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Sentence Examples These range from evangelistic sermons to in-depth expositions of various parts of Scripture. America's leading pulpiteer, Henry Ward Beecher, pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational Church in Brooklyn, denounced the strike in two sermons. Youth were routinely invited to lead the entire liturgy, craft prayers, offer faith witnesses and even preach sermons. In 1828 he was presented to the vicarage of St Mary's, Oxford, where his 4 o'clock Sunday sermons attracted much attention. Puritanism entails hostility to the traditional culture as well as enthusiasm for sermons and predestinarian theology. But let's say that the book is a collection of sermons preached at that church. The newly re-born legend soon featured as the centrepiece of a series of patriotic sermons preached in parish churches across England. They gave little encouragement to country dancing, often preaching strong sermons against it off the altar. Then he gives us the content of the sermons preached during the Sundays of Eastertide, demonstrating his use of Ambrose's model. Throughout, Tait notes that Witherspoon's sermons were earnest, clear, precise, direct, and unembellished by rhetorical flourishes. I love better to fly a hawk at a heron, or to crush a cup with a friend, than. listen to their droning chants and their dull sermons. It was interdenominational, with a different minister travelling out from town each week, giving sermons alternately in English and Afrikaans. His nine sermons were preached in Presbyterian, Congregational, and Baptist churches. The pericopes are necessarily abbreviations of the larger sermons or stories from which they are taken. His one-man open air services, standing with hymn book in hand, delivering sermons in his booming voice, became well-known throughout the town. It is brought home to me in one of the few permitted churches, where the parson has to submit his sermons to the censors a month in advance. The senior choir stalls are misericords, hinged seats with a wooden block on which choirmen could sit during long sermons. Surfing the Web yields numerous other results, all pertinent to the study of sermons and homiletics. Taylor's sermons use modern homiletic theory as well as styles of the African-American and nineteenth-century backgrounds. In order to keep us on the straight and narrow we need to hear sermons on the touchy subjects that hit close to home. Show More Sentences Where critics of the older school would bring forth laborious lay sermons, he would trot out a diverting confection of a causerie. The power of the Puritan clergy was maintained by their terrifying hellfire sermons. These sermons are not delivered in the old language of hellfire and damnation. It is growing apparent from your vicar's shortening sermons that it is becoming uncomfortably warm weather in which to wear a cassock. This message was delivered in church sermons, but also in the headman's addresses to the community. Once, in obedience to a voice he heard and interpreted as the voice of God, Savonarola preached one of his most terrifying sermons. His sermons were influential in formulating a distinctive Anglican theology. I have a friend who likes even my bad sermons, but not even he liked my sermon that day. Preparing sermons has been the focus of my life, my struggle, my joy, my preoccupation, my occupation and my vocation. For one thing, the sanctimonious sermons by journalists about how virtuous and upstanding they are make them easy to detest. He kept old bills and shopping lists, then copied out his sermons on the verso sides and stitched them into handmade notebooks. Before about 1830, temperance sermons, tracts and addresses routinely broached female intemperance. In addition, the Constitution protects not only the sermons of a solitary activist, standing on a corner soapbox. The new operation will gather and analyze such unclassified information as Web sites, blogs, mosque sermons, databases, and even T-shirt slogans. The Imams in our mosques give sermons on so many issues, but never touch upon this topic of dowry. But the tricentennial, in 1792, occasioned sermons, toasts, and parades from New York to Boston. And what of evangelicalism with its positive and perky successful ministers and churches and their how-to sermons? Yet they were also the subject of tracts, sermons, poems, memoirs, illustrations, and not a few Tin Pan Alley tearjerkers. This unpretentious poetess does not go about lecturing or delivering sermons in high places. The Anglican leaders were preaching Christmas morning sermons to almost capacity congregations. Show More Sentences Though still a young convert I could not square this teaching with 1 John, the epistle on which the morning sermons were based. In second-hand bookshops around Melbourne you can still find copies of his grandfather's sermons. And, of course you'll continue to find sermons on the lectionary texts written by experienced preachers. The first is that all the readings of texts and the sermons have been provided by biblical specialists, attempting to read theologically. In any event, our difficult scriptural texts must be not passed on uncritically in sermons and religious education. Many