How To Use Preaching In A Sentence

Clinton will fight for the American people, and Obama will sit in a racest church for another 20 years where The "rev" is preaching hate, racism, and black seperatism. Clinton: Put down the Blackberry at home
National Provisions Company, and went out preaching fiat money and a subtreasury for the farmers 'crops, trusting to God and the flower garden about his little white house, to keep the family alive -- it is odd that Jeanette's childish impression was that General Ward was a man of consequence in the world. A Certain Rich Man
Indeed, there's reason to hope that even the most benighted moral equivocators may come to realize that the message is the exact opposite of the one they've been preaching.
I preached at myself to avoid preaching to my reader.
The history of Christian missions, after all, is the chronicle of Western missionaries and their exploits, and the notion of missionaries from the East preaching to a godless Europe is the stuff of creative fiction. The Chinese are Coming

I value logic and rationality in my preaching. Christianity Today
From time to time I forsook my own thoughts to follow him, and I followed in amaze, mastered for the moment by his remarkable intellect, under the spell of his passion, for he was preaching the passion of revolt. Chapter 26
I've been around for years, preaching the same message.
Preaching to people who feel disenfranchised affects the way you address them. Christianity Today
How shall we accomplish this divinizing task in our preaching?
We do, after all, now have one party preaching fiscal discipline and another committed to unfunded tax cuts. Times, Sunday Times
Wesley was blessed with a living experience of Christ and from the time of his conversion became an earnest evangelist who spent the rest of his long life preaching the gospel.
There are too many people preaching about how you should do it. The Sun
Whereas John had worked outside settled areas, Jesus went from town to town, village to village, usually preaching in synagogues on the sabbath.
That that personage now in possession of the bishop of Bristoll Deane of Yorke (it being an indowment of the said Deanerie) such slender care hath bene had by him for the preaching of the Gospell unto the said parishioners, and giving them that Christianlike and necessarie instru [~c] on which is fitting, as for a long time they scarce had any sermon at all amongest them. The Evolution of an English Town
On the surface he was an optimistic extrovert, preaching freedom of conscience and religion; but underneath he was a brooding pessimist, with intransigent, darkly mystical views about the drama of human history and sexuality.
When I began ordained ministry as an assistant pastor in Fairport, New York, I was invited to be part of a pastors' group that met monthly to study the pericopes for the next month's preaching.
But then work with larger preaching units in the remainder of the book. Christianity Today
She is the newest addition to the long list of star ambassadors preaching the benefits of healthy living.
Preaching leads to a poor retention of information. Christianity Today
But he's no ordinary televangelist, preaching hell and damnation, repentance and Judgement Day.
Both nonspecialists and specialists in Tillich's theology will find here ideas suggestive for contemporary teaching and preaching.
In one sense they are preaching to a receptive audience. Times, Sunday Times
The film however plays down overt preaching, treating the themes of good, evil, sacrifice and redemption as the kind of cornerstones that any classic drama is built on.
And found there the blessed Denis preaching, and made him cruelly to be beaten, bespit and despised, and fast to be bounden with Rusticus and Eleutherius, and to be brought tofore him: And when he saw that the saints were constant and firm in the acknowledging of our Lord, he was much heavy and sorrowful. The Golden Legend, vol. 5
I didn't spend my entire time in Vegas sitting amongst gamblers and preaching the puritanical virtue of self-restraint.
Bulgakov’s approach to human fallacies is fundamentally lighthearted in its essence and while he tries to expose our errors, it never feels like he is preaching or anything. Mikhail A. Bulgakov - Master and Margarita (Book Review)
They have made the large majority in all the different religious organizations throughout the country, and have without protest, fellowshiped the slave-holder as a Christian; accepted pro-slavery preaching from their pulpits; suffered the words History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II
What eminent gifts are poured out in the days wherein we live! what light is bestowed! what pains in preaching! how is the dispensation of the word multiplied! The Sermons of John Owen
But with this aid went a lot of sanctimonious preaching about the superiority of the American way of life.
The washing of dishes and the preaching of the word could both be construed as material expressions of devotion.
