Sentences with phrase «great preacher»

You may learn to preach from the tapes of great preachers, and refine your theology by reading the writings of seminary professors.

MLK, great preacher with a flawed religion both historically and theologically.

Revivalism produced great preachers and giants in leadership and organization.

He was the first great scholar, first great preacher, the first great devotional writer, the first great commentator, and the first great dogmatic theologian.

One of America's truly great preachers, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, preached such a gospel with outstanding success.

Christianity constantly sought more light yet in God's Word, and great preachers such as Bushnell, Beecher, and Brooks felt that they had found new light that enabled them to remain faithful to the Christian message and at the same time honestly to face up to the new findings of science.

After World War II there was a remarkable change in theology led by Reinhold Niebuhr and others which resulted in many great preachers entering the pulpit during this era, establishing the beliefs and the theology that underlie action.

The story is told of a church in Philadelphia which at one time had a succession of great preachers and found itself with an incumbent who, after one year, had not measured up to the quality of preaching that the congregation expected.

As for being a great preacher, give that up right now.

He believed that Jesus was a great preacher, perhaps even a prophet who had been spoken to directly by God.

«Sarah says she doesn't feel a call to preach, but she speaks with the fire and artistry of a great preacher.

I remember one of my professors saying, «We have too many preachers who want to hear their parishioners say, «What a great preacher we have,» and not enough who long to hear them say, «What a great God we have.»»

In addition to the great preachers, the Federal Council of Churches, various social commissions of the denominations, and great theological schools such as Union Theological Seminary in New York, the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, and the Yale Divinity School, all presented forms of the social gospel.

During the 1920's and 1930's the peace movement grew in the Churches until it embraced most of the great preachers in the big city churches and a host of clergymen in most of the denominations.

I informed him that they portray Duke's «saints» — On the one side are great southerners like Lee, Jefferson and Lanier; on the other side, great preachers of the past.

Did he not conclude that what made America so great was its churches and the great preachers who preached so powerfully from the pulpits.

Irenaeus's respect and admiration for this great preacher, Hippolytus, therefore, persuaded him that the books cited by Hippolytus were sound, inspired and should, therefore, be included in the cannon, which now makes up the New Testament.

Irenaeus heard and was impressed by a great preacher named Hippolytus.

But it wasn't like clapping for the great preachers at a preaching conference or even for Billy Graham.

Paul's close friend Priscilla is revered for having instructed Apollos, one of the great preachers of that day.

I don't know her name, but I remember she is equally a great preacher as her dad.

One of the greatest preachers in history, Charles Spurgeon, preached his first sermon just months after his conversion, at age 16!

Through common study of the Bible we have gained a better understanding of God's word in the tradition of the great preachers and theologians of earlier centuries, and thus we have learned to read the Bible more faithfully in and with the Church.

«You'd be a great preacher,» a male friend of mine once told me, «if you were a boy.»

He is a great preacher, and I still feel like this is backwards somehow: like he should be the one up there preaching while I sit in the front row.

You know that does remind me of Jonathan Edwards though... One of the greatest minds ever produced in America, and certainly one of the greatest preachers.

I always wanted to be like my dad he was probably a better man outside the pulpit than he was in and he was a great preacher.

Yes, He was a great preacher, and a miracle worker.

The women introduce me to Dr. Bob (or Bill or Dick, I can not recall), who was the great preacher.

I love Bishop Eddie Long he is a Great Man and a great Preacher.

And one of the greatest preachers America has produced pooh - poohed the traditional role of preaching, redefining it in more acceptable therapeutic terms as «personal counseling on a group scale.»

Billy was a great preacher.

Look, it even happened during one of Paul's sermons, and he was, like, the greatest preacher ever.

The greatest preachers are those whom life has humbled.

Yet Niebuhr was also a great preacher, able to use the burgeoning modes of social science to show how theology could provide a gripping account of the human condition.

They approach their task, sometimes consciously but mostly unconsciously, with the model of some great preacher in the back of their minds.

The child Jimmy was so drawn to the great preachers he heard from so many different denominations he would slip out in the backyard and «preach» in imitation of them.

So... even if you go to a church with the greatest preacher ever, if you don't spend a lot of time with God outside of Sundays, you are not going to have a great relationship with Him.

The great preacher John Wesley is best known for helping to establish Methodism.