The militants are careful not to risk the wrath of the American forces by singling them out by name, but the threat of engaging them wafts around nearly every sermon, every interview.
Use sermon language that is engaging to them and relevant to their world.
But when it's done right — engaging the hopefulness, enthusiasm and moral seriousness of religious people — a television show about God can be like a wonderful sermon, reassuring and elevating at once.
This admirably diligent book centers on more than just the sermons: Rieder finds it interesting that King could engage in salty Ebonics with black friends and also give sermons to whites in standard English laced with references to Paul Tillich.
I said I didn't want to give sermons and play hymns, and suggested that we engage people, tell their stories and play rock 'n' roll.
At an Ohio Restoration Project rally in a church outside Columbus, in March, he gave what amounted to a sermon about the obligation of Christians to "serve and engage".
He engages in a dream encounter with an inquisitive angel, delivers a sermon to the birds -- losing ties to earthly space and time -- then prays to be wounded with the stigmata of Christ to overcome his feelings of unworthiness.