Let us then feede his flocke with a trebble zeale, expressed in our prayer, preaching and living: Let us make it appeare to the consciences of all, that the top of our ambition is Gods glory: and that wee preferr the winning of soules, to the winning of the world. A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich
The idea is to harmonize our preaching with the notes being sounded around us. Christianity Today
The preaching of justification is a powerful dimension of the theology of the cross; however, it is a much richer resource for missiology than that which is articulated by Luther.
I only wear lip colour for preaching, as I understand that it helps with lipreading. Cosmetics That Work, And Skin Care Tips
To the rest of the world, beck is a fascist propagandist preaching sedition and hatred. Think Progress » Ailes Defends Beck’s Incendiary Rhetoric: ‘He’s Talking About Hitler And Stalin’ Killing People, So It’s ‘Accurate’
No more than in Herod, who “heard the word gladly;” or in the Jews, when the preaching of Ezekiel was “pleasant” or desirable to them; or in those described Isa.lviii. 2, who “sought God daily, and delighted to know his ways,” in the midst of their abominable practices. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
It bears wonderful witness to the far-reaching power of evangelistic preaching, self-sacrifice, and persistent house-to-house visitation.
The idea is to harmonize our preaching with the notes being sounded around us. Christianity Today
Christ began preaching to large crowds.
And achieving that without resorting to preaching about moral values isn't easy.
Most religious nutballs that appear to be hate-mongers claim they are preaching a message of love.
If we can demonstrate the fact that we call invent anything, mould a piece of statuary or write a book as well as anyone, then we shall do more to solve the negro problem than all preaching and complaining can do? The Woman's Era, Vol. 2
There were many times when I envied the moral clarity of those priests as they tended their flocks of young believers, incessantly preaching the demands of sexual purity.
Preaching to the choir is a legitimate enterprise. Apologetics
Such conversations feed my soul and add richness to preaching. Christianity Today
His activities are listed as preaching, open-air mission, medical treatment and education, together with building schools, a medical dispensary, a place of worship and a missionary house.
He is described as unwearied in the work, often preaching three times a day during the week, and performing other arduous labors. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I.
Mom, stop preaching - I'm old enough to take care of myself.
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The teacher kept preaching about the importance of study.
Preaching an anti integrationist message, Elijah Muhammad frequently voiced warnings about "the human beast.
Order now before today's pussified, PADI-preaching prattlers warp you into taking "living reef eco-tours" when, instead, you could be going 30 fathoms deep and power-heading jewfish between the eyes. Hell Divers' Rodeo
Women participated in the singing of hymns, preaching in religious gatherings without any distinction.
There is evidence that, chiefly through the Divine blessing upon Renwick's faithful preaching, and his singular wisdom in council, those Societies increased, instead of diminishing, in the latter part of the prelatic persecution. The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony
Imagine the Lord laying aside a silk cady preparatory to preaching that Sermon on the Mount -- or Napoleon apostrophizing the pyramids in a plug! The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
But in 2001, Jones, a former hotel manager, took the helm and started preaching against what he call the evils of Islam because, in his words, "Its sacred book is full of lies. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
Preaching to people who feel disenfranchised affects the way you address them. Christianity Today
A new study shows that radical Islamists are able to move from prison to prison in the United States, preaching what researchers are calling jailhouse Islam. CNN Transcript Sep 19, 2006
The highs and lows of five new preaching books. Christianity Today
Early practitioners of preaching distinguished between verba - the words that directly defined doctrinal points - and exempla, which illustrated them.
In Petrusberg, South Africa, churchgoers voted not to get rid of a friend - a cobra who lived in the ceiling, always came out to listen when the organist played the organ's flute stops, fled back to its hole when the preaching started.
Their paranoid espousal of various conspiracy theories, rabid support of Israel and religious Zionism, and fiery preaching about the "Islamic Threat" held for me a strange fascination.
The teacher kept preaching about the importance of study.
Today's religious airwaves are filled with radio and televangelists preaching the gospel of success.
