Word: sermonic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cultural differences built into worship styles. Speaking of black Baptists who share his church, Lutheran Doubek says, "When they sing Amazing Grace, the song is the same but it sounds different." Our Redeemer's Haitians use Haitian music, and the Kingshighway Latino congregation integrates salsa, soul and tango sounds. Sermon styles differ: African Americans expect call and response from the pews and services that last twice as long as a typical white service. Roosevelt Clossum, minister of the African-American congregation at Mount Olive, says that when he went to give a guest sermon before the whites at Kingshighway...
...extremely serious illnesses. The day after, she felt better and was prepared to pass the whole thing off as little more than the flu. But by evening, she felt sick again and asked to be excused from evening church services, promising to listen to a tape recording of the sermon instead. When her parents returned from church, Shannon hugged her father and said, "I feel I have my victory!" But that was premature. By the next day she was vomiting. When a brother asked about her condition, Shannon answered weakly, "The devil is fighting me hard." In the next...
...voters at every opportunity. At a time when there is little federal money to spread around, Gore has championed the Administration's empowerment-zone program, which pours millions of dollars into depressed areas like inner Detroit. During the fall campaign, he visited black churches on Sundays with a rousing sermon that an aide described as "very un-Al Gore," and he still holds regular meetings and conference calls with African-American ministers on topics that range from education to TV violence. The Vice President's mansion has become a regular gathering place for black officials and noted scholars to discuss...
...sermon (it's not listed as a "free talk" in the service program) comes at the end of the service and always draws upon a passage from the Bible. Last Sunday, the sermon cited Genesis 28:17 for its title, "How awful is this place!" If Liu had listened at all to the lesson, he would have noticed the story concerned God's promises to Jacob. In fact, God talks directly to Jacob: "Know that I am with you and will keep you wherever you go...for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised...
Gregory S. Krauss provided a reasonable summary of Lord Runcie's sermon, but in referring to him time and again as "the Archbishop of Canterbury" Mr. Krauss committed a grave error...