Sentences with phrase «heard a sermon about»

How often have you heard a sermon about tithing based on Acts 20:35: «It is more blessed to give than to receive»?

I have never heard a sermon about dress codes or hair or submission or whatever is «proper behavior.»

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.

Do you recall as a child in church hearing sermons about becoming mature in your relationship with God?

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.

There are numerous problems with such an idea, not least among them that Scripture and the example of Jesus seem to disagree, but it is not uncommon to hear sermons about living our best life now, full of freedom and liberty, and how to have a happy life, happy wife, happy kids, and happy job.

True, sometimes a parable or saying or healing act of Jesus may be preached on, but I seldom hear a sermon about Jesus, except at Christmas or in Holy Week (though not always then), and occasionally on other festivals which celebrate his divine identity.

I recently heard a sermon about the many benefits that laughter has on health, social relations, spirituality and even business.

Not exact matches

To be sure some real true in heart believers had their first nudge toward salvation in Christ after hearing a pew fire licking sermon about where one who doesn't come to Christ will end up.

As Rob said in a sermon I heard him preach, «it's not about a destination it's about the journey».

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.

If so, I would love to hear about how this sermon went and what he said.

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..

No, it is not about either one of these things, even though this is often the way you hear it taught in sermons and during Mission's Conferences.

Here Luke quotes the saying about salt that Matthew has in the Sermon on the Mount, and concludes with the familiar formula, «He who has ears to hear, let him hear» (Lk 14:34 - 35; Mt 5:13; Mk 9:50).

I've heard about loving people through beatings and muggings - but there is something so dignity shredding about sexual violence, that the thought of it makes me want to forget I ever read the sermon on the mount.

But on the back of your sermon notes, I have about twenty others that I have used in the past, or have heard others use which are just as unscriptural.

Why do we hear sermon after sermon about Paul's instructions that «I do not permit a woman to teach or have authority over man» while never hearing a peep about Paul's declaration that «Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons»?

The topic of the sermon was worldly v godly ambition and NOWHERE in the sermon was anything about these latest rounds of snafus addressed — it was like hearing an alcoholic preach about the need for sobriety while sipping a beer.

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.

This also reminded me of a story I heard in a sermon many years ago about 3 Jewish friends where 2 of them fell out over a matter of doctrine.

Whether it is the seemingly innocuous statement about oneself to a colleague, or an outright negative comment about a sermon heard, or perhaps it is «harmlessly» talking about a housemate or spouse while chatting with friends, even if not actually saying anything, you know, that would cross the line into «gossip.»

All of those years of hearing sermon after sermon, youth camp after Bible study, about doing BIG things for a BIG God with BIG visions and BIG plans left us with crazy - high expectations on ourselves coupled with a narrow understanding of following Jesus.

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?

I've heard more moralistic, shaming sermons on lukewarmness than just about any other subject.

We never heard a sermon preached about it.

The sermon which followed was the one sermon about death and its meaning that I have ever heard preached; I noted that one sermon earlier.

I heard a sermon several years back where the pastor was talking about prayer, and he said that he uses a prayer system of concentric circles.

In the opening sections he laughed at the way in which the theme of faith and works had now been taken up so widely by all preachers — «they slyly leave their sermon book under the bench and whatever else the shouting in the pulpit used to be about, and they begin to preach to us again on faith and good works, about which one never used to hear or know anything».

[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...

Usually, they have heard some fire and brimstone sermon about the unpardonable sin or the sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, and because of the book I have written on the subject, people contact me because they are scared out of their mind that they have committed this sin.

The idea that in their sermons pastors have to speak to people in almost infantile terms about things that they can read in the daily newspaper is an insult to others who are there to hear something that they do not know.

Out of the scores of sermons I have heard on tithing, I never once heard a whisper about what the passage was actually talking about.

I once heard a sermon somewhere else where the guy was talking about Philippians I think, and he stopped to explain the first line, which is something along the lines of «Paul, a bondservant (slave!)

I heard a sermon today about how «if we are all in Christ, believing in his redeeming and reconciliation, then we are part of the family of God.»

I hear very few sermons about Jesus.

Occasionally you may have heard the curious idea that the Sermon on the Mount is a simple moral message, which has nothing to do with the rest of the church's teaching about Jesus.

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

I heard a sermon this week in which the pastor noticed that the beginning of Eve's problem in the garden was that rather than talk about the temptation with God (who was always in the garden), she talked about it with the serpent.

Once I heard the analogy in a sermon about how the pastor was a «spiritual covering» over the congregation, a God - ordained role.

I don't know what every man thinks on the subject because I dare to ask or even talk about the subject nor even mention it in any of my sermons or lessons but the only time I hear the subject is when the news reports talk about these sex criminals and pedophiles did this while looking for and even while watching their next victims.

Think about it: What was the best sermon you have ever heard?

And much of this interaction consists of discourse: we talk about our beliefs, listen to sermons, read the discourse of sacred tradition, and may even hear the voice of our own conscience.

It was a sermon I heard once about the Feast - Table of the afterlife — all the food you can imagine, but the rule is that you HAVE to use «the silverware»: fiery - forks (which you can ONLY touch by the handle) about 3 «cubits» long.

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.

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

«Sunday Sermon» provides a video platform that enables people to view sermons they missed or to find new church leaders they wouldn't otherwise have heard about.

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.

I remember as a young child being afraid after hearing sermons at church about the end of the world.