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You know, in the 18th century in the U.K., the greatest preacher, greatest religious preacher, was a man called John Wesley, who went up and down this country delivering sermons, advising people how they could live.
He delivered sermons on the duties of parents to their children and children to their parents, the duties of the rich to the poor and the poor to the rich.
He was trying to tell people how they should live through the medium of sermons, the classic medium of delivery of religions.
Now we've given up with the idea of sermons.
They don't just deliver us sermons on this.
But he also loved his congregation, and you could feel this love in the sermons that he gave every week for the 62 years that he was a rabbi.
On Fridays in his mosque, he gave sermons trying to reclaim the meaning of the word, but his congregants, the people who came to his mosque, they had seen the videos.
Why do you keep using the word jihad in your Friday sermons?
And the squabble went on and on, and Kollek listened and listened, and he finally said, "Gentlemen, spare me your sermons, and I will fix your sewers."
We became his mouthpiece, spending hours each day reciting the alphabet as he whispered back sermons and poetry with blinks of his eye.
And so as I contemplated all of this and looked at what was happening, I suddenly realized that there was a paradox that was emerging inside of me, and the paradox was this: in all of those sermons that I preached decrying the violence, I was also talking about building community, but I suddenly realized that there was a certain segment of the population that I was not including in my definition of community.
For the first time, Friday sermons led by local community imams promoted the rights of women.
DB: Yeah, I guess I would say I don't think we can teach each other to be civil, and give us sermons on civility.
He said, "Your sermons have certainly helped me."
My father's South Side sermons summoned me.
By delivering sermons, he developed his voice as a writer, but also grew conflicted about the Church’s stance on racial inequality and homosexuality.
Kraemer’s book spurred others to write their own books and give sermons on the dangers of witchcraft.
Her sermons denounced the oppression of African Americans and women in general, and became prominent in campaigns for both abolition and women’s rights.
During one of her sermons, a mob of white men threatened to set fire to the tent where she was speaking.
Instead of watching nature take its course with two fabulously attractive people in a picturesque landscape, we are treated to endless, (and I do mean ENDLESS) shots of Brian Keith flashing his walrus sized choppers and delivering gritty sermons on the joys of being Teddy Roosevelt.
Just don't expect any overexplicit sermons or eyefilling action sequences.
The film does not have the virtuosity of Haneke, but it also does not have Haneke's patronising, barely disguised sermons against bourgeoisie.
I've heard recorded sermons and viewed most all other video material that relates to her story.
Sister to my recollection did not have that high pitch during her sermons.
I'm sorry, but I really couldn't keep up with all of the different sermons Spike was giving in this movie, and I didn't really understand them either.
Second, it’s fine for the World Bank to deliver anti-corruption sermons.
Pious Western sermons about the need to form a unified, democratically elected government sound utterly irrelevant, given the extent of social and political fragmentation.
His sermons fill football stadiums and he has won a Nobel Prize, but political leaders around the world shirk from meeting him openly, for fear of offending China.
But so can an overworked high-school teacher who cannot dedicate the needed energy to troubled students; magazines that promote unrealistic body images; sermons from clergy who believe that God does not forgive everyone; or even a stranger acting rudely on a train.
In Afghanistan, in collaboration with community shuras and protection committees, respected imams sometimes use their Friday sermons to raise awareness about the importance of education in Islam.