Sentences with phrase «written sermon»

This doesn't make the biblical text powerful any more than a written sermon is as powerful as the original spoken sermon.

Provide the priest with written sermon detailing all the works I've done.

As he wrote his sermon on the matter, Gyorke felt tremendous anxiety.

After everyone is out the door, I will settle in to write a sermon.

The elders that preach in the big churches are hired to write sermons.

It would be a simple thing to use historical criticism to prove that the Jeremy Myers who wrote sermons and articles ten years ago is not at all the same Jeremy Myers who is writing blog posts, commentaries, and books today.

He may write his sermons so that cryptography is unnecessary in reading them.

Such men were clearly aware that theologizing was an active process, whether they were making notes, writing sermons, compiling commentaries, or writing letters.

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.

I went back to my basics and when I normally write a sermon I come up with a goal.

When the pastor writes a sermon, an empathetic imagination sees again those concrete experiences with his people which called upon all his resources, drove him to the Bible and back again, and even now hang as vivid pictures in his mind.

Ministers who write their sermons from an outline often find the structure an obstacle.

To my surprise I realized that the person who had written these sermons believed in some kind of physical resurrection.

Rev. Philip Chryst is a pastor in New York City's Hell's Kitchen who has a novel approach to writing his sermons: he doesn't.

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.

He joked about their written sermons which they attempted to read to the people and remarked, «The great mass of our western people wanted a preacher that could mount a stump, a block, or old log, or stand in the bed of a wagon, and without note or manuscript, quote, expound, and apply the Word of God to the hearts and consciences of the people.»

In another book I wrote a sermon and the same thing was true, I could summarize.

I have been writing sermons, devotional messages and other related short pieces for over 15 years, but only recently have I considered publishing.

«Dr. King, if you remember, wrote a sermon on a piece of toilet paper.»

Not exact matches

Listening to them speak, I sometimes wonder if they've ever read the bible or actually paid attention to what was written instead of just using talking points, propaganda and rhetoric in their sermons.

the bible was written by man, god writes in your heart, it is more work to find and read the writings of god in your heart but there is no great book, no sermon, nothing of the works of man that can take it's place

It's not just some guy who preached great sermons and wrote thoughtful blogs.

It is so easy to find the faults of others in their writing, sermons, blogs and other actions.

Note: Once again, I no longer agree with everything I have written in this sermon (See Ephesians 2:1 - 3 and Ephesians 2:4 - 7 for more about this).

They also sent newspaper clippings, sermon - reports to congregations and articles they wrote afterward for religious journals.

The stuff I've written on topics like getting to know neighbors and being the church in the community doesn't seem to connect with church people, who usually think church is about sermons, a belief system, music, political causes to be for or against and so on.

Maybe it starts with using our words — spoken, written, blogged, tweeted, facebooked, pamphlet - ed, sermon noted — to love each other, even The Other whether that is the theological or political or parental or philosophical other.

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.

C. S. Lewis wrote in a 1939 sermon: «If we thought we were building up a heaven on earth, if we looked for something that would turn the present world from a place of pilgrimage into a permanent city satisfying the soul of man, we are disillusioned.»

Occasionally I'm annoyed by a fly buzzing slowly past me (and I'm reminded of a line from a hymn my grandfather claimed to have sung: «There may be flies on you and me, but there ain't no flies on Jesus») Once in a while I feel twinges of boredom as the sermon wears on, or pangs of regret as my mind wanders back to the letters I meant to write the past week.

Meticulously well - researched, carefully written, and beautifully delivered, the sermon highlighted why the eunuch's interest in the writings of Isaiah were of particular significance to his own life story, illustrating the inclusive and deeply personal love that God has for all people.

It is silly to be writing up all of our worship materials and Bibles and sermons in the language of print and deluding ourselves that it is up - to - the - minute stuff.

During all this he had a heavy schedule of writing: papers for the university's publications, sermons and, of course, his constant correspondence with his fellow Oratorians in Birmingham.

What follows are some hot tips on writing for worship, from hymns to liturgies to sermons.

Sermons, moreover, can not help but slip into whatever Herbert writes, for the «Country Parson preacheth constantly; the pulpit is his joy and his throne.»

Emperor Hadrian (a.d. 76 - 136) wrote about Christians as followers of Jesus Early Christians wrote thousands of letters, sermons and commentaries about Jesus.

Like all of Kierkegaard's Edifying Addresses which are really unpreached sermons, it was written for men and women to speak aloud to themselves.

He preached an average of five sermons a week, and wrote numerous books, tracts, as a well as a set of commentaries on almost every book of the Bible.

They write or copy a sermon once a week to preach they get free housing, starting pay 35,000.00 a year, perks from the congregation, free medical care, free food, egos that are non stopable and a 401 K that most of us would die for.

Note: As I mentioned in the previous sermon text on Ephesians 2:1 - 3, I no longer agree with much of what I have written in this sermon.

As he summarized some of what he taught in that sermon back in July, I thought to myself, «Hmmm... this sounds surprisingly similar to what I have been writing about in my recent series on how to understand the violence of God in the Old Testament and especially in relation to what Jesus did on the cross.»

Articles were written in newspapers, pamphlets were turned out by hundreds, and eloquent sermons were delivered from pulpits.

The cases of Donne and Jonson are exactly to the point: Donne wrote poetry that reflected Catholic dogma regarding Mary, which he pointedly contradicted in his sermons at St. Paul; he also wrote anti-Catholic satire.

So if you have questions and doubts about what I have been writing recently, I encourage you to go listen to Greg's sermon.

How much time is involved in three one hour sermons from a book called a bible that every one has and is written on a sixth grade education level.

I may never write another book, I may never preach another public sermon.

It is written in a grand oratorical manner, more like a sermon than a letter, though it ends with a personal greeting.

The same man who terrorized children with hellfire sermons also wrote that «even the youngest children were fully human and could be genuinely touched by grace.»

In contrast, much of what is said in sermons and written in Christian literature seems designed to maintain a particular structure of the family rather than strengthen people's ability to function in the families they have.

Seaver denies that Wallington can be regarded as a typical Puritan artisan (the fact that he wrote so much was itself unusual), but he presents enough material in addition to that of Wallington — from Puritan sermons and other autobiographies — that the reader is likely to come away feeling that he or she has learned something about Puritans in general.