Sentence examples for sermons provided from inspiring English sources

Easter sermons provided a platform to denounce those plans from on high.With little other news, the prelates gained a hearing far beyond their flocks.

Regular reading of Scripture in the synagogue on Mondays, Thursdays, Sabbaths, and festivals, coupled with concurrent translations into the Aramaic vernacular and frequent sermons, provided for lifelong instruction in the literature and the various teachings elicited from it.

Butler's first three sermons provide a general framework for his moral philosophy via a teleological account of human nature.

They can be used to trigger all three of the mechanisms by which policy instruments work: as carrots (incentives or rewards for good performance), as sticks (disincentives or punishment for poor performance – think early Compstat), or as sermons (providing information about good, bad and comparative performance).

An edited videotape of the sermon provided by Sadr loyalists did not include those comments.

In Zabadani, as in many places, residents described a heavy police presence around mosques — the weekly Friday Prayer sermons have provided the kickoff for mass demonstrations since the beginning.

The Dean of St . Pauls Cathedral in Melbourne, Australia, finding that his choir boys were bored by the sermons, has provided them with a library of adventure stories with religious themes.

In the allegories some of his greatest imaginative successes are due to his dreamlike, introspective style with its subtle personal music; but it is the workaday vigour and concreteness of the prose technique practiced in the sermons which provide a firm stylistic background to these imaginative flights.

His Catholic Homilies, written in 990 992, provided orthodox sermons, based on the Church Fathers.

Some paid subscription services provide sermons, and Mr. Mullins used those services as well as other Internet sources, according to the letter, instead of writing his own.

Inspired by Cotton and by other women who ran conventicles, Hutchinson began holding meetings in her own home, where she reviewed recent sermons with her listeners, and provided her own explanations of the message.