I was a little girl and scarcely knew anything, and this old man seemed to me such a different sort of a man from anybody I had ever seen before that I thought he had perhaps come down from the sky to preach to us, and I said, 'Aunt, will he go back to the sky to-night, like the picture in the Bible?'
"Dear friends, come and take this blessedness; it is offered to you; it is the good news that Jesus came to preach to the poor.
Adam Bede
"I have broken my engagement to
preach to those poor drunken boobies at the fair--it is the first time I have played such a practical joke.
Tess of the dUrbervilles A Pure Woman
And in return you
preach to your employers the brands of metaphysics that are especially acceptable to them; and the especially acceptable brands are acceptable because they do not menace the established order of society."
The Iron Heel
Jamie seems to be a good boy, but I shall
preach to him if he isn't.
Eight Cousins
Rose-Milavec said FutureChurch launched Catholic Women
Preach to give women a bigger voice within their current roles in the church because they are often times "misrepresented" and "left out." She also said the technological resources that Catholic Women Preach uses may also help people worldwide who are homebound in regions of world with no access to Mass or the Eucharist.
Initiative elevates women's voices: Catholic Women Preach project showcases women preachers via modern tech
In preaching to millions, who in turn will
preach to their off-spring, then Britain, already seriously deficient in respect (the worst of it being its knife culture), is surely standing on thin ice.
Letter: Ross and Clarkson put us all on thin ice
In the past, Hindu women had not tolerated Dalit women visiting their homes or even walking down their streets; however, women missionaries ambitiously employed Dalit women to accompany them and to
preach to their Hindu counterparts.
Canadian Baptist mission work among women in Andhra, India, 1874-1924: Baptist women evolved a role for themselves in an otherwise male-dominated mission enterprise and a patriarchal Telugu society
He quickly learned that Hill is a Southern Baptist evangelist who unabashedly talks about the need to
preach to public school students.
Extreme evangelism: how fundamentalist preachers are using pizza, motorcycles and even Santa Claus to try to convert public school students--and what you can do about it
I'm a firm believer that only the full-time parish priest can really
preach to his people with full effectiveness, because only he knows what's gone on in the parish for the past week.
Why get to know the historical Jesus?
Careful to add that he is "not here to
preach to any other culture about what's right for it," he added, "I can help to hold up the mirror so that we can really look at ourselves.
Charleston to preach at Synod: Native American bishop plans message of hope
28.19-20 to
preach to all nations applied to him personally.
The Waldensian Dissent: Persecution and Survival, c. 1170-c. 1570
.preaching from the whole spectrum of theological education, something useful might be offered to the church and particularly to those called to
preach to and for the church" (2).
Proclaiming the Gospel: Preaching for the Life of the Church
Warren has been a pacesetter in ministry, preaching to people who are "unchurched." The primary question Warren asks as he prepares to
preach to "seekers" is: "Would this message make sense to a totally unchurched person?" (13) What makes Warren's ideas about preaching important is that they are being adopted by significant numbers of preachers.
A look at Baptist preaching: past, present, and future
Unfortunately, with all the "wiggle room" removed from the canon laws governing preaching with the promulgation of this decree, only men will
preach to the full assembly.
Excluding lay preachers stifles the spirit. (Opinion)