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  • Naa, Mr. Penrose, yo 'preachers talk abaat th' Cross, and it's o 'reet that yo' should; but yo 'cannot blame me for talkin' abaat my flute, con yo ', when it's bin my salvation? Lancashire Idylls (1898)
  • Among Baptist preachers, the most formative figure in the area of homiletics was John Broadus.
  • Preachers paid for time to sermonize, listeners could call in, some slots were reserved for Christian music.
  • The WSJ recently had an article about an antitheist ‘preacher’ as it were, who was giving anti-religious sermons to large crowds in France. Matthew Yglesias » The New Atheism
  • The preacher pushed his plate away and Lottie rose to clear the table.
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  • McCain is nothing but a nebish and shlimazl ... just like this shlump of a preacher ... McCain officially rejects Hagee endorsement
  • Preacher was standing up over his writing table, unshaved, wearing an unironed white shirt. Rain Gods
  • From most of the preachers and all the humbugs they expect nothing else.
  • The very idea of a “man of God” and a “preacher” making six figures, driving luxury cars and living in gated communities, with expense accounts, country club memberships and obese bodies is laughable and obscene. Think Progress » Hatch Warns Tea Party Activists: Work With The GOP…Or Else
  • No being, not even one whose essence was love, would suborn her, Ellen Thomas, as a preacher in its cause. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
  • Crazy Shelly has a host of pet preachers who have campaigned from the pulpit on her behalf. Think Progress » Despite Claiming That She Never Called Obama ‘Anti-American,’ Bachmann Now Brags About How She Did
  • Sexual sins were addressed loudly and regularly from the pul pits, especially by women preachers, whom we called missionaries. God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
  • He has previously rebutted claims that he is a hate preacher. Times, Sunday Times
  • As early as 1532, in a famous memorial meant for Clement VII, he called for the repression of the friars, priests, preachers, confessors, and books he saw as responsible for the spread of heretical ideas among the Italian populace.
  • the dry vote led by preachers and bootleggers
  • Sister Aimee was a talented thespian as well as a legendarily eloquent preacher.
  • To develop the tools of social transformation she convened an activist community of pastors, preachers, biblical exegetes, theologians and theology students, laymen and laywomen to develop tools to guide the Christian churches in an engagement with the pandemic. Karen Torjesen: Feminist Theology In The 21st Century
  • And I think that if Mr. Sidgwick had pondered the strange words of Ulysses, com 'altrui piacque, he would not have said that the preacher and prophet are lost in the poet. Dante
  • Then the image of a depression-era preacher and his message of Hell-fire and brimstone.
  • Preachers are allowed to rubbish incontrovertible evidence.
  • To be sure the back-seats were free for the poor; but the emblazoned crimson of the windows, the carving of the arches, the very purity of the preacher's style, said plainly that it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a man in a red wamus to enter the kingdom of heaven through that gate. Margret Howth, a Story of To-day
  • When a clown and an evangelic preacher wander into Ted's domain of the W.C. he forces them to dismantle their public masks and face the consequences of their beliefs and actions.
  • Sophie stood in front of his closed door, a poster of the Manic Street Preachers adorning the pinewood.
  • On the religious side all that they have had is the occasional itinerant preacher, thundering at them of the wrath of God; and on the cultural what Aunt Dalmanutha calls the "pindling" district school. Sight to the Blind
  • World-soaked preachers and churches must be kiln-dried before they are fit for revival kindling wood.
  • Engle makes Sherry adorably effective as an effable, devoted (brings his lunch to work) wife who deals reasonably well with that pesky little transgression and is funny as hell when she learns while drunk that Joe's old flame is married to the renegade preacher. James Scarborough: Bail Me Out, the Hudson Guild Theatre
  • And before any person could take notice thereof, hee became (of a theefe) Ruffian, forswearer, and murtherer, as formerly he had-beene a great Preacher; yet not abandoning the forenamed vices, when secretly he could put any of them in execution. The Decameron
  • When Wesley died in 1791 over 50% of Methodist members, chapels and preachers were located in the north of England.
  • Such lack of organization was unfortunately all too common among preachers of his day.
