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 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.

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.

" James Witherspoon, president of Princeton, teacher of James Madison and later a member of the Continental Congress, and one of the most influential thinkers in the Colonies, joined the cause of the Revolution with a widely publicized sermon based on Psalm 76, identifying the American colonists with the people of Israel.

In the sermon Jesus stated that one should " not resist an evildoer " and promoted his turn the other cheek philosophy.

Edwards ends the sermon with one final appeal, " Therefore let everyone that is out of Christ, now awake and fly from the wrath to come.

: If any one will piously and soberly consider the sermon which our Lord Jesus Christ spoke on the mount, as we read it in the Gospel according to Matthew, I think that he will find in it, so far as regards the highest morals, a perfect standard of the Christian life

On one celebrated occasion at the Hôtel de Rambouillet, during a dispute about extempore preaching, the 16-year-old Bossuet was called on to deliver an impromptu sermon at 11 pm.

* 1700-After a Swedish missionary's sermon in Pennsylvania, one Native American posed such searching questions that the episode was reported in a 1731 history of the Swedish church in America.

There is a service at the church, where a sermon is preached: afterwards a procession takes place, and the wells are visited in succession: the psalms for the day, the epistle and gospel are read, one at each well, and the whole concludes with a hymn which is sung by the church singers, and accompanied by a band of music.

" In its language this sermon was most elegant ‚ its delivery was a masterpiece of eloquence, and it was one of the most instructive and enlightened discourses that has been heard.

The Convocation sermon is one of the most well known of his sermons.

In the pre-modern Middle East, the mention of a ruler's name in the sermon was one of the two prerogatives of sovereignty ( the other being the right to mint coins ).

Ginsburg explained her reason for no longer attending: " I went one year, and I will never go again, because this sermon was outrageously anti-abortion ," Ginsburg said in the book Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish by Abigail Pogrebin.

In one sermon in 1935, he remarked: " What is the reason for obvious punishment, which has lasted for thousands of years?

Khatami's father, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khatami, was a high-ranking cleric and the Khateeb ( the one who delivers the sermon for Friday prayers ) in the city of Yazd in the early years of the Iranian Revolution.

On 25 February 1754 Taylor laid the first stone of the Octagon Chapel, Norwich, opened 12 May 1756, and described by John Wesley ( 23 December 1757 ) as ‘ perhaps the most elegant one in all Europe ,’ and too fine for ‘ the old coarse gospel .’ In his opening sermon, Taylor, who had received ( 6 April ) the diploma ( dated 20 January ) of D. D.

Contemporary Protestant clergy often use the term ' homily ' to describe a short sermon, such as one created for a wedding or funeral.

The immediate effect of his suspension was the sale of 18, 000 copies of the condemned sermon ; its permanent effect was to make Pusey for the next quarter of a century the most influential person in the Anglican Church, for it was one of the causes which led Newman to sever himself from that communion.

After his head was chopped off, Denis is said to have picked it up and walked ten kilometres ( six miles ), preaching a sermon the entire way, making him one of many cephalophores in hagiology.

After his head was chopped off, Denis is said to have picked it up and walked ten kilometres ( six miles ) from the summit of Mont Mars ( now Montmartre ), preaching a sermon the entire way, making him one of many cephalophores in hagiology.

Literary critic Harold Bloom called the sermon " one of the truly remarkable sermons ever preached in America.

She was closing and within one more bound would have been able to reach the rear end of the bay, but -- and here Jones and Loveless and Ulyate were holding breath for all they were worth -- she never quite caught up that last bound.

In a four-page position paper delivered to students in 1965, Bob Jones, Jr., condemned Billy Graham's " ecumenical evangelism " as unscriptural and " heretical ," noting that Graham shared his platform with Catholic priests and that one could not " be a good Catholic and a good, spiritual Christian.

