Sentence examples for public sermon from inspiring English sources

It was the first public sermon by Mr. Graham, 87, since June.

After the Mumbai attack, Saeed delivered a public sermon in Lahore in which he spoke approvingly of a new "awakening" among Indian Muslims, and described his co-religionists as "second to none in taking revenge".

"We are happy to reject anger and endless conflict, because we don't believe in chaos and disorder … Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful," he said in a public sermon.

"If Jesus and Muhammad were on this stage, they would embrace each other with love," Mr Farrakhan told thousands of supporters in Detroit in a speech billed as his last public sermon.

CAIRO — Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an influential Sunni cleric who is banned from the United States and Britain for supporting violence against Israel and American forces in Iraq, delivered his first public sermon here in 50 years on Friday, emerging as a powerful voice in the struggle to shape what kind of Egyptian state emerges from the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.

In 1391 Milíč's pupils founded the Bethlehem Chapel in Prague, where public sermons were preached in Czech (rather than in Latin) in the spirit of Milíc̆'s teaching.

These chapters comprise both Huineng's public sermons and conversations with disciples.

The source text, The Platform Sutra (1291), is a collection of the public sermons and personal conversations of Huineng and 'one of the best known, most beloved and most widely read of all Chan texts' (Schlutter 2007, 382).

So it's no surprise that Swedish non-conformist pastor Åke Green was freed from charges of hate speech in the recent trial against him (Åke has been telling people that homos rape animals, and that they are a general cancer on society in his public sermons).

Yet he continued supply preaching throughout the eighteen-thirties, and called his public lectures "lay sermons".

Prose was a zone of fruitful conflict for Emerson, who began his public life writing sermons.