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Sentence Examples Now, there is only the small collection of dry-eyed people, and the pastor with no pulpit and a slender red holy book in his hand. A political programme that erodes human dignity is an affront to all of us, and deserves condemnation from every pulpit in the land. While Nicholson found his calling in the pulpit, he also continued to put his woodworking to work for his congregation. He knows how to work a crowd, he gives a good sermon and produces a splendid pulpit sweat. When it came time for the sermon, he watched the minister take off his wristwatch and place it on the pulpit. Come hear what his Reverence rises to say, in his painted pulpit, this calm Sabbath day. The choir loft was still behind the pulpit, but there was a drum set, a keyboard, and guitars set up to the left of the podium. They had a very large pipe organ and a central choir loft above and behind the pulpit. What on earth is going through his head as he makes his bizarre and lordly pronouncements from the pulpit every year. During New York's fiscal crisis of the 1970s, he thundered from the pulpit against Wall Street's malefactors of great wealth. In the painting Mark stands in a pulpit, preaching to a group of oriental women swathed in white mantles. The genny was chafing on the pulpit, so I made a length of baggywrinkle for the bad spot. Preachers may be hesitant to open debate about textual criticism from the pulpit, but the suggestion is worth considering. So we need to encourage ministers and priests and rabbis and bishops to speak out from the pulpit against anti-gay violence and gay bashing. They are allowing their discourse to be colonized by a moralism more appropriate to the pulpit than to the soap-box. However important the preached word was to the mendicants and the late medieval princes of the pulpit, it was still ancillary to the sacraments. The Bishop of Bradford swapped his pulpit for the pavement when he joined a police officer on the beat. My face was barely three feet from the lovingly shined toecaps of the royal boots when the prince was ushered into the pulpit to read the lesson. One pastor went into the pulpit one Sunday morning wearing a pair of new bifocals. Michelozzo was responsible for the architectural design and also helped to make the bronze castings for parts of the pulpit. Show More Sentences After she jimmied her way inside, she punched the pulpit and made blasphemous gestures to the icons. From his pulpit of Madison's First Baptist Church, he preached to regiments being mustered for the Civil War. For example, when a congregation is now without a pastor, the cluster brainstorms on how to fill the pulpit or networks to find a pastor. The word dude is uttered all the time in LA, in casual conversation, in business meetings, and from the pulpit. And basically using the authority of my office, and the bully pulpit, to campaign for them up and down the state. I don't care if we like it or not, the Republicans are the ones with the money and the bully pulpit and they're going to hammer on it. But the individuals with the bully pulpit must be out in front, making the case to all citizens that their vote makes a difference. You know, after a setback, most presidents use the bully pulpit to go speechifying. More than that, this nation needs a president who uses his bully pulpit to seriously promote responsible behavior by corporate executives. But what's wrong with having a bully pulpit, using that kind of forum as a bully pulpit to talk about these economic issues? His was a conception of the presidency in which there was little room for the bully pulpit. Some in the industry used the opportunity as a bully pulpit to lecture the media. Perhaps it is simply because the pulpit and the stage have so much in common. What other venue could offer dancing in the pews, stage-diving off the pulpit, and vocals carrying unassisted by a PA system? Along the back of the DBS were liturgical stoles, pulpit gowns, and choir robes. One night a bunch of us snuck into church and took photos of my stoned friend doing his impression of the minister behind the pulpit. On our way back to the car we came across a priest, all cassocked and fresh from the pulpit, laden down with carrier bags and packets. Those French orators engaged in the real matters of public concern address the king and the great nobles either from the pulpit or in parliament. The elaborate lectern, the pulpit, the low screen separating chancel and nave, and the uniform seating remain. So if nothing else, endorsing candidates from the pulpit might rouse the dozing parishioner. Show More Sentences When a clergywoman preaches from a pulpit, she enters a space which has particular