Word: sermonizer
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...German soldier, but in the fact, which must have shocked many people that Sunday morning, that the German chaplain's name carried the totally irrelevant addition "enemy casualty." It might have been appropriate to omit the name altogether, but anyone who heard the hymns, readings, prayers and sermon that morning would have noted the great contradiction between the meanings and any inscription which would remind those dedicating the memorial that this man remained an enemy even in death. One need accept neither the cynical policy that it is time to rearm Germany if we would be "saved," nor a sentimental...
...that there are 30,000 Protestant church buildings in the U.S. in which no regular services are conducted. At first Barnhouse could not believe it, but he found that the figure was close to right-and that thousands of other small communities have no church buildings whatever. The radio sermon was one answer (Barnhouse's own sermons are broadcast over 40 stations in 22 states). Then he thought of tape transcriptions, with organ music, hymns with the listeners joining in, prayers and a rousing good sermon written by one of the great preachers of the ages and delivered...
...Good Thief. In Atlanta, after a watch and two rings disappeared from the Rev. George VV. Jordan's home, he held a special service at his church, gave his flock a fiery sermon on "The Sin of Robbery," later found the stolen goods on his doorstep...
More and more, the meetings have ended in volence. Several Sundays ago, a group of hymn-singing, guitar-playing evangelists started up with a mike (Feeney uses none) about 30 yards away. Feeney began mocking their sermon, but eventually the noise was too loud for even him to overcome...
Five years later, in his second parish at Mattapan, Mass., a visiting Unitarian pronounced his sermon the "best Unitarian sermon I ever heard!" Baptist Potter decided to find out what he really was. He marched into Unitarian headquarters on Boston's Beacon Street and preached the national secretary a sample sermon on Jesus. Yes, said the secretary, he was Unitarian all right...