Sentences with phrase «first sermon on»

599 Jesus» violent death was not the result of chance in an unfortunate coincidence of circumstances, but is part of the mystery of God's plan, as St. Peter explains to the Jews of Jerusalem in his first sermon on Pentecost: «This Jesus [was] delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God.

(To their credit, the folks at Mars Hill did an amazing job setting the historical stage for the book of Esther in the short, animated video shown before Mark Driscoll's first sermon on the topic.

Reverend Dr. Betty Deas Clark was appointed the first female pastor at the historic church and delivered her first sermon on Sunday with the message of hope: «In the face of tragedy and uncertain times, we still have a God in whom we can trust.»

Not exact matches

Ultimately this principle of «do not worry» — and all the teachings found in the Sermon on the Mount — are underpinned by seeking and having the first of the Beatitudes, namely, being «poor in spirit.»

It is somewhat reassuring to realize that the first Christian sermon ever preached did not register high on the Richter scale.

It is somewhat reassuring to realize that the first Christian sermon ever preached did not register high on the Richter scale either.

Left alone like this, these passages would seem to give the lie to my assertion of balance in Newman's sermons on sin, as if all he had to say was that the world was riding a toboggan downhill to hell without help from God, and this despite our infirmities bequeathed to us by our first parents.

Even Lewis Hanke, twentieth - century doyen of Latin American studies, made the sermon into a Bolivarian grito de libertad, «the first cry on behalf of human liberty in the New World.»

First, I will burn the most memorable sermon of my childhood, in which the pastor informed us that Jesus was standing on the necks of women to enforce proper behavior.

Last month, my pastor preached a sermon on John 2, that story of Jesus» first miracle.

His first book, Velvet Elvis (Zondervan) received critical acclaim and his sermons were the most downloaded religious podcast on iTunes week in, week out.

The Sermon on the Mount is for the twentieth - century American as much as it was for the first - century Jew, and requires only a little transference out of its Palestinian context in order to «speak to our condition.»

When we look at such great New Testament passages as the Sermon on the Mount or the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians, we get the general impact, but we find that we still must make the application.

When I was a pastor, I used to preach an annual sermon on the first Sunday of every year in which I recounted all the tragedies and horrors of the previous year, and concluded by saying, «See?

His first sermon was on «Justification by Faith.»

«53 Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, for example, preached eighty - six lengthy sermons on the first two chapters of the Song, and found its single focus to be Christ's love for his Church.

Five years on from his first Premier Christianity culture column, Martin Saunders asks if there's more to it than sermon illustrations and placard - waving.

This might be called the second main discourse of Jesus to his disciples in Matthew, the first being the Sermon on the Mount.

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.

When you sit down to study the Bible or prepare a sermon, the first and last thought on your mind should be, «Jesus, teach me today.»

Graham is a member of the Rev. Don Wilton's church, Spartanburg First Baptist in South Carolina, and he still watches Wilton's sermons on TV.

«To some of us older ones, the parts we found absolutely essential were the Sermon on the Mount [Matthew 5 - 7], the 13th chapter of First Corinthians, and the Book of James,» he said (DR. BOB, p. 96).

Warren will preach his first sermon following his son's death on just the subject, saying «It's amazing to me that any other organ in your body can break down and there's no shame and stigma to it, but if your brain breaks down, you're supposed to keep it a secret»...

The day I first chewed on that question most seriously was the same day my friend Pete Wilson (no relation) posted a link to a podcasted critique of one of his sermons.

To begin with the first and most obvious: When we speak of Christ, we certainly have in mind the man whose personality and the general character of whose life emerge clearly enough in the Gospels, the man who was remembered as speaking such words as are found in the Sermon on the Mount and in the fifteenth chapter of Luke and, more important, as being himself the person who could have spoken them.

The upshot of Landry's seeking solidarity with his people in the first creative silences of the sermon's gestation is that the listeners, in James Sanders» analogy, are being coaxed on stage to participate themselves in the drama of redemption.

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?»

I lived through a good many conflicts which at first I denied had anything to do with sermon composition or preaching As I lived them through... I began to put a fresh and higher value on the pulpit and its varied meanings.

The Sermon on the Mount and the parables were the main substance of the first N.T. gospel, Mark, and of the inferred, earlier gospel known as «Q».

He'd just finished preaching his first sermon, which came on something of a whim, when he became aware that he was «standing on holy ground.»

However by the Reformation in the 16th century, Martin Luther not only translated the Gospels, but he interpreted them in printed sermons as well, and when John Calvin, Roger Williams and others broadly disagreed in print with Luther on such matters as what the scriptures said about the role of government in society, the whole matter of scriptural interpretation was opened to thousands of individuals who for the first time could read (or have read to them) the published documents.

In his first preaching Jesus brought clarity to the law in his famous Sermon on the Mount.

Thus when we read the Sermon on the Mount, we (like the first hearers) can respond to promises of a future divine kingdom.

Throughout the centuries since these words were first recorded, people have responded in many ways to the Sermon on the Mount.

Now, after studying the three key terms, you can understand the first strange sentence of the Sermon on the Mount.

A look at just the first verse of the Sermon on the Mount may tell us.

«Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them,» Jesus told his first followers in the Sermon on the Mount, «for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven.»

Still another suggestion is to read carefully and prayerfully the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians or the Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount.

(58) 5 - 7 — «At first sight the notion of any important connection between the multiplication table and the moral beauty of the Sermon on the Mount is fantastic» (MT 104).

Paul VI in his first sermon as Pope spoke to those «who without belonging to the Catholic Church are united to us by the powerful bond of faith and love of Jesus Christ and marked with the unique seal of baptism — one Lord, one faith, one baptism», seeking to «hasten the blessed day which will see, after so many centuries of deadly separation, the realisation of Christ's prayer on the eve of his death — ut unum sint, that they may be one...» 6

In an excited letter to Spalatin (on this occasion he was considered highly suitable for a discussion of the text), dated 14 December 1516, Luther wrote: «If reading a pure and solid theology, which is available in German and is of a quality closest to that of the Fathers, might please you, then get yourself the sermons of Johann Tauler, the Dominican... I have seen no theological work in Latin or German that is more sound and more in harmony with the gospel than this... Taste it and see how sweet the Lord is, [a quotation from the Psalms] after you have first tried and realised how bitter is whatever we are».

On the occasion of this sermon, the preacher was a Hispanic male, with sufficient accent to show English was not his first language.

The first sermon to be preached by the infant church was delivered by Peter in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

The first Conservative party political broadcast played on the theme of «Freedom» and ended with a fluttering Union Jack, the hymn I Vow to Thee, My Country (which she would later quote in her Sermon on the Mound) and the slogan: «It's Great To Be Great Again».

As a brash, young 17 - year - old, the first sermon I ever preached was on the crucifixion.

It fills in the missing years between Joshua's birth in Bethlehem and his sermon on the mount (wait till you get a load of the first draft!)

Though the letter is evangelical in tone, Bezos forgets the apocryphal preacher's advice on a successful sermon: «First, I tell them what I'm going to tell them, then I tell them, then I tell them what I just told them» Perhaps he was information snacking when he wrote the letter.

There are other passages that talk about the need for our focus to be on God and glorifying Him, like 1 Corinthians 6:19 - 20, or the end of the passage from the sermon on the Mount that I mentioned earlier — Matthew 6:33 «But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you ``.

Salt and light are metaphors in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:13 - 16), a passage cited by John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, as he stated his intention to build «a city upon a hill.»