aesthetic value. Properly she should now retreat to the blessed silence of the cloister whence she strayed into the pulpit. Victory is not won in the pulpit by firing intellectual bullets or wisecracks, but in the prayer closet. They spent six months restoring the pulpit, wall panelling, lecterns, pews, tables and wall plaques to their former glory. The smallest concession to a different view must now be scotched by this master of the pulpit philippic and the courtroom defence. Particularly overlapping were the chapters on the pulpit and on congregations within a congregation. He should stick to ministering his own flock and keep his opinions to his pulpit and not to the public. The font, the church, the altar and the pulpit were all consecrated in turn and the ceremony ended with a Candlemass procession. The discussion about evolution and creationism is fine as long as it is confined to the salon and the pulpit. The frater, or refectory, retains its wall pulpit from which the monks were read to while they ate in silence. The bully pulpit can be grabbed if he combines cutting tax rates with lowering interest rates and easing up on Fed monetary policy. Pray regularly from the pulpit for God to raise up preachers and missionary church planters. And it was from this popular pulpit that he delivered his 23-year preachment to a faithful congregation of devout and devoted readers. Even the most rational and least decorated of Protestant churches had an unmissable pulpit for the spreading of the Word. At the pulpit there was a preacher, dressed in black with long, blond hair. They actually like to see more correlation from the pulpit of their religious commitment and how it affects public policy. With its integrated swim platform and bow pulpit, the deck of the 300 Fiesta Vee has the appearance and feel of a larger boat. A pulpit has never been so expensive for either the pulpiteer nor his hapless congregation. He is a man who speaks forcefully, emphatically and, yes, sometimes controversially from the pulpit at First Baptist Church. With absolutely no support from the pulpit, old doctrines and beliefs live on not as dogmas but as customary beliefs and family traditions. Show More Sentences Outwardly it does not appear to be a mosque because the pulpit, arches etc., are made of wood. If conservatives truly believe in a meritocracy, why aren't they busy denouncing this kind of thing, using their bully pulpit to shame rich whites into stopping this practice? This latter role offers considerable potential as a bully pulpit. When the first clergywoman appeared in the United States, it was predicted by alarmists that men would be driven out of the pulpit by the new competition. He has to either compromise with the opposition parties, or else use the bully pulpit of the presidency to sway public opinion which in turn would affect opposition policy. As Reverend Dimmesdale leaves his pulpit, the sexton meets him, holding out one of Dimmesdale's black gloves, which was found on the scaffold that morning. He is also accused of using the pulpit to further a cult of personality surrounding himself. Open access to information beyond that available in the pulpit has already had a moderating effect on the stability of faith. However, standard equipment includes a bow pulpit, life lines and rails. But it was still an unorganized effort, while Limbaugh has a powerful bully pulpit, he does not have a political machine. That kind of mistake could have totally undermined my pulpit cred. I hung over the side of the pulpit and saw that the bobstay chain was shackled to the end cap on the bowsprit, so I hunted up a wrench and another shackle. Gems such as stained glass windows, wooden pews, a pulpit and a stone font are being removed from a church in Crescent Road, Beckenham, before the site is redeveloped. Apart from scandals that have rocked the sacred houses, there is an increase in the ungodly activities of the men of the pulpit and some of their flock. Another concern voiced by some is that the length of the boat does not include the bow pulpit and owners have found their Silvertons don't fit into their slips. A Belgian church has a chalkboard sitting at the pulpit with the jungle peeking through the windows behind it. He just wanted a bullier pulpit than a talk show from which to sound the alarm. Looks like the bully pulpit still has some value, despite what the political scientists say. And using the bully pulpit to push for broader legislative change at the federal and state level? He needs to make better use of his bully pulpit by really explaining this crisis to the American people. Show More Sentences And so Emmert, unable to rely upon the NCAA's rulebook for justification, took to the bully pulpit and