  • 'Arminianism', as it was then understood in England: 'most of the popular preachers, who had not looked into the ancient learning, took Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles
  • No being, not even one whose essence was love, would suborn her, Ellen Thomas, as a preacher in its cause. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
  • Occasionally, for my benefit, she would recall sanctimonious preachers who would dismiss three quarters of the world's people as ignorant heathens doomed to spend the afterlife in eternal damnation ¾ and who in the next breath would insist that the earth and the heavens had been created in seven days, all geologic and astrophysical evidence to the contrary. Greg Barrett: Obama's speech bridges the Abrahamic faiths
  • Most are Muslims, having been converted in the late 18th century by wandering preachers, but their traditional religious beliefs are often syncretized with Islam. Survey of West Africa: Peoples Summarized
  • Their first major film was Pastor Hall, the moving account of a German preacher who refuses to kowtow to the Nazis.
  • The coachman hates the automobile, the hand-worker hates the machine, the orthodox preacher hates the heretic, the politician hates the reformer, the doctor hates the bacteriologist and the chemist, the old woman hates the new -- all these in varying proportions according to the degree in which the iconoclast attacks laziness or livelihood. The Price She Paid.
  • Bruce wrote and sang all of Cream's toughest material - White Room, Sunshine Of Your Love - with a voice as angelically strung-out as Jeff Buckley and as gutbucket dirty as a 100 year-old-blues preacher.
  • The preacher has an obligation to do more than speak in generalities. Christianity Today
  • He has become an itinerant preacher, but his temporary religious conversion does not prevent him from persistently pursuing her.
  • It's up to us preachers, ministers, stewards of the mysteries of Christ, to make that transaction.
  • Thirdly, and to conclude, as our worthy preacher says, beware of the pottle-pot — it has drenched the judgment of wiser men than you. The Abbot
  • As the preacher crossed himself, the church bell began to toll.
  • Not only is he one of the best preachers in the world, he has the ability to translate his message into other mediums, including books, music, and drama.
  • If the teacher taught, why isn't it also true that the preacher praught? English News
  • Both the existing legislation on racism, and that adumbrated by the prime minister on the ‘preachers of hate’, have an illiberal potential - that is, they do restrict freedom of expression.
  • But in the 1893 campaign in Chicago, Moody was the first evangelical preacher that I know of who invited Roman Catholic prelates, priests, and bishops to share his platform.
  • No being, not even one whose essence was love, would suborn her, Ellen Thomas, as a preacher in its cause. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
  • Assuredly, by foretelling the destruction of a Temple a preacher could invite backlash for the implied criticism of its hierocracy.
  • And then, preacher friend, ‘Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem, in the hand of thy God.’
  • It is in the culture of African Americans that orality reigns supreme, where the poets, the preachers, and other people of the word command respect and authority in the African American community, as did the orators of ancient Greece.
  • In this fourth stage, it is clear that preachers dismiss rhetoric to their own peril and to the peril of the religiosity of their congregants.
  • Their pew was well to the front and we were late, so that going down the aisle unushered, with them in the lead -- husband and spouse, husband and spouse, four couples -- we made a procession which became embarrassingly amusing as the preacher simultaneously closed the Scripture lesson with, "And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons 'wives with him into the ark. Strong Hearts
  • When this request to a people to pray for the preacher is cold, formal and official, it freezes in-stead of fructifies. The Weapon of Prayer
  • He did not want the ‘brainsick and heady preachers,’ but welcomed ‘the learned and grave men of both sides.’
  • The Preacher (hews at once his moderationt his good fenfe, and his urbanity, in this City fermon, which, for elegance of compoiition, would not difgrace a dhapei-myal. The Monthly Review
  • I will corrupt the organist, bribe the choir, double-bank the preacher in advance, and we will all have a rousing time. The Wedge of Gold
  • Edwards is a Methodist lay preacher and social worker.
  • Unlike other biceps exercises, the preacher curl places specific demands on form.
  • On the 19 of December, 1606, we set sail from Blackwall, but by unprosperous winds, were kept six weeks in the sight of England; all which time, Master Hunt our preacher, was so weak and sick, that few expected his recovery.
