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A pulpit is a raised stand for preachers in a Christian church. The origin of the word is the Latin pulpitum (platform or staging). [1] The traditional pulpit is ...
The chancel of Saint Stephen's Lutheran Church in Allentown; on the side left to the altar is the pulpit from which the Gospel is read by the pastor. On the side right of the altar is the lectern from which the Epistle is read, normatively by a reader.
The Pulpit Commentary is a homiletic commentary on the Bible first published between 1880 and 1919 [1] and created under the direction of Rev. Joseph S. Exell and Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones. It consists of 23 volumes with 22,000 pages and 95,000 entries, and was written over a 30-year period with 100 contributors.
In some churches, the congregation may gather on three sides or in a semicircle around the chancel. In some churches, the pulpit and lectern may be in the chancel, but in others these, especially the pulpit, are in the nave. The presbytery is often adorned with chancel flowers. [5]
Greg Kronz sported the oversized glasses of the day, and a pretty hip beard, when he arrived 30 years ago as the new rector at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on Hilton Head Island.
The post-Biblical Hebrew bima (בּימה), 'platform' or 'pulpit', is almost certainly derived from the Ancient Greek word for a raised platform, bema (βῆμα). A philological link to the Biblical Hebrew bama ( בּמה ), 'high place' has been suggested.
Aug. 29—LIMA — Dr. B. Lamont Monford Sr. has been preaching in the pulpit at Philippian Missionary Baptist Church in Lima for the past 30 years. On Sunday, he marked the milestone at the church.
A pastor in North Texas returned to the pulpit mere months after he turned himself after being accused of sexual assault. In June, Ronnie Goines, 51, turned himself in to Arlington police after ...