Afterward, the ministers from the Institute who also attended the service and
heard the sermon listened to the tapes of this discussion by laymen.
Not exact matches
Right now, as you are reading this devotional,
listening to a preacher or watching a
sermon DVD, as you
hear God's Word, His power is released into your situation, working things out for you and turning your situation around for your good.
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..
And they would
listen to
sermons, and then go and eat and celebrate and sing and rejoice, and then come back and
hear another
sermon.
When I first
heard this, I read some of his blog posts and
listened to some of his
sermons, and honestly, I can not tell if he is arguing the same thing or not.
I may not
listen to
sermons but I have
heard the old saying «Practice what you preach».
I have read and studied the Bible for years and have sat through countless
sermons, and since I have never
heard that idea before and no pastor I have
listened to has ever brought that up, it must be wrong!
As she
listened to podcasts of Greg Boyd's (Senior pastor at Woodland Hills Church in Minnesota)
sermons, she
heard another view expressed which she calls the «warfare view».
Those who follow teachers who give them what their itching ears want to
hear are those who are content to gather more and more teachers,
listen to more and more
sermons, gaining more and more knowledge, and being so busy with Bible study, theological learning, and the accumulation of knowledge, that one never has a chance to put any of it into practice in the world.
In order to become a «speaker» at the site designated for the performance of the
sermon, the preacher must first stand at many other sites where «voices» are
heard and «presences» are embodied and there learn how to
listen attentively.
I started
listening to his podcast recently, and was shocked to
hear one of his
sermons.
If you read Ephesians 2:1 - 3, and
listen to most
sermons on these verses, that is the type of message you will often
hear.
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.
I finally had time to pop back in and
listen... and now I'm just going to have to find the other clips so I can
hear the whole
sermon - lol.