Sentences with phrase «sermon about»

This past summer, my rabbi (a former attorney) delivered a stirring and compelling sermon about the difference between zeal and zealotry, and what happens when people turn their zeal for a cause into zealotry.

I recently heard a sermon about the many benefits that laughter has on health, social relations, spirituality and even business.

Your sermon about my hypocrisy is tedious, jae.

The blurb is lifeless and promises little, other than a sermon about climate and civilization.

From a moment where we watch on as the priest, played by John Cusack, gives a sermon about the life - span of a gun and how the community is marketed it, to another moment where an upright man of the community wants to rally his other non-violent non-gang friends to ask «why do we need to suffer?»

After Rav Kruschka, the rabbi of a London ultra-Orthodox congregation drops dead while giving a sermon about our fundamental choice to live like the angels or like the beasts, his daughter Ronit (Rachel Weisz), who had left the congregation and her immediate family some time back to pursue a secular career in New York, returns for the funeral.

Welles is near the beginning, and he sports a preposterously ragged beard and plays a priest who gives a sermon about Jonah and the Whale before the whalers go off to sea.

The film opens with Rav Krushka, the beloved leader of an Orthodox Jewish congregation in London, delivering a sermon about the tricky place human beings occupy in the world, torn between the forces of spiritual good and darkness, but provided by HaShem (God) with free will — i.e., «the power to disobey.»

As it chugs towards its conclusion, the film suffers from a common case of too many endings, including a fitting one that features Pope Francis offering up a final sermon about his own philosophy with advice that's characteristically timely and universal.

No one likes a preachy sermon about the perfect diet (which, by the way, is an illusion).

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Mayor Stephanie Miner delivered a sermon about poverty, racism and justice during an ecumenical service at Skiddy Park Thursday night.

Do you want the heartwarming story of the Rio CEO's nine - year old, or the sermon about his family being off limits?

As an LDS (Mormon) missionary in Montevideo, Uruguay in the mid-1960's, I had the opportunity to stand within 20 feet of Dr. Graham as he gave a masterful sermon about Christ, his ministry and life.

A long time ago I shared an illustration in a sermon about a crane who wanted snails, and how snails kept him out of heaven.

I once tried to illustrate a sermon about the fragility of memory by asking the men if they remembered what they had for lunch.

The former pastor of that church, a friend for decades, preached a fiery sermon about how taking away financial support from a missionary was tantamount to taking food from their children's mouths.

Once I heard the analogy in a sermon about how the pastor was a «spiritual covering» over the congregation, a God - ordained role.

Well, I preached this sermon about 11 years ago maybe... There is no explicit reference to it, and I don't recall what I was thinking, but I was probably thinking of passages like Deuteronomy 6 and Ephesians 5.

To clarify the process let us imagine a case in which a preacher is preparing a sermon about abortion, and let us describe a few people who will be present in the congregation, their names fictitious but their situations true to life.

True, sometimes a parable or saying or healing act of Jesus may be preached on, but I seldom hear a sermon about Jesus, except at Christmas or in Holy Week (though not always then), and occasionally on other festivals which celebrate his divine identity.

This is a sermon about God's presence because theologians and pastors, theological teachers and theological students now have to think more seriously and more critically about God's presence than we have had to do for a long while.

I give a sermon about a man who has a brand new Mercedes and who every Friday night puts 10 lbs.

This is a sermon about God's presence and the legitimacy that comes from it.

Listen if I can get through a whole sermon about Satan, you can get through a boob sighting.

Usually, they have heard some fire and brimstone sermon about the unpardonable sin or the sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, and because of the book I have written on the subject, people contact me because they are scared out of their mind that they have committed this sin.

The very medium of conferences conveys a message louder than anything spoken from the stage, and I hear a sermon about our values and our focus, our materialism and worship, our energy and our dreams.

«George Hauer, a theologian at the university, responded to Argula's letter by preaching an angry sermon about the «wretched children of Eve.»

In the 16th century, Martin Luther, the father of Protestantism, once gave a moving sermon about the end times.

The sermon which followed was the one sermon about death and its meaning that I have ever heard preached; I noted that one sermon earlier.

She didn't understand the sermon about Pauline theology.

Byrd refrains from preaching his own sermon about Christianity and war, but his research shows the degree to which preachers and politicians have manipulated the Bible.

Note: I prepared and preached this sermon about 15 years ago.

So I decided to preach a sermon about the Unpardonable Sin, and what I believed the Scriptures taught about God's love and forgiveness for us — no matter what we say or do.

She says she plans to preach a sermon about the appropriate reaction to bin Laden's death.

So much so that (after preaching a short sermon about Jesus) he simply prayed that God would send the fire of His Spirit into the room.

The pastor preached a sermon about obeying God, but I don't remember much of what he said.

Apparently, he suggested something controversial in that sermon about how to understand the violence of God in the Old Testament.

How I came to preach a sermon about how I have no business preaching sermons by Katherine Willis Pershey

On the other hand, as a skeptic and a progressive, I identified with Father Flynn's stirring sermon about religious doubt and his desire to see a more progressive attitude adopted in the school.

I have never heard a sermon about dress codes or hair or submission or whatever is «proper behavior.»

How often have you heard a sermon about tithing based on Acts 20:35: «It is more blessed to give than to receive»?

Why do we hear sermon after sermon about Paul's instructions that «I do not permit a woman to teach or have authority over man» while never hearing a peep about Paul's declaration that «Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons»?

I think I preached a sermon about this once.

For anyone interested in learning more about who Jesus was and what the bible says, I highly recommend starting here: http://marshill.com/media/luke/eyewitness-to-jesus It is a sermon about the book of Luke in the new testament.

What Christians usually do is, they read the Bible out loud and then preach a sermon about it.

The Rev. Raphael Warnock, senior pastor at the famed Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, preached a sermon about Martin's death on Sunday.

Note what he says in this sermon about the rich.

To be sure some real true in heart believers had their first nudge toward salvation in Christ after hearing a pew fire licking sermon about where one who doesn't come to Christ will end up.

Do you want the heartwarming story of the Rio CEO's nine - year old, or the sermon about his family being off limits?

Chris gave a short sermon about the power of giving to incentivize the audience to donate and reminded us of the many ways we could do so.