This was taken after I came to live in Springfield, and it was made under the guidance of the Reverend Raymond Beardslee, a young preacher who came to the Congregational Church there at about the same time that I moved from New York.

For the old preacher who had been there twenty-five years was dead, and the city mourned him.

There was no church like Drew Church, no preacher like Papa, who was intimate with Him, and could consign sinners to hellfire.

He started down the steps to meet the near-blind preacher, who had been one of the early Gospelers in Paris.

He applied this knowledge as preacher, concentrating especially on exegesis of the Old Testament, and his rhetorical abilities impressed Augustine of Hippo, who hitherto had thought poorly of Christian preachers.

After Osiander's death in 1552, Albert favoured a preacher named Johann Funck, who, with an adventurer named Paul Skalić, exercised great influence over him and obtained considerable wealth at public expense.

Since John Wesley ordained and sent forth every Methodist preacher in his day, who preached and baptized and ordained, and since every Methodist preacher who has ever been ordained as a Methodist was ordained in this direct " succession " from Wesley, then the Methodist Church teaches that it has all the direct merits coming from apostolic succession, if any such there be.

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

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 travelled throughout Britain as a dissenting preacher, for which he was often persecuted by the authorities who disapproved of his beliefs.

Thousands of angry Hamas loyalists marched on February 24, 2008 at the funeral of a Muslim preacher who died in PNA custody, turning the ceremony into a rare show of defiance against President Mahmoud Abbas.

Piersen writes, " Such an etymology would offer Indiana a plausible and worthy first Hoosier – ' Black Harry ' Hoosier – the greatest preacher of his day, a man who rejected slavery and stood up for morality and the common man.

Dunn states that Josephus positions John as a righteous preacher ( dikaiosyne ) who encourages his followers to practice " righteousness towards one another, and piety towards God " and that Mark 6: 20 similarly calls John " a righteous ( dikaios ) and holy man ".

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.

The Qur ' an describes Jonah as a righteous preacher of the message of God but a messenger who, one day, fled from his mission because of its overwhelming difficulty.

John Wycliffe (; also spelt Wyclif, Wycliff, Wiclef, Wicliffe, or Wickliffe ) ( c. 1320 – 31 December 1384 ) was an English Scholastic philosopher, theologian, lay preacher, translator, reformer and university teacher at Oxford in England, who was known as an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century.

Caspar ( or Kaspar ) Schwen ( c ) kfeld von Ossig ( 1489 or 1490 – 10 December 1561, Ulm ) was a German theologian, writer, and preacher who became a Protestant Reformer and spiritualist, one of the earliest promoters of the Protestant Reformation in Silesia.

After the Elector of Trier had demanded that the townsmen turn a Lutheran preacher out of the town, a board made up of townsmen who were ineligible for council functions handed the council a 30-point comprehensive list of demands on 24 May.

## after the Franciscan, Lolhard, who converted to the Waldensian way, becoming eminent as a preacher in Guienne.

Salomon Schweigger ( 1551-1622 ) was a German preacher who traveled in the entourage of Jochim von Sinzendorf, Ambassador to Constantinople for Rudolf II in 1577.

* Christoph Christian Sturm ( 1740 – 1786 ), German preacher and author, who wrote the majority of his devotional works here

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

Henson also became an active Methodist preacher, and spoke as an abolitionist on routes between Tennessee and Ontario.

" 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.

After being released from jail, Minkow became a preacher and a fraud investigator, and spoke at schools about ethics.

Martin Boehm ( 1725 – 1812 ), a Mennonite preacher, spoke of his becoming a Christian through crying out to God while plowing in the field.

Martin Boehm ( 1725 – 1812 ), a Mennonite preacher, spoke of his becoming a Christian through crying out to God while plowing in the field.

Father Divine attended a local Baptist Church, often preaching, until 1907, when a traveling preacher called Samuel Morris spoke to and was expelled from the congregation.

Hailey spoke by invitation on his marriage-divorce position to a small church in Belen, New Mexico ; they had also invited Ron Halbrook, a preacher associated with the magazine Guardian of Truth and former student of Hailey, to present an opposing viewpoint.

Raniero Cantalamessa, the preacher of the papal household and a member of the Capuchin Franciscan order, who spoke at one of the meetings of the cardinals held before the actual day when the conclave began.

George Baker Jr attended a local store front Baptist Church, often preaching and teaching in the churches ' Sunday school ', until 1907, when a traveling preacher called Samuel Morris spoke to and was expelled from the congregation.

Huckabee, who like Holt is a Southern Baptist preacher, spoke out against Holt's proposal in 2005 to ban state services to illegal immigrants.

The first Relief release was also his first Green Velvet production, 1993's " Velvet Tracks ," which came from a name given to him by a girlfriend's dad, emerged as the flamboyant, neon-haired electro punk, although in interviews he denied being linked to the Punk lifestyle and fashion, as he was more inspired by the likes of David Bowie and Sly and the Family Stone, he created excellent mid-1990s hits such as " Preacher Man ," on which a Moral Majority-type of preacher spoke ( the Reverend Clarence LaVaughn Franklin-father of Aretha Franklin and ally of Martin Luther King, Jr .); " Answering Machine ," a darkly funny house track consisting of taped messages from an answering machine, including a bad news message from a girlfriend and a noise complaint message from his landlord — all made with Jones's voice ; and " Flash ," which was a # 1 US dance hit in 1995 and was included on many DJ-mixed compilation albums.

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 ".

A reformist preacher, Hus espoused the antipapal and antihierarchical teachings of John Wycliffe of England, often referred to as the " Morning Star of the Reformation ".

Johann Gerhard Oncken ( January 26, 1800-January 2, 1884 ) was a pioneer German Baptist preacher, variously referred to as the " Father of Continental Baptists ", the " Father of German Baptists " and the " Apostle of European Baptists ".

He later served as the apostolic preacher, a post often referred to as “ preacher to the pope ”, for about seven years.

A person's car indicates their social status, and the most " popular " teens own cars, much to the chagrin of local community leaders ( one local preacher referred to the automobile as a " house of prostitution on wheels ").

He discharged with zeal the duties of a darshan (" preacher ") in his native city of Zaragoza, sharing this position with several others, and on this account received a small salary, which was scarcely enough to support him and his family ; but neither his struggle for daily bread nor the reverses that he suffered ( to which he referred in the introduction to his commentary on the Torah ) diminished his interest in Torah study in general, and in Biblical exegesis in particular.

Andrew Hunter ( 1813 – 1902 ) was a noted Methodist preacher, sometimes referred to as " The Father of Methodism in Arkansas.

Records of the Presbyterian Historical Society of America do not show him as a preacher in America ; rather he is commonly referred to as " doctor " Haslet, reference to his medical practice.