Sentences with phrase «heard a gospel sermon»

Saturday night found him m a region of the Cumberland Mountains, «where there was no gospel minister for many miles around, and where, as I learned, many of the scattered population had never heard a gospel sermon in all their lives, and where the inhabitants knew no Sabbath only to hunt, and visit, drink and dance.»

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

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.

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.»

[BUY THIS CARTOON] I thought it was funny imagining the Jesus we read about in the gospels sitting in on a sermon at one of our churches and that he hears about this Jesus...

«There are no innocent people in the world just waiting to hear the Gospel; there are guilty people who need the Gospel,» I heard David Platt, author and pastor, say in a sermon one Sunday morning.

Sometimes we hear sermons marked by an almost indefinable «official» quality; we hear the kind of preaching in which the minister's personal apprehension of the gospel is forgotten in the official nature of his office as preacher.