In the 14th and 15th centuries, the theological importance of the Nativity of Jesus, was coupled with an emphasis on the loving nature of Child Jesus in sermons by figures such as Jean Gerson.

Another sees the tapestry as representing a sixth sense of understanding ( derived from the sermons of Jean Gerson of the University of Paris, c. 1420 ).

The canonical First Vision story was not emphasized in the sermons of Smith's immediate successors Brigham Young and John Taylor within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).

Many devotional thoughts and sermons that are addressed to the practically minded individual have been drawn from this section of the New Testament, due to its nature as being good for application studies.

The book tells the story of how Robinson becomes closer to God, not through listening to sermons in a church but through spending time alone amongst nature with only a Bible to read.

Its repetitious nature is explained if Jacobus de Voragine meant to write a compendium of saintly lore for sermons and preaching, not a work of popular entertainment.

In public sermons later in Smith's life, he began to describe what he thought was the true nature of the Godhead in much greater detail.

Although Jones believed that man was depraved by nature and that salvation was through Christ and by grace alone, yet his early revival sermons stressed opposition to social sins such as drinking, dancing, and Sabbath desecration and the possibility that they might be ameliorated by legislation as well as by individual repentance.

The nature of his orations has often been compared to that of sermons, and his fiery, emotive, but logically structured speeches are credited with swaying a large number of undecided voters to the Liberals in the 1880s, and ousting Disraeli's last Conservative government.

Niemöller's sermons against the Nazis led to his imprisonment and the publication of them in English during the war helped shape discussion of the nature of National Socialism in Christian circles.

The episode has been used in church courses about the nature of a soul in Connecticut and in the United Kingdom, and was shown by a minister in Scotland in one of his sermons.

The episode has been used in church courses about the nature of a soul in Connecticut and in the United Kingdom, and was shown by a minister in Scotland in one of his sermons.

Playford spread the Millerite message in Australia, even publishing a book of his sermons: Discourses on the Second Advent of Jesus Christ.

After his commentaries ( on Romans, the Gospel of John, the Sermon on the Mount and the Epistle to the Hebrews ) and several volumes of sermons, his best-known books are Stunden christlicher Andacht ( 1839 ; 8th ed., 1870 ), intended to take the place of J H D Zschokke's standard rationalistic work with the same title, and his reply to David Strauss's Life of Jesus ( Glaubwürdigkeit der evangelischen Geschichte, 1837 ).

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.

" Sunday claimed to be " an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion ," and his uncomplicated sermons spoke of a personal God, salvation through Jesus Christ, and following the moral lessons of the Bible.

An agnostic for most of his life, he became a Christian, publishing Jesus Rediscovered in 1969, a collection of essays, articles and sermons on faith.

The words of Jesus include several sermons, as well as parables that appear throughout the narrative of the Synoptic Gospels ( the gospel of John includes no parables ).

The Gospel of Matthew has a structured set of sermons, often grouped as the Five Discourses of Matthew which present many of the key teachings of Jesus.

In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she is sung about in one church hymn and briefly discussed in church teaching manuals and sermons.

Though the belief is held by most Mormons, the doctrine is not actively advertised by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, though Heavenly Mother is sometimes mentioned in talks or sermons in Sacrament meetings and in Sunday School classes.

Services among the churches of the Little Children of Jesus Christ generally consist of praise and worship through singing, an extended time of prayer, interactive Bible study, sermons, and testimonies.

Many of the sermons are straightforward exhortations to read scripture daily and lead a life of prayer and faith in Jesus Christ ; the other works are lengthy scholarly treatises intended to inform church leaders in theology, church history, the fall of the Byzantine Empire and the alleged heresies of the Roman Catholic Church.

The last words of Jesus have been the subject of a wide range of Christian teachings and sermons, and a number of authors have written books specifically devoted to the last sayings of Christ.

) is a 26-volume collection of public sermons by early leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).

The first preaching of Jesus is described in the words: " Do penance, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand "; and the Apostles, in their first sermons to the people, warn them to " do penance and be baptized for the remission of their sins " ( Acts 2: 38 ).

In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ), general conferences are a semiannual meeting where general authorities and other church leaders preach sermons and give guidance to the members of the church.

The resurrected Jesus then appears to his followers that day and a number of times thereafter, delivers sermons and has supper with some of them, before ascending to Heaven.

The unifying theme of these sermons was based on posing the question, " what would Jesus do?

Pierpont's many published sermons include, among others, The Burning of the Ephesian Letters ( 1833 ), Jesus Christ Not a Literal Sacrifice ( 1834 ), New Heavens and a New Earth ( 1837 ), Moral Rule of Political Action ( 1839 ), National Humiliation ( 1840 ), and A Discourse on the Covenant with Judas ( 1842 ).