This is preaching -- but remember how the sermon is written at three, four, and five o'clock by an octogenary pen -- a heart (as Mrs. Lee says) twenty-six years old: and as H.L.P. feels it to be, -- ALL Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings
We need to think this way about formative preaching as well. Christianity Today
Its high-impact narrative style employed cliffhanging conclusions to chapters, which gave the genre a reputation for ‘preaching to the nerves’.
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The heart gladly gives up the quiet of contemplation for the work of preaching. Christianity Today
One of TV's seminal pulpiteers was Oral Roberts, who started in the preaching business with ‘the World's Largest Gospel Tent’ in the late 1940s.
His jailers realized that his ransom would exceed those of the other prisoners, so Raymond was continuously tortured for preaching.
You needn't bother telling us how recycling helps the environment, because you're preaching to the converted.
The public sphere accommodates these views, inasmuch as it does not ban them - preaching against homosexuality or divorce is not prohibited speech.
But we somehow feel obligated to spend time explaining away Scripture texts that propound notions that have long-since become moot (e.g., dietary laws that protected desert tribes lacking refrigeration) or are truly repugnant (e.g., Paul's views of women and slaves) at the expense of preaching vivid depictions of God's will in action today. Eliot Daley: Killing the Church by Denigrating the Immediacy of God
Among the accomplishments cited in his Time magazine obituary are debunking “such myths as the need to wash mushrooms, devein shrimp and press garlic” and preaching the “imaginative use of leftovers.” Archive 2008-04-01
We might risk preaching on the streets like seminary students in downtown Atlanta.
You only have an hour or so of gym time per week, so don't use it preaching, use it teaching.
He boldly broke all fetters that hindered his liberty in preaching and in teaching.
He is so used to preaching to the choir, he had no idea his original title smacked of fascism. Hannity's Revised Feature: "Enemy Of The Week"
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.
Also, the section on teaching and preaching is a necessary corrective to some trends in church planting today. Christianity Today
Preaching hopelessness, defeat, and doom for seven years... preaching unfaith in the democratic process itself... The lovely and expressive Michelle Obama spoke in Madison, Wisconsin today.
But by "pureness" here, he means either chasteness again, or general purity, or incorruptness, or even his preaching the Gospel freely. NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
To begin with, one of the most common elements in early Christian preaching is the great effort to show that the crucified Jesus was Israel's messiah as testified to by her scriptures.
At this point I'm sure some of you are thinking I'm some sort of sanctimonious horse's butt, preaching to all the nincompoops.
The mendicants called such a life of poverty and itinerant preaching the vita apostolica.
Sixteenth-century Protestantism was slow to produce similar material, possibly because Protestant clergy were so busy preaching and catechising that they had little time for quiet and reflection.
In 1807, Dinah is no longer preaching, the Conference having changed its rules to forbid it.
In the painting Mark stands in a pulpit, preaching to a group of women swathed in white mantles.
My preaching became more personal and less academic. Christianity Today
And third, the revolution must effect systemic social change: Changing individual lives - by killing them or by educating them, by preaching or poetizing at them - will not in and of itself effect global social change.
Anyone preaching extermination is ignorant of how ecosystems work. Wisconsin Wolves Kill Hunting Dogs
Their doubt is, in part, determined; and yet their vexation is increased by another messenger, who brings them word that their prisoners are preaching in the temple (v. 25): "Behold, the men whom you put in prison, and have sent for to your bar, are now hard by you here, standing in the temple, under your nose and in defiance of you, teaching the people. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Thousands professed to have found salvation in Christ through Templeton's preaching.
Now he is preaching in the desert. Times, Sunday Times
To some extent, it appears to function as a cautionary tale, preaching moderation: excess, it warns, finishes you off quicker than boredom.
Telling conservationists that we need to preserve the natural heritage really is preaching to the converted!
He was always preaching exercise and fresh air.
Now he is preaching in the desert. Times, Sunday Times
This is the view of most of the imams preaching in the mosques in the West.
Sometimes repressed emotions will affect a pastor's preaching. Christianity Today
What was emphasised all round was the priority of preaching the gospel supported by godly living.
They said that preaching might prove an effectual meane to turne me, which they heartilie wished. Lay Morals
The Anglican leaders were preaching Christmas morning sermons to almost capacity congregations.
