Sentences with phrase «first hears a sermon»

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.

Not exact matches

To be sure some real true in heart believers had their first nudge toward salvation in Christ after hearing a pew fire licking sermon about where one who doesn't come to Christ will end up.

As important as it is to hear God's Word preached, let me be the first to say that sermons are just not enough.

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

There is not a single time that I preach a sermon without hearing from someone that this was the first time they had ever heard a woman preach.

When I first heard this, I read some of his blog posts and listened to some of his sermons, and honestly, I can not tell if he is arguing the same thing or not.

Pastors in sermon feedback gatherings almost invariably struggle at first to get parishioners to utter any words of evaluation that could be heard as negative..

But the fact of the matter is our generation is walking the first mile of primary data, the seen and the heard, and out of this raw material sermons are built.

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?»

An oft - repeated anecdote concerns the sermon they heard that first Sunday and minister Jack Jensen's mention of the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

I wonder what kinds of sermons you hear in the First Assembly of God of Valdosta, Georgia, which proudly bears the message ETERNITY: SMOKING OR NONSMOKING.

I once heard a sermon somewhere else where the guy was talking about Philippians I think, and he stopped to explain the first line, which is something along the lines of «Paul, a bondservant (slave!)

In order to become a «speaker» at the site designated for the performance of the sermon, the preacher must first stand at many other sites where «voices» are heard and «presences» are embodied and there learn how to listen attentively.

The Yehudi comes to Lublin because he hears that the Seer «consorts with good and evil,» and it is with good and evil that the Seer's first sermon after his arrival deals.