Phillips Brooks spoke after me and said: "The President is right in thinking our present preaching monotonous, and the reason he gives for this monotony is correct; we all do preach Channing.
It is the fashion to say that preaching is a thing of the past, other influences having taken its place.
This city has learned by rich experience that preaching becomes the most productive of all human works the moment the adequate preacher appears--a noble man with a noble message.
And as we shall never meet more in this vale of tears, this is my dying wish and advice--read the Bible and good books, frequent the preaching of the Gospel, and the Lord will guide thee in His way.
On reflection, I found the drift of my preaching for twenty years had been to tell the sinner to put the key into the lock of the door, so as to open it.
The legacy also provided for the payment of ten shillings yearly to the vicar for preaching a sermon on the occasion "commending the excellency, the perfection, and divine authority of the Holy Scriptures.
This being the Sabbath evening, she sent for one of the people who usually attend my preaching to come and read with her.
What the study could not teach--what the preaching could not accomplish is accomplish'd, is it not?
I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?
As you rise from their perusal, you will not merely be familiar with the events which happened in "the brave days of old," but you will have learned many lessons that may be of service in your preaching to-day.
I used that illustration in preaching the next day, and I did not feel that I had at all degraded myself by telling the story.
I have given you sufficient to show that they do make our preachingvivid and lifelike; therefore, the more you have of them, the better.
I think that naming of the various constellations is very like a good deal of mystical preaching that there is nowadays.
I will leave the moral of that well-known story to speak for itself, and will pass on to my second point, which is, that the use of anecdotes and illustrations renders our preaching lifelike and vivid.
No reason exists why the preaching of the gospel should be a miserable operation either to the speaker or to the hearer.
I like gospel preaching to be all Christ, the Sun of Righteousness, and no black spot at all; nothing of ourselves, but all of the Lord Jesus.
Do not scatter the beams of light; you can turn the glass so as to diffuse the rays instead of concentrating them; but the best way of preaching is to focus Jesus Christ, the Sun of Righteousness, right on a sinner's heart.
When a minister is preaching in any particular district he will often find it best to catch the ears of the people, and engross their attention, by relating some anecdote that relates to the place where they live.
And as for the stove, I do not need its heat, for my exercise in preaching is sufficient to keep me warm; therefore you see that the collection is wholly for yourselves on this occasion.
John Flavel was greatest in metaphor and allegory; but in the matter of anecdote his preaching is a fine example.
His preachingof the Gospel to the Thessalonians is described as a proclamation that Jesus was the Christ or Messiah.
These passages further distinctly prove that it was an accepted belief in the Churches when the Apostle wrote, and even at a much earlier period, that supernatural manifestations attended the early preaching of Christianity.
He states that in his preachingthere were matters of prime importance, of which Christ's death and resurrection was one.
I made you my friend, Joe Pacey," said Armstrong huskily, "but by what right do you dare to come preaching your parables here?
Why, he can't even understand the preaching yet or the things that you try to explain to him!
When Edwin a few minutes later entered the room and looked over that large audience, he had not the faintest idea of preaching to the people.
He then explained that Jesus came to seek and save the people from their sins and that he went about preaching the glad tidings of salvation, after which he gave his life upon the cross that their salvation might be possible.
He was preaching the gospel of equality, as he saw it, judiciously tempered to meet with the requirements of the society to which his audience belonged, and which he, for the moment, represented.
The man on the tree trunk was no mere flamboyant orator preaching a doctrine of profound socialism.
I'd say he calls it preaching brotherhood and equality to a gang of railroaders.
Now you are preaching for the worker the very methods of present-day capital.
And I guess he knows, about as well as anybody; and if he ever goes to preaching he'll know what he's preaching about.
What would make thepreaching of the gospel utterly impossible would be the admission that it had no authority to proclaim what has happened or what is going to happen, either in this world or in another.
He had been confined in the Tower for writing heretical pamphlets, and been prosecuted for preaching in the streets of London.
He had tried to avoid obeying the command, but at last had gone; and when the Ninevites listened to his preaching and repented and turned to Jehovah he was angry.
So after three short years of preaching and healing Jesus was nailed to the cross, praying even as the nails were driven into his hands, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
To speak with perhaps ill-bred candor, I like as well to fancy you not preaching to Unitarians a Gospel after their heart.
In the fire of the moment I had all but decided on setting out for America this autumn, and preaching far and wide like a very lion there.
Converting of the Heathen's a very proper view, By preaching true religion to Pagan and to Jew, And bringing over Cannibals to Christian meat and bread, Unless they catch your Parson first and eat him up instead.
Certainly, no good: for the thief, with his hand upon the watch, only thought of time, the hangman vainly preaching eternity.
Some of our religious of Therrenate have entered the kingdom of Macasar for the same purpose of preaching the gospel, and of offering the word of God on various occasions to the kings of that kingdom.
V Martyred in various kingdoms In Tagolanda on the island of Maluco, the Moros of the island, after killing father Fray Sebastian de San Joseph [74] with arrows for the preaching of the faith, beheaded him.
Andres de Puertollano, preacher, went to the Philippines in 1616, where besides being occupied in preaching and confessing, he labored in the missions of Sampaloc and Paete, and also acted as guardian of the Cavite convent.
IIII Preachingof our religious in Bayug and Malanao It had been decided by an intermediary chapter of that province of Filipinas that our laborers should go to the district of Bayug and the vicinity of Lake Malanao [i.
Father Fray Bartolome de San Diego [89] and brother Fray Miguel de San Buenaventura have been preachingto those islanders in the islands of Calonga.
They took the priest with them, hepreaching to them all the time and teaching them our evangelical law whenever he saw a convenient opportunity for so doing.
In the Yazoo Hills, near the town of Sartartia, in the good State of Mississippi, there lived at no distant date one Mike Hooter, whose hunting and preaching adventures became famous in all the land.
On the day of Pentecost Peter sounded the keynote of Apostolic preaching when he declared, "This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
Although the preachingof "Jesus and the Resurrection" exposed them to persecution and martyrdom, they nevertheless continued to proclaim a risen Lord.
If we accept this view, the preaching to the spirits in prison was the intimation to those already blessed, who had while on earth repented and believed, that Messiah by dying had brought in everlasting salvation for His people.
Again and again the lust of preaching urged him to repent, yet he slid back upon his past gaiety, until 'Parson Pureney' became a by-word.
He was burned at the stake for preaching the doctrines of the Reformation.
After preaching one of my sermons on the beatitudes, I had a most violent fit of sickness, took to my bed, and said immediately that I wished to die at Westminster.
But, as it chanced, Sylvanus was in earnest this time, and we heard of him next in Canada, logging during the week and preaching on Sundays, both with equal acceptance.
In this point of view, his preachingis unnecessary, because, to know the consequences, it is only necessary to know the cause.
The manner in which he was apprehended shows that he was not much known, at that time; and it shows also that the meetings he then held with his followers were in secret; and that he had given over or suspended preaching publicly.
But priests have always been fond of preaching up Deuteronomy, for Deuteronomy preaches up tythes; and it is from this book, xxv.
His preaching attracted large congregations, and he was generally regarded as one of the greatest preachers of this country.
In his book "Preaching Without Notes," he tells of his early practise and experience in pulpit delivery.
John the Baptist comes preaching "in the wilderness" (iii.
The obligation of preaching to the Gentiles the faith of Moses had never been inculcated as a precept of the law, nor were the Jews inclined to impose it on themselves as a voluntary duty.
For it must have made him certain sure at once, that a religion which placed preaching salvation to the poor above healing the sick, which ranked the soul above the body, and set heaven above health, must have come from God.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preaching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
