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 name Druze is derived from the name of Anushtakīn ad-Darazī ( from Persian, darzi, " seamster ") who was an early preacher.

Some Druze and non-Druze scholars like Samy Swayd and Sami Makarem state that this confusion is due to confusion about the role of the early preacher ad-Darazi, whose teachings the Druze rejected as heretical.

Justin Meggitt states that there are fundamental similarities between the Josephus ' portrayal of John the Baptist and the New Testament narrative in that in both accounts John is positioned as a preacher of morality, not as someone who had challenged the political authority of Herod Antipas.

John is known in Christianity chiefly as a preacher, theologian and liturgist.

According to 2 Peter 2: 5, Noah is considered a " preacher of righteousness ".

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.

* William Miller, Baptist preacher who is credited with beginning the mid-19th century North American religious movement now known as Adventism

A preacher is a person who delivers sermons or gives homilies, generally on religious topics, although one can also preach any of the components of any worldview or philosophy.

In many churches in the United States, the title " Preacher " is synonymous with " Pastor " or " Minister ", and the church's minister is often referred to simply as " our / the preacher " or by name such as " Preacher Smith ".

However, among some Chinese churches, preacher ( Chinese: 傳道 ) is different from pastor ( Chinese: 牧師 ).

One reason Paine may have been drawn to this style is because he may have briefly been a Methodist preacher, although this suspicion cannot be verified.

* Merddyn Gruffydd, the preacher who is beloved by Angharad, helps Huw recover from his illness, and offers general support to the Morgans.

The film is based on the classic 1953 western Shane and follows a preacher descending from the mists of the Sierras to side with the miners during the California Gold Rush of 1850.

The function of expounding on the scriptures is traditionally performed from the pulpit which is generally constructed in such a way that the voice of the preacher is projected out to the congregation.

A clergyman, clergywoman, clergyperson, churchman or cleric is a member of the clergy, especially one who is a priest, preacher, pastor, or other religious professional.

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.

Greg is a preacher for an unspecified denomination.

every heart and every tongue To praise the Saviour's name The day of Jubilee is come ; Return ye ransomed sinners home On March 11, 1792, Nathaniel Gilbert, a white preacher, prayed and preached a sermon under the large Cotton Tree, and Reverend David George preached the first recorded Baptist service in Africa.

Stoughton was a pious preacher who believed in the " Lord's promise and expectations of great things.

Gradually he became a pilgrim, an itinerant benefactor and counselor of the poor, as well a pious preacher and religious leader.

Not only did he fight for the Protestant cause as a preacher and theologian, but he was almost the only member of Luther's party who was able to confront the Roman Catholics with the weapon of literary satire.

He had resided there only a month when he was called to Eisleben, where he remained till 1526 as teacher in the school of St Andrew, and preacher in the Nicolai church.

It would not only have been the largest, but also the first post-Reformation church in England and Wales built according to a plan where the preacher was to take the centre instead of the altar, thus stressing the importance of preaching in the Protestant Church.

In the words of the preacher Barbara Brown Taylor: " From I've learned that the only limit to the revelation going on all around me is my willingness to turn aside and look.

" Some of the early inhabitants of Liberal even encouraged other infidels to move to their town by publishing an advertisement which boasted that Liberal " is the only town of its size in the United States without a priest, preacher, church, saloon, God, Jesus, hell or devil.

Sandys maintained that Whittingham had not been validly ordained even according to the Genevan rite, but only elected preacher without the imposition of hands.

Apart from his academic labours in connection with the history of dogma and of the church, he lived a life of great and varied usefulness as a theologian, a preacher and a citizen ; and at his jubilee in 1873, not only the university and town of Basel but also the various churches of Switzerland united to do him honour.

In 1845 he was appointed select preacher, and published in 1847 a volume of Sermons and Essays on the Apostolic Age, which not only laid the foundation of his fame as a preacher, but also marked his future position as a theologian.

The resemblance only emphasizes the difference between the caricaturist of Stoicism and its preacher.

Non-Hitchcock thriller of the 50's include, the film-noirish Niagara ( 1953 ) by Henry Hathaway, with Marilyn Monroe as the trashy femme fatale who schemes to kill her unstable husband ( Joseph Cotten ), director Robert Aldrich's violent and fast-paced film Kiss Me Deadly ( 1955 ) featured Ralph Meeker as fictional detective Mike Hammer encountering nuclear apocalypse, The Night of the Hunter ( 1955 ), director Charles Laughton's only film, with Robert Mitchum playing a Bible-thumping, homicidal preacher victimizing two young children with a secret about the location of stolen money.

In 1868-1869, Piteşti was also the first city in Romania to have a recorded Seventh-day Adventist community, formed around Michał Belina-Czechowski, a Polish preacher and former Roman Catholic priest who had returned from the United States ( the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Romania was established only after 1918 ).

Jim Cusack and Henry McDonald have argued that the RHC and the Orange Volunteers are both overseen by a Protestant fundamentalist preacher they identify only as the Pastor.

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.

At last in 1940 ( when All India Muslim League passed Pakistan Resolution ) he propagated in Muslims that we are not just a nation and our destination is not only the establishment of a national government but we are preacher and missionary nation.

It is evident from them that the Strasbourg preacher was widely read, not only in theology, but also in the secular literature of the day.

His power, indeed, was broken by the death of his nephew Francis II, in December, 1560, so that Renée became enabled not only to provide Protestant worship at her estate, Montargis, engaging a capable preacher by application to Calvin, but also generally to minister as benefactress of the surrounding Protestants.

Led by ' native ' Baptist preacher, Samuel Sharpe, it was waged largely, though not only, by his Baptist followers amongst the slaves.

In 1344 Clement VI, referring to this matter in a Brief, uses only the words propter miraculum aliquod (" on account of some miracle ") ( Pennazzi, 367 ); Gregory XI, in a Brief of 25 June 1337, gives a short account of the miracle ; and abundant reference to it is found later ( 1435 ), in the sermons of the Dominican preacher Leonardo Mattei of Udine (" In festo Corp. Christi ", xiv, ed.

Despite his losses, the personable young lawyer and preacher attracted not only black voters but liberal whites as well.

Being from Virginia, the young Martin played the character the only way he knew how: as an inspired Southern Baptist preacher.

Edith Mirrielees, a student, professor, and Stanford historian, considered him " a preacher of only indifferent ability " but " a strength to the whole university ".

It manifests itself in the practice of the preacher ’ s addressing the call of the gospel, " repent and believe on Christ crucified ," only to those in his audience who show signs of regeneration and, thereby, of election, namely, some conviction of sin and some interest in salvation.