Word: sermonized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since the Reformation put new emphasis upon the authority of Scripture, the pulpit has been the pride of Protestantism. Nowhere has this pride been more evident than in the U.S., where sermon-centered churches-notably the Baptists and Methodists-flourished with the conquest of the frontier, and such preachers as Henry Ward Beecher and Dwight Lyman Moody became as famous as Presidents, and perhaps as influential...
...today, the Protestant congregation's first question about a new minister for its church is likely to be: "Is he a good preacher?" Good or bad, today's minister is sure to be a different preacher from the ones his father heard. Like the U.S. itself, the sermon is in permanent revolution. The florid. Bible-based oratory of the 19th century-has largely disappeared from the pulpit-and so has most of the exhortatory preaching based on the "social gospel" that urged man to make God his partner in correcting economic and social evil. Even the familiar "life...
...VENEZUELA, Jesuits called Billy "an ignorant farm boy unworthy of being given a hearing." an "ex-door-to-door salesman" (which he was, for Fuller brushes). But Venezuela is less devoutly Catholic than its neighbors. In Caracas and Maracaibo, Billy drew the largest crowds of his trip; his final sermon was broadcast by eleven radio stations...
That's for me, automation! Please order lor this parish the following automatic machines: One sermon writer and preacher, one acolyte trainer, one paperwork machine with built-in duplicator, one parish caller, one sinner converter, one confession hearer and consultant. Both my curate and I are fed up with being human beings in a 70-hour week...
Return to Cassocks. Though the sermon still remains the focus of most Protestant services, the most notable sign of the liturgical times is restoration of Communion services to a central place in the order of worship. At the Redford Presbyterian Church in Detroit, Communion is now monthly instead of four times a year; the church is considering whether to make the service weekly. At the Travis Park Methodist Church in San Antonio, the congregation recently asked their pastor to offer Communion every Sunday, instead of once a month. Many Lutheran churches have revived the sung "German Mass," according...