Sentences with phrase «worst sermon»

But one thing I do know, is that it was by far the worst sermon I have ever preached in my entire life.

And today, of all days, I decide to preach the worst sermon in the history of the world.

My WORST sermon was at a wedding.

Not exact matches

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.

«It's always a bad idea to give a sermon in front of professionals.»

Confusion of the preaching office of the ministry with the work of the pastor as teacher has been a bad thing and has produced bad results; for no sermon is long enough to be, nor is its purpose properly envisaged as, an exercise in teaching.

I called it «The Worst Father's Day Sermon Ever.»

The sermons that are preached from our pulpits may not be as bad as mine was, but most Father's Day sermons tend to beat up on dads rather than encourage them and challenge them to dream big, take risks for God, embark on an adventure, charge ahead, and be a man!

The resulting substitute is at best conventional pious words and moral platitudes, at worst a string of interesting illustrations to make the sermon snappy.

If we do evil / bad things will shrink in response (try the Sermon on the Mount, Mathew chapter 5).

But religion would be less open to the charge that it is an opiate if children were taught that salvation and happiness are the rewards for doing good rather than for not doing bad — for obeying the «thou - shalts» of the Sermon on the Mount rather than the «thou - shalt - nots» of the 10 Commandments.

In my childhood, it was difficult to distinguish the good preaching from the bad, partly because children do not so much judge sermons as endure them in a pre-critical fashion, partly because the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS) pastors of that era all followed a certain formula in preaching that made their sermons sound more or less interchangeable.

On those occasions, they could do worse than consider artful variations on the traditional three - point sermon.

Anything that makes people actually think for themselves, while listening to the strange things spoken in sermons, can't be bad.

I don't remember what I said, but it was so bad, no one even tried to tell me «Good sermon» afterwards.

In a sermon, Right Reverend Dr K. Abeka Wilson, the Methodist Bishop of Cape Coast Diocese, said it was bad for people in high offices to involve themselves in corruption, which had become the bane of the country's economic growth.

It is the case here, with the characters being cardboard at best, and mere mouthpieces for the author's sermon, at worst.

Then I remember back to sermons I have delivered in the past, my best in my mind often got little attention; the worst in mind often got the most responses.

Got speaks to us in so many different ways (good and bad)-- and bless you for recognizing that it was He who was speaking to your heart during that sermon.