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The preacher delivered an extra long sermon, so that they were still out of harm's way when the wave struck.
Meanwhile, faith-based organizations draw thousands and millions every Sunday or Friday ... with the promise of a good sermon.
If you said to a modern liberal individualist, "Hey, how about a sermon?"
What's the difference between a sermon and our modern, secular mode of delivery, the lecture?
Well a sermon wants to change your life and a lecture wants to give you a bit of information.
And I think we need to get back to that sermon tradition.
My father had to sit in a Friday sermon listening to the imam condemning women drivers and calling them prostitutes amongst tons of worshippers, some of them our friends and family of my own father.
A group of divinity students at the Princeton Theological Seminary were told that they were going to give a practice sermon and they were each given a sermon topic.
Then one by one, they were told they had to go to another building and give their sermon.
I even tried to rap sermon one time.
I'll never forget the young person who came to me after that sermon.
He waited until everybody was gone, and he said, "Rev, rap sermon, huh?"
That was the whole of her sermon.
And I recalled that when Catherine and I were married, the priest gave a very nice sermon, and he said something very important.
In 1690, a bishop published Sor Juana’s private critique of a respected sermon.
And, as many people do, he was dozing off during the sermon.
I have a whole global governance sermon that I will spare you right now, because I don't think that's going to be enough anyway, although it's essential.
At the next Friday sermon, the women who were sitting in the side room of the mosque began to share their distress at the state of affairs.
'Book II' isn't a film, it's a sermon.
And Robert Young, as the detective assigned to the murder, is surprisingly gritty, discarding his usual avuncular affability even when he has to deliver the civil-rights sermon midway through the picture.
CROSSFIRE is not entirely free from this taint; it includes a sermon on the nature of senseless hatred that is embarrassingly obvious, assuming a level of naivity in its audience that's depressing to contemplate.
When I want a sermon, I'll go to church, but I don't want one from a movie.
get some new age flavour thrown in the mix and some of those scenes come off as a motivational/inspirational sermon.really,this
I went into this movie thinking that it would be a neat football drama (in the same vein as Remember the Titans); however, I came away feeling like I had just attended a Ted Haggard sermon about the Rapture.
Actually, one would probably get more out of a televangelist sermon than this poor excuse for entertainment.
At least with the televangelist sermon, there are quotes from the Scripture rather than quotes from popularist self-help pulp.
I'm still trying to determine the words to the song that the parishioners sing before Amos's sermon.
Instead I got a sermon told through the stories of completely flat characters.
If I wanted to hear a sermon, I'd start going to church or reading Noam Chomsky (the obvious inspiration for some of this film) books again.
The narrative is an allegorical sermon so thuddingly unsubtle that it's impossible to view it at anything but the symbolic level.
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