Sentences with phrase «fine sermon»

Nothing brings the worms out of the wood faster than a dose of compliments about a fine sermon by a lay preacher.

So too is it with the message of the preacher on Sunday: we can hear a fine sermon without the Holy Spirit, but we then do not hear the Word of God in the sermon.

But, he said, he had borrowed it from Preacher C, a less well known preacher in a midwestern city, who had delivered it from his pulpit without acknowledging his indebtedness to Preacher B. And a fine sermon it was.

John can give a fine sermon.

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

Not exact matches

Sundayâ $ ™ s sermon went fine.

(I have on more than one occasion felt the effect of an otherwise admirable sermon ruined by the sense that the pastor had been told once too often what a fine preacher he was.)

The second type of cultual sermon was the homily or expository discourse, brought to a fine art by Origen on the basis of Philonic precedent.

During one of his sermons, he paraphrases F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous dictum about the sign of a fine mind being the ability to hold two competing ideas at the same time.

Mussolini no more acted upon the fine - sounding sermons he preached than did Hitler, Lenin, Stalin or Mao Tse - Tung.