Sentences with phrase «great sermons on»
The little company of the Twelve, in this resurrection faith, grew to one hundred and twenty, and after Peter's great sermon on Pentecost three thousand more were added to the fellowship.
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Listening to the sermon each Sunday can be like what my father used to do on Sunday afternoons - «listen» to the race - GREAT for napping.
Jared, that's a great sermon you posted the link for... my family has a lifelong friend who is a United Methodist minister, so I posted it on my Facebook in hopes he might see it.
«I was praying for you... I heard a great sermon... I'm reading a great book on the spiritual life... I came across this beautiful verse in Luke the other day... I was talking with a friend from church....»
As an expression of the biblical archetype that stands behind the civil religion let me turn to that great initial sermon of John Winthrop, «A Model of Christian Charity,» delivered on board ship before the landing in Massachusetts in 1630.
A great sermon title to put on your bulletin board on Sunday morning.
But they contain also a great deal of teaching material, such as the Sermon on the Mount and many parables, which Mark does not give.
Those who have had basic courses in the biblical languages and are willing to devote 20 minutes a day to such language study should gain enough language ability to base their sermon text study on the original text, and they should have enough linguistic skill to use the best of the great philological commentaries, which often cite words from the original languages.
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.
See these few, out of many, examples of such literature they read: Samuel M. Shoemaker, Confident Faith (NY: Fleming H. Revell, 1932), p. 46; Philip Marshall Brown, The Venture of Belief (NY: Fleming H. Revell, 1935), p. 49; Stephen Foot, Life Began Yesterday (NY: Harper & Brothers, 1935), p. 87; Olive M. Jones, Inspired Children (NY: Harper & Brothers, 1933), p. 50; Norma Smith Holm, The Runner «s Bible, p. 21; James Moore Hickson, Heal the Sick (London: Methuen & Co., 1925), p. 266; Oswald Chambers, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount (Great Britain: Oswald Chambers Publications, 1995), p. 1 02; many issues of The Upper Room; and the many highly studied titles of Glenn Clark, E. Stanley Jones, and Harry Emerson Fosdick.
I had a fascinating conversation with Max Stackhouse of Andover - Newton Seminary who felt that one of our greatest needs in the subject area of this book was for an examination of the history of preaching on certain texts as the «Rich Young Ruler» to see how sermons related to different contexts.
A sermon should not only lead individuals into a greater knowledge of God's word, but also instructing believers on how to study God's word for themselves and not always be reliant on others.
Newman's sermon to the assembled prelates in the hot summer of 1852 was certainly complimentary: «And so that high company moves on into the holy place [Newman was picturing the procession of dignitaries with Cardinal Wiseman the last to enter the chapel of St Mary's Oscott]; and there, with august rite and awful sacrifice, inaugurates the great act which brings it hither.»
In the whole course of the book we can catch hardly a distant echo of the sermon on the Mount... From the Revelation it could never have been gathered that Jesus was compassionate, that he healed the sick and encouraged the helpless and outcast and bore our infirmities, that he was meek and lowly of heart... As we know him from this book, Christ is a great but terrible figure, righteous but implacable, the champion of his people, but breathing destruction on his enemies.»
This would be a GREAT sermon for Christians to hear to get their faith and actions back on track.
They are: the Great Commandment, the Sermon on the Mount, and the Great Judgment.2
For those interested, my pastor just kicked off a great sermon series on giving you can check out here.
What he calls for in the Sermon on the Mount, and gives numerous examples of, is a life lived in right relationship with God and neighbor, in line with the Great Commandment.
In his famous sermon on «Christian Charity,» John Winthrop reminded the Puritans that they had covenanted together to undertake a common task; the entire Massachusetts Bay effort was interpreted as a covenant between those engaged in a common enterprise and as a covenant between all the people and God.10 This symbol is found in diaries, in letters, in countless sermons preached in the context of regular services, and in sermons on great occasions stretching from Winthrop's «Christian Charity» through fast - day and election - day sermons up to and through the very Revolution itself.
While many sermons on verses 21 - 28 have legitimately focused on the Canaanite woman's persistence of faith, another way to view this text takes into account that her faith was great not only because she was persistent, but also because her persistence demonstrates her faith.
If the Bible were not so accessible to most readers of this book, it would be fitting to transcribe here the greater part of the Sermon on the Mount.
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».
During his sermon, «Abdur - Rashid said that the United States is not «becoming great again» but rather is «still developing into a perfection of its greatness» and remarked on the upcoming 50th memorial anniversary of the sermon delivered by the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in which he spoke out against the Vietnam War and the «triple evils of militarism, racism and poverty.»
No great messages or sermons here, only a smile for you on your way.
The second book of this series «Theology in Public» presents a great figure, St. John Chrysostom, and his theological teaching.One of the most significant sermons of Chrysostom is the one which bears the title «On the Devil.»
Hey, I just stumbled upon a six - minute sermon on this topic from «Praeger University» (Dennis Praeger + guests talking online); it cites the cases of the James Hill's Great Northern railway versus the govt - funded Union Pacific, and the Wright brothers versus the government - funded Prof. Langley (sp?)
I follow up on sermons, add notes of interest to the church, and reflect on matters great and small.
I follow up on sermons, add notes of interest to the church, and reflect on matters great and small.
If the great spiritual leaders of the world converged to deliver a sermon on the meaning of life, the only way to get full attendance from the real estate industry would be to offer continuing education (CE) credits.