bullied, righteously. Church dates from 1436 and contains attractive Jacobean pews and pulpit. Suffering from prostate cancer, Parkinson's and water on the brain, the preacher will speak from an ingenious pulpit designed to allow him to evangelise in a sitting position. Villagers flocked to St Andrew's Church to hear Mr Bambury deliver a sermon from the pulpit, then adjourned to the pub opposite to see Rev Knight run the bar. The importance of provocative teaching from the pulpit is to remind and encourage persons of all ages to hear anew the call to discipleship which God issues. And then, adding something like anguish to deep depression, I saw that even the pulpit, that uttermost symbol of the message, had been knocked down and carted away. Reinke lost his pulpit and was drummed out of the conservative Missouri Synod of the Lutheran denomination. The original garland was hung on the sounding board of the pulpit, but the present garland now hangs on the church wall in the north-west corner of the Nave. Blogs range from offering recipes to requests for prayers, to moving spiritual reflections and writings about saints to polemics about political correctness in the pulpit. But the position has also become a bully pulpit, letting the occupant rattle everyone from underperforming CEOs to the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. Slender robotic video camera pylons telescope up and down, enabling the church to broadcast live events with minimal sight line intrusion to the pulpit. Today the building has interesting features including stained glass windows, a carved rood screen, a pipe organ, a choir vestry and a beautifully carved pulpit. He responded that he had thought about it, but decided that he can effect a change in the political landscape more thoroughly from his bully pulpit on the air. Church ministers swapped the pulpit for the catwalk yesterday as they modelled the latest clerical designs at the clergy's answer to London Fashion Week. After all, why didn't he mount his bully pulpit and say so at the time? In the cavernous inside of the old church punters are sacrilegiously swilling breezers and spirits underneath the enormous pulpit from which fire and brimstone used to spit. The pulpit in the church is designed like the prow of a boat. Look, Hice has every right to spew his hate from the pulpit to those who chose to attend his services. Mounting the pulpit they appealed for calm and secured a sullen silence. A piano was played, hymns were sung, we all duly recited the confession, creeds and responses, and the curate ascended the pulpit with surplice flowing. Show More Sentences John Paul cannot be expected to police every pulpit in Christendom, of course, but the decay in catechesis and Church discipline that has occurred on his watch is undeniable. The cross behind the baptistery was brown and the large double doors leading outside were red, as well as the thin carpet down the isle that led to the pulpit. If the service is greater, the hero is made the target of outspoken praise, pulpit and press belaud him, applause greets him everywhere and processions form in his honor. The mayor made it quite clear throughout the entire 'bathroom bill' debate-that she'll use her bully pulpit to bully pulpits across Houston. The gee-gee mad priest, who knows every mount at every track from Naas to Navan, has even been known to offer a few tips from the pulpit. Vicar But I stopped going several years ago when the pulpit was taken over by a softheaded happy-clappy vicar. These wooden fittings, including the pulpit and Bishop's throne, were designed in Wren's office and built by joiners. In his later years he forsook the stage for the pulpit, and as a Baptist preacher attracted large audiences at Exeter Hall and elsewhere. Under torture, he confessed to several crimes including writing the letter left in the pulpit which threatened the church leaders. The pulpit and lectern are also usually found at the extension of the bema. The Foundation also donated funds for an outdoor pulpit to be added to Princeton Chapel, also in honour of Bright. While many of its leading citizens profited from and defended slavery, it also had been a frequent topic of pulpit rhetoric. Tens of millions of people tuned in and religio-fascists fulminated from every pulpit. On Good Friday in 1525, Tausen used the pulpit at Antvorskov Abbey Church to proclaim Luther's reforms. He was a wide man and looked wider in his surplice, especially from our pew, which was close up under the pulpit. The White House has the bully pulpit but we have our megaphones. Ahead, a large sandstone boulder creates a pulpit on the hill, and in the shadows is a large painted figure, red from mountain mahogany. Far from needing to be repealed, the