Word: sermonic
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...holy purpose who create the sanctuary, not the building," she says. Just as the new minyanim--prayer communities--don't require a specific type of physical structure, they are also open to holding services without rabbis. "Laypeople can lead the service, read from the Torah, give a sermon and take on any of the service's traditional roles," Novey says...
...ceramic vessel of red wine on the dinner table - offered in communion. Because the dinner, it turns out, is no mere Bible study, 12-step meeting or other pendant to Sunday service at a Denver megachurch. It is the service. There is no pastor, choir or sermon - just six believers and Jesus among them, closer than their breath. Or so thinks Jeanine, who two years ago abandoned a large congregation for the burgeoning movement known in evangelical circles as "house churching," "home churching" or "simple church." The week she left, she says, "I cried every day." But the home service...
...East elections. While governments look for a way out and protesters fill the streets, Muslim preachers can hardly be restrained from calling the faithful to action. "It is the duty of all Muslims to wake up from their deep sleep and defend their religion," declared an imam broadcasting a sermon live on Algeria's national television network last week. If the scenes in Damascus and Beirut are anything to go by, more confrontation is still to come...
...addition to his weekday services, Gomes generally delivers a sermon in Memorial Church every other Sunday. At these gatherings, he says, his congregation comes from all sides of the political spectrum, from the most conservative students in the Kennedy School of Government, to more liberal students in the College. But, he says, the political views of his churchgoers do not affect the content of his sermons...
KING PREACHED "THE DRUM MAJOR INSTINCT" AT Ebenezer that Sunday, Feb. 4. He freely adapted a sermon published under that title during his seminary years by evangelist J. Wallace Hamilton, based on the biblical story of two disciples who beseech Jesus for the most prominent eternal seats in heaven. Their desire springs from a universal impulse for distinction, said King--"this quest for recognition ... this drum major instinct." An extreme drum major "ends by trying to push others down to push himself up," he warned, driving racism in culture and arrogance in nations. Yet Jesus in the Bible account does...