|
da36424
|
I don't want a religion that I put away with my Sunday clothes, and don't take out till the day comes around again; I want something to see and feel and live day by day.
|
|
spirituality
religion
preaching
sunday
|
Louisa May Alcott |
|
490a0a2
|
Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's
|
|
exposition
preaching
scripture
|
George Eliot |
|
0919d0a
|
I'm surprisingly unconcerned with what people in my church believe. Belief is going to be influenced by all sorts of things that I have nothing to do with, so I don't feel responsible for that. I'm responsible for what they hear -- and hearing the gospel, the good news about who God is, slowly forms us over time.
|
|
pastors
preaching
|
Nadia Bolz-Weber |
|
bae53ef
|
It takes great faith in Easter, particularly faith in the gift of the Holy Spirit, to be honest with our people that we have not a clue to the meaning of some biblical passage, or that we have no sense of a satisfying ending for a sermon, or that we are unsure of precisely what the congregation ought to do after hearing a given text. The most ethically dangerous time within a sermon is toward the end of the sermon, when we move from proclamation to application and act as if we know more than God. 133
|
|
preaching
sermons
|
William H. Willimon |
|
e692c14
|
It is one thing to know what is to come. It is another thing to confront it.
|
|
preaching
prophecy
|
Geraldine Brooks |
|
2fb2460
|
Even those who know better, such as the King, nurse strange ideas about me as a prophet. They do not understand that I am given to see only those matters that roil the heavens. They expect me to know everything.
|
|
exposition
preaching
priorities
distraction
prophecy
|
Geraldine Brooks |