  • What could that mountebank of a preacher have said to turn his mind so?
  • I don't want to sound like a preacher, but there is no way that this can continue and I for one am not going to bend over to these forces of darkness.
  • It is true that imagination is in short supply among preachers; our language and diction are impoverished by our lack of imagination.
  • Or, if I was very unlucky and lived in a remote Scottish hamlet, a lay preacher would have been brought around to my house to exorcise me.
  • Edwards is a Methodist lay preacher and social worker.
  • Finally, after much jockeying, the younger man visits Ames and tells him his story of wandering and dissipation, and of an affair in St. Louis with a black woman from a respectable preacher's family in Tennessee.
  • Individually, he would much prefer to have been one of his own "Seven Vagabonds" rather than one of the austerest preachers of the primitive church of New England; but the austerest preacher of the primitive church of New England would have been more tender and considerate to a real Mr. Dimmesdale and a real The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
  • In an attempt to rechannel my immediate discontentment with her tax returns, I will give her credit for supporting her husband in the face of the nightmare that is those cherished extremist evangelical preacher/Gods. Cindy McCain releases 2006 tax returns
  • The preacher of the day on Tuesday was a prominent Methodist clergywoman.
  • Preachers may choose to continue the Lenten theme of baptism by examining the Epistle reading.
  • Evvy day de preacher would come read de Bible to him, and when de 30 days wuz up, den dey would hang him by de neck 'til he died. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1
  • Those figures may have been dubious but, for an itinerant preacher, he had a pretty way with words that struck a raw nerve.
  • The religious preachers of the Zoroastrianism religion, wise man, astrologist and scientist they used to till future, three of them visited Jesses Christ at birth. Iran and the Spirit of the Airyanem Vaejah Nation
  • Tina always had a slight proclivity for sermonizing, but a chapter in Ecclesiastes, coming from little preachers with lips and eyes like hers, is generally acceptable. Oldtown Folks
  • He was an extraordinary preacher, a devoted pastor, a catechist who wrote his own catechism, a visitor of the sick, a counsellor, and one deeply concerned about missions, ecumenism, church polity, and church discipline.
  • From the milieu of the nobility itself there arise preachers of conciliation.
  • The Tennessean sons of a preacher man swerved past the curse of the ‘difficult’ second album to create an almighty slab of jaded gothic Southern rock.
  • My great - grandfather was a predestinarian Baptist preacher in south Alabama.
  • He doesn't have the judgment necessary to figure out his preacher is a hate pedder, primarily to adorn his own ego and for financial gain. Poll of polls: Obama losing ground
  • The preacher is involved in a titanic confrontation, in which he is a tiny Lilliputian.
  • I'm bowled over by a Pentecostal preacher who is honest to the extent that I, an avowed agnostic, am prepared to sing hosannas to him.
  • Monk and mystic, monastic theologian and papal counselor, hagiographer and polemicist, a renowned preacher in the cloister and beyond it, Bernard was the single most important impetus for the spread of the Cistercians.
  • Sneak a peek at practically any big-deal CEO, congressional heavy, media baron, talk-show yakker, pompadoured TV preacher, or any the other pushers of America's new ethic of grab-it-and-go greed.
  • • Life with the Antichrist: The wife of a controversial Miami-based preacher is divorcing him but staying married to his teachings. More trouble for fiery ‘Antichrist’ preacher
  • One and all, the professors, the preachers, and the editors, hold their jobs by serving the Plutocracy, and their service consists of propagating only such ideas as are either harmless to or commendatory of the Plutocracy. Chapter 9: The Mathematics of a Dream
  • Evelyn at a concert, for which I had tickets, but I was too tired to go; this morning we went to hear Dr.P. Brooks, the great preacher who everyone was raving about last spring in London, (or was it _last_ year?) his church is like a great _temple_, or public hall, and cost [pound symbol] 180,000. The British Association's Visit to Montreal, 1884 : letters
  • Because it is filled with stories tied to Scripture, preachers will find it a rich resource.
