Adam Hamilton

One thing that helps to stretch me is to listen to other preacher's sermons. Every year, I will listen to at least ten other preachers, both to hear God speak to me, and also to evaluate their preaching to see what I can learn and how I can improve my own preaching.

American Clergyman

David Amram

In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about.

American Composer

Isaac Mayer Wise

Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.

Rebecca Harding Davis

TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.

American Author

Robert Covington

Sometimes I go back and listen to the very first day I went to church. I listen to that sermon all the time, because that was the sermon that was life changing for me.

American Athlete

Zbigniew Brzezinski

I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.

American Politician

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

English Writer

Mark Twain

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

American Writer

Oliver Goldsmith

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Irish Poet

Joel Osteen

Sermons are mostly heard in churches, temples, or during religious services.

Religious Context

Sermons often encourage good behavior and moral values.

Moral Lessons

A sermon can include stories or examples to make the message clearer.

Not Just Preaching

Sermon can be used metaphorically to describe a scolding or lengthy advice.

Metaphorical Use

When used outside religious context, 'sermon' may suggest unwanted or tedious advice.

Critical Tone

Though often critical, a 'sermon' can be given out of concern and care.

Not Always Negative

 table every chair in this apartment had yielded its original function to now serve as a surface for swaying stacks of books just like the rest of my family my grandfather's favorite thing to do in the world was to read but he also loved his congregation and you could feel this love in the sermons that he gave every

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 and give sermons on the dangers of witchcraft. According to these texts, witches practiced rituals including kissing the Devil’s anus and poisoning or bewitching targets the devil singled out for harm. Though there was no evidence to support any of these claims, belief in witches became widespread.

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 What's the difference between a sermon and our modern, secular mode of delivery, the lecture? Well a sermon wants to change your life and a lecture wants to give you a bit of information. And I think we need to get back to that sermon tradition. The tradition of sermonizing is hugely valuable,

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 It was like we were in two completely different worlds. And so as I contemplated all of this and looked at what was happening, I suddenly realized that there was a paradox that was emerging inside of me, and the paradox was in all of those sermons that I preached decrying the violence,

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 had yielded its original function to now serve as a surface for swaying stacks of books. Just like the rest of my family, my grandfather's favorite thing to do in the whole world was to read. But he also loved his congregation, and you could feel this love in the sermons that he gave

 rambling sermon hopefully he built on that and brings even more people to his second sermon if a dog can feel love then that tell me people can feel love yeah pastor distilled his truth into two laser focus sermons he opened the hearts of everyone who heard his words touching

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 the priest gave a very nice sermon, and he said something very important. He said, "Love is not selfish," he said, "Love does not mean counting how many times I say, 'I love you.' It doesn't mean you had sex this many times this month, and it's two times less than last month,

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 and they were each given a sermon topic. Half of those students were given, as a topic, the parable of the Good the man who stopped the stranger in -- to help the stranger in need by the side of the road.

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 Truth was confident God would protect her, but some crowds responded to her bravery with violence. During one of her sermons, a mob of white men threatened to set fire to the tent where she was speaking.

The electrifying...

 "Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, And human love will be seen at its height.