In medieval times a squint was a small opening in the wall of a church that provided people with leprosy a way of peering in to see and
hear the sermon without touching any of the congregation.
Not exact matches
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.
Just as I've never
heard a
sermon against Cretans, I've also never
heard a
sermon on 1 Timothy 2:8, in which Paul tells Timothy, «I want men everywhere to pray, lifting holy hands
without anger or disputing» that included a universal dictum that all men everywhere must raise their hands whenever they pray.
So too is it with the message of the preacher on Sunday: we can
hear a fine
sermon without the Holy Spirit, but we then do not
hear the Word of God in the
sermon.
This is so that the same voice of authority as was
heard at the
Sermon on the Mount might always be
heard without fail in every generation of the Church.