which is an act of inventive world construction) is fundamentally opposed to two tendencies in our culture.

It may well be true that no church perfectly embodies all I have suggested (though, looking back at the article, I do not think I set the practical bar very high: decent liturgy shaped by theology, helpful catechisms, good preaching, baptism, Lord's Supper, a basic grasp of history etc.).

If you folks living in that area want to hear some good preaching check out pastor Bingham at Gateway.

Whether church offer more preaching, or better preaching, neither seems to be «working.»