Moral disfavour is something you're going to have to get used to, we fear, especially if you're going to carry on preaching the condemnation of homosexuality in a culture that now very often, and more so by the day, deems that message as obsolete and objectionable as the condemnation of "miscegenation. Archive 2010-03-01
To some extent, it appears to function as a cautionary tale, preaching moderation: excess, it warns, finishes you off quicker than boredom.
Without preaching, writer-director Tim Robbins presents the arguments of opponents and proponents of the death penalty.
28 _Peaching_. 4to 1698 weakly reads 'Preaching'.p. 201, l. 14 _glout_. 1724 'glour'.p. 202, l. The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II
Everything changes with the arrival of a reactionary Scots missionary preaching hellfire and damnation.
Master's vineyard, she could slip on her bonnet and shawl and just run into the preaching service close by, and gather strength and encouragement from the earnest prayers and humble exhortations of those men whom God had found in the quarry, at the loom, in the mine, or at the lapstone, and sent forth Sunday by Sunday into the villages to preach a homely gospel to the poor, and comfort to His flock. Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow
Preaching economic death and disaster may not be Labour's best tactic.
It seems like every election year my denomination is accused of secretly supporting the Democratic candidate, when all I hear from them is preaching of the Gospel. Analysis: Democrats woo disaffected evangelicals
This success which he had in preaching is that which he here rejoices in; for the converted nations were his joy and crown of rejoicing: and he tells them of it, not only that they might rejoice with him, but that they might be the more ready to receive the truths which he had written to them, and to own him whom Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Lloyd-Jones itinerated, preaching the great doctrines of the faith with such clarity.
While they are preaching, believers are expected to show respect to other faiths and behave in a manner that would not tarnish the image of their own religion.
Our Pastor was preaching on Psalm 37 and verses 5 and 6 really spoke to me.
As I see it, answering this question is key to preaching these pericopes.
A noted pastor once told me, "When I'm preaching through the Sermon on the Mount, I sound like a legalist;
In other words, he was preaching karma, samsara and moksha.
The repetition and hyperbole involved in castigatory preaching approach suggest, paradoxically, its limited effect.
By 1836 he began studying medicine, insisting upon civil rights, and preaching professional training for African Americans rather than barbering or manual labor suggestive of servant or second-class status.
Pondering this commentary will stiffen the spine of the faithful for preaching, teaching, interpretation and life in the world.
The celebrated dispute about 'prophesyings' in the sense of 'preachings' in the reign of Elizabeth, and the treatise of Jeremy Taylor on 'The Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People
And therefore it is that the time of his preaching is often by himself called the regeneration, which is not properly a kingdom, and thereby a warrant to deny obedience to the magistrates that then were; for he commanded to obey those that sat then in Leviathan
What do you do to continue to refine and improve your preaching? Christianity Today
Here, I. Christ warns his disciples to take heed of hypocrisy, and of cowardice in professing Christianity and preaching the gospel, ver. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
He traveled the southern states, preaching the gospel .
Preaching and catechesis continue the participation and prayer in expanding the Christian life of the human community.
His studies of apostleship, ministry, sacraments, and preaching in the early communities contributed to contemporary debates. Times, Sunday Times
The idea is to harmonize our preaching with the notes being sounded around us. Christianity Today
It was the fitful confusion of stop-start fiscal spending that seesawed the economy between hopeful improvement on the one hand, and wrenching cut-backs and consumption taxes urged by austerity-preaching deficit hawks on the other. Lynn Parramore: Japanophobia: Economic Myths in the American Media
Anglican clergymen busied themselves with preaching up theories of divine right and non-resistance.
'Wallachia's teachings and preachings have all been thrown to the wind, He Knew He Was Right
The inferior clergy as a body were far nearer in character to Trulliber than to Dr. Primrose; coarse, sordid, neglectful of their duties, shamelessly addicted to sinecurism and pluralities, fanatics in their Toryism and in attachment to their corporate privileges, cold, rationalistic, and almost heathen in their preachings, if they preached at all. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
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
‘Canonicals,’ said Sheffield, as if thinking about them; ‘no, canonicals are no sham; for preaching, I suppose, is the highest ordinance in our Church, and has the richest dress.’
