Sentences with phrase «sermon as»

Displaying leadership qualities at an early age, Ruth Bader delivers a sermon as camp rabbi in 1948 at Che - Na - Wah camp in Minerva, N.Y. Photo courtesy of the Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.

But Cardinal Keith O'Brien, Scotland's leading Catholic, is to attack the legislation in his Easter Sunday sermon as well as criticising the prime minister for imposing a three - line whip on Labour MPS, rather than allowing a free vote.

The sermon as performance makes the Word aloof from the concerns of men and is unmet by the meanings of their lives.

Paul VI in his first sermon as Pope spoke to those «who without belonging to the Catholic Church are united to us by the powerful bond of faith and love of Jesus Christ and marked with the unique seal of baptism — one Lord, one faith, one baptism», seeking to «hasten the blessed day which will see, after so many centuries of deadly separation, the realisation of Christ's prayer on the eve of his death — ut unum sint, that they may be one...» 6

And the thought occurred to me, «Gosh, I struggled with myself on these occasions and had I heard such a sermon as we heard today and thought of the everlasting arms, which is really what he was saying, it might have made it easier for me then.»

«65 Presumably speaking of ministerial attitudes in the twentieth century, Bishop Gerald Kennedy once defined the sermon as something «a minister will not go across the street to hear but will go across the country to deliver.

I just happened upon Jeremy's sermon as I was searching to see if anyone has or was in the process of coming to these same conclusions.

They expected the sermon to function as a static, linear transaction, with the sermon as a message, the preacher as sender, and the congregation as passive recipients.

His voice leaves him in the middle of a sermon as he argues for a theology he does not believe.

Biblical scholars date this sermon as early as the reign of Hezekiah or as late as the time of Ezekiel.

I do not wish to denigrate the sermon as an important part of worship, but when the sermon is not only the central intention of worship but may also have lost its power of confronting the worshiper with the gospel, then the purpose of worship is at least seriously obscured.

But that authority probably will be due to the rhythmic and tonal structure of the sermon as much as anything else.

The sermon's narrative runs continuously like the old serial matinees at the movies, but the preacher experiences the sermon as an artistic and religious endeavor that must be repeated every week.

At the very least the preacher can follow a long interpretive tradition of some form of communal study and present the sermon as a «common act of imagining with» so that a wider web of meanings and insights is available to the preacher's imagination (Troeger).

The sermon as «exhortation» is not the same as the sermon as «story.»

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.

The sermon as a «polished essay» is quite different from an «oral event.»

John Piper has preached his last sermon as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church.

Benedict XVI commented in his inaugural sermon as Pope in 2005, we are not just casual products of evolution.

In point of fact, Matthew intends this sermon as instruction for all Christians, though in Jesus» own time only the disciples had committed their lives to him in such a way that the teaching could be relevant to them.

One such approach imagines the process of preparing and performing a sermon as a «speaker's drama» in which the preacher is an «actor».

I am shocked by this sermon as well, but for completely different reasons.

One of the reasons some people think that this sermon is not the same sermon as the one recorded in Matthew is because in Matthew it says that Jesus want up on the mountain to teach, whereas here it says he came down and stood on a level place.

Matthew remembers this sermon as being much longer.

Given the author's remarkable learning, most readers are likely to learn a great deal, especially when he uses Augustine's sermons as source material; but the captious tone and prosecutorial zeal of the effort starts to grate as early as the first chapter.

The churches regarded the divine right of the government as the Christian Q'uran and my sermons as «Satanic Verses,» Moi as God and the churches as his prophets.

To be more biblical means the greater use of the Bible in sermons as well as in religious education, and instruction as to how to understand the Bible both in its historical setting and as the Word of God speaking to the human spirit in every age.

If you are not feeding daily on Scripture, and listening to Biblically based sermons as often as you can, and attending Bible studies, and then, living out what God teaches you from His Word, you will never produce an abundant harvest.

Shi`a received Muhammad's own teachings, actions, and sermons as transmitted by his grandchildren, not by others.

It should be pointed out that some who preach have continued by bent of training and habit to outline their sermons as shown above, but in delivery have departed from it.

Back in New York, Union Seminary's Reinhold Niebuhr denounced Graham's sermons as simplistic and the thousands of conversions that putatively followed them as shallow and meaningless.

The thing is we don't actually have sermons as such in the church I go to now.

However by the Reformation in the 16th century, Martin Luther not only translated the Gospels, but he interpreted them in printed sermons as well, and when John Calvin, Roger Williams and others broadly disagreed in print with Luther on such matters as what the scriptures said about the role of government in society, the whole matter of scriptural interpretation was opened to thousands of individuals who for the first time could read (or have read to them) the published documents.

But some may be puzzled by this because there will be as many church's sermons as there are persons in the congregation.

It is hard for ministers to accept the fact that their sermons as preached never go beyond the church walls, and that the role of the preacher is not exclusively central in the church's preaching.

In my childhood, it was difficult to distinguish the good preaching from the bad, partly because children do not so much judge sermons as endure them in a pre-critical fashion, partly because the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS) pastors of that era all followed a certain formula in preaching that made their sermons sound more or less interchangeable.

The text he chose for his last two sermons as a Lutheran pastor was that great Wesleyan hymn, «The Church's One Foundation.»

He had also published his Church Postil Sermons as examples of evangelical preaching.

It was the basis of his argument for eloquent sermons as a counter-force to the malevolent uses of rhetoric: «While the faculty of eloquence, which is of great value in urging either evil or justice, is in itself indifferent, why should it not be obtained for the uses of the good in the service of truth if the evil usurp it for the winning of the perverse and vain causes in defense in iniquity and error?»

As Youth Leader at St G's I rarely get to hear Rev CJ's sermons as I'm involved with our youth group.

Not exact matches

Levitt, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a former US intelligence agent, told jurors he did not know if the materials found on Tsarnaev's computer, including sermons by US - born Al Qaeda figure Anwar al - Awlaki and issues of Al Qaeda's «Inspire» magazine, were put there by Tsarnaev or by someone else, such as his brother.

The reclusive leader is purported to have made only one public appearance, delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq's second - largest city of Mosul, as seen in a video posted online in June.

They've dismissed Osborne's remarks as political manoeuvring, dubbing it the «Sermon on the Pound.»

Mr. Sermon has served as our General Counsel and Company Secretary since July 2015.

As he wrote his sermon on the matter, Gyorke felt tremendous anxiety.

It invites us to discover the ancient, non-violent ways of the Sermon on the Mount as Jesus taught it.

In a sermon called «Unleashed as a Family - Raising and Releasing the Next Gen of Kingdom Builders» at the Chinese Missions Convention, the Christian author said: «A few weeks ago I was in Brazil and I was having lunch with a pastor out there.

«Please open your Bibles to the Gospel of John, chapter 3, and follow along with me,» requests the pastor as he begins his sermon.

This is a show, after all, that once painted God as a gap - toothed rhinoceros - monkey, portrays Satan as a simpering milquetoast and regularly features Jesus as a superhero - the kind who's not afraid to ignore the peaceful teachings of the Sermon on the Mount to smite his opponents.

As Dean Hall noted in his sermon, they stand near the crypt of Woodrow Wilson.