According to some people, when Jesus says " take no thought how or what ye shall speak " he is saying that it is better not to script your speeches or sermons, but to let the Holy Spirit of your Father speak through you.

Chrysostom's sermons against Jews gave momentum to the idea that Jews are collectively responsible for the death of Jesus.

In addition to the recorded sermons, William Branham also preached a series of sermons on the Seven churches of Asia or Seven Church Ages, sometimes referred to as " The Revelation of Jesus Christ " series.

The bishop does not deliver sermons at every service ( generally asking members to do so ), but is expected to be a spiritual guide for his congregation.

Proto-Isaiah is divided between verse and prose passages: a currently popular theory is that the verse passages represent the prophecies of the original Isaiah, while the prose sections are " sermons " on his texts composed at the court of Josiah, at the end of the 7th century BCE.

Benjamin Franklin wrote in his autobiography, " Some books against Deism fell into my hands ; they were said to be the substance of sermons preached at Boyle's lectures.

That the older custom ( called " protopaschite " by historians ) did not at once die out, but persisted for a time, is indicated by the existence of canons and sermons against it.

I will show you a great many who have become worse through following it .... The solemn prayers of the Church are abolished, but now there are very many who never pray at all .... I have never entered their conventicles, but I have sometimes seen them returning from their sermons, the countenances of all of them displaying rage, and wonderful ferocity, as though they were animated by the evil spirit .... Who ever beheld in their meetings any one of them shedding tears, smiting his breast, or grieving for his sins ?...

Martin Luther's powerful testimony of faith at the Diet of Worms in 1521 made an indelible impression upon his mind, and the vigorous sermons of evangelical preachers in the pulpits of St. Lawrence and St. Sebald in Nuremberg, during the diet there in 1522, deepened the impression.

Aasen holds perhaps an isolated place in literary history as the one man who has invented, or at least selected and constructed, a language which has pleased so many thousands of his countrymen that they have accepted it for their schools, their sermons and their songs.

These four productions, with other occasional sermons, were in 1760 republished collectively, in three volumes, at Amsterdam, and preceded by an Essai historique sur la Vie et les Ouvrages de M. Abbadie.

The Malmad, which was completed when its author was fifty-five years old, but was first published by the Meḳiẓe Nirdamim Society at Lyck in the year 1866, is really nothing but a volume of sermons, by which the author intended to stimulate study and to dispel intellectual blindness.

He wrote letters, had two ordinary sermons published ( in 1747 and 1750 ), and tried his hand at satire.

" In chronicles, poems, sermons, even in legal documents, an immense sadness, a note of despair and a fashionable sense of suffering and deliquescence at the approaching end of times, suffuses court poets and chroniclers alike: Huizinga quotes instances in the ballads of Eustache Deschamps, " monotonous and gloomy variations of the same dismal theme ", and in Georges Chastellain's prologue to his Burgundian chronicle, and in the late fifteenth-century poetry of Jean Meschinot.

William found a stable parsonage at the St. Thomas A. M. E. Zion in 1910, where Robeson would fill in for his father during sermons when he was called away.

Each Unitarian congregation is at liberty to devise its own form of worship, though commonly, Unitarian services lack liturgy and ritual, while containing readings from many sources, which may include sermons, prayers, hymns and songs.

Glosses, commentaries, expositions, and treatises by him on almost all the books of the Old Testament, and many sermons, are preserved in manuscript at Lambeth Palace, at Oxford and Cambridge, and in France.

A central theme of McGready's sermons was that of believers ' meeting Christ at the communion table.

The Judgement was not published until it was read out at the end of a series of sermons against the Graces given at Dublin in April 1627.

The moral and political philosopher Richard Price, known for his support of the American Revolution, became morning preacher in 1770, while continuing his afternoon sermons at Newington Green Unitarian Church, on the green where he lived.

One of Buechner's biographers, Marjorie Casebier McCoy, describes the effect of his time at Exeter as follows: " Buechner in his sermons had been attempting to reach out to the " cultured despisers of religion.

He never gave altar calls at the conclusion of his sermons, but he always extended the invitation that if anyone was moved to seek an interest in Christ by his preaching on a Sunday, they could meet with him at his vestry on Monday morning.

On the death of missionary David Livingstone in 1873, a discolored and much-used copy of one of Spurgeon's printed sermons, " Accidents, Not Punishments ," was found among his few possessions much later, along with the handwritten comment at the top of the first page: " Very good, D. L.

Some assimilation policies included: the ban of all books written in Danish or Norwegian, thus breaking the promise made at the Treaty of Roskilde ; the use of Swedish language in the conduction of sermons ; and all new priests and teachers having to come from Sweden.