Sentences with phrase «who hear sermons»

And while I enjoying doing so, and learned a lot, and believe the people who heard these sermons learned a lot, it was always a relief to leave Paul and get into one of the narratives of Scripture (such as Genesis, Esther, or Jonah — which I have also preached), or my favorite of all — one of the Gospels.

Those who heard his sermon on Arafa day in the tenth year recognized that they were hearing his last will and testament.

Not exact matches

To be sure some real true in heart believers had their first nudge toward salvation in Christ after hearing a pew fire licking sermon about where one who doesn't come to Christ will end up.

Brian McLaren, author of «The Naked Spirituality,» says Rohr's book touches on an important paradox that you probably won't hear in a Sunday morning sermon: «Imperfect people» are sometimes more equipped than «perfect people» to help those who are struggling.

Here Luke quotes the saying about salt that Matthew has in the Sermon on the Mount, and concludes with the familiar formula, «He who has ears to hear, let him hear» (Lk 14:34 - 35; Mt 5:13; Mk 9:50).

For centuries it has served as the main center for the study of Islamic doctrine and as a meeting place for Muslim students from all over the world who come to receive training for careers as judges, jurists, and scholars; above all, it is a great mosque where prayers are said, and Friday sermons are preached to the assembled worshipers and to the thousands who hear them over the radio.

My personal opinion is that when prayer is involved in songwriting and the songwriter is submitted to God and allows the Holy Spirit to lead them, then the song will have the message that God wants His people to hear, much the same as a Pastor who writes a sermon, God Bless you.

Anybody who has heard a powerful sermon, and then written it down word - for - word and tried to «re-preach» it, or even distribute it in written form recognizes that most of the power is lost in transmission.

Hey, who had heard of Rev Terry and the Westburo Baptist church or the pastor who made the anti-gay sermons until they appeared here on CNN?

The epic message — which started in Genesis and ended in Revelation — was heard by hundreds of people, who showed up in groups of 10 throughout the two - and - a-half day sermon.

I think often we read ourselves as Jesus and others as the Pharisees too — I don't think I've heard many sermons taking what Jesus says to the Pharisees as a direct challenge to us, as opposed to assuming that we're on Jesus» side and confronting those who disagree with us.

When you read the sermon transcriptions of the early church fathers, especially those of St. John Chrysostom (aka «Golden Tongue») when he taught through books of the Bible, it becomes clear that while the «Teacher» did most of the speaking, there was a lot of interaction with those who were there to hear him.

The person who hears 1,000 sermons (or bible studies) and doesn't love, he has problem, that problem is NOT knowledge, usually, still lack of knowledge.

In fact, that minister who feels every sermon is in a sense a crucifixion between the sky of intention and the earth of performance is a man to be heard with profit.

Is the preacher, then, to move away from historical considerations in search of the immediacy Bultmann has found in regarding the preaching event itself as the eschatological occurrence, the end - time for the man who hears Christ address him in the sermon with the threat of death or the promise of life?

It is the sober opinion of many concerned Christians, some who give the sermon and some who hear it, that preaching is an anachronism.

I've heard first person accounts of guys who download the sermon of the nationally acclaimed pastor (you choose the name) on Saturday night to read on Sunday morning.

I imagine at first, all those people who are used to showing up on Sunday to hear a 45 minute sermon would sit around staring at each other, asking, «What are we supposed to do now?»

Those who follow teachers who give them what their itching ears want to hear are those who are content to gather more and more teachers, listen to more and more sermons, gaining more and more knowledge, and being so busy with Bible study, theological learning, and the accumulation of knowledge, that one never has a chance to put any of it into practice in the world.

The idea that in their sermons pastors have to speak to people in almost infantile terms about things that they can read in the daily newspaper is an insult to others who are there to hear something that they do not know.

Some churches prefer evangelistic sermons every week, and other churches prefer one person to deliver an expositional monologue for one reason: People no longer put up with «sound doctrine» but instead gather around themselves a host of teachers who tell them what their itching ears want to hear (2 Tim 4:3 - 4).

This practice is somewhat better, since the questions and answers benefit everyone who just heard the sermon, but often, only the bravest people will ask a question or make a comment, and sometimes, people become very long - winded when they get a microphone in their hands, and in a large - group setting, it is difficult to keep their comment from turning into a second sermon.

Again and again I came across competent theologians who were shocked by the sermons they heard from army chaplains.

Afterward, the ministers from the Institute who also attended the service and heard the sermon listened to the tapes of this discussion by laymen.

I heard a sermon this week in which the pastor noticed that the beginning of Eve's problem in the garden was that rather than talk about the temptation with God (who was always in the garden), she talked about it with the serpent.

«You have heard that it was said, «Love your neighbor and hate your enemy,» Jesus says in a particularly annoying part of the Sermon on the Mount, «But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven.»

In order to evangelize for our positions — whether at press conferences, in boardrooms, in sermons, at legislative hearings, on the job, at the coffeehouse, or across the fence — we must learn to present our arguments so that those who hear them have the choice to see them as compelling.

I heard a great sermon once from a man who said if he is to be the head of the household, then he is responsible for the HAPPINESS and UNHAPPINESS in the household.

Every reviewer who criticises the Noah movie for not sticking to the literal Biblical narrative, should be made to review the next sermon (illustration) they hear (or give) on the same basis...

In case one assumes that all the many parsons here and in foreign lands who deliver and write sermons are believing Christians, how can it be explained that one never hears or reads a prayer which in our time especially is so pertinent: «God in heaven, I thank Thee that Thou hast not required it of man that he should comprehend Christianity; for if that were required, I should be of all men the most miserable.

I have heard some Atheist describe being a Christian as spending every day, every sermon on how to constrain and / or destroy those who are different or believe different.

«There are no innocent people in the world just waiting to hear the Gospel; there are guilty people who need the Gospel,» I heard David Platt, author and pastor, say in a sermon one Sunday morning.

Toller also carries around the guilt of a misbegotten affair with a co-worker, and he's not sure his sermons on Sunday have any effect on the smattering of people who come to hear him preach.