sermons die in the sanctuary because preachers try to say too many things and give too much extraneous information. Church buildings and worship were austere and simple, and the service mainly consisted of lengthy sermons. Singing is the milk and honey, but sermons, the gospel, is your bread, the bread of life. There are not several types of sermons, for example, expository, historical, doctrinal, moral, apologetic, and topical. The difference between Puritans and Anglicans is nicely illustrated in sermons from the period. I love listening to sermons, I really admire people who are wordsmiths who can craft words in a way that holds people's attention. All through his sermons Topsell tries to portray Naomi and Ruth as symbols of ideal womanhood who are guilty of no moral or religious offense. The second part of the article focuses on the sermons from the point of view of sins, the central theme of quadragesimal sermons. Pastors, ministers, rabbis, imans, etc influence large audiences in their weekly sermons. Rather, they were invaluably aided by sermons that came from the pulpits of religious leaders who preached an obligation of obedience to the secular laws. And after the trauma of so many admonitory sermons on the sins of his late father, he never thereafter regarded Scottish Presbyterianism as a fit religion for a gentleman. They wrote essays, or lectures, or sermons and they read them aloud. Critical to this endeavor is the drumroll of hell-fire sermons from the tub-thumpers of talk radio and Fox News. No one expects CEOs to deliver sermons rather than annual reports. But now with Mrs. Zweibel having gone to her reward, I feel much less amenable to these old storks coming around and delivering their sermons to me. Show More Sentences Our reading from Romans 8 contains gospel grist for any number of sermons and is a text to which we pastors resort often in times of loss and perplexity. A variety of speakers brought a variety of sermons on numerous texts, the result of which was occasional blessing but no regular consistent instruction. It would surely be progress if significant discourse on tolerance were incorporated into educational curricula, religious sermons, and public speech. And she said that her pastor's sermons had given her a sense of purpose. He came from a Protestant family and, in order to learn German, he attended the local Lutheran church where sermons were preached in that language. Pastors' wives were known to preach sermons and conduct services whenever the pastor was serving another church within his multiple-congregation assignment. If our Sunday sermons were like that, we might fill a few more pews. What's often missing in these tedious sermons is the fun of these ads, the ridiculous enthusiasm and vivacity, and an appreciation for the artistry evident in every ad. It may teach people to critically decipher the sermons of the Times columnists who echo the advocates of occupation without an iota of skepticism. For almost 20 years since, Feisal Rauf has been giving the Friday sermons at the masjid al-Farah. Like most three-part sermons, Delbanco's division is a bit too neat. The life and martyrdom of Hossein is relived in sermons and passion plays that touch all Iranians from their earliest days. In 1956 King began an oratorical marathon that lasted over twelve years, attacking segregation in approximately two thousand speeches and sermons as he hopscotched the nation. A foundational observation of contemporary homiletics is that sermons are events that unfold over time, journeys with a beginning, middle, and end. Gerhard, a quiet dreamy boy, found himself attracted to the conventicles, but although he heard numerous gospel sermons, his mind remained confused and his heart untouched. And one of the early sermons I preached, I alluded to this light and how our faith is about light and the life and the love of God within the community. He is said to have delivered 18,000 sermons, preaching 40-60 hours a week. The gay rights movement is uncomfortable with that tack, a skepticism bred from years of anti-gay sermons being delivered from pulpits across the country. Within the past year I've read newspaper accounts of two Protestant pastors who were suspended from their pulpits for preaching sermons downloaded from the Internet. The Policraticus became widely known as its many moralizing stories proved a popular source for the teaching exempla cited by friars in their sermons. Show More Sentences We may sing songs about the sweet by and by, preach sermons and say prayers until doomsday, and he will never concern himself about us, if we don't wake anybody up. Unusually, these sermons do not deal with the subject of the corresponding Parashah, but are each devoted to ritualistic popularisation. I' ve heard stories of virtue, renunciation, moksha, sacrifice that form the core of spiritual sermons. He was famed for his penitential sermons, lambasting what he viewed as widespread immorality and attachment to material riches. Besides working on the Dictionary, Johnson also wrote numerous essays, sermons, and poems during these nine years. When a servant brought back accounts of sermons from nonconformist meetings, Milton became so sarcastic that the man at last gave up his place. It analysed