Sentence examples for sermon to explain from inspiring English sources

In 1986, after the Reagan administration's secret American arms sales to Iran were disclosed, Mr. Rafsanjani, then the speaker of Parliament, used his Friday sermon to explain why.

Father Linus has occasionally told this story in his sermons to explain his calling to priesthood.

Maybe there's something in the Sermon in the Mount to explain it all.

My translator, an aspiring young journalist from the West Bank named Khaldoun, quickly came to realize that his principal task, after rendering the Sheikh's sermon into English, was to explain to all who inquired (and many did) that the foreign visitor was "not Danish".

Alternatively, Richard Felder provides what he calls "mini-sermons" to help explain to students why he uses the teaching strategies he does, including responses he has used to address student complaints about working in groups, writing assignments, and his choice of interactive teaching methods over lecture (Felder, 2007).

Asked in an interview last March to explain the sermon, Mr. Wright said he had been questioning the country's desire for vengeance against the perpetrators, counseling his congregants to look inward instead.

After we sat down to a meal of Samoan panikeke (pancakes) and keke pua'a (pork buns), I asked him to explain the MasterCard-themed sermon.

Hanson's essay doesn't mention Derbyshire, either to defend him, after the fact, or to explain why this new "sermon" is different from Derbyshire's old "talk".

How else to explain the success of that dreary old sermon, An Inspector Calls?

Delivering his inaugural sermon as senior pastor at Huffman United Methodist Church here, the Rev. Charles Lee was trying to explain what lay behind the choice to follow Jesus.

When Mr. Band went off to college, "my parents encouraged me to go to the Disability Support Services office to get a letter for my teachers to explain about my Asperger's," wrote Mr. Band in his sermon.