Sentences with phrase «itinerant preacher»

To give wide currency to the Bible he sent out itinerant preachers who won a following known as the Lollards.

I have also heard of Itinerant preachers at East Legon school junction and other places disrespecting the ban.

As itinerant preachers and founders of monastic communities, these men contributed their own particular forms of teaching and meditation.

It provided fertile, if not always profitable, ground for itinerant preachers, unorthodox religious movements, and even charlatans for the best part of three hundred years.

The son who God gave would grow up to become a carpenter - turned - itinerant preacher with a heart of compassion for the people the world had trampled as it fed its scarcity fears.

In C. P. Snow's novel Time of Hope, a man named Martineau, owner of a firm of lawyers, gives his practice to his partner and takes to the road as a poor itinerant preacher.

For a long time there had been crazes for great itinerant preachers.

Only 1 per cent view him as a «political revolutionary,» and the turn - of - the - century liberalism that saw him as moral teacher, prophet or itinerant preacher hardly shows up on the screen.

Itinerant preachers ministered to those who lacked their own churches.

When evil comes to their small Appalachian town in the form of itinerant preacher, Chambliss, events are set in motion that will leave few unscathed.

The colored preachers, being thus deprived of the opportunity of improving their gifts and graces, as they then stood connected with the white M.E. Society, and prohibited from joining the annual M.E. conference, as itinerant preachers, with their white brethren.

Then hear him say to a wicked thief who, in the last minutes of his life, believed in the perfect righteousness of that itinerant preacher; his execution companion, «Surely I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.»

No problem for me to believe an itinerant preacher named jesus may have existed at the time claiming to be the Messiah, there were dozens of others in the area.

@Bill Your delusion continues, some itinerant preacher / hustler gets crucified for being a pain in the butt to the authorities of the time and you actually believe it was for the redmption of mankind.

Even if we are relatively pious, it would be hard to keep a straight face if — on our way home from church, for example — we were beset by an itinerant preacher like John who wanted us to «repent.»

I believe an unarmed, radical, itinerant preacher was captured by the heads of church and state who dragged him into a hopeless situation because he was threatening their power structures.

He started to restore some ruined chapels, but in 1209 he heard the call to become an itinerant preacher, proclaiming the kingdom of God and calling on people to repent.

Working for the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith, Bernards was going around the country, much in the manner of an itinerant preacher, alerting people to a new thing under the sun, «the Jewish - Christian dialogue.»

The cross, as a Christian symbol, gets you right to the idea that a guy whose family was in the building trades in some colonial backwater left home to become an itinerant preacher, was put to death in a particularly shabby way, and turned out to be God Incarnate.

His career as an itinerant preacher was fairly brief — no more than three years, possibly only one year.

Jesus was an itinerant preacher, as the Son of God, that's what His role was.

Until He was thirty, He worked in a carpenter shop and then for three years He was an itinerant preacher.

He then became an itinerant preacher.

Jesus was a wandering Jew — an itinerant preacher who said, «Foxes have holes, birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.»

From 1377 onward he began to send out itinerant preachers of his views all over the country These people known as Lollards, preached chiefly evangelical poverty against the rich, luxurious life of many churchmen.

There may be a debate over the precise details of his ministry, but the evidence that Jesus lived as an itinerant preacher and died by Roman crucifixion is beyond dispute.

I can't count how many times I've heard this attitude communicated by church leaders, itinerant preachers and teachers.

Under the direction of Loyola he had been an itinerant preacher in Spain.

In 1209, then in his late twenties, Francis felt himself called to be an itinerant preacher, imitating Christ and obeying Him to the letter, proclaiming the Kingdom of God, subsisting on whatever food was given him, and radiating the love of Christ.

How did this ancient religion grow from a loose group of individuals following an itinerant preacher into a massive movement with millions of followers?