But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.

He then put on his shoes in the vestry, and a chapter was held, and the bishop or his delegate preached a suitable sermon.

" Amazing Grace " was written to illustrate a sermon on New Year's Day of 1773.

Among his most well-known essays from this period are " Urban culture " 1924 ), " Temple baths on Jyväskylä ridge " ( 1925 ), " Abbé Coignard's sermon " ( 1925 ), and " From doorstep to living room " ( 1926 ).

Alma's sermon on faith to the Zoramites in in Alma 32 is widely used to explain the process of developing faith.

Early 20th century American preacher Billy Sunday epitomizes the Evangelical focus on " going to heaven " in his sermon “ Heaven: A Wonderful Place ; Where There is No More Death ; Blessed Hope of the Christian .” In the message Sunday characteristically explained the feelings of his audience by saying “ Everybody wants to go to Heaven.

The Puritan execution sermon, preached on the occasion of a public hanging, then quickly printed up in pamphlet form and sold for a few pence, was an early form of true-crime literature.

The first sermon recapitulates the forty years of wilderness wanderings which have led to this moment, and ends with an exhortation to observe the law ( or teachings ); the second reminds the Israelites of the need for exclusive allegiance to one God and observance of the laws he has given them, on which their possession of the land depends ; and the third offers the comfort that even should Israel prove unfaithful and so lose the land, with repentance all can be restored.

Richard Steigmann-Gall says that the stab-in-the-back legend traces back to a sermon preached on February 3, 1918, by Protestant Court Chaplain Bruno Doehring, six months before the war had even ended.

* The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners, sermon on Romans 3: 19

The addresses and sermons of Eusebius are mostly lost, but some have been preserved, e. g., a sermon on the consecration of the church in Tyre and an address on the thirtieth anniversary of the reign of Constantine ( 336 ).

and a sermon is given on our day to day activities interaction with these elements and sometimes a relationship with the life of St. Francis Xavier is given.

Based on the Lotus Sutra's teaching of what it describes as the " unsurpassed Dharma ", Nichiren Buddhism acknowledges the Four Noble Truths as the first sermon, but not as the final teaching of the Buddha.

Debate on the possible installation of a constitutional monarchy in Georgia was revitalized following the 7 October 2007 sermon of Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II, the popular head of the Georgian Orthodox Church.

This stone in Queens, New York, located across from the John Bowne House commemorates the place where George Fox preached a sermon on 7 June 1672.

Deviating from the prevalent practice of basing a sermon on the Gospel lesson of a particular Sunday, he began to read through the Gospel of Matthew giving his interpretation during the sermon, known as the method of lectio continua.

Other preachers, like Charles Spurgeon, saw Hosea as a striking presentation of the mercy of God in his sermon on Hosea 1: 7 titled The LORD's Own Salvation.

The sexual orientation provision, added in 2002, was used to convict Pentecostalist pastor Åke Green of hate speech based on a 2003 sermon.

Unsure of how the council would rule, he hinted in a sermon on 3 September 1553 that he might be dismissed by the authorities.

He preached his final sermon in St. Pierre on 6 February 1564.

On May 3, 1655, Abendana delivered a famous memorial sermon on the Cordovan martyrs Marranos Nunez and Almeyda Bernal who had been burned at the stake.

The British government's action in 1833 of beginning a reduction in the number of Church of Ireland bishoprics and archbishoprics inspired a sermon from John Keble in the University Church in Oxford on the subject of " National Apostasy ".

As a Scotsman, Arbuthnot served the crown by writing A sermon preach'd to the people at the Mercat Cross of Edinborough on the subject of the union.

In Watt's transcript of the sermon, Young said he intended to discuss " who it was that begat the Son of the Virgin Mary ", a subject which he said " has remained a mystery in this kingdom up to this day ".

A picture of him ( the only known portrait ) appeared in the Illustrated London News in 1854, after he gave a particularly stirring sermon on the subject of the Crimean War.

His most comprehensive pronouncement on the subject was his sermon " Free Grace ," preached at Bristol in 1740.

" During his Sunday sermon on March 27 he addressed his congregation on the subject of the " calamities " that had begun in his own household, but stated " it never brake forth to any considerable light, until diabolical means were used, by the making of a cake by my Indian man, who had his direction from this our sister, Mary Sibly ," going on to admonish all against the use of any kind of magic, even white magic, because it was essentially, " going to the Devil for help against the Devil.

During the sermon, he addressed the subject of Darwinian evolution, which was a point of great debate among leading scientists and physicians of the day:

A sermon pronounced before Philip III at Salamanca in 1605 brought Paravicino into notice ; he rose to high posts in his order, was entrusted with important foreign missions, became royal preacher in 1616, and on the death of Philip III in 1621 delivered a famous funeral oration which was the subject of acute controversy.

The sermon text was Isaiah 59: 9 ; his subject was “ We Wait For Light, But We Walk In Darkness ”.

2 ) The preacher is never be lost for a sermon subject.

