Sentences with phrase «hear a sermon from»

When is the last time you heard a sermon from the Song of Solomon?

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There was no altar call during the service, but wanting the salvation from Christ she had heard about in the sermon, nine - year - old Joyce approached the preacher at the end and asked him how she could be saved.

I still think we should still go to the church... or maybe a meeting where all the believer can learn from each other, strengthening each other, pray for each other etc, and of course, to worship God together... It is true that sometime I feel that I do not learn many thing from the sermon, but, many times, I learn by going to the church, knowing that I will not learn something from the preacher, humble myself to still listen to God and worship Him,,,, it is such a blessing to hear others testimony about how God works in their life, it is such an encouragement to see people open up their problem, then, we can pray about them..

Third, the people have heard the proclamation of the gospel in scripture and sermon and have begun to separate suffering from evil.

«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....»

For centuries it has served as the main center for the study of Islamic doctrine and as a meeting place for Muslim students from all over the world who come to receive training for careers as judges, jurists, and scholars; above all, it is a great mosque where prayers are said, and Friday sermons are preached to the assembled worshipers and to the thousands who hear them over the radio.

If all you hear is a sermon a week, you will not gain victory over that sin in your life, you will not see power and effectiveness in your prayers, you will not gain that insight and wisdom into the difficult decision you are facing, you will never be able to handle with love that troublesome person at work, you will rarely hear from God.

Whether in private conversation, group discussion, a sermon or a speech, or in the interaction within the community, the question is whether there is, on the one side, conviction about what the gospel means and, on the other side, unqualified readiness to hear the other people and see the world from their point of view.

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.

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.

Delivering the Sermon: Voice, Body, and Animation in Proclamation by Teresa L. Fry Brown (a couple others that I haven't read yet but have heard great things about from this author are: Can a Sistah Get a Little Help?

But the sermon was good, and this would allow Simon to hear it better, if he was in the same boat with Jesus, and so he picked up his nets, put them in the boat, and then shoved off and rowed a little way out from shore so that Jesus could continue to teach.

Sometimes, the seven sermons from the Pentateuch would go shorter than expected, or the men were just loving hearing the Word taught so much, they said, «Encore!

I have read articles and heard sermons about this verse and how Jesus didn't want to be defiled by Mary before he ascended to heaven, and how Jesus rose from the dead, but he didn't ascend to heaven, but after he talked to Mary, he did ascend to heaven, after which time He could be touched by the apostles in the Upper Room, and then later, he ascended for good.

People hear our sermons sprinkled with Greek, Hebrew, and quotations from theology books, and they realize they don't have the time or training to do all this study, and when they try with the limited time and resources they do have, more often than not, they get scoffed at or ridiculed by someone with more training and knowledge for having a view that shows their ignorance.

Is the preacher, then, to move away from historical considerations in search of the immediacy Bultmann has found in regarding the preaching event itself as the eschatological occurrence, the end - time for the man who hears Christ address him in the sermon with the threat of death or the promise of life?

Obviously, it is not a big step from there to Jesus» words in the Sermon on the Mount, «You have heard it said: You shall not kill.

Expect to hear many a sermon from the pulpit over the next decades on such topics as «ambiguous gender imagery,» «God as woman,» and how St. Luke's Gospel «is an attempt to legitimize male dominance in the Christianity of the author's time.»

The very medium of conferences conveys a message louder than anything spoken from the stage, and I hear a sermon about our values and our focus, our materialism and worship, our energy and our dreams.

I added inverted commas here since I never heard or read a sermon from a woman pastor which was somehow convicting or calling to repentance.

I'd like to hear more teaching and sermons from women.

I have never forgotten the insight from a sermon that I heard shortly before formally converting, «We are born with clenched hands and it takes the grace of God to open them to reach out to others.»

Occasionally one hears about laymen being asked to study in advance the Scripture from which the text of the sermon is to be taken.

In a video of the sermon posted online, laughter can be heard from some members of the congregation, as well as cries, of «Amen!»

This practice is somewhat better, since the questions and answers benefit everyone who just heard the sermon, but often, only the bravest people will ask a question or make a comment, and sometimes, people become very long - winded when they get a microphone in their hands, and in a large - group setting, it is difficult to keep their comment from turning into a second sermon.

It's unusual to have such a progressive conference in this part of the country, and I've heard of pastors from several local congregations preaching passionate sermons against the emerging church in response to the event.

Again and again I came across competent theologians who were shocked by the sermons they heard from army chaplains.

Afterward, the ministers from the Institute who also attended the service and heard the sermon listened to the tapes of this discussion by laymen.

The point of the story is that the preacher's sermon and the church's sermons (the messages born in each of the hearers) resulted from the minister's having heard and responded to the theological question implicit in the sculptress's remark, «I am so happy, it's sinful.»

Yet this sermon is a sample of what many congregations hear from week to week.

I heard a great sermon once from a man who said if he is to be the head of the household, then he is responsible for the HAPPINESS and UNHAPPINESS in the household.

He also has a radio program on Moody Radio, Radical with David Platt, that can be heard around the world and features past sermons and teaching from David's ministry.

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

But I always, always, always, made sure to make a disclaimer at the beginning of my message that the sermon they were about to hear was from another pastor, and the reason I am sharing it from the pulpit is because I thought the message was so good.

The two men exchange a look of unspoken understanding, and then Reggie launches into one of his messianic sermons, as though his mind were suddenly addled by truth serum: «And you're hearing this from a black man.

After hearing a sermon titled «Life Lessons from a Pencil,» I got to thinking about the things a pencil can teach us about parenting.

He took arts and crafts classes after school with Charles Alston at the Utopia Children's House, heard weekly sermons from Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. at the Abyssinian Baptist Church, and attended the Harlem Art Workshop run by Augusta Savage.