ban on politics in the pulpit ought to be enforced more aggressively. In 1874 Scott was responsible for the marble quire screen and pulpit in the Crossing. There is also, usually in the nave, a raised pulpit from which the dean or other clergy can expound the scriptures. Show More Sentences Nicola Pisano, Nativity and Adoration of the Magi from the pulpit of the Pisa Baptistery. The pulpit, often raised so as only to be accessible by a staircase, was the centerpiece of the building. In 1638 the National Covenant was presented and signed in front of the pulpit. In the pulpit he preached Protestant doctrines with great effect as his congregation grew. On 1 July, Knox preached from the pulpit of St Giles', the most influential in the capital. In particular, it was seen as drawing attention away from pulpit preaching and the role of the minister. A donation of a small herd of Swiss goats was the direct result of Father de Castro's taking the pulpit during six consecutive masses to explain CARDI to the faithful. There is only a pulpit for the preacher, which stands along the left side, and on the right is the mimbar, that is a flight of stairs with ten steps. The prayer hall has a small mihrab, a simple pulpit, arches and openings. This elicited damnings from pulpit and press, and insured a healthy run. He was buried in the Castle Church in Wittenberg, beneath the pulpit. Luther's tombstone beneath the pulpit in the Castle Church in Wittenberg. From then on he took the opportunities to preach wherever an assembly could be brought together, more than once using his father's tombstone at Epworth as a pulpit. Armstrong reaffirmed that he is, above all, interested in making seasonlong use of his bully pulpit to promote the worldwide fight against cancer. In the late 20th century it became customary in some cathedrals for an hourly prayer to be said, for the benefit of visitors, and this is often presented from the nave pulpit. It has an attractive square and the oldest parish church in Cusco, built in 1563, which has a carved wooden pulpit considered the epitome of Colonial era woodwork in Cusco. Examples from Classical Literature At this place they have, in the church, the identical pulpit from which Wickliffe preached! Internally there is a rather remarkable pulpit or ambon on the north side of the nave. Magdalen attires herself with the utmost splendor, and, to hear the sermon better, takes a place immediately under the pulpit. Nothing has shown more clearly the intellectual barrenness of the pulpit than baccalaureate sermons lately delivered. He thought he was in the church at Caerphilly, and found many harps hanging about the pulpit, wrapped in coverings of green. Beyond this the only very striking feature is the pulpit, which is corbelled out from the south wall about midway in its length. The iron pulpit at Avila, the eagle lectern at Cuenca and the staircase railing at Burgos are all remarkable works in metal. Then I should never have had to encounter the damnable snares of the pulpit! The function of Diogenes is not performed either by the pulpit or the press. Alban and Etheldreda on either side, carved by Earp, who also carved the pulpit of Caen stone. The pulpit is becoming the only place where I can enjoy the luxury of free speech. It is the pulpit of the reformer and the housetop of the fanatic, this soap-box. On the front of the pulpit is a panneau of carved wood bearing the words soli Deo Gloria. There is a good oak pulpit, with hourglass holder, and some heavy 15th-cent. The pulpit stood on a site that now forms the north-east corner of spital Square. There was no opportunity for him to splurge about from side to side of the pulpit, as some do. Popular preachers were invited to hold forth in this pulpit, but the Bishop was the inviter. They came from Chicago and jerkwater towns in Nebraska, from farms and steel mills, from the stage and the pulpit. South of the mihrab is the minber, or pulpit, from which prayers and addresses are delivered on Fridays. The preacher standing on the second step of the mimbar, or pulpit, with a large club or staff in his hand, delivers his sermon. Show More Sentences As you must have realized, in the pulpit, they are so hard to lead into untrodden paths. The Nobel prize does not add to the stature of a man, but it does elevate him to a pulpit. Literature and the pulpit were inevitably the interpreters that she employed to vituperate the sins of the people. A high, octangular wooden pulpit with a precentor's pew in front of it stood at the far end. In the Teynkirche stands the worm-eaten pulpit from which preached John Huss. Some may court publicity, and pant for the forum, or the pulpit, but they are the few. Thus accomplished he comes down to his friends, and