I feel like it's better to see a sermon lived than it is to hear one preached.
Now, the engineers and managers believe with all their hearts the glorious things their forebears hired people to say about them. Yesterday's snow job becomes today's sermon.
In March 2011 I'm trying to decide on a sermon series that I will preach in January 2012. So, I'm about six months out.
If we do what Allah (God) has asked us to do - to unite on the basis of truth, to reform our lives, to civilize ourselves and others, and to form a nation for His glory - and we are attacked by the government and maligned and evil spoken of, that is exactly why Jesus in his Sermon on the Mount said, "Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and say all manner of evil against you falsely for My namesake."
After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home
A good example is the best sermon.
A sermon is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a form that deals with a certain kind of meaning that has to do with putting things in relation to each other, allowing for the fact of complexity reversal, such things. Sermons are, at their best, excursions into difficulty that are addressed to people who come there in order to hear that.
I'm right now wrapping up the sermon series on grace. I'd like to figure out what this next series will be in January. To do that, I'm going to come up with four or five really good ideas - at least that I think are really good ideas - and if I don't sense God really highlighting one of those, I will go to the elders of our church and my co-pastors.
I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!
No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
I've never really prided myself as being quick on my feet. Maybe you've had the experience where somebody's asked you a question and you give an answer, then later in the day you think, "Oh, I wish I'd said that!" I tend to journal these things and put the answers in sermons.
Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.
And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely what mattered most to me, and the rest could go.
I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.
The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your duty to go the second mile, to turn the other cheek, but Jesus says if we are His disciples we shall always do these things. There will be no spirit of--"Oh, well, I cannot do any more, I have been so misrepresented and misunderstood". . . Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is--Never look for justice, but never cease to live it.
True love requires action. We can speak of love all day long, we can write notes or poems that proclaim it, sing songs that praise it, and preach sermons that encourage it but until we manifest that love in action, our words are nothing but sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
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