Although the March 2007 issue of Foreign Policy listed BJU as one of " The World's Most Controversial Religious Sites " because of its past influence on American politics, BJU has seen little political controversy since Stephen Jones became president.

Bo Diddley was one of the first American male musicians to include women in his band, including " The Duchess " Norma-Jean Wofford, Peggy Jones ( aka " Lady Bo "), Cornelia Redmond ( aka Cookie ), and Debby Hastings, who led his band for the final 25 years of his performing career.

Jones also directed animated sequences various features such as a lengthy sequence in the 1992 film Stay Tuned and a shorter one seen at the start of the 1993 film Mrs. Doubtfire.

Jones did produce a few more Looney Tunes-based and non-related cartoons, a noticeable one being Chariots of Fur, his final Road Runner cartoon, in 1994.

Jones compares the executions of Domitian to those under Emperor Claudius ( 41 – 55 ), noting that Claudius executed around 35 senators and 300 equestrians, and yet was still deified by the Senate and regarded as one of the good Emperors of history.

Jones however was the one who is generally credited with having gone much of the way towards a practical solution through his scheme of ' Cardinal Vowels ', a relatively simple system of reference vowels which for many years has been taught systematically to students within the British tradition.

" Fellow poet and critic Glyn Jones believed that any traces of cynghanedd in Thomas ' work was accidental, although he felt Thomas consciously employed one element of Welsh metrics ; that of counting syllables per line instead of feet.

Jones is considered to be one of the greatest teen idols of all time.

Training as a jockey in his teens, Jones later said " I made one huge mistake.

Also, Jones, a journeyman who had been signed as a setup man, had one of the best years of his career as a closer ; he earned 40 saves and had a 2. 13 ERA.

There were reports that Weaver and / or Seldin had met secretly with Johnson in South Florida ( one report placing the meeting on a boat in the Everglades ), and the NFL officially warned the Jaguars front office that contact with Johnson would be forbidden without Jerry Jones ' permission, which Jones refused to give.

As of December 2006, Jones was one of five serving Marine Corps four-star general officers who outranked the current commandant of the Marine Corps ( General James T. Conway ) in terms of seniority and time in grade — the others being Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace ; former commandant Michael Hagee, commander of U. S. Strategic Command James E. Cartwright, and Assistant Commandant Robert Magnus.

In addition to arguing that the bombing could not have been carried out by two men alone, Jones also attempted to create reasonable doubt by arguing that no one had seen McVeigh near the scene of the crime, and that the investigation into the bombing had lasted only two weeks.

Fellow season one judge Nicole Scherzinger and season one host Steve Jones were axed from the show that month.

Cowboy defensive lineman Jimmie Jones made two key plays, however ; a second down tackle on Thomas for a one yard loss and a 13-yard sack on third down ; to push the ball back to the 22-yard line and force Buffalo to punt ; a poor, 29 yard kick which the Cowboys recovered at their own 49 yard line.

This halftime show also had a connection with past ABC programming: the first two Indiana Jones films had their broadcast premieres on ABC, and the network aired a TV series, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, from 1992 to 1993 ( actually serving as the lead-in to Monday Night Football at one point ).

The Titans then drove to the St. Louis 10-yard line with six seconds remaining, but on the final play of the game, Rams linebacker Mike Jones tackled Tennessee wide receiver Kevin Dyson one yard short of the goal line to prevent a potential game-tying touchdown.

On the final play of Super Bowl XXXIV, Rams ' linebacker Mike Jones applies The Tackle to Titans receiver Kevin Dyson, who fell one yard short of the goal line.

More frequently, he played parts that no one else wanted to play ( generally because they required a lot of make-up or uncomfortable costumes, such as a recurring knight in armour who would end sketches by walking on and hitting one of the other characters over the head with a plucked chicken ) and took a number of small roles in the films, including Patsy in Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( which he co-directed with Terry Jones, where Gilliam was responsible for photography, while Jones would guide the actors ' performances ) and the jailer in Monty Python's Life of Brian.