• One may question why proper rhetorical structure is necessary in high and sacred calling of preaching. Richard L. Mayhue gives good answers to that question as he speaks‚ “None of these three elements [introduction‚ illustrations‚ and conclusion] can replace the Holy Spirit’s work of impacting people with the power of God’s word. However‚ to ignore or minimize these proven features of good communication makes a preacher negligent in exercising his human responsibility to be as effective as possible
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‘Art and Death in the Colonial Andes’ by Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt ‘Art and Death in the Colonial Andes’ by Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt centered on various paintings done in the western European style that were used as objects of worship for the push of Catholicism on the Andean people during Spanish colonization. Stratton-Pruitt argues that the paintings depict four main elements. These ‘four last things’ constitute death‚ judgment‚ hell‚ and heaven‚ and she discussed their appearance in several examples
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letters. As James Gregory states‚ “Authors of the New Testament were Jewish and did utilize Jewish exegetical methods‚ they also used Greek rhetorical features when composing their documents” (Gregory). Some examples of Greek rhetoric include‚ “the Sermon on the Mount…deliberative‚ Jesus’ speech and prayer in John 13-17…epideictic‚ and 2nd Corinthians…forensic” (Gregory). This means that New Testament writers explained how Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament storyline as well as used the common persuasion
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gOf all the Muslim rulers who ruled vast territories of India from 712 to 1857 C.E.‚ probably no one generates as much controversy as Aurangzeb. He has been hailed as anyone from a “Saintly or Pauper Emperor” to one who “tried hard to convert Hindus into Muslims.” Depending on one’s religious rearing‚ one will favor one view over the other. For example‚ most Hindus castigate Aurangzeb as a religious Muslim‚ who was anti-Hindu‚ who taxed them‚ who tried to convert them‚ who discriminated them away
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hiding from the townspeople. The people murmur about Hooper’s dreadfully changed appearance‚ questioning if it is truly his face behind the veil or if he has lost his sanity. When Hooper walks to the pulpit‚ all eyes fixate on the blackveil. His sermon topic concerns the secret sins that people hide from their closest associations‚ even from their own consciousness‚ forgetting
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Martin Luther King Jr. wrote Strength to Love‚ but it is more of an assembly of his sermons. The emphasis of his sermons was of segregation in the U.S. This segregation he refers to is racial segregation. MLK provides the readers with ways to overcome this segregation and to make the world a better place‚ more of having God’s love at our core. He talks about having a tough mind and a tender heart and how if we give into society’s peer pressures that we can turn into the rich fool. It is okay to conform
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Lutherans in their ways of singing and being present in sermons. It goes into further detail to proclaim that the Catholic Church schedule must not be interfered with or pushed back whatsoever. In (Doc9)‚ the contract between Franciscan Friar Egidius de Glabbais and the Committee of Regents of the city of Amsterdam authorized the opening of a new Catholic Church in 1691. In further detail‚ it describes how the entrance must for church sermons and such must be moved from the main street to an alleyway
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be coming back to us where there will be everlasting communion with God. 6. Church Building three elements of the church architecture/design 7. The order of worship- first is worshiping and then pray‚ and then sermon and then tithing‚ notice‚ blessing. 8. The Sermon- this is different for different pastors because they each have their own style. It is mostly in formal language and the time is 20minutes or above. 9. The Pastor- the term Pastor is used and there is a youth pastor
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the metaphors of God’s wrath “is like great waters that are dammed for the present‚” (Edwards). All of the negative connotations connected to the relationship between God and man delivers a guilty feeling for his audience. By the end of Edwards’s sermon‚ he offers the sinners and atheist the hope of God’s salvation which only comes through the belief in
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women in the church that have been having some problems in their marriage or maybe someone that got drunk Mon-Sat. and came to church on Sunday morning. The pastor would sometimes even preach a sermon about "going to hell" if he saw a person sitting in service he knew was a drunk directing the sermon right at them. The usher’s would make comments about a well-known women in the community that sold liquor out of her home such as “she know she is going to hell selling that devil juice” or “did you
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