During this time, I have been careful to use the normal ways of listening to people and getting feedback about my preaching. Christianity Today
We know further that the habitant is the bulwark of our nationality because he has retained all the ancestral virtues, because the ill-wind of unrest, foreign penetration, modern luxury, bolshevist preachings pass over his head, because in his happy home rises a generation that will follow in his footsteps. One of Canada's Assets, the Habitant
What do you do to continue to refine and improve your preaching? Christianity Today
This is the view of most of the imams preaching in the mosques in the West.
Preaching in buses is equivalent to trying to force something down someone's throat, because they can't go anywhere. Road and Bus Evangelism: My take
After completing his studies, in which he excelled in philosophy and theology, he was ordained and was assigned to preaching.
How I dread preaching on the estate of marriage!
The mendicant orders, of course, had always laid heavy emphasis on the spoken word in preaching and teaching.
One of the first steps after the divorce was to prevent preaching throughout his diocess, but this narrow measure had rather a political view than a religious one, as there were many who inveighed against the king's conduct. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
In some pulpits of our church, preaching continues to be irrelevant, disconnected and, yes, even boring.
He travelled to Bristol, to London, to Kent, everywhere preaching the truth — opportune, importune, tempestive, to use the language ironically applied by him to the Bishop of London, [150] — and this, too, with his health greatly weakened and impaired. Luther and Other Leaders of the Reformation
The early church was established by apostolic writing as well as apostolic preaching.
Now he is preaching in the desert. Times, Sunday Times
As the holiday season approaches, there are a million UAW pensioners living in fear right now because pontificating, sanctimonious, disingenuous creeps like Richard Shelby are on TV preaching that they must give up the retirement funds they spent a lifetime contributing to because they make Detroit "uncompetitive" with Japanese automakers in his state. Jane Hamsher: Heckuva Bailout: Citi and AIG Will Still Pay Hundreds Of Millions In Sports Sponsorship
The Executive has made a virtue of preaching the need for reform without accompanying those words with deeds.
Though such competition frustrated him, Allen poured energies into welfare work, mutual aid, and preaching.
Wherever he went, he sowed the dragon's teeth by preaching racial segregation.
This is not a point that popular evangelical preaching makes well, which tends all too often to see a merely human Jesus being afflicted (in a substitutionary, transactional kind of way) with the total anger of God above.
The missionaries established schools as a principal method of teaching and preaching.
Alexander has been preaching patience.
But a special effort will be required if lay preaching is to bear fruit.
I went out in my rochet and camail, dealing out benedictions to the people on my right and left, preaching obedience, exerting all my endeavours to appease the tumult, and telling them the Queen had assured me that, provided they would disperse, she would restore Broussel. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
Augustine was preaching on the duty his congregation had to conform with God's word: they must abstain from detestable pagan practices, divination, astrology, haruspication, and the like.
Yet, while they are preaching to us about the immorality of our consensual sexual lives the institutions are busy condoning the abuse by their own employees.
Bays does a masterful job of suggesting activities that begin to give glimpses of insight into soteriology without preaching that penal substitution is the only valid way of understanding salvation.
After completing his studies, in which he excelled in philosophy and theology, he was ordained and was assigned to preaching.
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.
Ministers rode the circuit, so the elder of the church did most of the work, including preaching.
