Sentences with phrase «to listen to a sermon»

As a typical congregation listens to a sermon, there are always several persons who are sizing up the minister, attempting to decide whether or not to seek his help with a problem.

I don't listen to sermons online or podcasts (unless it is humour).

Instead of listening to the sermon, I was counting ugly garden clogs in the pews.

After a while I could not listen to a sermon in a PCA church without wondering which parts did and didn't apply to me, since I'm female.

Like Greg, I have been mulling this over in my head for years, and have written about it numerous times on this blog over the past few years, and only yesterday listened to his sermon where he laid out his proposal.

It was only a few years ago — I'm a late bloomer, so sue me — listening to a sermon by Tim Keller given at the inaugural Gospel Coalition Conference.

I was raised in a Baptist home and spent the first twelve years listening to their sermons about peace & love.

People listen to sermons for the same reason that they seek pastoral counseling, Dykstra says: out of a deep and often unspoken desire for transformation.

Do you want your children listen to sermons like those all the time?

and because of this I never, never, never listen to their sermons... instead, I WATCH to see if they LIVE their sermons....

I remember listening to a sermon discussion on the same text by a group of peasants on the outskirts of San Jose, Costa Rica.

We sat next to each other in church one Sunday listening to a sermon on the wrongs of getting angry.

One Sabbath service as the congregation in Newbury listened to the sermon of their pastor, the door burst open and in walked a young woman stark naked.

I was once listening to a sermon and the pastor said this from the pulpit: «Children are dying of starvation in Africa, and most of you in the pews don't give a shit... But you know what is the saddest thing of all?

Do I tell them to to read the Bible every day, and start listening to sermons online, and reading Christian books, and find a group to study the Bible with?

Not so that we can destroy the peace of nature by singing our songs and listening to sermons there (God forbid!)

Without listening to the sermon, it was easy to read this thought as a suggestion that God sending people to eternal conscious torment somehow demonstrates God's love.

Right where she is sitting listening to the sermon is good enough and she knows that a little mantilla will make her baby more comfortable and cozy.

Listening to sermons from pastors and teachers who teach the Bible.

Had to cover in the toddlers (altho not sure why cause the person on stayed in and listened to your sermon LOL)..

Praise God for the church nursery and Sunday school workers, for the young ones without babies themselves (and all of their energy), for the older couples who have raised their babies (and all of their calming certainty), for the other tired parents who take their turn so that they could perhaps listen to the sermon next week.

Notice that those who decry the lack of biblical literacy in the church often say that the solution to this problem is to come listen to their sermons, buy their books, and attend their schools.

The familiar statement of Hermann Diem, «The congregation is born in preaching» is also true in reverse: «Preaching is born in the congregation».10 One has only to listen to sermons prepared for a homiletics class with no congregation in view to realize how vital to preaching is the concrete situation.

So we've maintained our relationship with the church ever since and continue to listen to sermons even when I'm out of town.

First listen to this sermon.

I am one of those preachers that values listening to the sermons of other preachers.

(Isaiah 65:2 - 3) In the Middle Ages Jews were forced to listen to sermons addressed to them from the steps of the church as they looked at the inscription.

Then there is this fellow who doesn't spend much time listening to sermons and attending Bible studies, but spends time with people.

Ive spent hours of my life listening to sermons but one day i decided to take notes and so the hours of sermons i have listened to over 2 years has turned into 24 hours worth of material, straight to the point and leading people to learn quicker and to be able to use it.

Amazingly, the people I know who spend the most time in «Bible studies» and listening to sermons seem to know the least about the Bible.

If I'm praying, reading the Bible, volunteering in my community, listening to sermon podcasts and maybe even talking about theology with my non-Christian friends, why do I need to supplement that with a religious ritual every Sunday?

My guess is that Mike has probably been to church a couple of times in his life and probably listened to a sermon or two — which have informed his opinion.

Listening to those sermons opened a flood of conversation between my husband and me.

Instead, we sing songs and listen to sermons about it with smiles on our faces.

You will get pressure from your «dealer» (aka, Pastor) about how your life is going to fall apart now that you don't listen to his sermons.

I remember listening to a sermon not long ago in which the pastor said that if even the Apostle Paul could not know for sure that he had eternal life, it was the height of arrogance to believe that we had it.

I am sure they have never lived in a Muslim country or listened to sermon in a Mosque.

She also found herself captivated by the guest speakers, and would often go back to her room to listen to the sermon online over and over in order to better understand what she'd heard.

«I don't see the point of listening to sermons!»

Do you expect us to all join YOUR church, listen to YOUR sermons, read YOUR version / interpretation of the «bible», and most importantly, give our money to YOUR little corner of the religious industry?

(PS — I hate football but would watch it to avoid sitting on a pew, listening to a sermon and singing hymns — yuck).

In a small, steepled church, people sing a few old hymns backed by an organ, listen to a sermon, share in Communion and have bad coffee as they laugh and catch up in the church basement afterward.

Listening to the sermon each Sunday can be like what my father used to do on Sunday afternoons - «listen» to the race - GREAT for napping.