  • Imitating the canting voice of a hypocritical preacher, Douglass then gave a several-paragraph sermon based on the principle that obedience to the slavemaster is obedience to God.
  • It is very magnanimous of you to concede that "maybe" the PCSO was wrong to accuse the preachers (who were doing nothing either illegal or intendedly provocative) of a "hate crime". On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • Dorothea Dix was born in Hampden, Maine, the daughter of an alcoholic Methodist preacher who was the black sheep of a wealthy merchant family.
  • Preachers can talk but never teach, Unless they practise what they preach. 
  • A certain presumptuousness and overestimation, derived from Calvinism, made them almost sound like proselytising preachers.
  • During this time Bethel has been well supported by ministers from the South Wales area, some of them retired, and by lay preachers from the locality.
  • In my former house, there was this preacher that would be out before 5am every morning waking the whole community up with the ceaseless donging of his bell that was often louder than his voice. Archive 2009-02-01
  • I tell you this vagrant fisherman, this wandering preacher, this piece of driftage from Galilee, commanded me. Chapter 17
  • It is a stinging aporia, an imposition on the logical life of that which we call ‘God,’ and requires some negotiation on the part of the preacher.
  • He commenced preaching, and the people appeared to receive the word gladly, and when he had gained about fifty converts who were ready to be baptised which ceremony he was not authorised to perform by the Virginia law, he procured the services of Preacher Bowles, and he baptised them. Biography of London Ferrill, Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Colored Persons, Lexington, KY.
  • Multitudes of every rank thronged him; but especially the heathenized and embruted colliers near Bristol listened to the unknown gospel, and their awakened feelings were revealed to the preacher by his observing the white gutters made by the tears that ran down their grimy faces. A History of American Christianity
  • The service was led by a priest, a Muslim sheik and a Baptist preacher.
  • Hate preacher Anjem Choudary has claimed he is proud to receive £25,000 a year in benefits from the British taxpayer because the money ‘belongs to Allah’. Under Sharia Law everything is free! « Anglican Samizdat
  • Mr Killen was acquitted because one juror said she could not convict a preacher.
  • And for all of his profane honesty and candid impiety, this wicked preacher keeps me reading.
  • However, I will not stay quiet when a preacher gets on his soapbox and tries to persuade us to buy what clearly amounts to simple gaudery.
  • The lay preacher was stopped by police in Wales for driving an uninsured car.
  • The farther west the preachers and padres rode the less evidence they found of Christianity, not just in the rail towns but also in the frontier settlements a day's ride from the depots.
  • The preacher admits that he broke his promise back in September to foreswear such a literary auto-da-fe. John Feffer: The Geopolitics of Stupidity
  • A former Methodist pastor and holiness preacher had established a bible school.
  • The flight from Joplin turns into a shouting match between Bonnie and Blanche, as moll and preacher's daughter collide.
  • We need first and foremost gospel preachers to help form gospel churches.
  • This Jesuit was not only a profound preacher, but the founder of orphanages and improver of prison conditions.
  • The sermon was accompanied by such divine power that the whole congregation, except one man, fell prostrate upon the floor, and voiced their agony under conviction of sin, in such loud outcries that the preacher was forced to stop.
  • Acceptance of women preachers varies greatly from denomination to denomination.
  • The quaestuary preachers drain the very blood and marrow of the poor simple people.
  • It is a matter of, "Do I want to listen to the same sermon I have heard a thousand times over yet again executed by someone who isn't even as proficient as previous preachers on the topic? MIND MELD: SF with an Opposing Viewpoint
  • An indispensable part of any sermon on this Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany is the preacher's passing on the experiences of Christ's death and resurrection that this assembly has received.
