I would like to
hear sermons giving shape to possibilities of human delight in the future God intends for us and setting forth the moral imperatives that are required to make the ideal real.
I once
heard a sermon given by Francis Schaeffer in which he counseled his listeners that if they were ever faced with two options, and one would lead to better pay, more fame, and greater recognition, while the other led to poverty and obscurity, we should choose the lesser and more humble of the two.
Not exact matches
Then when he was 38, he
heard a pastor
give a
sermon on «passion for God.»
The leader
gave a high - quality message based on Scripture which was better than most
sermons I have
heard in churches.
Every time I've
heard the passage used in a
sermon the idea was to
give more to the church, and of course the preacher would be getting part of that.
How often have you
heard a
sermon about tithing based on Acts 20:35: «It is more blessed to
give than to receive»?
I won't name them — they are the one's, when any
given Sunday, you won't
hear a positive
sermon, but might
hear an anti-Catholic rant, or an anti-Jewish rant.
And yet how many
sermons one
hears in which the impression is
given that the preacher had walked all the way around God and had taken pictures.
It is the sober opinion of many concerned Christians, some who
give the
sermon and some who
hear it, that preaching is an anachronism.
Those who follow teachers who
give them what their itching ears want to
hear are those who are content to gather more and more teachers, listen to more and more
sermons, gaining more and more knowledge, and being so busy with Bible study, theological learning, and the accumulation of knowledge, that one never has a chance to put any of it into practice in the world.
He
hears in church a great many platitudes and familiar moral exhortations which do not move him much, with now and then a
sermon which
gives great comfort and support to the inner life.
A common way to introduce Fosdick was, «I
give you Dr. Fosdick, whose
sermons you have
heard and preached.»
Every reviewer who criticises the Noah movie for not sticking to the literal Biblical narrative, should be made to review the next
sermon (illustration) they
hear (or
give) on the same basis...
You've probably
heard of the «Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse», while I'm not going to
give you a «
sermon» today, I am going to talk to you about the «Four Horsemen» of your trading account «apocalypse» and how to defeat them.
When one of these groups is
given a pulpit, we should expect to
hear a
sermon.