The prisoners agreed, provided they might speak after the sermon, which was permitted.

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.

But that sermon, like those of hundreds of other ministers, was yet to be delivered.

a holier-than-thou sermon was not.

He had preached a short sermon, trying to talk man-to-man to the audience, to tell them who he was, what he had done in Macon and Birmingham, and what he proposed to do here.

No less ambiguous was the indefinity of a certain clergyman's sermon.

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.

In the New Testament, his prophecy of the outpouring of God ′ s Holy Spirit upon all people was notably quoted by the apostle Peter in his Pentecost sermon ().

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.

Its origins are postulated from illustrated sermon texts ; the earliest recorded visual scheme was a now lost mural in the Saints Innocents Cemetery in Paris dating from 1424-25.

He was, however, informed that a lad in the neighborhood would be able to repeat the sermon practically verbatim.

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.

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

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

The paradox was once discussed by St. Jerome in a sermon:

Following the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot Andrewes was asked to prepare a sermon to be presented to the king in 1606 ( Sermons Preached upon the V of November, in Lancelot Andrewes, XCVI Sermons, 3rd.

He continues to influence religious thinkers to the present day, and was cited as an influence by T. S. Eliot, among others ( Eliot also borrowed, almost word for word and without his usual acknowledgement, the opening of Andrewes ' 1622 Christmas Day sermon for ' The Journey of the Magi ').

: Once Nasreddin was invited to deliver a sermon.

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 ).

On 22 June 1483, a sermon was preached outside St. Paul's Cathedral declaring Edward's children bastards and Richard the rightful king.

The apostle Peter delivers a sermon fifty days after the resurrection in which he states: " Brothers, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day.

Jonathan Edwards was interrupted many times before finishing the sermon by people moaning and crying out, " What shall I do to be saved?

This sermon marked the inception of what became known as the Oxford Movement.

The second sermon given by Paneloux, however, suggests that his faith has been shaken.

The Dictionary of American Hymnology claims it is included in more than a thousand published hymnals, and recommends its use for " occasions of worship when we need to confess with joy that we are saved by God's grace alone ; as a hymn of response to forgiveness of sin or as an assurance of pardon ; as a confession of faith or after the sermon.

Ambrosius Aurelianus is one of the few people that Gildas identifies by name in his sermon De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, and the only one named from the 5th century.

The use of the Creed in a sermon by Caesarius of Arles, as well as a theological resemblance to works by Vincent of Lérins, point to Southern Gaul as its origin.

The status of Elihu's interrupting didactic sermon is brought further into question by his extremely sudden appearance and disappearance from the text.

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.

Diarmaid MacCulloch describes the new act of worship as, " a morning marathon of prayer, scripture reading, and praise, consisting of mattins, litany, and ante-communion, preferably as the matrix for a sermon to proclaim the message of scripture anew week by week.

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.

Saint Paul delivering the Areopagus sermon in Athens, by Raphael, 1515

Here, the apostle attempted to convey the underlying concepts about Christ to a Greek audience, and the sermon illustrates some key elements of future Christological discourses that were first brought forward by Paul.

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.

Eleanor of Aquitaine took up the Second Crusade formally during a sermon preached by Bernard of Clairvaux.

“ But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen .”- Hosea 1: 7 in his sermon NO.

Friday sermon is most often given by an appointed imam.

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

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.

Close reading of the Bible found that several of the most rigid precepts in the sermon were moderated by other parts of the New Testament.

In 1895, however, Eddy ordained the Bible and Science and Health as the pastor of The Church of Christ, Scientist, and the Sunday sermon consists of readings from these two books.

She had also been required to memorize a verse from the Bible every day at Rockford, and listen to a short sermon on the daily verse by the school's principal.

*" Sermon from the Mount ", where a prophet ( Morgan ) proceeds to recall current events in the style of a sermon or lines from the Bible.

In contrast to this are examples from the Bible, where sermons are speeches without interlocution: Moses ' sermon in Deuteronomy 1-33 ; Jesus ' sermon on the mount in Matthew 5-7 ; Peter's sermon after Pentecost in Acts 2: 14-40.

Pastor Campbell began preaching in May 1974, and preached his first sermon on Bible prophecy on 24 September 1978 ( he expounded on Ezekiel 38, interpreting it as a prediction of a future invasion of Ireland by Russia ), and was baptised by full immersion in 1979 ( although he had already been baptised by sprinkling as an infant ).

" Dr Sentamu's sermon was a stern lecture to the Church of England to grow out of being a ' judgmental and moralising ' congregation of ' pew-fillers, sermon-taters, Bible readers, even born-again believers and Spirit-filled charismatics ' and go out to make friends in the world.

Initially Priestley wanted to return and deliver a sermon on the Bible verse " Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do ," but he was dissuaded by friends convinced that it was too dangerous.

As such, many of the Vetus Latina " versions " were generally not promulgated in their own right as translations of the Bible to be used in the whole Church ; rather, many of the texts that form part of the Vetus Latina were prepared on an ad hoc basis for the local use of Christian communities, to illuminate another Christian discourse or sermon, or as the Latin half of a diglot manuscript ( e. g. Codex Bezae ).

The vicar would not allow a funeral sermon to be preached in the church because Sharp had been involved with the British and Foreign Bible Society, which was Nonconformist.

Another disadvantage is that the set passages in the lectionary may not cover an entire book of the Bible, or may contain too much information for the preacher to cover in one sermon.

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.

In that sermon, he presented the Bible as a record of the unfolding of God ’ s will, not as the literal Word of God.

The Old Apostolic Lutheran Church, for example, will read a postilla ( sermon ) of Laestadius along with a text from the Bible with every church service.

He spoke of a belief that God had stopped him from continuing to preach through the New Testament book of the Letter to the Romans in his Friday evening Bible study exposition because he did not personally know enough about " joy in the Holy Spirit ", which was to be his next sermon ( based on Romans 14: 17 ).

After the morning Bible lectures from Konrad Pellikan and Huldrych Zwingli, Jud would preach a sermon in German that afternoon which represented a synthesizing of the morning lectures.

Lee preached the sermon Pay-Day Someday more than 1, 200 times at Bible conferences, in state capitol buildings, churches, universities, youth camps, and ballparks across the nation and around the world.

The emphasis is on the Bible as the ultimate authority in all matters and services therefore focus on a sermon, which is frequently an exposition of part of the Bible or an exhortation on morality or faith.

* Bible Bulletin Board – contains many of MacArthur's sermon texts and articles

# The Education of the World by Frederick Temple —" a warmed-over sermon urging the free study of the Bible "