Sentences with phrase «of hearing sermon»

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.

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.

Because I do hear lot's of sermons regarding healthy eating!

I heard you say that in one of your sermons, David.

Once I heard a sermon called «Jesus... Lord of my hobby» and too many people treat it as such.

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..

I have been a christian for 55 year in August and I have heard so many sermons in lots of different churches.

I'm gonna speak up and say your post reminded me of sermons I've heard, where I did not understand what they were saying.

And laity learned of our oneness as they heard neighbors discuss sermons they had heard the previous Sunday.

Third, the people have heard the proclamation of the gospel in scripture and sermon and have begun to separate suffering from evil.

No, it is not about either one of these things, even though this is often the way you hear it taught in sermons and during Mission's Conferences.

It was genuinely one of the best sermons I had heard in years.

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.

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.

Every time I've heard the passage used in a sermon the idea was to give more to the church, and of course the preacher would be getting part of that.

If you can't stand to hear another second of your own sermon, you just know your congregation would do cart - wheels in the aisles if you stopped mid-stream.

To think that thousands of pathetic losers flock to his sermons just to hear his mealy - mouthed, child - like wispy fairy tales of his savior's sweet benevolence makes me ill.

For centuries it has served as the main center for the study of Islamic doctrine and as a meeting place for Muslim students from all over the world who come to receive training for careers as judges, jurists, and scholars; above all, it is a great mosque where prayers are said, and Friday sermons are preached to the assembled worshipers and to the thousands who hear them over the radio.

The topic of the sermon was worldly v godly ambition and NOWHERE in the sermon was anything about these latest rounds of snafus addressed — it was like hearing an alcoholic preach about the need for sobriety while sipping a beer.

I see nothing of Jesus in the Christian right, but here in the Bible belt, in many of the Sunday sermons, I've heard more judgment handed down in one hour than I'd hear in a whole week in a court of law.

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.

That very common notion of the time implied that pastoral calls were the knowing, and if the people came to church to hear the sermon that was the feeding.

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.

This also reminded me of a story I heard in a sermon many years ago about 3 Jewish friends where 2 of them fell out over a matter of doctrine.

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.

Anybody who has heard a powerful sermon, and then written it down word - for - word and tried to «re-preach» it, or even distribute it in written form recognizes that most of the power is lost in transmission.

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.

And while I enjoying doing so, and learned a lot, and believe the people who heard these sermons learned a lot, it was always a relief to leave Paul and get into one of the narratives of Scripture (such as Genesis, Esther, or Jonah — which I have also preached), or my favorite of all — one of the Gospels.

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?

Such practices as reading the Bible, hearing sermons, practicing family worship, and examining one's spiritual life all came to be emphasized as evidences of divine election.

I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works... I mean real good works... not holy day keeping, sermon - hearing... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.

The epic message — which started in Genesis and ended in Revelation — was heard by hundreds of people, who showed up in groups of 10 throughout the two - and - a-half day sermon.

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!

Honestly, it was one of the better sermons I've heard in Texas so far.

Also, most sermons I hear in these other churches are so shallow and empty of content, it would almost be better if there were no sermon at all.

Many years ago, while I was a pastor in the Vineyard Movement, I attended a conference of pastors and leaders where I heard the very last sermon the Vineyard's founder, John Wimber, preached.

This may be carried over into the responses in worship, antiphonal forms of prayer, and hearing the sermon.

At least where I've interacted, people just want to hear the same cliches over and over or want some sort of emotional sermon that «moves» them, a spiritual pep talk.

The assumption that she would be lost forever simply because she heard one garbled sermon makes the doctrine of hell as often defended a moral and theological absurdity.

you and «Unknown» of this parish must have heard the same sermon.

In most of the sermons I hear, questions are used in the sermon as rhetorical devices to win the attention of the congregation, but when carefully focused, placed, and delivered, non-rhetorical (that is, real) questions can perform social functions.

When you read the sermon transcriptions of the early church fathers, especially those of St. John Chrysostom (aka «Golden Tongue») when he taught through books of the Bible, it becomes clear that while the «Teacher» did most of the speaking, there was a lot of interaction with those who were there to hear him.

Honestly, most sermons I've heard have been a waste of my time and probably of the preacher's.

All the time I was growing up, I heard sermons dissing the Israelites for their faithlessness in the face of God's covenant love.

I would say that most of Mr. Osteen's congregation is there to get their «religious» itch scratched and to hear his «feel good» sermons.

I would like to hear sermons giving shape to possibilities of human delight in the future God intends for us and setting forth the moral imperatives that are required to make the ideal real.

Just 2 percent of evangelicals heard a sermon endorsing him.

The person who hears 1,000 sermons (or bible studies) and doesn't love, he has problem, that problem is NOT knowledge, usually, still lack of knowledge.