Sentences with phrase «when preaching»

Now, we don't know if those pastors credited you when preaching their sermon or if they just looked at what you said and either integrated parts into the sermon or did not find it useful.

There were scandals of course; and even the very way the friars sometimes maintained themselves, by collecting cash gifts from the faithful when preaching, and encouraging them to gain an Indulgence (see Appendix) had for a long time been criticised.

They should be at least as loud as they are when preaching against abortion.

I'd offer that it seemed Jesus learned this lesson for himself when preaching in the synagogues and winning favour with people until he got to Nazareth and talked of a prophet being without honour among his own people at which point an attempt was made to throw him off a cliff.

Oh I know you can't know its ways and will, except when preaching to others or when facts are concerned.

Only when preaching the «cross» means proclaiming Jesus» daily existence as accepting his death and living out of transcendence is it the proclamation of a really historical event.

I think when preaching to Jews in the temple, they would be familiar with the concepts of propitiation or other such big words, so they wouldn't be daunting to Paul.

The Jesuits are surely on home territory when preaching the Exercises and Fr Edwards was skilful and deeply inspiring.

When preaching in the summer heat, Tchividjian leaves the top of his shirt unbuttoned.

After a time of deep repentance and prayer, he committed himself to God's mission; then, when his preaching actually made his audience repent and turn toward God, Jonah was so discouraged he became suicidal.

And we live in a day and age when the preaching of the Word is not popular.

You know, those guys that talk like auctioneers when they preach... or taking up of serpents.

23 So when we preach that Christ was crucified, the Jews are offended and the Gentiles say it's all nonsense.

Playing hip music and wearing jeans when you preach may not be enough to catch a new generation of Americans.

What is the preacher trying to accomplish when he preaches?

The Lord stood His ground when He preached, I am a follower of Christ and do the same.

When I preached, rich meant a couple more goats than everyone else.

I know that Jesus, Paul and the apostles did it... But when I preach I try to keep it incontext and tell the people research for themselves.

But aside from that, when we preach these truths, it is a reminder to our enemy the devil, that he has lost this war.

Naturally, when you preach a sermon like this to a group of people who think God hates filthy Gentile women and leprous enemy soldiers, and that God's ultimate goal for such people is to kill them and send them to burn forever in hell, you will not be the most popular teacher that this particular audience has ever had.

The first major exodus of disciples from Jesus happened when he preached something that they were not comfortable with.

I've found myself to reducing my level of participation and the «reindeer games if church» I'm being belittled during sermons they're not name calling but when they preach I know they are talking to me.

Jesus really raised the ethical bar when he preached that there are «sins of omission» as well as «sins of commission.»

I use it as an ice - breaking anecdote at women's retreats, I wrote about it on my blog, I use it as a sermon illustration when I preach at Christmas: I have all my jokes down pat.

That said, there are times when I preach with my fingers crossed and I don't like that.

It is rumored that Rudolf Bultmann — the demythologizer of the New Testament who had little interest in the question of Jesus» physical resurrection — often leaned over the pulpit when he preached, reaching out toward his hearers like any tent - meeting evangelist and pleading with them to come to Christ.

When you preached, you were providing answers for questions they didn't have.

And those of them who hear us preach are quite likely to believe that we are not ourselves honest when we preach the gospel, because they know perfectly well that in our «secular» moments we do not subscribe to any such scheme of things.

Once when he preached at the leading Protestant church in that city he attacked the congregation for having come to church.

Luther's teaching on forgiveness, when preached apart from the context of 16th century Catholic emphasis on perfection, can easily lead to a retarded spirituality of sin, claim your forgiveness, sin, claim you forgiveness,... and a retarded spirituality where sanctification becomes an eschatological hope and no more than a legalistic fulfillment of the Law.

When you preach in lots of churches, as I have for years, you become aware of just how much PowerPoint has changed everything.

When you preach a message from the Bible that life is much more difficult, and there's a huge amount of suffering, those messages don't always go down well.»

We suspect that when the conservative clergy preach on such topics it is to denounce such individual action — when they preach on crime they emphasize «Thou shalt not steal,» while the more liberal clergy emphasize the social causes of crime.

Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

This point was recognized several weeks ago by Franz - Josef Bode, the Catholic Bishop of Osnabrück in northern Germany, when he preached on Luther at an ecumenical service.

It is true Juanita, people really got sick of the whole «you are going to roast in h — ll if you aren't our religion» stuff, especially when preached to children.

When I preached through Paul's letter to the Ephesians about 15 years ago, I taught that if one has to choose between truth or love, one should always choose truth, for there is no such thing as a loving lie.

Yes, I agree we need to be more mindful of people and their conditions and yes we need more compassion, grace and mercy when we preach the Gospel (because we are told to proclaim the good news) If you are not preaching the Gospel of Repentance, Mercy and Grace through the work of Jesus on the cross, then you (not anybody else) are demonstrating hatred to those you profess to love.

It is sad when some preach to children they will roast in hades if they don't accept the tribal religion.

Eckhart's preaching is deeply scriptural in that sense, and in fact he says at the end of his Commentary on John that you have to speak excessively when you preach or talk about scripture because scripture speaks excessively — that's the nature of speaking about God.

This month, Christianity magazine reports on Todd Bentley, attacked by some for his exotic claims of angelic visitations and for his forceful and loud style, while others point to an extraordinary sense of God's presence when he preaches...

You may find it in the scorn with which the cultured Athenians greeted St. Paul when he preached to them on the Areopagus about the resurrection of the dead.

About 20 years ago when I preached the sermon that included this illustration, I shared it with approval.

Quote Leviticus when it serves your needs... ignore Leviticus, along with the rest of the Old Testament, when it preaches something that you don't believe should apply to * you *.

But, just as when he preached in Galilee and Judea, his Magisterium will be both welcomed and resented throughout the centuries.

He's not cold, like his name; he is ruddy and moist and enthusiastic (my mother's word); it's as though the dew of perspiration across his brow and nose when he preaches is part of his enthusiasm, the way the scent of aftershave corresponds to the constant shadow on his cheeks.

I realized that it is impossible for me to preach someone else's sermon, no matter how good it was when they preached it.

A Baptist Pastor once said to me that when he preached, prayed or sang he used to look up at the empty balcony in the church and see the angelic realms joining in with worship and that this helped him to overcome any issues of how few were there in body.

As this statement occurs in the exordium of the epistle, where Paul may be supposed, according to his practice, to be recalling ideas familiar to his readers, we may take it that it was in some such terms that he spoke of the significance of the death of Christ when he preached in Galatia.

We will read the imperfect translations of those imperfect critical editions of the text when we preach, invite people to the Lord's table, discuss social ministry, baptize new Christians or bury our dead.