Oracles of the Lord ([Greek: ta kuriaka logia]) and the Preachings of the Apostles '[172: 3]. Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
Or of geon, that is a wrestler, for he was a pastor and a wrestler he fed his flock with the word of preaching, with suffrages of praying, and with example of conversation. The Golden Legend, vol. 2
If churches spent more time preaching what God told them to preach … that is the gospel … … I can state with sure knowledge … that all of this extemporaneous extra bibliology Jen's Gems
But whatever his precise social status or reason forpreaching in the kingdom of Israel, the oracles recorded in his name provide a searing condemnation of the lavish lifestyles and material reality of Israel’s aristocracy in the eighth centuryBCE: The Bible Unearthed
Pastor Ortler was still the same, preaching to his little flock, and giving freely of his means, his wife only slightly older. Scenes in Switzerland
And therefore it is that the time of his preaching is often by himself called the regeneration, which is not properly a kingdom, and thereby a warrant to deny obedience to the magistrates that then were; for he commanded to obey those that sat then in Moses 'chair, and to pay tribute to Caesar; but only an earnest of the kingdom of God that was to come to those to whom God had given the grace to be his disciples and to believe in him; for which cause the godly are said to be already in the kingdom of grace, as naturalized in that heavenly kingdom. Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill
By preaching the merits of downsizing, they have provided bosses with arguments for measures that tough economic times have required anyway.
Tomorrow, I'm "preaching with my hands", or at least conversing with them, at the RevGalBlogPals Monday book discussion: on the DVD Into Great Silence (filmed inside a Carthusian charterhouse) and the book An Infinity of Little Hours (a chronicle of five novices who try the Carthusian life in the 1960s). Preaching with your hands
Nonetheless, preaching indispensably correlates ‘human experience in its depths with the biblical word of God,’ thus ‘linking anamnesis with mimesis.’
Mellors was preaching heresy and had to be immediately defrocked.
That approach to preaching often feels canned and artificial to folks. Christianity Today
He is preaching to the converted, modestly leaving out the crucial factor: anyone can butcher the standards, it takes an artist of his calibre to honour them.
What do you do to continue to refine and improve your preaching? Christianity Today
And 'gan a-preaching with a frown -- he was a fierce haranguer. Ballads
It is true, the Lord can, and I hope He often does, make that preaching effectual to the conversion of sinners, wherein little is said expressly to them, only the truths of the gospel are declared in their hearing
Clearly, Nietzsche's superman philosophy is a type of optimistic view of life but it has always been misunderstood as preaching hero worships and egocentrism.
the office of a clergyman is twofold; public preaching and private influence
It scraped through the barns day and night and drove sleet-rash into my face, preaching at my chapped lips and fingers. WHITE LIES
His holy life as a priest led to his appointment as chaplain to the court of King Wenceslaus IV, where he converted many by his preaching and example. Hymns of St. John Nepomucene
He was preaching rainbow for decades before Obama made the idea jell politically. Danny Schechter: What is The King-Obama Lineage? Waiting For Barack, pt.3
Rumors reach Jerusalem that Paul was preaching to the Gentiles in the far-flung corners of the Roman Empire.
There are too many people preaching about how you should do it. The Sun
The children who were preaching self fulfillment to their parents are now parents themselves.
They have power also to put such national ministers, as in preaching shall intermeddle with matters of government, out of their livings, except the party appeals to the phylarch, or to the Council of Religion, where in that case the censors shall prosecute. The Commonwealth of Oceana
You needn't bother telling us how recycling helps the environment, because you're preaching to the converted.
Somewhere in Saudi Arabia, another crackpot is preaching the exact opposite message. Think Progress » Franklin Graham affirms concerns of critics, appears on Fox to proselytize against Muslims.
By the fifteenth century, the spirituality of the mendicant orders had thoroughly permeated Florentine society, not only through preaching, but also through private reading and meditation.
Then he tells them not to follow anyone - including, presumably, that fellow who was preaching on the Mount in the earlier scenes.
Indeed they seemed to invite persecution by preaching openly in public places.
Preaching to people who feel disenfranchised affects the way you address them. Christianity Today
Some preachers feel that, in using the lectionary as a source for preaching texts, we are relieved of the responsibility to pick and to choose our texts.
That all our preachifying is a wide departure from the very idea of worship is self-evident, when it is made more than a necessary part of the religious observance of the Lord's Day, and catechising is worth far more than preaching (in the technical sense of the word). ' Life of John Coleridge Patteson
Only days later, however, he was preaching that the outcome was the best thing that state had ever seen.
Right from ancient times, sages and seers have been preaching that money alone should not be the aim in life, for it could never bring contentment.
Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without Church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without contrition.

How To Use Preaching In A Sentence

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