Sentences with phrase «revival meetings»

She showed musical talent very early and began playing the piano at age four, accompanying revival meetings in the church where her mother was a preacher.

We had this absolutely fantastic revival meeting this weekend.

Not only in its elevated forms of literary expression but also in the popular piety of revival meetings, Bible study groups, and the millions of people at daily Mass, religion engages the supernatural, metaphysical, and mystical.

During the first Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards offered salvation to all comers at revival meetings, an invitation that stood in considerable tension with the carnivorous Calvinism to which he still adhered.

One day I was browsing through the books at a publishers» overstock sale and came across the autobiography of a Pentecostal evangelist who held tent revival meetings in the small Midwestern city where I grew up.

In January 1915, Bellows and the radical reporter John Reed traveled to Philadelphia to cover one of Billy Sunday's revival meetings for New York's Metropolitan magazine.

Two readers with different backgrounds who both accept that humans could disrupt the climate shared strong feelings of discouragement after the Obama administration's «evidence - based revival meeting,» as Cathy Zoi, the head of the Energy Department office on efficiency and renewable energy, described Wednesday's White House forum on energy and climate.

Hedonists do not operate any Sunday schools, nor do they hold revival meetings.

It remains his longest revival meeting ever.

The team can't have big revival meetings or evangelistic events as these would pose too much of a risk.

After we take the first great step — whether under the emotional surge of a great revival meeting or in a quieter mood — we may feel that we are now «in» and wholly different.

It was in my childhood church, one summer during our usual long, hot, two - week August revival meeting, that 12 grown men «found God» and hit the sawdust trail.

The Canadian preacher became famous around the world in 2008 thanks to satellite TV broadcasts of his Florida revival meetings.

Soon massive and continuous revival meetings were being kept in motion by traveling preachers who were some of the best informed and most effective communicators of their day.

My favorite quote of the book comes from a passage where she relates going to a Christian tent revival meeting somewhere in Maine just to escape her cramped apartment on a Saturday night, and to her it â $ œsounds like the perfect entertainment for an atheist out on her own.â $ Hereâ $ ™ s the quote:

In addition to these new attempts to win people to the Christian faith, American Protestantism in the late 1940's and the 1950's witnessed a resurgence of the mass revival meetings.

What I found in both instances was like a gigantic revival meeting, with speakers encouraging everybody to stay converted and members greeting one another joyfully — all in an overall spirit of religious fervor.

[2] Hoover had visited revival meetings in the United States and was aware of a pamphlet from India calling for a «clear and definitive baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire» [3] as a necessary supplement to justification and sanctification.

Renaissance has built such a following behind AR that it regularly holds massive annual conferences that feel like religious revival meetings.

He painted their nightclubs, pool halls, gambling dens and church revival meetings.

Bearden spent many summers during his childhood with his paternal grandmother and great grandparents in Mecklenburg County, and absorbed stories and observations about the rituals of daily life — the relentless toil of cultivating crops, formidable women tending lush gardens and mixing herbal remedies, blue wash day Mondays, Friday night fish fries, Saturday night revival meetings, and church - going Sundays.

Before the year is out, the doorsteps of Tony Watts and Marc Morano, and Heartland revival meetings will be overrun by Sideshow Bobs bearing wheezy bits of apparatus designed to put the fear of cosmic rays into the audience.

These pastors briefings are a combination of revival meeting and political rally, featuring pastors and Republican leaders who encourage Christians to take the reins of culture through the democratic process.

11:50 a.m.: Cathy Zoi of the Department of Energy challenges the (friendly, invited) audience to go beyond the cheery atmospherics of what she called «an evidence - based revival meeting» and propose ways to convince more Americans that the country is on the cusp of a new industrial revolution.

Who would have guessed that a combination Monday Night Football and old - time tent revival meeting could galvanize men, whom pastors of all stripes have long struggled to interest in matters of God and the church, into one of the century's fastest - growing religious phenomena?

And although in the heated atmosphere of the revival meeting the phrase «the Bible says» may carry fervent conviction, the intelligent man who has read the Bible knows perfectly well that it can be made to «say» a lot of things, and that, as a matter of sober history, witch - hunting, slave - owning and the inhuman policy of apartheid have all been justified by reference to the same Bible.

I commend the story of the revival meeting in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn.

Moody and Sankey popularized the place and function of the gospel hymns in revival meetings.

The «revival meeting» is a powerful metaphor for a segment of the church that has pursued a «spiritual experience» contained in a meeting or series of meetings for the biblical / Jesus spiritual experience of laying our lives down for each other and taking care of widows and orphans.

In 1828 at a revival meeting in Vermont, a farmer, William Miller, felt the urge to get up and pour out his heart concerning his religious convictions, but he was afraid to do so.

Dad and I were attending a revival meeting at another church in Lindside, West Virginia.

One of his innovations was to give women equal right to pray and to exhort at a revival meeting.

His grandmother's charismatic faith allowed sports, providing they could be played in the few hours when Sunday school, church services or revival meetings weren't going on.

NAEP was simply being «aspirational,» much like the mercenary preacher at the revival meeting who calls for a transformation of the heart and soul when he expects only a contribution to the collection plate.

Their testimonials rang out like those of a tent - revival meeting.

It was a revival meeting of sorts, bringing together about 500 economists, campaigners, scientists, students and lawmakers seeking, despite recent setbacks, to apply the age - old «polluter pays» principle to carbon.

DENVER — Cheers fit for a revival meeting swept a hotel ballroom as 1,800 entrepreneurs and experts watched a PowerPoint presentation of the most promising technologies for limiting global warming: solar power, wind, ethanol and other farmed fuels, energy - efficient buildings and fuel - sipping cars.

Yesterday's BloggerCon felt at times like a revival meeting, preaching blogs as the Internet's second coming, if not humanity's salvation.