his first salutation is grace and peace out of the pulpit. This organ, its loft, and the pulpit against it are all very elaborate examples of plateresque Renaissance work. In the centre the rock projects into a platform about eight or ten feet square, which forms the Pnyx or pulpit for the orator. The most uncanny thing about the kirk was the precentor's box beneath the pulpit. There was a large platform, with chairs upon it, but no pulpit or reading-desk. And yet this old man in the pulpit called it a place where you went to rest! No passion of fretwork, or pinnacle whatever, I said, is in this Pisan pulpit. It glowered now like a preacher in his pulpit upon a sinful congregation. Nor was the pulpit itself without a trace of the same sea-taste that had achieved the ladder and the picture. On Sunday morning he occupied the pulpit, preaching fRom Rom. It replaces the old pulpit which was executed from drawings by Lebrun. They were all that he could do in the way of pulpit, desk, and lectern. A passing notice is merited by the pulpit, which is Jacobean. She passed behind the high altar, and walked on towards the pulpit. Show More Sentences The pulpit is of carved stone with inlaid slabs of American onyx. I belong to one which welcomes women to its pulpit and to all its offices. Having ascended the pulpit, Father Massias did not at once speak. But humility is not a grace of the pulpit and the pastorate only. A REVIVALIST who had fallen dead in the pulpit from too violent religious exercise was astonished to wake up in Hades. The weakness of exhausted passion caused her steps to totter as she descended the pulpit stairs. He then descended from the pulpit, and prayed in the mihrab. Some one, apparently, had been pelting the pulpit with them. The mimbar, or pulpit is so placed that the speaker can face Mecca. The British progressivism of some of the pulpit utterances is interesting. The Moorish mimbar or pulpit of the mosque of Cordova was very wonderful. He instructed a mollah to call people to prayer from the pulpit. And you shall speak In the same pulpit whereto I am going, After my speech is ended. With his brain in a whirl he went down into the pulpit and preached a long sermon without once thinking of his gestures or his voice. Boanerges, not Balzac, now occupies the pasteboard pulpit of fiction. They went across to the baptistery to see the pulpit of Nicolo the pisan. Preaching presumes a pulpit and has little place in classwork. The young man and the pulpit are therefore preeminent in conspicuity. In the gallery opposite to the pulpit were a little choir of male and female singers, a violoncello, and a violin. The dealers in the bodies and souls of men erect their stand in the presence of the pulpit, and they mutually help each other. Show More Sentences The pulpit needed doing over, and the floor had to be recarpeted. The pulpit of St. Saturnin resounded with his bursts of eloquence. Paul went on writing, and thundered from the editorial pulpit weekly. Hooper had ascended the stairs, and showed himself in the pulpit, face to face with his congregation, except for the black veil. Would not the people start up in their seats, by a simultaneous impulse, and tear him down out of the pulpit which he defiled? It is the land of the free school, the free press, and the free pulpit. The idea of Turkey wagging his head in a pulpit made me laugh. At my first glimpse of the pulpit, it had not escaped me that however convenient for a ship, these joints in the present instance seemed unnecessary. The muffled female, who had hitherto sat motionless in the front rank of the audience, now arose, and with slow, stately, and unwavering step, ascended the pulpit stairs. The church, with its exotic oriental-looking blue and white interior, decorated arches and extravagant three-decker pulpit, attracts visitors from all over the world. For instance, I have often tried, in my pulpit discourses on theft, to imbue the folk of this parish with the very ideas of Right to which you have just given utterance. So convincing was all this misrepresentation that even sincere ministers in the pulpit praised the Black Hundreds while regretting the necessity of violence. I tell thee, Sancho, if thou hadst discretion equal to thy mother wit, thou mightst take a pulpit in hand, and go about the world preaching fine sermons. A Gloucester swordfish-boat drifted alongside, a man in the little pulpit on the bowsprit flourishing his harpoon, his bare head plastered down with the wet. In due course the superintendent stood up in front of the pulpit, with a closed hymn-book in his hand and his forefinger inserted between its leaves, and commanded attention. Find more words! 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