Sentence examples for powerful sermons from inspiring English sources

The Medici were expelled from Florence in 1494, and Savonarola's powerful sermons inspired a theocratic state.

Ambrose's powerful sermons helped to undermine Augustine's contempt for the apparent crudeness of the Bible's stories.

Jonathan Edwards, initiator of the Great Awakening, a religious revival that stirred the eastern seacoast for many years, eloquently defended his burning belief in Calvinistic doctrine of the concept that man, born totally depraved, could attain virtue and salvation only through God's grace in his powerful sermons and most notably in the philosophical treatise Freedom of Will (1754).

Two of Martin Luther King Jr.'s surviving children gave powerful sermons Tuesday from the pulpit their father stood at when he gave his final speech on April 3 , 1968

After a joyous retirement weekend we were moving to Miami to begin a new phase of our lives — filled, we thought, with writing, travel, more time for each other, and an interim rabbinical position where Chaim could deliver the most wise and powerful sermons of his life.

After a joyous retirement weekend we were moving to Miami to begin a new phase of our lives -- filled, we thought, with writing, travel, more time for each other, and an interim rabbinical position where Chaim could deliver the most powerful sermons of his life.

When attempts are made in future to measure Mr Jackson's impact on American politics, the powerful sermon he delivered to the San Francisco convention on July 17th will be a gauge of what he achieved.He was a compelling figure, dominating an entire day of the convention's work and exercising its thoughts throughout.

Rahim even preached a powerful sermon about all people being made in the image of God and being God's children.

The summit was billed as a faith-based, urban school reform revival, and Canada delivered a powerful Sermon on the Mount.

He ascended to power by taking on the regime of Jean-Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier in a series of powerful and vituperative sermons that helped fuel a popular revolt.

John Raymond in the New Statesman refers to Waugh's "unique type of moral vision", and calls the novel a "powerful twentieth century sermon on the breakdown of a Christian marriage".