Sentence examples for opening sermon from inspiring English sources

When I quoted Jesus' opening sermon at Nazareth and concluded that "any gospel that isn't good news to the poor is not the gospel of Jesus Christ," they all cheered.

In the opera members of the parish are for the first time given voices, as the chorus reacts to Father Flynn's opening sermon.

Staged so that almost all lines are delivered into standing microphones, as if a continuation of the opening sermon, the play felt wonderfully odd under Christopher Haydon's direction.

Sure, some pastors like to open sermons with a couple of clean jokes, but that's about the extent humor interacts with the Faithful.

When the Dalai Lama opened his sermon, a calm came over his audience.

He opened the sermon by saying, His reference was to a time when a cat might get up on the power lines and die from electrocution, cutting off telegraph signals so no messages could get through.

Thompson, 47, a Catholic, said there was a case to be made for opening up the sermon to "people with other heartfelt belief systems".

He often opens his sermons with folksy stories, but he is something of an intellectual, and more of an introvert than most in his congregation know.

Harvey's "sermon" opened, "And on the eighth day God looked down on his planned paradise and said I need a caretaker -- So God made a farmer".

Most impressive are the clips showing Bin Laden giving an open-air sermon.

AFTER the noon prayer in Cairo's Tahrir Square on September 14th, a copiously bearded speaker delivered a rousing, finger-wagging open-air sermon.