Sentences with phrase «heard my sermon on»

«When was the last time you heard a sermon on food and eating?

If you have heard a sermon on Ezekiel 23:20 - 21, or attended a Bible study where it was discussed, let me know in the comments below and tell me what was said.

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.

Those who heard his sermon on Arafa day in the tenth year recognized that they were hearing his last will and testament.

I haven't heard any sermons on all of those biblical instructions, but I've heard more than I can count on 1 Timothy 2:11, which says, «a woman should learn in quietness and full submission.

Soon after I read this book I heard a sermon on «The Star of Bethlehem» (Matthew 2), in which the preacher quoted Roof.

We have heard frustrated pastors complain that their congregations are not «ready» to hear a sermon on an ethical issue.

What we need, Willard argues, is to hear the Sermon on the Mount afresh, not as mere «law,» aimed only at reforming our behavior, but as instruction on how our hearts may be renewed.

Not exact matches

Brian McLaren, author of «The Naked Spirituality,» says Rohr's book touches on an important paradox that you probably won't hear in a Sunday morning sermon: «Imperfect people» are sometimes more equipped than «perfect people» to help those who are struggling.

Jeremy if you want to hear a good sermon on this subject go to this website njbc.org click on sermon arches you want be disappointed I'm sure.

Then when he was 38, he heard a pastor give a sermon on «passion for God.»

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).

The leader gave a high - quality message based on Scripture which was better than most sermons I have heard in churches.

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.

In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus tells us: «You have heard how it was said: «Do not commit adultery.»

«I was praying for you... I heard a great sermon... I'm reading a great book on the spiritual life... I came across this beautiful verse in Luke the other day... I was talking with a friend from church....»

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.

The people will learn that they are ministers also, and that following Jesus is more than just showing up on Sunday to hear a sermon and sing a few songs, but also involves loving each other and serving the world.

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

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.

We've all heard Easter sermons that expatiate vaguely on the possibilities of new life, however imagined or construed - thereby reducing the faith to an empty metaphor.

I have now been attending church and college chapels for a long time; and outside of funeral, memorial, and Easter services I doubt that I have heard three sermons on the Christian understanding of death in the past thirty years.

It is also true that a Zen meditator in training hears numerous sermons on Buddhist truth, and frequently chanted scriptures; he participates in a rigidly prescribed manner of life that has no allowable variation save in that awful moment of truth when he confronts the roshi on his own and must speak forth what he himself knows of enlightening truth.

For the actuality of the faith of Biblical and post-Biblical Judaism and also for the Jesus of the Sermon on the Mount, fulfillment of the Torah means to extend the hearing of the Word to the whole dimension of human existence.

Hey, who had heard of Rev Terry and the Westburo Baptist church or the pastor who made the anti-gay sermons until they appeared here on CNN?

I can't imagine anyone on a mission trip withholding medical care until the patient first hears a sermon or is coerced into making a (false) profession of faith so that the missionary can notch his belt with the number of «souls saved», nor can I imagine that the missionary's home church receives any monetary benefit from this new member you imagine they have strong - armed into joining.

In realism, hell was a dump in Jeruseleum, called the valley if Hindon, Jesus (Which was an old day Jimmy Swagert) did the sermon on the mount, up in the heavens (on top of the hill away fromthe dump, the dump smelled like fire and brimstone (Sulfur), and nobody has ever heard god talk to them, if you do then you are schizoid!

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.

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

I just heard an online chapel sermon on Dallas Theological Seminary website, and the speaker quoted» don't doubt in the dark when God has revealed in the light».

I think often we read ourselves as Jesus and others as the Pharisees too — I don't think I've heard many sermons taking what Jesus says to the Pharisees as a direct challenge to us, as opposed to assuming that we're on Jesus» side and confronting those who disagree with us.

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!

Unless carefully screened by a controlling thesis, a good story heard on Friday will take the spotlight in the next Sunday's sermon whether or not it has a place.

Some marked improvements have been noted, with some real Christian sermons on current issues being heard.

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

Obviously, it is not a big step from there to Jesus» words in the Sermon on the Mount, «You have heard it said: You shall not kill.

This would be a GREAT sermon for Christians to hear to get their faith and actions back on track.

I've heard first person accounts of guys who download the sermon of the nationally acclaimed pastor (you choose the name) on Saturday night to read on Sunday morning.

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.»

I imagine at first, all those people who are used to showing up on Sunday to hear a 45 minute sermon would sit around staring at each other, asking, «What are we supposed to do now?»

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...

Hearing a sermon is a feeding experience, the food being more or less nourishing depending on the sermon's quality.

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 other kind of sermon one might hear on a Sunday morning is a focused on explaining and applying the Scriptures, which is closer to the «teaching» examples we see Jesus and the apostles engaged in during meetings of believers.

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.

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.

He went on to talk of arrogant, moralistic sermons he had heard before he was ordained, preachers speaking as if their role granted them some moral perspicacity not granted to lesser mortals.

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.

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.