This was a fairly easy book to write because most of the work had already been
done during sermon preparation.
Some don't even respect His presence (chewing and popping
gum during the sermon, talking during worship, drinking coffee in church).
Got speaks to us in so many different ways (good and bad)-- and bless you for recognizing that it was He who was speaking to your
heart during that sermon.
Bakare spoke
during his sermon on Sunday, declaring that the «country is moving towards another collapse» with the division among different groups and violence in the country.
Chandler had previously apologized — without mentioning Hinkley by name —
during a sermon at the Village Church in late May, saying that church leader counseling had turned into «control.»
Marek Jedraszewski, the archbishop of Krakow in southern Poland,
said during his sermon on Saturday morning that people should pray for «Europe to remain Europe».
I couldn't stand that and in front of the whole of the
congregation during his sermon matched his energy with an out bust using the word «eaasy» as in «go easy» to which I saw him physically recoil.
My method of
dialogue during my sermons should testify on my behalf that I don't think I have all the answers and that we should discover truth together, as difficult as that may be.
These take place
during sermons in churches and the halls within those buildings, over the course of car rides and in living rooms, and within the office of the state's governor and the Oval Office.
North Point's funky architecture, the hologram that beams Stanley's image to satellite churches, the stage lights and visual props Stanley
uses during sermons — all of it is geared toward pulling in that new audience.
Or you've knelt endlessly at the altar, read the Scriptures and repeated the prayers; you've asked, sought and
knocked during every sermon, liturgy and devotional reading you could find.
There have been good experiences - discussing the apostleship of Mary Magdalene with an Episcopal priest during coffee hour - and bad ones - the Baptist preacher who
struggled during a sermon illustration to think of a magazine that all the women present would know and like and finally came up with Ladies» Home Journal.
Because I sit beside my husband and we whisper back and
forth during the sermon, it's the closest we get to date night some months.
He recommends turning to pray even
while during the sermon, «making many apostrophes to God, as Oh Lord, bless my people and teach them this point.»
Those who questioned too deeply or sometimes at all (just THINK about raising your
hand during a sermon) were frequently labeled as doubters, which would mean auto - hell upon death.
It struck me as oddly understandable (I even joined them to check my
email during the sermon), yet also as the foretaste of some looming spiritual crisis.
When we look across the
room during the sermon or out in the lobby or through the computer screen on Facebook, do we see brothers and sisters or do we see strangers?
Grace Church is the kind of congregation where worshippers take
notes during the sermon, which on this Sunday focused on the importance of believing in Jesus» virgin birth.
Update (Aug. 13): World Watch Monitor (WWM) reports that government authorities arrested the Rev. Nicolas Guerékoyamé, president of Central African Republic's (CAR) Evanglical Alliance, for remarks he made about the
government during a sermon.
Revised hymns can be used as examples during the study series on feminine imagery, and
introduced during the sermon or sermon series on feminine images.
The church lost me when it started using the pulpit as a means of telling our congregation how to
vote during sermons and covering up for pedophiles.
Huffington Post: Daniel Jenky, Illinois Catholic Bishop, Orders Anti-Obama Letter To Be Read In Diocese Earlier this year, a Roman Catholic bishop came under fire from the Anti-Defamation League and others for comparing President Barack Obama to Joseph Stalin and Adolf
Hitler during a sermon delivered at an Illinois church.
Informed by such experiences, the minister can move toward deepening the levels of communication which
occur during his sermons.
Obviously, Jesus did not die so that people could show up and sit in a pew on Sunday morning and
snore during the sermon.
In the church I attended as a boy, a
snicker during the sermon was ample proof that you must have been thinking of something else.
Verbal response from the congregation is not possible or
desirable during the sermon, even though there have been some experiments in overt dialogue between preacher and congregation.
Church ministry is not fulfilled by sitting in a pew on Sunday morning and trying to keep your eyes
open during the sermon.
Besides churchgoers» hesitancy over pulpit politicking, several prominent evangelical leaders, including the general superintendent of the Assemblies of God and the president of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, told the NAE they worry that speaking about
candidates during a sermon or service would distract from their primary message of preaching the gospel.
In the village of Gazi in Crete, the local Greek Orthodox priest
stated during a sermon in 1987 that «Jehovah's Witnesses have a hall right here in our village.
On the way, he picks up a priest - who rushes out of church
mid-sentence during a sermon - an imam and a monk, with lots of laughter and pranks along the journey.