Sentences with phrase «listen to sermons for»

People listen to sermons for the same reason that they seek pastoral counseling, Dykstra says: out of a deep and often unspoken desire for transformation.

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Listening to the sermon each Sunday can be like what my father used to do on Sunday afternoons - «listen» to the race - GREAT for napping.

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.

Look, being a church member has nothing to do with sitting in a pew on Sunday morning, listening to a sermon and praying for your pastor, giving your money to support a local church budget, and making commitments to serve on a church ministry program.

So I Listened to all of his sermons read all of his blogs and than decided to leave my number to see if he would really call as he says on his web site, With in 2 hours I recieved a call and DR. Collins never rushed me off the telephone answered all my questions, And After just that one call you can tell he loves and believes in what he does, He wont be for everyone, Because he does talk about damnation and what it takes to get to heaven, And its not from giving ministers our money > I watched the you tube videos of many and he is just for me, everyone has a choice but in listening to his sermons and reading his blogs and than the telephone call this guy is the real deal.

he cautioned us to be ready and alert for His coming, not dreaming of escaping to an out of body place and not fussing over whether we have ticked all the theological boxes while we sit slumped in the Sunday pew listening to yet another sermon on how to be saved (when we are already saved).

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..

For instance, I've seen American preachers get so frustrated because we listen to sermons instead of hollering back.

We can not «get credit» for church by showing up in some building for an hour on Sunday morning, singing a few songs, smiling a few smiles, and listening to a sermon.

They are still part of His Church, but there might be something else He has in store for them that does not involve singing songs and listening to a sermon on Sunday morning.

I lived near St. Louis for a number of years and had about an hour commute each way so I would listen to a couple of sermons or programs usually on the way in and a couple on the way home.

Recently as I was sitting in church listening to a rather good sermon on the importance of «working for justice and peace.»

I still go, but for now I go, listen to the sermon and leave.

For those of you who disagree just go an listen to his post 9/11 sermon where he says GD America multiple times and says our chickens have come home to rooste.

I did talk with one other student who picked a church for the pastor's teaching, but I listened to this pastor's sermons online, and it was nothing but fluff and stories.

Who else attends conferences, listens to sermons on the radio, and attends church 2 - 3 times a week for «good teaching»?

Praise God for the church nursery and Sunday school workers, for the young ones without babies themselves (and all of their energy), for the older couples who have raised their babies (and all of their calming certainty), for the other tired parents who take their turn so that they could perhaps listen to the sermon next week.

Listening is further hindered by the search for a sermon, a search that can easily dictate to the text what to say, or at least alter the mood of the text.

The familiar statement of Hermann Diem, «The congregation is born in preaching» is also true in reverse: «Preaching is born in the congregation».10 One has only to listen to sermons prepared for a homiletics class with no congregation in view to realize how vital to preaching is the concrete situation.

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!

Learn what our Secret Weapon is and why it is so important for Spiritual Warfare by listening to my new sermon, The Secret Weapon: Prayer (Ephesians 6:18).

A technique for testing the relevance and empathic qualities of one's preaching is to listen to a tape of last Sunday's sermon while imagining that one is a despairing person with whom one has counseled recently.

Why did Obama sit in the hateful Rev Wright's church for 20 years and deny he didn't listen to his sermons.

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.

Those who are really mature were encouraged to take copious sermon notes, study the Bible on their own for an hour or two every day, listen to sermons on the radio while driving to work, download sermon MP3s from the internet for listening while jogging or weeding the garden, read Bible study books and theology books in their spare time, and attend one or two Bible conferences or retreats every single year.

Many thought (and some still think this way) that ministry is reserved for the pastor and they just come and listen to a sermon.

Anything that makes people actually think for themselves, while listening to the strange things spoken in sermons, can't be bad.

For many years I sat in a pew on Sundays, listening to occasional sermons about the poor, giving to special offerings and looking appropriately sympathetic and concerned about poverty.

The new mum, 36, picked out another vibrant outfit for her colourful fashion parade when she performed live on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show in London on Listen to Christian radio ministry broadcasts, programs, and sermons from pastors, speakers like John MacArthur, Adrian Rogers, Beth Moore, David Jeremiah.