What's the difference between prophesying and sermon?

Prophesying


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prophesy

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Staff say the most popular exhibits are interactive displays about end-of-the-world prophesies, though they stress that 21 December simply marks the change from one 5,125 year-era to another.
  • (2) This became clear in bizarre fashion last year, after a woman in Fort Mill, South Carolina, prophesied that Bristol was about to become “the healing capital of England”.
  • (3) You are the first writer I know of to have prophesied Ronald Reagan as president.
  • (4) In 1940, Henry Ford prophesied that “a combination of airplane and motorcar is coming.
  • (5) Yet it has also been one of the most self-confident fields in prophesying that it will soon achieve the ultimate breakthrough.
  • (6) Four were arrested in Hebei and Sichuan provinces for distributing cataclysm-themed leaflets, and another four in the south-western metropolis Chongqing for prophesying via megaphone on the city's streets.
  • (7) Bugarach, a tiny French village in the foothills of the Pyrenees, was – according to an internet rumour no one has ever got to the bottom of – said by Mayans to be the only place on Earth to survive the apocalypse prophesied for 21 December.
  • (8) This paper addresses the questions of how older, regular users learn to live with these apparent contradictions, how they are influenced by legal sanctions and informal controls, and why they have not (as prophesied in the early 1970s) become an active force for drug law reform.
  • (9) The Spearman-Brown Prophesy formula, derived from psychometrics, may be used in anthropometric studies to describe the relationship between the intraclass reliability coefficient for a single measurement and the reliability resulting from the mean of replicate measurements.
  • (10) The 89-year-old Californian preacher had prophesied that the Rapture would begin at 6pm in each of the world's time zones, with those "saved" by Jesus ascending to heaven and the non-believers being wiped out by an earthquake rolling from city to city across the planet.
  • (11) Having casually prophesied the death of Robbie Williams and co, Moir moves on to her main point: that Gately's death strikes her as a bit fishy .
  • (12) But, he added, persecution was "no surprise for Christians because Jesus prophesied it".
  • (13) Although these prophesies have been proven false, many physiological alterations do occur in microgravity conditions.
  • (14) The intensive-care pediatrician who prophesies to parents that their child's illness is irreversible may encounter denial and hostility.
  • (15) It’s impossible to say who will win Unite’s election, but the outcome is not a prophesy for Unite’s support of Corbyn Thus, if Coyne was to become the next general secretary of Unite, it’s likely he would find his hands are tied.
  • (16) When he first read Heart of Darkness , Lindqvist took Conrad to be prophesying what was coming rather than writing about what he had seen.
  • (17) It would be ironic were the trash talk to become a self-fulfilling prophesy, resulting in weaker than expected growth, revenue downgrades and a budget deficit blow out.
  • (18) "The contagion that is eating its way through the Spanish and Italian and other European bond markets has a self-prophesying element to it.
  • (19) Labour in turmoil as it tries to prophesy its future from its past Read more Harman, who will call for non-party members to be invited to public hustings in parts of the country where Labour failed to win, will say: “We will have strict rules to ensure there is a level playing field for each one of the candidates.
  • (20) Some Chinese people have found less subversive ways of dealing with the prophesy.

Sermon


Definition:

  • (n.) A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer.
  • (n.) Specifically, a discourse delivered in public, usually by a clergyman, for the purpose of religious instruction and grounded on some text or passage of Scripture.
  • (n.) Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a depreciatory sense.
  • (v. i.) To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon.
  • (v. t.) To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
  • (v. t.) To tutor; to lecture.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As plantation owners go, Ford is a kindly sort: he delivers sermons and permits his slaves moments of humanity, even giving Northup a violin.
  • (2) As over-the-top as Ray Lewis often seems in his sermonizing give him this: when football is at its most dramatic it really does at least feel like there's something akin to a divine plan at work.
  • (3) 'If they want a war of religions, we are ready,' Hassan Sharaf, an imam in Nablus, said in his sermon.
  • (4) If it felt like an epiphany for Benn, it was more like a Sermon on the Mount to his Labour colleagues.
  • (5) "I acknowledge that Superman sermon notes are definitely not for every pastor or church setting.
  • (6) The elusive Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi , who on 29 June proclaimed a "caliphate" straddling Syria and Iraq, made his appeal in a sermon delivered on Friday, in the militant-held northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
  • (7) The grace that Reverend Pinckney would preach about in his sermons.
  • (8) • • • As I am leaving Rock Springs behind me, fiddling with the radio to find something other than pop music, Christian sermons, commercials or Christmas songs, I think back to what Alex said about his hope that Donald Trump would bring change.
  • (9) The unresolved problem, as King complained a year ago at Mansion House, was that the Bank had become like a vicar whose congregation attends weddings and burials but ignores the sermons in between.
  • (10) Not for him Mr Osborne’s crowd-pleasing flourishes or Gordon Brown’s sermons from the manse.
  • (11) A vicar of Waresley used to visit this wood every week for divine inspiration, walking the paths, writing sermons in his head.
  • (12) At a small store on the side of the road, young men sat at computers copying the sermons of Awlaki, the al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and other household names of the global jihad.
  • (13) A man purporting to be the leader of the Sunni extremist group that has declared an Islamic state in territory it controls in Iraq and Syria has made what would be his first public appearance, delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq's second-largest city, according to a video posted online on Saturday.
  • (14) April 2002 Police in Germany find recordings of some of his radical sermons in a home used by some of the September 11 attackers.
  • (15) In a sermon earlier this week, the radical cleric called for a widening of the violent insurrection in Libya, encouraging "revolutionaries" to target Bayda, the home of the government, and Tobruk, where parliament has fled to.
  • (16) In his Easter sermon at Canterbury Cathedral, Justin Welby said: “In the shadow of Brussels, with the memory of Srebrenica, hope can seem far, far away.
  • (17) He said: “They gave us their sermon, their speech, the why they were there.
  • (18) He was not a Christian then: he had had the conventional upper-class socialisation of tedious hymns and meaningless sermons, which normally functions as a vaccine against religious fervour.
  • (19) He’s also a convert to Catholicism whose conservative zeal possibly outstrips the pope’s, a master of the upper-middlebrow reactionary style originated by William F Buckley, and the owner of a Twitter account specializing in bad predictions and more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger sermonizing.
  • (20) Then the delivery, reminding me by the end of my mother's out-of-body sermon crescendos as she preached with me in tow from church to Pentecostal church.

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