The exposition is unlikely to be influenced by material from outside the Bible ( though such material may be mentioned in the sermon, for example the writings of a commentator on the passage ), but instead involves detailed comparison of one Biblical text with other texts on the same subject in order to reach a synthesis.

He became a favorite preacher in Paris, and was Lent preacher at court in 1781, when King Louis XVI said of his sermon: " If the abbé had said only a few words on religion, he would have discussed every possible subject.

In his preface to the second part Albo delivers a sermon on the subject of his critics: " He that would criticize a book should, above all, know the method employed by its author, and should judge all the passages on a certain subject as a whole.

He treats of his subject on three points: the preacher, the sermon, the listeners.

Lyte spent the summer of 1847 at Berry Head then, after one final sermon to his congregation on the subject of the Holy Communion, he left again for France.

The emotion of the subject is carried through the speaker's tone, volume, and cadence, which tend to mirror the rising action, climax, and descending action of the sermon.

It may have been issued in response to a sermon delivered at St. Paul's Cross on the subject of the Genevan form of church discipline then advocated by John Field.

" Martin Luther preached at least one notable sermon on this feast day which is still available in his Church Postils, and up until the late 1970s, Lutheran hymnbooks would contain several hymns relating to this subject.

During the first stage of the plague outbreak, Paneloux preaches a sermon at the cathedral.

Additionally, Elihu's first spoken words are a confession of his youthful status, being much younger than the three canonical friends, including a claim to be speaking because he cannot bear to remain silent ; it has been suggested that this interesting statement may have been symbolic of a " younger " ( that is to say, later and interpolating ) writer, who has written Elihu's sermon to respond to what he views as morally and theologically scandalous statements being made within the book of Job, and creating the literary device of Elihu to provide what seemed to be a faith-based response to further refute heresy and provide a counter-argument, a need partially provided by God's ambiguous and unspecific response to Job at the end of the book.

The famed apologist St. Justin Martyr ( c. 150 ) wrote: " No one else is permitted to partake of it, except one who believes our teaching to be true ...." For the first several hundred years, non-members were forbidden even to be present at the sacramental ritual ; visitors and catechumens ( those still undergoing instruction ) were dismissed halfway through the Liturgy, after the Bible readings and sermon but before the Eucharistic rite.

: The heart of the Buddha's teaching lies in the Four Noble Truths ( Cattāri Ariyasaccāni ) which he expounded in his very first sermon to his old colleagues, the five ascetics, at Isipatana ( modern Sarnath ) near Benares.

Further provoking the rebellion, Hindal ordered that the Khutba or sermon in the main mosque at Agra be read in his name, a sign of assumption of sovereignty.

The immense auditory of his sermon ( Redeeming the Time ) at the funeral of Lady Hoghton was long a living tradition all over the county.

On 4 March 1590, as a chaplain of Queen Elizabeth I, he preached before her an outspoken sermon and, in October that year, gave his introductory lecture at St Paul's, undertaking to comment on the first four chapters of the Book of Genesis.

On 23 November 1600, he preached at Whitehall a controversial sermon on justification.

* 1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade.

This compound title is merely a common combination of two elementary offices: leader ( imam ) of the congregational prayer, which in larger mosques is performed at the times of all daily prayers ; and preacher ( khatib ) of the sermon or khutba at the required congregational prayer on Friday.

Not wanting to leave his mission, his first action as Pope was to send out appeals for aid to the Crusaders, and at his final sermon at Acre just before leaving to sail for Italy, he famously remarked, " If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning " ( a quote from Psalm 137 ).

The PA's Voice of Palestine radio station broadcast a Friday prayer sermon by Yusuf Abu Sneineh, official preacher at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque, over the radio.

Services at a vast majority of congregations utilize a structure that focuses on a sermon or presentation by a minister, a lay leader of the congregation, or an invited speaker.

* December 25 – Samuel Marsden of the Church Missionary Society preaches the first sermon in New Zealand at Oihi

* November 5 – Bishop Lancelot Andrewes preaches the annual Gunpowder Treason sermon before King James I of England at Whitehall ( both were intended victims ).

On 13 December 1562, Mary sent for Knox again after he gave a sermon denouncing certain celebrations which Knox had interpreted as rejoicing at the expense of the Reformation.

On 29 July 1567, Knox preached James VI's coronation sermon at the church in Stirling.

The Sermon on the Mount may be compared with the similar but more succinct Sermon on the Plain as recounted by the Gospel of Luke ( 6: 17 – 49 ), which occurs at the same moment in Luke's narrative, and also features Jesus heading up a mountain, but giving the sermon on the way down at a level spot.

This compound title is merely a common combination of two elementary offices: leader ( imam ) of the congregational prayer, which in larger mosques is performed at the times of all daily prayers ; and preacher ( khatib ) of the sermon or khutba at the required congregational prayer on Friday.

He spoke before the Evangelical Alliance and Episcopal convention, and was the means of having a new canon confirmed, to the effect that Protestant Episcopal clergyman should at least once a year preach a sermon on cruelty and mercy to animals.