Sentences with phrase «people hear our sermons»

People hear our sermons sprinkled with Greek, Hebrew, and quotations from theology books, and they realize they don't have the time or training to do all this study, and when they try with the limited time and resources they do have, more often than not, they get scoffed at or ridiculed by someone with more training and knowledge for having a view that shows their ignorance.

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Brian McLaren, author of «The Naked Spirituality,» says Rohr's book touches on an important paradox that you probably won't hear in a Sunday morning sermon: «Imperfect people» are sometimes more equipped than «perfect people» to help those who are struggling.

Once I heard a sermon called «Jesus... Lord of my hobby» and too many people treat it as such.

I still think we should still go to the church... or maybe a meeting where all the believer can learn from each other, strengthening each other, pray for each other etc, and of course, to worship God together... It is true that sometime I feel that I do not learn many thing from the sermon, but, many times, I learn by going to the church, knowing that I will not learn something from the preacher, humble myself to still listen to God and worship Him,,,, it is such a blessing to hear others testimony about how God works in their life, it is such an encouragement to see people open up their problem, then, we can pray about them..

Third, the people have heard the proclamation of the gospel in scripture and sermon and have begun to separate suffering from evil.

I would argue that Scripture is read because God speaks to his people assembled to hear his Word through the readings as well as through the sermon.

I've heard about loving people through beatings and muggings - but there is something so dignity shredding about sexual violence, that the thought of it makes me want to forget I ever read the sermon on the mount.

The people will learn that they are ministers also, and that following Jesus is more than just showing up on Sunday to hear a sermon and sing a few songs, but also involves loving each other and serving the world.

If all you hear is a sermon a week, you will not gain victory over that sin in your life, you will not see power and effectiveness in your prayers, you will not gain that insight and wisdom into the difficult decision you are facing, you will never be able to handle with love that troublesome person at work, you will rarely hear from God.

Whether in private conversation, group discussion, a sermon or a speech, or in the interaction within the community, the question is whether there is, on the one side, conviction about what the gospel means and, on the other side, unqualified readiness to hear the other people and see the world from their point of view.

That very common notion of the time implied that pastoral calls were the knowing, and if the people came to church to hear the sermon that was the feeding.

My personal opinion is that when prayer is involved in songwriting and the songwriter is submitted to God and allows the Holy Spirit to lead them, then the song will have the message that God wants His people to hear, much the same as a Pastor who writes a sermon, God Bless you.

And while I enjoying doing so, and learned a lot, and believe the people who heard these sermons learned a lot, it was always a relief to leave Paul and get into one of the narratives of Scripture (such as Genesis, Esther, or Jonah — which I have also preached), or my favorite of all — one of the Gospels.

The epic message — which started in Genesis and ended in Revelation — was heard by hundreds of people, who showed up in groups of 10 throughout the two - and - a-half day sermon.

At least where I've interacted, people just want to hear the same cliches over and over or want some sort of emotional sermon that «moves» them, a spiritual pep talk.

The person who hears 1,000 sermons (or bible studies) and doesn't love, he has problem, that problem is NOT knowledge, usually, still lack of knowledge.

I've never once heard a sermon preached on the passage in which Paul tells Titus «Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons» (Titus 1:12 — 13), and yet, if these words are truly the inerrant and unchanging words of God intended as universal commands for all people in all places at all times, then the Christian community needs to do a better job of mobilizing against the Cretan people, perhaps constructing some «God Hates Cretans» signs!

I've heard first person accounts of guys who download the sermon of the nationally acclaimed pastor (you choose the name) on Saturday night to read on Sunday morning.

I imagine at first, all those people who are used to showing up on Sunday to hear a 45 minute sermon would sit around staring at each other, asking, «What are we supposed to do now?»

In most churches and seminaries today, we are told that this verse means that people will no longer want to attend church to hear the pastor preach a sermon.

Usually, they have heard some fire and brimstone sermon about the unpardonable sin or the sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, and because of the book I have written on the subject, people contact me because they are scared out of their mind that they have committed this sin.

The idea that in their sermons pastors have to speak to people in almost infantile terms about things that they can read in the daily newspaper is an insult to others who are there to hear something that they do not know.

Some churches prefer evangelistic sermons every week, and other churches prefer one person to deliver an expositional monologue for one reason: People no longer put up with «sound doctrine» but instead gather around themselves a host of teachers who tell them what their itching ears want to hear (2 Tim 4:3 - 4).

This practice is somewhat better, since the questions and answers benefit everyone who just heard the sermon, but often, only the bravest people will ask a question or make a comment, and sometimes, people become very long - winded when they get a microphone in their hands, and in a large - group setting, it is difficult to keep their comment from turning into a second sermon.

Most people I know base most of their knowledge of the Bible on what they have heard in sermons.

There may be a time and place for preaching, but people need more of being led into love and service of others than they need to hear a new sermon every week.

I had to tell the pastor that after hearing his sermon, he's setting people up for a real problem.

Out of a biblical mandate, the sermon challenged them to respond fully to God's call to them, to hear, with God, the crying of God's people.

«There are no innocent people in the world just waiting to hear the Gospel; there are guilty people who need the Gospel,» I heard David Platt, author and pastor, say in a sermon one Sunday morning.

One man testified that the finest sermon that he had ever heard came from a person so stricken.

Erasmus once compared himself with an obscure preacher whose sermons were heard only by a few people in one or two churches while his books were being read in every country in the world.

«Sunday Sermon» provides a video platform that enables people to view sermons they missed or to find new church leaders they wouldn't otherwise have heard about.

For someone to not understand the humour of people struggling to hear while sitting in the cheap seats for the Sermon on the Mount is astonishing and telling.

Toller also carries around the guilt of a misbegotten affair with a co-worker, and he's not sure his sermons on Sunday have any effect on the smattering of people who come to hear him preach.

In medieval times a squint was a small opening in the wall of a church that provided people with leprosy a way of peering in to see and hear the sermon without touching any of the congregation.