Sentences with phrase «heard a sermon preached»

We never heard a sermon preached about it.

I've never once heard a sermon preached on the passage in which Paul tells Titus «Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons» (Titus 1:12 — 13), and yet, if these words are truly the inerrant and unchanging words of God intended as universal commands for all people in all places at all times, then the Christian community needs to do a better job of mobilizing against the Cretan people, perhaps constructing some «God Hates Cretans» signs!

I haven't heard a sermon preached on this, so I read this.

Not exact matches

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

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.

As important as it is to hear God's Word preached, let me be the first to say that sermons are just not enough.

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.

I would totally come to your church and hear a sermon if you were ever preaching one!»

And while I enjoying doing so, and learned a lot, and believe the people who heard these sermons learned a lot, it was always a relief to leave Paul and get into one of the narratives of Scripture (such as Genesis, Esther, or Jonah — which I have also preached), or my favorite of all — one of the Gospels.

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.

Many years ago, while I was a pastor in the Vineyard Movement, I attended a conference of pastors and leaders where I heard the very last sermon the Vineyard's founder, John Wimber, preached.

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.

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?

That is why, to stay within our immediate field of preaching, justly celebrated sermons of thirty years ago, while admirable in terms of craftsmanship and witnessing vivacity, can not be heard now as they were then.

It is the sober opinion of many concerned Christians, some who give the sermon and some who hear it, that preaching is an anachronism.

I may not listen to sermons but I have heard the old saying «Practice what you preach».

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».

In most churches and seminaries today, we are told that this verse means that people will no longer want to attend church to hear the pastor preach a sermon.

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.

A common way to introduce Fosdick was, «I give you Dr. Fosdick, whose sermons you have heard and preached.»

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.

There may be a time and place for preaching, but people need more of being led into love and service of others than they need to hear a new sermon every week.

It has tended to confuse words with action, verbal solutions with real solutions, and sermons preached with sermons heard.

I confess that I have never heard nor preached a sermon on the passage, and for good reason.

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.

(plastic fan etc.) If someone stays too long in their job preaching the same sermon over and over, players don't hear it any more it becomes stale.

Toller also carries around the guilt of a misbegotten affair with a co-worker, and he's not sure his sermons on Sunday have any effect on the smattering of people who come to hear him preach.