Other failures followed, as a preacher and a teacher.
Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
Surely the future belonged to the cynical secularists such as Bierce rather than the tongue-speaking preacher like Seymour?
I don't know how some in today's church got the false idea that the preacher is a servant and the folks in the pews are just members.
In 1999 he produced a counterblast to Tina, "Takin 'Back My Name", in which he described his preacher-father's beating by a white mob and a stepfather who thrashed him with barbed wire.
There was this preacher who was an avid golfer.
HAROLD CAMPING, the radio preacher who inaccurately forecast that the Apocalypse would begin on May 21st, made a rookie's mistake.
He is an intensely emotional preacher, whose tearful sermons seem to strike a deep chord in his listeners; but the movement he heads is remarkably pragmatic and businesslike.
We have the blind preacher.
At some point a preacher appears and delivers a lengthy sermon.
A seminary professor plays the tapes of a local radio preacher who quotes the Bible regularly, reminding people to practice punctuality, good parenting, and business propriety.
"We cannot walk alone," the preacher cried.
Often their Jesus turned out to be an inspirational preacher who bore a suspicious resemblance to a 19th century German.
He beat Mr McCain among self-described conservatives, but on Super Tuesday he must fight for this group with Mike Huckabee, a former preacher and governor of Arkansas who is strong in the South.
Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Egyptian-born star preacher on the al Jazeera satellite channel, has proved a powerful cheerleader for protest movements everywhere.
Most people simply took what was spoken by the preacher as an unquestionable truth.
The rings please, " the preacher said.
Evangelicals may love a hollering Southern preacher; swing voters are not so sure.
Not only were there guys walking around with puppets, there was a puppet Ministry run by a preacher who sold his own line of dummies (Satan was the most expensive).
Now they are returning home and the unemployed mason, who is also a preacher, quotes Ecclesiastes: "A time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot.