  • A few original sketches by Bret Blevins, Min Ku, and Bill Galvan, not to mention some He-Man paint-by-numbers my grandpa did back in the day, hang above the shelf, along with a Garth Ennis signed Preacher poster and a David Letterman signed glossy (though I think an intern really signed that one, since I mailed away for it). Send us your shelf porn! | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
  • The civil power was to be the secular arm, the instrument, of the Kirk, and was required to inflict the penalties which the preacher imposed on such as contemned the censure and discipline of the Church. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
  • What turned the state for Bush was all of the above plus getting out the word through the jackleg preacher netwook statewide that the Democrats plan on taking their Bibles away. Poll: Obama Losing West Virginia Primary By More Than Two To One
  • In the tenth century," according to Dufour (_Histoire de la Prostitution_, vol. VI., p. 11), "shoes _a la poulaine_, with a claw or beak, pursued for more than four centuries by the anathemas of popes and the invectives of preachers, were always regarded by mediæval casuists as the most abominable emblems of immodesty. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
  • Protestant pastors, deacons, and lay preachers and Catholic priests, catechists, and elders direct their respective congregations.
  • Really, how could anyone accuse an American televangelist of being your run-of-the-mill, double-dealing, dishonest preacher?
  • It was a golden age for poets and panegyrists, koranists and literati, preachers and rhetoricians, physicians and scientists who, besides receiving high salaries and fabulous presents, were treated with all the honours of Chinese Mandarins; and, like these, the humblest Moslem — fisherman or artizan — could aspire through knowledge or savoir faire to the highest offices of the Empire. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • That, sir, is what that same preacher tells his congregation about homosexuals. applejuicefool EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Something can be learned from this…
  • Indeed, this whole piece, and what I am going to write about Ellis, the preacher, makes me feel uneasy and even dirty. TESTIMONIES
  • As Loveday and her companion mounted the last of the flight of stairs, the voice of the preacher – full, arrestive, resonant – fell upon their ear; and, standing on the small outside landing, it was possible to catch a glimpse of that preacher through the crack of the half-opened door. The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective
  • “It is not necessary you should altogether abandon him, though you dismiss him to another service, or to a calling better suiting his station and character,” said the preacher; “elsewhere he maybe an useful and profitable member of the commonweal — here he is but a makebate, and a stumbling-block of offence. The Abbot
  • We like to call men and especially preachers that, while we seem to ignore the fact that there had to be women—in his case, numerous women—to womanize. God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
  • The lectionary does preachers a disservice by cutting out verses 32-34: they are essential to the pericope.
  • The preacher told him that a man had to believe that Christ was this sacrifice for his sins, and to repent and ask God to save his soul.
  • His body language was all wrong, a mixture of smalltown lawyer and revivalist preacher.
  • He had just had a "fratch" with the Quaker preachers on the subject of election. The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance
  • For example, despite his disagreements with the repressive policy of the Church of England toward evangelical preachers like himself, Bunyan did not follow Roger Williams in refusing all fellowship with conformists.
  • And more and more hotheaded youths flocked to hear the exciting preacher with his rebel message, his exciting-sounding 'combat training weekends' and his credit-card fraud and benefit-cheating base in the dosshouse set up - where the women's worship area in the Mosque basement had once been, in happier days. Some background reading...
  • They came as sailors, pedlars, traders of all sorts, cloth merchants, spice dealers, preachers, teachers and sometimes all of the above in a single lifetime.
  • The rather abstract and distant creator of the Bible text is humanized by the preacher's narrative details and poetic touches.
  • Stories have been repeatedly told about ranting, raving Baptist preachers who only preach sermons on hell and damnation.
  • Not because he was the "father of the faithful," forsook home and country for the truth's sake, was the most eminent preacher and practiser of righteousness in his day; nay, verily, for all this he gets faint praise; but then he had "SERVANTS BOUGHT WITH MONEY!!! The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
  • Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758, achieved greatness as an American preacher-evangelist, principal of a college and revivalist.
  • Their preachers were both papists and Puritans, Jacobites and republicans; they ravished wives or influenced them to give up all fleshly pleasures; they coveted other men's goods or denied them the use of worldly possessions.
  • NBC'S bubbly proctology preacher, who chugged a laxative cocktail before the eyes of millions, is promoting early detection of colon cancer.
  • It remains an overpowering moment, delivered with the manic energy of a preacher.
  • Diabolic Preacher: saving with default txt extension sucks. you can always associate unknown file types with notepad or notepad++ to handle files for which you forget to append filenames ... The Portable Freeware Collection
  • Strictly speaking, missionaries are preachers of the gospel, dedicated and direct.
