If "The Band's Visit" were any other kind of film — a little more pat, say, and rather less knowing — these eight souls might quickly transform into mere props in a small-scale sermon about Middle East man's humanity to Middle East man, minus the politics of course.
The actor leaves me with a small but stirring sermon that should be repeated like a mantra by each of us who log online, each day.
"They had many ways of gaining people's goodwill and support: for example, they would go house to house, asking those living there if they needed anything and offering services such as education, saying 'We will enlighten your children, so don't send them to the government's schools.' "In addition, they were giving small lectures and sermons after prayers.
Within a few years we acquired for them a dedicated room, carpets for their prayers, a fridge, and a small library of sermons and reference works.
While some religions do state that small parts of the sermon are for members of the church's religion or denomination only, this does not make that church a cult; however, if the entirety of the time spent at the church is time only for regulars, the church may be a cult.
As a small child, he preached sermons to his sisters and dispatched himself to three different Sunday schools each week.
At the church of St John the Baptist, Knox preached a fiery sermon and a small incident precipitated into a riot.
Trollope's people are all doing things that are small: getting on committees, making sermons, writing to newspapers, finding misplaced checks.
He lived in Pristina, the Kosovo capital, for nearly 10 years, and often gave sermons at a small church on Taslixhe hill.
The site, which costs nothing to join, was founded seven years ago and has drawn around 3.5 million messages, including poetry, small talk, business deals, memoirs, sermons, laments, photo albums and ideological screeds.
