Sentences with phrase «church hearing sermons»

Do you recall as a child in church hearing sermons about becoming mature in your relationship with God?

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Very sad some churches have never heard that sermon.

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..

I have been a christian for 55 year in August and I have heard so many sermons in lots of different churches.

If only I had ever sat in church and heard a sermon like that, I might yet still be there.

I have heard church members remark that if the sermon makes them laugh or cry, they feel as if they have worshiped.

But just going to church and hearing sermons — sorry, Dr. Colletti — doesn't get me very far.

The leader gave a high - quality message based on Scripture which was better than most sermons I have heard in churches.

«I was praying for you... I heard a great sermon... I'm reading a great book on the spiritual life... I came across this beautiful verse in Luke the other day... I was talking with a friend from church....»

Every time I've heard the passage used in a sermon the idea was to give more to the church, and of course the preacher would be getting part of that.

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.

Albert Camus had been coming to church, first to hear Marcel Dupré playing the organ, and later to hear Mumma's sermons.

I would totally come to your church and hear a sermon if you were ever preaching one!»

And I'll tell you right now, for the vast majority, the solution is NOT «come to church and hear a sermon.»

I have now been attending church and college chapels for a long time; and outside of funeral, memorial, and Easter services I doubt that I have heard three sermons on the Christian understanding of death in the past thirty years.

Hey, who had heard of Rev Terry and the Westburo Baptist church or the pastor who made the anti-gay sermons until they appeared here on CNN?

I can't imagine anyone on a mission trip withholding medical care until the patient first hears a sermon or is coerced into making a (false) profession of faith so that the missionary can notch his belt with the number of «souls saved», nor can I imagine that the missionary's home church receives any monetary benefit from this new member you imagine they have strong - armed into joining.

Also, most sermons I hear in these other churches are so shallow and empty of content, it would almost be better if there were no sermon at all.

When you read the sermon transcriptions of the early church fathers, especially those of St. John Chrysostom (aka «Golden Tongue») when he taught through books of the Bible, it becomes clear that while the «Teacher» did most of the speaking, there was a lot of interaction with those who were there to hear him.

But as soon as you start thinking, «I sure hope so - and - so hears me singing so loud and sees me taking so many sermon notes,» that is an indication you are just coming to church to appear holy.

As she listened to podcasts of Greg Boyd's (Senior pastor at Woodland Hills Church in Minnesota) sermons, she heard another view expressed which she calls the «warfare view».

[BUY THIS CARTOON] I thought it was funny imagining the Jesus we read about in the gospels sitting in on a sermon at one of our churches and that he hears about this Jesus...

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.

He hears in church a great many platitudes and familiar moral exhortations which do not move him much, with now and then a sermon which gives great comfort and support to the inner life.

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).

Occasionally you may have heard the curious idea that the Sermon on the Mount is a simple moral message, which has nothing to do with the rest of the church's teaching about Jesus.

Within weeks of that event I heard a sermon at an Episcopal church praising Bernall's witness and urging Christians to imitate her faithfulness.

It's unusual to have such a progressive conference in this part of the country, and I've heard of pastors from several local congregations preaching passionate sermons against the emerging church in response to the event.

The point of the story is that the preacher's sermon and the church's sermons (the messages born in each of the hearers) resulted from the minister's having heard and responded to the theological question implicit in the sculptress's remark, «I am so happy, it's sinful.»

Throughout my life I have attended black churches and heard the sermons and music of these churches.

In spite of all this, and of the catholicity of the church, there is no doubt that specific social, political, and economic contexts affect both the sermon itself and the manner in which it is heard.

This is so that the same voice of authority as was heard at the Sermon on the Mount might always be heard without fail in every generation of the Church.

It feels like it would be mentally impossible for me to sit through a church service and a hear sermon right now, especially after all the Spirit filled, energetically charged conversations and connections I've had with others in the name of Christ outside the church.

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.

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.

He took arts and crafts classes after school with Charles Alston at the Utopia Children's House, heard weekly sermons from Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. at the Abyssinian Baptist Church, and attended the Harlem Art Workshop run by Augusta Savage.

I remember as a young child being afraid after hearing sermons at church about the end of the world.