Word: sermonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What should a sermon be? To Dr. Coffin, a sermon "exalts, God in Christ for worship that He may enter into personal fellowship with listeners." This is no figure of speech. Preaching is the essence of Protestantism. By hearing the Word preached, and receiving it with faith, Protestants get the Divine grace which Roman Catholics believe can come only through receiving Sacraments...
...Azhar Mosque, Islam's two most important military chiefs, Egypt's General Mohammed Naguib and Syria's Colonel Adib Shishekly, heard an ancient, chilling summons. "A jihad (holy war) for the right and defense of the freedoms of people," demanded the sheik in his sermon. The jihad was designed to support "our brothers in North Africa in their struggle against imperialism" and to teach France an "eloquent lesson...
JULY-The Question. In St. Joseph, Mo., the Rev. Adiel J. Moncrief lost his gold pocket watch while visiting with the congregation after preaching a sermon entitled: "What Time...
Indecent Exposure. Some of those approached decided they were unable to whip up their beliefs in handy, non-controversial form for delivery in 3½ minutes of radio time. Wrote Novelist Kathleen Norris in refusing: "It's either a mawkish sermon, or it's indecent exposure." But an impressive cross-section of U.S. opinion did respond. Excerpts...
...demand to expel the Moslems from the Holy Land throbbed in the conscience of Christian Europe through the 12th century, and for many years thereafter. Few places in the West escaped the eloquence of the Crusader preachers. Writes Historian Runciman, describing a sermon of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, the most famous of them: "Very soon his audience was under his spell. Men began to cry for Crosses-'Crosses, give us Crosses!' It was not long before all the [cloth] that had been prepared to sew into Crosses was exhausted; and Saint Bernard flung off his own outer garments...