Sentences with phrase «preacher in»

Layla, My father was a Baptist preacher in the south and we always lived in church pastoriums as they were called back then.

Why would anyone pay a therapist for such advice when one can get it for free from an actual preacher in any church?

Moaning about consumerism on Wirecutter, a site which is intended to help get the most value for one's money and look beyond marketing flash, is a bit like setting up as street preacher in front of a convent.

Like a preacher in a pulpit, the assembled masses are only there to be given The One True Word, not to ask questions of the annointed messengers.

Thornton Willis's father, Willard Willis, was an evangelical preacher in the Church of Christ.

Born the son of a preacher in Macon, Georgia, Redding discovered his love of rhythm and blues very young, and by the time he was a teenager he was singing in local clubs.

Unmatched in weapons and brutality, Jace; Ethan; his wife, Allison; and a young fire watcher named Hannah Faber battle to survive a raging wildfire and the murderous intent of a creepy pair of killers rivaling the deadly preacher in The Night of the Hunter.

One slight turn of the head as he sits listening to the preacher in his hometown church inveigh against his kind of music as the work of the Devil promises an explosion — not at the windy parson or the congregation or his dubious parents, but through a series of compositions and performances that will simply give such nonsense the lie.

But it's exceptional in two respects: Robert Mitchum turns in a truly creepy performance as a psycho just out of prison (even Dwight Macdonald conceded how good he was), second only to his even creepier part as the homicidal preacher in Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter.

Taika Waititi (What We Do in the Shadows) writes, directs, and even has a cameo appearance as a kooky preacher in Hunt for the Wilderpeople, a loose adaptation of the 1986 book by the late New Zealand author Barry Crump, though injected to a large extent with Waititi's comic sensibilities.

The show is, of course, based on Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's comic book series, which follows Jesse Custer, a small - town preacher in the US who is on a... Read More

Parker delivers an Oscar - caliber performance as Nat Turner, a black preacher in the antebellum South who led an uprising of his fellow slaves three decades prior to the Civil War.

The pilot centers on Seth Davenport, a man masquerading as a small - town Iowa preacher in the hope of starting a full - blown insurrection against the status quo.

Come Sunday tells the true - life story of Carlton Pearson, a pentecostal preacher in Tulsa, Oklahoma, whose late»90s revelations (he says directly from God) about the nature of heaven and hell end up deemed heresy by his own church.

SYNOPSIS: Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising.

Based on the twisted and popular»90s comic book franchise of the same name, «Preacher,» set to debut on Sunday, May 22nd at 10:00 p.m. ET / PT, is created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, and is the story of Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper) a conflicted Preacher in a small Texas town who is inhabited by a mysterious entity that allows him to develop a highly unconventional power.

Sam, a middle - aged Aboriginal man, works for a preacher in the outback of Australia's Northern Territory.

2018-04-07 17:31 Get your first look at Ethan Hawke as a troubled preacher in the First Reformed trailer.

Get your first look at Ethan Hawke as a troubled preacher in the First Reformed trailer.

Here's how a Somali refugee clued a preacher in Maine to the original recipe that's been lost to history

W. E. Sangster tells somewhere of the preacher who read himself full, thought himself clear, and prayed himself hot; and to read, to think and to pray is the only way to become a preacher in any century.

Then, you say, the preacher in a long discourse expounded the idea that man's sin is justly answered by God's wrath, and that the righteous wrath of God can be satisfied only by an infinite sacrifice which no human being can make — only the Son of God himself, who by dying on Calvary made God's forgiveness pos - sible.

A Methodist preacher in those days, when he felt that God had called him to preach, instead of hunting up a college or Biblical institute, hunted up a hardy pony of a horse, and some travelling apparatus, and with his library always at hand, namely, Bible, Hymn Book, and Discipline, he started, and with a text that never wore out nor grew stale, he cried, «Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world.»

I see myself more as a traditional preacher in the Reformed mode who tries to interpret Scripture to the needs of the congregation.

The point is not to send people off to read Keats - although this would be no bad thing - but to assist the preacher in cultivating a sense of the sacred.

A group of people are being viewed as a gathering of strangers in the first, and a community of people who know one another and the preacher in the second.

They approach their task, sometimes consciously but mostly unconsciously, with the model of some great preacher in the back of their minds.

To my kind, dear lord, Katherine Luther, a doctor and preacher in Wittenberg.

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

Anne called for Phillips Brooks, the most famous preacher in Boston.

Back in the early 90's, I wrote a letter to a radio preacher in So Cal who went from being someone that I would say «amen» with to someone who was accusing a whole segment of the church, including myself.

The ministry of the congregation during the preacher's sermon is to listen, not passively, but actively out of their own meanings, and in their very listening to challenge and encourage the preacher in what he is trying to say.

The preacher in the act of interpretation and proclamation of the text is engaged in world - making.

Sometimes, to lay more emphasis on the uniqueness of this «sonship» of Jesus, his birth and infancy, which would seem in fact to have been ordinary and obscure (his home and family were so ordinary that his fellow - townsmen would not accept him as a preacher in their synagogue), were pictured as having been miraculous and attended by wonders and glory.

However, I wasn't referring to the preacher in the pulpit, but the one that Anderson was interviewing.

Above all, it includes the interpretative work of the preacher in the sermon.

You're letting yourself be decieved by people like that preacher in the video.

I laughed, too, relieved, and joked that we were raising a preacher in this one.

Ibn «Abd al - Wahhab was a preacher in the Najd region of present - day Saudi Arabia who advocated the idea of tawhid (divine unicity), which he promoted principally through his wide - ranging attacks on shirk, supposedly polytheistic derivations like shrine construction and visitation.

But, he said, he had borrowed it from Preacher C, a less well known preacher in a midwestern city, who had delivered it from his pulpit without acknowledging his indebtedness to Preacher B. And a fine sermon it was.

Without getting too technical (and his book «Deliverance of God» it is very technical) he basically sees an opponent of Paul speaking through a rhetorical device much like the preacher in this cartoon.

Paul then begins to respond to the hellfire preacher in Romans 2.

(ENTIRE BOOK) A reassessment of the minister's role as preacher in contemporary society — a re-evaluation made necessary by developments in theology and culture.

In order to make concrete that preaching situation let us assume further that I am a preacher in a church which owns and honors the liturgical tradition, and as a major obedience to that tradition does not deliver over to me — for exploitation according to my ambulatory penchants or enthusiasms — a merely religious occasion, but has from of old designated this Sunday as the second Sunday in Advent.

Only after this exegetical work is the preacher in a position to decide if this larger issue is of such dimension and importance to require treatment in more than one sermon.

There is a preacher in the Christian church, dead now for a hundred years, who better than any other can be our tutor as we seek to learn how to preach to our time.

The loop that begins with the interplay of text with preacher in Landry's early morning solitude moves to include the interaction of Landry with his people in order to give integrity to that first hearing.

Television is taking over the traditional role of teacher and preacher in our culture, while at the same time becoming controlled by a few who limit the points of view.

We don't sing gospels song in a Catholic Church, we don't have a preacher in the front on stage that pretend to cure people, and having prepaid people coming to the stage with a faking sickness, We don't force others or judge others because they're not repeating Jesus is my saviour 2500 times a day.

Paul Scott Wilson, for example, argues in Imagination of the Heart (Abingdon, 1988) that stories put the preacher in touch with our shared human imagination.