the whole field of available Biblical commentary, for the use of those preparing sermons, and was reprinted many times. In 2009, the American Jennifer Higdon composed the choral piece On the Death of the Righteous based on Donne's sermons. Far more often read were his five books of sermons, which were admired by a wide circle of pious readers including Queen Victoria. Early leaders of the Church, in lectures and sermons, warned against Ritualism as a denominational proclivity in the Episcopal Church. These sermons were used to promulgate the doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings. Pamphlets and printed sermons crisscrossed the Atlantic, encouraging the revivalists. One of the elderly canons who had supported Zwingli's election, Konrad Hofmann, complained about his sermons in a letter. T HE United States and the Indian gurus are one in their love for moralistically catchy sermons, and of course not following what they preach. Many sermons and works continued to be read and used in part or whole up through the 14th century, and were further catalogued and organised. From March 1555 to July 1556, Calvin delivered two hundred sermons on Deuteronomy. The Gunpowder Plot was commemorated for years by special sermons and other public acts, such as the ringing of church bells. Some of the anecdotes, old and new, are treasurable and will no doubt be repeated in many sermons but also in historical lectures and books. A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering. In some communities it was customary for ministers and priests to preach anticircus sermons in all churches on the Sunday preceding the circus. Show More Sentences Novels, short stories, and poems replaced the sermons and manifestos of yore. The rich symbolism of the passage leaves it typologically ripe for a number of sermons. Some fifteen preserved sermons are traditionally associated with Boniface, but that they were actually his is not generally accepted. He examines journals, books, pamphlets, rabbinic sermons, consistorial documents, and correspondence. In many years of auditing sermons, I have known two preachers who, noteless, preached superbly and without hesitation. The goal of this rule was to make sermons comprehensible to the common people. The risk in analyzing the sermons of women or any other group of people is to universalize the particular. Clergy attacked them in sermons and in print, and at times mobs attacked them. Historian Wilson Fallin has examined the sermons of white and black Baptist preachers after the War. Features of their historic culture survived longest when their church services retained Welsh sermons. His written sermons are characterised by spiritual earnestness and simplicity. Or consider the fad du jour in the faith markets, Godcasting. Godcasting is downloading sermons or church messages to the faithful via iPods. He was unaffected and honest, and showed his emotions readily, easily being moved to tears by religious sermons. The new style of sermons and the way that people practiced their faith breathed new life into religion in America. During this period Knox thundered against her in his sermons, even to the point of calling for her death. Despite her friendly gesture, Knox replied that he would continue to voice his convictions in his sermons and would not wait upon her. He is an artful homilist whose collected sermons can stand beside Newman's in their perennial capacity to nourish. Methodist preachers were famous for their enthusiastic sermons and often accused of fanaticism. He continued this argument for a time in sermons while he was pope, although he never taught it in official documents. Two extensive excursuses follow on sermons prior to the Pelagian controversy and on a series of sermons from within the controversy. Show More Sentences In addition to The Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons. Outside of sermons during the celebration of the divine liturgy it could not instruct or evangelise to the faithful or its youth. But sermons for the feast are attributed in manuscripts to Cosmas Vestitor, who flourished in the tenth century. The new style of sermons and the way people practiced their faith breathed new life into religion in America. He also read widely among poetry and sermons, and later proved a notably articulate artist. The rabbis, who, in common with all the Sephardim, emphasized a pure and euphonious pronunciation of Hebrew, delivered their sermons in Spanish or in Portuguese. The doctrines which Wesley emphasised in his sermons and writings are prevenient grace, present personal salvation by faith, the witness of the Spirit, and sanctification. In that year, professional scribe Denis Raguenier, who had learned or developed a system of shorthand, was assigned to record all of Calvin's sermons. He showed signs of sympathy to Puritanism, attending the sermons of the Puritan chaplain of Gray's Inn and accompanying his mother to the Temple Church to hear Walter Travers. He preached three sermons a week, each lasting well over two hours. Historian Wilson Fallin contrasts the interpretation of Civil War and Reconstruction in white versus black memory by analyzing Baptist sermons documented in Alabama. His sermons lasted more than an hour and he did not use notes. I must suppose, indeed, that he was fond of preaching sermons, and so am I, though I never heard it maintained that either of us loved to hear them. The city may eventually backpedal on a narrow portion of the subpoena dealing with sermons, but are still demanding pastors' emails and other private communications. Zwingli's theological stance was gradually revealed through his sermons. Jesus' method of teaching involved parables, metaphor, allegory, sayings, proverbs, and a small number of direct sermons such as the Sermon on the Mount. His sermons are also dated, sometimes specifically by date and year. He quickly became noted for his sermons and religious poems. During his ministry in Geneva, Calvin preached over two thousand sermons. