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"Witham's highly readable history of the American sermon strongly bolsters the contention that words change minds and alter the course of events." —Booklist
Pivotal moments in U.S. history are indelibly marked by the sermons of the nation's greatest orators. From colonial times to the present, the sermon has motivated Americans to fight wars as well as fight for peace. Sermons have provoked the mob mentality of witch hunts...
Pivotal moments in U.S. history are indelibly marked by the sermons of the nation's greatest orators. From colonial times to the present, the sermon has motivated Americans to fight wars as well as fight for peace. Sermons have provoked the mob mentality of witch hunts...
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Introduced by Maya Angelou, the inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the most revered African Americans of all time, whose life demonstrated the full spectrum of struggle and success. In God's Trombones, one of his most celebrated works, inspirational sermons of African American preachers are reimagined as poetry, reverberating with the...
James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the most revered African Americans of all time, whose life demonstrated the full spectrum of struggle and success. In God's Trombones, one of his most celebrated works, inspirational sermons of African American preachers are reimagined as poetry, reverberating with the...
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Speaking of grace, it is important to emphasize that we are not only saved by grace but sanctified by grace. Works cannot save the sinner, nor sanctify the saint. The law stands absolutely powerless to sanctify us as it did to save us; it was given to show us our need for a Savior. That sanctification, not salvation, is the main subject of our text is apparent. These believers had not fallen from salvation, yet Paul does write that they had “fallen...
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Recently, sitting in an airplane watching others board, some with more bags than they could carry, a fellow passenger paraphrased a verse of Scripture, saying, “We bring nothing into this world when we are born and we take nothing with us when we die”. Then she added, “But in between, we strive to acquire all that we can!” Reflecting on that comment brings a twinge of guilt. In reality, many of us have fallen into that western-culture mindset...
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In our consideration of great words in the gospel, we have been arrested by such words as propitiation, forgiveness, redemption, justification, reconciliation, and sanctification. All the words have to do with what is called by the writer of Hebrews, “so great a salvation,” each one presenting a different aspect of that salvation.
For example, propitiation refers to the satisfying of all the righteous claims of God; forgiveness (or remission)...
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Perhaps there is no difficulty for you in this matter of prayer. But for many, there arises a flood of questions that challenge faith and overwhelm reason:
Why pray if God already knows everything?
What good is prayer if God's will is going to be done anyway?
Who am I to tell God anything?
I'm already doing what He wants me to do. Why do I need to pray about it?
God is more concerned about me than I can ever be, so I will just leave it with Him.
It...
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In late 1913, Carl Jung set out on an exploration of his psyche, a quest he called his "confrontation with the unconscious". In doing so, he would enter an imaginative state of consciousness and experience visions, a process that continued with varying intensity for the next ten years. He recorded his visions in six black-covered journals that he referred to as the "Black Books", which provided a chronological record of his visions and dialogues with...
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We live in an age of practical atheism where men pay lip service to God and then do as they please. Our time is marked by a failure to meet our responsibility while believing that nothing will happen-that God will not judge His church as He's judged His people throughout history.
As we know, judgment begins at the house of God because the church bears the greater burden of guilt for possessing the greater privileges of God's covenant, grace, salvation,...
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Did you know that Thomas Merton was a great homilist? Now you may hear him deliver four of his great sermons.
With an extensive introduction by Merton expert Fr. Anthony Ciorra, these sermons will stir your heart.
Homilies give listeners a peak into the heart and spiritual journey of the preacher. In the four homilies in this series, you get a rare glimpse of a side of Merton that is special and sacred. His choice of topics gives you insight into...
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The classic collection of 16 sermons preached and compiled by Dr. Martin Luther King, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and one of the greatest orators in U.S. history
As Dr. King prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his most best-known homilies. King had begun working on the sermons during a fortnight in jail in July 1962. While behind bars, he spent...
As Dr. King prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his most best-known homilies. King had begun working on the sermons during a fortnight in jail in July 1962. While behind bars, he spent...
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For more than three years, while imprisoned in a cell 30 feet below ground in Communist Romania, Richard Wurmbrand composed sermons for an audience of One. When released from prison, he retained the treasure that God had given him there-sermons composed in solitary confinement.
Though isolated from people, VOM founder Richard Wurmbrand was never separated from God's presence. In his
book If Prison Walls Could Speak, he shares how God graciously...