Sentences with phrase «tent revival»

I've watched him on television several times and heard at tent revival in person.

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.

Sitting next to me in the ubiquitous chairs of tent revivals and corporate meetings, right in the front row by the ring, Mayweather leans in close with the deliberate affectation of someone who might struggle with aphasia.

Graham's path to becoming an evangelist began taking shape at age 16, when the Presbyterian - reared farmboy committed himself to Christ at a local tent revival.

Unknown to most parishioners, he and 70 other members had been «speaking in tongues» — making utterances that most mainline churches equated with overheated Pentecostalism and Holy Roller tent revivals.

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:

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?

Ziglar, the author of arguably the most successful «crossover» book ever written, See You at the Top, now preaches to thousands of eager disciples at his sky's - the - limit tent revivals.

While Ostrowiski is at Cranbrook this fall, he is also scheduled to perform the «WILD AMERICAN DOGS REAL BIG TENT REVIVAL SHOW» at the Detroit Institute of the Arts as part of the Instrumental Performance Festival.

By using various animal skulls, strengthened by no two designs coming close to being alike, Watkins transforms the mindful leftovers of animals into something akin to mystic souvenirs, as if these things could be worshipped as the other - worldly symbols in some new wave tent revival of the occult.

This is a listen where the tent revival preacher shouts the good news to you (and I do mean «shouts»).

I was a freshman in college when I went to my first — and last — tent revival.

What a remarkable thought — that at every communion, every Easter service, every cathedral and every tent revival, from Israel to Africa, to Europe to China, this woman's story should be on our lips, right along with Christ's.

We Texans believe you can't understand us unless you have grown up as we have on Friday - night football and been saved in a tent revival.

Disaffected hippies Jim and Sue Palosaari had been powerfully converted at a tent revival, Jim visibly shook and clung to a tent pole as preacher Russell Griggs made his appeal.

I thought i'd walked into a tent revival.

As the family journeys to a tent revival at the ends of the levee-less Louisiana delta, they discover the complications of trying to perform a traditional ritual away from home.