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. Show More Sentences Haig saw himself as God's servant and was keen to have clergymen sent out whose sermons would remind the men that the war dead were martyrs in a just cause. His published works included numerous sermons and addresses. He preached or lectured every day, with two sermons on Sunday. Examples from Classical Literature These published sermons therefore are little better than synopses of what the prophet said, and necessarily imperfect. After that, the popular interest in the Lenten sermons had flagged a little. Instead, however, of listening to the sermons, Burton got flirting with a Meccan girl with citrine skin and liquescent eyes. Many sermons have been filled with descriptions of celestial or infernal mansions. His sermons used to arouse all the original sin in me, when I had to listen to them. That was the golden age of sermons and pamphlets, the latter occupying the place of our monthlies. Conrad, a native of Upper Austria, had lately attracted great attention by the eloquent sermons he had preached at Vienna. We shall give but brevities from the diary, omitting many of the details of sermons and texts, number converted, etc. Besides, Mr. Hinton has written pamphlets in favour of voluntaryism in religion and education, and published sermons innumerable. This morning, for the first time, she had been to hear one of the Advent sermons in the duomo. Nothing has shown more clearly the intellectual barrenness of the pulpit than baccalaureate sermons lately delivered. The North is the theme of animadversion in all the published sermons and addresses I have seen from his prolific pen. His sermons are models of churchly commonplace and full of the stock phrases of a formal religion. It is my misfortune seldom to fructify, in a regular way, by any but printed sermons. There are four sermons existing among his works which bear the title In consecratione Romani Pontificis. To Hiram Gilcrest these sermons seemed the undermining, blowing up and pulverization of the whole structure of sound doctrine. There were no longer any sermons preached at the Cross that a gospeller cared to hear. So he basked and smoked and drank his ale, retelling the ancient stories, and hiccuping forth the ancient sermons. We have listened to all the drowsy, idealess, vapid sermons that we wish to hear. These are texts upon which sermons, not inapplicable to our own day, might be preached. Show More Sentences But, Nan, seriously, do you not notice how formal and cut-and-dried most sermons are? The authorities sorely hindered Bernardinus in his business of Jew-baiting, and his bloodthirsty sermons mostly failed of effect. And as for his sermons, theyre jist like a dogs tail, the Langer the smaer. Of greater general interest is the sutta Pitaka, in which the sermons and discourses of the Buddha are collected. Angel, in fact, rightly or wrongly, preferred sermons in stones to sermons in churches and chapels on fine summer days. It was awful to reflect how many sermons must have been written there. He utters from his chasuble of flame the sermons of Father Furniss. You used me scandalously by not mentioning Edward Cooper's sermons. The Reverend Mr. Fairweather was getting careless about his sermons. Or reading sermons, and being catechised by their manservant, and set to learn a column of Scripture names, if they don't answer properly? After a petition to restrict Friday sermons, tensions between Kurdish mullahs and intellectuals grows, as do calls for mutual understanding. Davey came in the evening to whom I read six of Tillotson's sermons. This study left its mark on mediaeval sermons and vitae Sanctorum. He wrote annually reams of the best-intentioned and vapid sermons. He sometimes preached Jehan very long and severe sermons, which the latter intrepidly endured. That same house, where sermons on national pride bounced off the walls, now reverberated with bawdy laughter over the shapeliness and skin tone of South Indian women. But, the Ministry said that blaring speakers broadcasting prayers and sermons can be heard over long distances, smothering calls of other mosques and disturbing people. 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. I took the sanitation of cowsheds for the text of my sermons. Then, his preaching was ingenious and pithy, like the preaching of the English Church in its robust age, and his sermons were delivered without book. Find more words! 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