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?

Listening to the reading of Scripture and a sermon based upon the Biblical text is virtually always included in United Methodist worship.

It was of him that the story was always told ,-- it may be as old as the invention of printing ,-- that he threw his sermons into a barrel, where they went to pieces and got mixed up, and that when he was going to preach he fished out what he thought would be about enough for a sermon, and patched the leaves together as he best might.

The format was always simple: each issue included a sample sermon for each Sunday and Feast Day along with some aids for teaching catechism to children.

Every Sunday he preached a sermon in Irish at the cathedral, and during his diocesan visitations he always addressed the people in their native tongue, which was still largely used in his diocese.

On one occasion he visited Constantinople and there preached before Theodosius II ( who was then favorable to Nestorius ) and a great congregation a sermon in denunciation of Nestorian doctrine, of which a portion survives in the Syriac version.

" During his Sunday sermon on March 27 he addressed his congregation on the subject of the " calamities " that had begun in his own household, but stated " it never brake forth to any considerable light, until diabolical means were used, by the making of a cake by my Indian man, who had his direction from this our sister, Mary Sibly ," going on to admonish all against the use of any kind of magic, even white magic, because it was essentially, " going to the Devil for help against the Devil.

The Isle of Gulls ( printed 1606 ), a prose comedy founded upon Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, contains in its light dialogue much satire to which the key is now lost, but Algernon Charles Swinburne notes in Manasses's burlesque of a Puritan sermon is a curious anticipation of the eloquence of Mr. Chadband in Bleak House.

In John Wesley's sermon " On Working Out Our Own Salvation " ( sermon # 85 ), Wesley stated that prevenient grace elicits, "... the first wish to please God, the first dawn of light concerning His will, and the first slight transient conviction of having sinned against Him.

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.