  • Ah, it is little short of a sin to encage a wild bird, beating its heart against the bars of its narrow cage, when the sun calls it to mount up with quivering ecstasy to the gates of day; but what a sin to bind the preacher of righteousness, and imprison him in sunless vaults -- what an agony! John the Baptist
  • The only bright spot is provided by Cedric the Entertainer, as a crooked preacher.
  • Page 28 church without a bishop, that many of the early preachers realized the importance that an episcopacy which is free from any display of arrogance or unseemly assumption of power, is capable of the best possible results. Sketch of the Early History of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church with Jubilee Souvenir and an Appendix
  • And, of course you'll continue to find sermons on the lectionary texts written by experienced preachers.
  • When she finally flips over to the darkside and channels gravely voiced barmaids (or a close facsimile thereof), the call goes out for a preacher who will drive Beelzebub and his bilious body odors away.
  • In one of his songs, "The Preacher and the Slave," Mr. Adler says, Hill coined the phrase "pie in the sky. The Union Martyr
  • He laments the decline in commitment to the biblical text even among evangelical preachers.
  • And sae the jig was begun after her leddyship’s pipe, and mony a mad measure has been danced sin’ syne; for down cam masons and murgeon-makers, and preachers and player-folk, and Saint Ronan's Well
  • The film will feature interviews with preachers from the churches that brand children witches or wizards and charge their parents to "exorcise" the spirits. WN.com - Business News
  • The world will not be fit to live in until the last polition is hung with the entrails from the last preacher, rabbi, and amam! heynow McCain says he's no 'maverick'
  • He was the son of a Baptist preacher who sermonized about the virtues of the free market.
  • Spurgeon has consistently across this century introduced generation after generation of Bible preachers to Calvinism.
  • One of the preachers wanting to be known as a licentiate, said in meeting: "I want you to know that I am a licentious preacher," -- which is the truth. The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 06, June, 1890
  • Edwards is a Methodist lay preacher and social worker.
  • By taking his stand upon the Bible and preaching thence, the preacher utters the prayer, and expresses the faith, that the thin, shallow trickle of his own words will be taken up into the living Word of him, con­cerning whom it was said that his voice was "as the sound of many waters. Archive 2006-10-01
  • When I was a child, I heard a preacher say that the bumblebee is a miracle because scientists didn't know how such thin legs could support such a weight, so this was proof that God made the bumblebee! Intelligent Design Criminology
  • A new generation of fervent Sikh preachers is being educated in this seminary near Amritsar.
  • ‘It is a disgrace to see the Church where Wolfe Tone was baptised and where the famous preacher John Wesley gave sermons being deconsecrated and turned into a pub,’ Mr Cassidy said.
  • As the convention concluded, a revivalist preacher conducted a benediction.
  • With stinging satire, Ms. Lamb unveils a host of eccentric characters that include a grandmother whose down-home observations often echo a Moms Mabley routine, and a jackleg preacher reminiscent of Reverend Ike. A Kettle of Vultures
  • A knife to his belly had brought him to the Bowery Mission, where he continues as a lay preacher.
  • Delta music's a lot closer to field hollers and other things, which are very exclamatory, and preacher styles too are, you know, different from region to region. New Collection Explores 'Classic Appalachian Blues'
  • Many sermons die in the sanctuary because preachers try to say too many things and give too much extraneous information.
  • The promptuaries for preachers, particularly developed from the fourteenth century, are crowded with learning.
  • Each religious community was semi-autonomous and guided by a bishop and by preachers and deacons who were not specially schooled.
  • The church is the seedbed of gospel preachers, and we must value and nurture what God plants among us.
  • A street-corner preacher was howling assurances of eternal damnation at the backs of the fleeing crowd. PASSION IN THE PEAK
  • Let us melodize in divine hymns the apostles of Christ, the preachers of faith, as those who supplicate Christ for our souls. The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
  • The closing decades of the twentieth century tell a story that would bitterly disappoint those early preachers.
