Sentences with phrase «of listening to sermons»

«I don't see the point of listening to sermons!»

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Do you expect us to all join YOUR church, listen to YOUR sermons, read YOUR version / interpretation of the «bible», and most importantly, give our money to YOUR little corner of the religious industry?

Listening to them speak, I sometimes wonder if they've ever read the bible or actually paid attention to what was written instead of just using talking points, propaganda and rhetoric in their sermons.

I think I listened to one sermon a few years back, thought it interesting but kind of ho - hum, and moved on.

Thankfully, Jesus is using people like me (and millions of others in the same boat) to show these people who have stopped attending church that there is wonderful way of following Jesus as part of His Body, the church, which does not involve sitting in a pew on Sunday morning and listening to a sermon.

and because of this I never, never, never listen to their sermons... instead, I WATCH to see if they LIVE their sermons....

As a result of this sermon, those who listened to Jesus that day tried to kill Him (Luke 4:28 - 29).

But I think that if you re-read the entire post, you will see that I am not saying that Jesus calls people to leave the Church (His Body), but rather, that Jesus might be calling some members of His Body to be the church in a way that looks different than the Sunday morning activity of sitting in a pew and listening to a sermon.

At a leadership conference in Oslo, Norway, where I was speaking, a pastor there shared how a well - respected businessman in his church was healed while listening to one of my sermon CDs.

God has redeemed the crucifixion so that we now sing songs about it and listen to sermons about the horrible death of an innocent victim with smiles on our faces.

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).

While it is not possible in most situations to sit all day in church and listen to seven sermons, we can give the majority of our time in church to the study of God's Word.

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.

One Sabbath service as the congregation in Newbury listened to the sermon of their pastor, the door burst open and in walked a young woman stark naked.

There are many sermons that you can listen to and learn Jesus» wisdom... instead of being a pompous vain jerk, believing you know something about life, to find out you know nothing but your vain imagination.

I was once listening to a sermon and the pastor said this from the pulpit: «Children are dying of starvation in Africa, and most of you in the pews don't give a shit... But you know what is the saddest thing of all?

It's all good, but sometimes I feel as if I'm at church every day of the week listening to a different sermon and having to digest it all so rapidly I can barely keep up.

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.

When we see that the gospel contains a whole host of truths and doctrines to believe and teach and also a broad spectrum of behaviors to practice and obey, those who believe Christians should be listening to more sermons and attending more Bible studies can nod and smile toward those who prefer to be out feeding the poor and tending the sick, and vice versa.

On the other hand, these neighbors are watching and listening to our «sermons» of love, are remembering and are asking questions.

As I listened to the sermon, I noticed that Greg's way of approaching the subject was somewhat similar to my approach.

Somewhat accidentally we have discovered that people watch, listen to, remember and want to discuss «sermons» of love, «sermons» that indeed proclaim the Gospel.

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.

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.

Reading all the books about 2012, and listening to all the doom and gloom sermons, attending all the prayer meetings about the end of the world, and watching the Discovery channel special about Mayan calendars and aliens from space and Egyptian pyramid tunnels, OR loving our neighbors, serving our spouses, teaching our children, working hard at our jobs, and helping where people are hurting?

But this is only true when we think of the church as a building that people enter and sit in a pew to sing and listen to a sermon.

Steve I spent 40 years of my life listening to fundamental sermons.

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

I taught and used WOTM in one of the churches I pastored, have listened to several sermons by Ray Comfort (Hell's Best Kept Secret, etc), and have listened to numerous evangelism encountered on «Way of the Master Radio.»

Learn what the Shield of Faith is and how to use it in Spiritual Warfare by listening to my new sermon, The Shield of Faith (Ephesians 6:16).

There are lots of ways to assemble with other believers that do not involve sitting in a pew on Sunday morning to listen to a sermon.

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 got to the point where I didn't think I could listen to one more sermon, one more «praise report,» one more prayer request (that I knew would never be answered), one more «message from the Lord» in the form of speaking in tongues and interpretation, or one more «prophecy.»

It's so much easier to spend an hour each week sitting in a seat listening to music and a sermon, and once a year packaging a box of food to send to poor people in another country, all the while ignoring the guy we drive by every day who lives under a bush.

Also, in light of the previous point, this sort of makes pastors and preachers the dealers in this transaction, which is why you will very often find the most Bible addicts in a church where the pastor and preacher places an heavy and constant emphasis on attending church, listening to sermons, daily Bible reading, and going to Bible studies.

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.

Should Christians stop downloading and listening to the sermons of fallen pastors?

We understand those who want to spend more time, maybe most of their time with other believers, listening to sermons, studying the Bible, «encouraging» each other and so on.

Notice that those who decry the lack of biblical literacy in the church often say that the solution to this problem is to come listen to their sermons, buy their books, and attend their schools.

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.

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.

But if you really want to laugh your head off, get the original cast album of the British satirical revue Beyond the Fringe» and listen to the track called «Take a Pew,» in which Alan Bennett absolutely skewers the type of sermon that Anglican vicars used to make.

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.

One listens to such a sermon and goes away feeling, «That is true, but what of it?»

I'm not harassing salespeople who greet me with the «wrong» holiday greeting — that's Christians who have sermons (I've sat there and listened to them) all about how it's good to harass employees of stores that say «Happy Holidays».

A lot of people seem to think that they don't have to study the Bible and don't have to listen to sermons and don't have to have daily devotions because the Holy Spirit can just pop the verse into their minds when they need it.

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».

So we've maintained our relationship with the church ever since and continue to listen to sermons even when I'm out of town.