Sentence examples for for a sermon from inspiring English sources

"It's too hot for a sermon," a priest told his congregation.

But this allowed the process to continue, and soon two dozen people were sitting in quiet rows in the sanctuary, as if waiting for a sermon, and not a gift card.

The title is a playful reference to something he is popularly supposed to have said in one of his television programmes, but that too becomes a text for a sermon: on exponential growth, nuclear fission and the population explosion.

He left money for a sermon to be preached annually at St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch, in the East End of London, on one of two topics: "The Wonderful World of God in the Creation" or "The Certainty of the Resurrection of the Dead proved by the Certain Changes of the Animal and Vegetable Plants of the Creation".

In its preachments, "Mr. and Mrs. Iyer," which opens today in New York and the San Francisco area, is not a subtle film; and, most curiously -- to put it mildly -- for a sermon on tolerance, it resorts to history's eternal scapegoat, a Jew, when it seeks a character willing to betray another to save his own skin.

How many divisions has he got?" To a practitioner of realpolitik and respecter of brute force like Stalin, the bishop of Rome was a perennially toothless do-gooder, fine for a sermon about heaven but with no heft, or troops, to see his will done on Earth.

Strier argues that Donne's rationale for publishing the Devotions matches his rationale for publishing a sermon, the Encaenia, the same year, to assert the importance of "places, and of dayes, and of all outward meanes", because he felt some sense of urgency about what he had to say.

But Ram was criticized for using a sermon by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a commercial for its truck.

Purdy, who teaches law at Duke University, is best known for publishing "For Common Things," a sermon against the blight of irony, when he was in his mid-20s.

"It's very possible that I will work voting for Kerry into a sermon that I might preach," he said.

Never having received a permanent call, she took a few part-time positions and did a smattering of supply preaching, for twenty-five dollarsermonrmon.