Do
we need better sermons?
Pastors take note — if you are preaching through Romans 8, and
need some good sermon illustrations, this book is all you need.
Not exact matches
These
needs should be regularly addressed in
sermons, in Bible study groups, as
well as in parent - education groups.
Although homilies about Christian miracles or heroism are much easier to listen to, the
best Christian preachers have always highlighted the
Sermon on the Mount, and the
need to practice its principles.
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!
It's difficult not to think of their closing paragraphs as a
sermon: «It would be
well for us to rejoin the human race, to accept our essential poverty as a gift, and to share our material wealth with those in
need.»
The typical Hanoverian prelate may have basked on the summit, except when he descended for an occasional charity
sermon, but many quiet pastors like Bishop Wilson were
well aware of the practical
needs of their people.
The alarmism of AGW believer's religion of Warmanism has become a
sermon on the
need to save the planet and who
better to deliver such a disingenuous
sermon than Al Gore the country's hypocritical Orwellian - in - Chief?