  • She was training to be a lay preacher, but knew that wasn't where she wanted to be, and wasn't sure where she was going.
  • More important than the historical contexts of the appointed texts, the preacher needs to recognize that Reformation Sunday shapes our interpretation of these pericopes.
  • As the preacher crossed himself, the church bell began to toll.
  • Sometimes a white minister read the Bible service, but usually a Negro preacher [HW: "officiated"]. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3
  • exempla" designed for the use of preachers and the writings of the classical authors of antiquity. The Book of Noodles Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies
  • A great deal of the power and impact of the preached Word comes from the fit between the preacher and the words being preached.
  • The problem t = with going after this preacher is that Hillary is telling the Super delegates exactly what this man is saying ... Obama takes heat from Catholic League over Pfleger
  • But he who explains those passages agreeably to the analogy of faith, performs the duty of a good interpreter and prophesier [or preacher] in the Church of God. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1
  • ” “Vanity of vanity saith the Preacher, … all is vanity, ” where the word “vanity” indicates that striving is in vain, because death comes to all, and “there is no new thing under the sun. Ecclesiastes
  • This Jesuit was not only a profound preacher, but the founder of orphanages and improver of prison conditions.
  • But pastors and preachers have particularly strong reasons to give themselves to prayer.
  • I consider how this Niemeyer, an old village preacher, who at first looked like a hospitaler -- why, friend, what do you say? The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12
  • Oppressed by his gloominess, Foma had come down on the deck from his cabin, and, for some time, had been standing in the shadow of some wares covered with tarpaulin, and listened to the admonitive and gentle voice of the preacher. The Man Who Was Afraid
  • Since the preacher hadn't shown up, and he was there, and he is a westerner, and all westerners are Christians, they told him he should preach the sermon.
  • The tonner was a distinguished preacher of Massachusetts. De la philosophie de la nature
  • Overall, the book would be useful to preachers and pastors interested in the style of homiletics at a church such as Dexter Avenue, but it has little relevance, otherwise, for modern readers.
  • The Buddhist revival gained momentum in the 1870s after a series of public debates between Buddhist and Protestant preachers increased Buddhist self-confidence.
  • McCain courted these preachers because he wanted the votes of their congregations not because he agrees with everything they say. McCain rejects endorsement of a second controversial pastor
  • The church was still and quiet, as the preacher incanted somnolently.
  • Sadly there has been a recent upsurge in the number of preachers on the television asking for money.
  • Stephen King has said that he sees himself as an heir to puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards.
  • It was not that the founders wanted to write religion out of the new nation; Kidd insists that they tended to view robust religion as indispensable to a good society, but that there was a widespread current of thought -- among both the preachers and the Patriots -- that involvement with worldly power tended to enervate and corrupt true religion, so they were careful to reserve ministry for the ministers. Anil Mundra: 'God Of Liberty': The Role Of Religion In American Independence
  • Don, Tagore’s being a “priest and preacher” may have been influenced by his larger than life presence in Bengal, or was an anachronism from the earlier repository of mystic poetry. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
  • With all Puritan preachers, Biblical texts provided the fundamental concepts for religious discourse.
  • She is a main derider to her capacity of those that are not her preachers, and censures all sermons but bad ones. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
  • Peter is as much to say as knowing or unhosing, or Peter is said of petros, that is constant and firm, and by that be understood three privileges that were in S. Peter; he was a much noble preacher, and therefore he is said knowing, for he had perfect knowledge of scripture, and knew in his predication what was behoveful to ever each person. The Golden Legend, vol. 3
  • It has undoubtedly not escaped your notice that the godfather of optimism was a quack doctor and backwoods preacher, while the founder of the school of doomsaying was a legitimate philosopher.
  • Paradoxically, there is a preacherly tone to his exhortations that, now more than ever, celebrate and justify secularism and non-belief.
  • After the four-bagger, Griffith wondered if Preacher Wil would try a little chin music on the next striker. BLASTIN’ THE BLUES
  • Writing with pronounced respect and admiration for the preacher, colored by a serious concern about method, Morrison offered an unusually astute and critical analysis of American revivalism.

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