Sentences with phrase «television evangelist»

He teams up with a slick television evangelist and joins the Church of Divine Profit but soon discovers that televangelism is not as holy as it seems.

At first, I thought it was Santorum who was giving his virtual dogma but then I realized that it was this hoaxer television evangelist.

When a deprived group raises its voice in objection, television responds by creating a suitable hero: a Mexican - American lawyer on L.A. Law, a female professional, a television evangelist.

And sometimes these sudden healings happen in conjunction with prayer and / or the laying on of hands, if not nearly so often as is claimed in Lourdes or by television evangelist healers.

The church is part of Kenneth Copeland Ministries, a vast and profitable multimedia ministry led by its namesake, a longtime prosperity preacher and television evangelist.

Saeed Abedini was swiftly sentenced by a member of the Islamic Republic's Revolutionary Court, according to the American Center for Law and Justice, an organization founded by television evangelist Pat Robertson.

William Martin quotes television evangelist Pat Robertson as saying, «We are not to weep when there are certain tragedies or breakups of the government or the systems of the world.

Television evangelists all across the dial — Jerry Falwell, Jim Bakker, Charles R. Taylor, Jack Van Impe and Jimmy Swaggert — along with sect leader Herbert W. Armstrong and many others — are urgently warning their viewers that the end of history is near.

Perhaps this is why prisons are full of christians, why television evangelists are surrounded by scandal, why the catholic church is under fire for protecting pedophile priests.

In an environment where so many of the «unchurched» have an image of Christianity derived exclusively from childhood Sunday school and from television evangelists, the announcement of substantive discussions - with hard questions welcome - provides an alternative image of Christian faith.

A major difference is that in America there were scores of television evangelists and hundreds of radio preachers on the air, day and night, preaching a bogus religion whose story is a wild tale of the end of the world, and whose values closely resemble the values and worldview of secular America — the values of winning, of wealth, of power, and of being Number One.

America, many television evangelists are telling us, is God's answer to the problems of the world.

The list could go on to include other television evangelists: Rex Humbard, Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart, James Robison, Kenneth Copeland, and others.

Analysis of specific television evangelists including Oral Roberts, Jerry Falwell, Robert Schuller, Pat Robertson and CBN, all of whom had humble beginnings.

Even the otherwise astute Wall Street Journal dropped its guard on July II, 1980, and reported that the television evangelists were reaching an estimated 128 million viewers every week, a figure which we will come to see is grossly overestimated.

Our uneasiness about living in a secular society seems to be influencing our feelings about education, often in irrational ways — stimulated, in part, by television evangelists.

If they do not wish to make such qualifications, can they claim to be differentiated from the virtually magical expectations of divine interventions that one hears proclaimed by television evangelists and in «joys and concerns» expressed in Sunday services?

Berra (1990) states that «if cleaned up, shaved and dressed in business suits, [Neandertals] could probably pass for television evangelists.»

Such a playful mood informs Repo Man, yet Cox also takes time to comment on the seamy side of Los Angeles, the crushing realities of living in an increasingly comformist society, and the problems inherent in a decade that so baldly worships Ronald Reagan, L. Ron Hubbard and television evangelists.

Travel bloggers are the worst kinds of narcissists, ranking just behind social - media influencers and television evangelists.

Not exact matches

Bradshaw is the psycho - spiritual evangelist of «The Inner Child,» and one of the hottest properties on the lecture - video - book - television circuit that caters to the masses exercising their discontents on an excess of leisure.

Such big - time evangelists as Argentine Luis Palau and U.S. television preacher Jimmy Swaggart pack city stadiums with tens of thousands of enthusiasts; only the pope draws larger crowds.

The third generation developed in the l960s, when Rex Humbard, another early tent evangelist, built the first church designed expressly for television.

But, as the FCC became increasingly lax in its congressional mandate to insure that «non-profit organizations obtain the maximum service possible,» individual evangelists discovered the power of broadcasting, and television in particular, and they began to purchase the better quality time which broadcasters were reluctant to provide churches as a public service.

Both innovated communication techniques that startled the world — Sunday with his elaborate teams of «experts» and sophisticated and expensive «revival machinery» that developed huge audiences; Graham with his even more impressive cadre of technicians, and his use of television to extend his reach beyond the wildest dreams of earlier evangelists.

Evangelists are distributing large numbers of New Testaments, and satellite television continually beams Christian programs into the country.

But if money now becomes the only basis for access of any kind — religious, educational, political — to radio and television outlets, within a few years only the largest and wealthiest electronic evangelists (and teachers and politicians) will be able to stay on the air.

A former star of the hit television show Gladiators - turned evangelist is joining a major evangelism event being led by the Archbishop of York in Merseyside.

News of evangelist Ty Adams» new «The Real Housewives of the Bible» DVD sparked plenty of buzz on the interwebs and raised the question of whether or not the production can really alter negative stereotypes produced by reality television shows.

While the broadcast evangelists envisage television as a God - given tool by which to reach «the world» with their message, research on religious television programs indicates that the actual audience of most religious programs is highly segmented and that those who watch usually do so for very specific reasons.