Sentences with phrase «church teaching to our students»

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Perhaps the most important thing I can teach my students — and that we can teach one another in the church — is to delight in the goodness of creation and re-creation.

If we learn to teach with different foci and emphases, perhaps with less isolation from one another and more emphasis on the needs of students, the church, and the world, can we affect the ways in which our guilds function?

Latorre is presently an accountant in a government agency, has taught Sunday School and Bible Studies for twenty four years, and is a Lay Speaker in the United Methodist Church, speaking to students at high school and adult levels in many churches, including his own.

Most of our missionaries are recent college graduates who return to the college campus and invite students into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and his Church and inspire and equip them for a lifetime of Christ - centered evangelization, discipleship, and friendships in which they teach other to do the same.

Washington (CNN)-- Liberty University students and alumni are accusing the Christian school of violating its own teachings by asking Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints whose adherents are called Mormons, to deliver its 2012 commencement address.

I did talk with one other student who picked a church for the pastor's teaching, but I listened to this pastor's sermons online, and it was nothing but fluff and stories.

Almost a century and a half after Clement of Rome, Clement of Alexandria and his brilliant student Origen were self - consciously affirming, not that Christianity was like paideia, not that it could simply make use of received paideia, but that Christianity is paideia, given by God in Jesus Christ, turning on a radical conversion possible only by the Holy Spirit's help, and taught only indirectly by study of divinely inspired Scriptures in the social context of the church understood to be in some ways a school.

While, to be sure, the effect of such work is presently restricted to faculties and students in universities and schools of theology, the profound change in process will inevitably be projected in the preached and taught messages of the churches.

This gets into one of the biggest, yet, from what I have seen, least addressed issues in the House - Church movement: «How to teach the Bible, when there is an ever expanding crowd of students?»

The current division of theological studies into Bible, history, theology, ethics and practical theology reflects a very old Theological Encyclopedia, but one whose foundations in a theology of the Word, of teaching office, of church and ministry, if not discredited, are at least invisible to present - day students — probably because many of them simply do not share the old consensus about the church which produced this Theological Encyclopedia.

From that shocking conviction of faith, Luther was able to go forth teaching, preaching, raising a family, running from authorities, sulking in protective custody in two castles, translating the Bible, writing hymns, eating and drinking with students and colleagues, maladministering the new congregations of evangelicals, struggling for freedom, devising pragmatic polities for the churches, becoming a public and political figure, defying pope and emperor and developing a Christ - centered theology.

Students were released from classes to attend religious instruction of their choice taught either at a church or synagogue or by teachers who came to the school for that purpose.

Under the combined efforts of the various groups mentioned, plus the activity of the National Council of Churches, these students flocked to summer training sessions to prepare themselves to participate in teaching programs, in health programs, and in demonstration programs wherever they were needed.

Dr. Robert J. McCracken, pastor of New York's Riverside Church, tells how, in his teaching days, a college student enthusiastically urged him to read The Communist Manifesto.

More recently we have attempted to enlarge further the shared experiential base of faculty and students by having courses taught in local churches — not just practical courses, but Bible and theology.

Of course, I do not teach church history here as I would a university course, but with a view to helping a student make some sense out of the whole Christian heritage and to apply insights to actual pastoral issues.

The fact that the students from abstinence backgrounds frequently begin drinking outside their homes, without their parents» knowledge and in opposition to their religious teachings (which would tend to arouse guilt), and with no ethical guidelines from their churches to distinguish responsible from irresponsible drinking, also may contribute to the high incidence of problem drinking behavior.

Any sex and relationship programme must allow students to come to understand their sexuality, know what the Church teaches and learn how to ive chaste lives.

Well I'm a student in school trying to accomplish my BA in elementary education... and I work as a teacher at a daycare.I also teach at my church nursery... I have my own place and car... I like to chill... hang with my girls... shop... go out to bar....

In addition to core studies in English, math, science, history, languages, and the fine arts, students take a required sequence in religion and philosophy: 6th - grade students study the Apostles» Creed and the saints; in the 7th grade, they focus on the Church and the Ten Commandments; 8th graders conduct an overview of the Bible and the Sacraments; 9th - grade students study the Old Testament, the Apologetics, and C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity; the 10th - grade focus is the New Testament and Church history; 11th grade introduces metaphysics and ethics; and the 12th - grade course features the philosophy and social teachings of the Catholic Church.

Back in Australia, Lynch went back to teaching in classrooms in Melbourne's Ferntree Gully and then in Tasmania, where he was subsequently asked to run a residence set up by the Catholic Church for students attending the University of Tasmania.

As schools adapt to the necessary and imminent integration of technology in education, Bishop Perowne Church of England College in Worcestershire has become the first school in the UK to use an online piano learning platform to assist in the teaching and learning ofmusic students.

The mission of the Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of New York is to ensure our schools are Christ - centered, academically excellent, and welcoming communities that teach students to be life - long learners and leaders energized by fidelity to Christ, the Church, and one another.

She has taught the Bible for 25 years, teaching at every level, from children's church, to middle school, high school, college students, and adults.

Teacher — Duties & Responsibilities Teach financial management classes focused on budgeting, credit, home buying, and foreclosure prevention Instruct leadership development classes utilizing the DISC Personality Profile Assessment Model Administer DISC Assessment Tool, analyze students results, and build student leadership profiles Implement multiple teaching techniques to reach audiences of varying learning styles and abilities Design and implement challenging and captivating curriculum resulting in student engagement Responsible for one on one instruction and lecture - based learning for classes as large as 50 students Experienced in both youth and adult education instruction techniques and subject matter Plan and administer Bible based education and development classes for Abundant Life Church Lead classes in vision, program, mission, and leadership development for church members and leaders Actively serve on multiple nonprofit boards focused on education and community development Lecture on leadership development, financial responsibility, and other topics at community funChurch Lead classes in vision, program, mission, and leadership development for church members and leaders Actively serve on multiple nonprofit boards focused on education and community development Lecture on leadership development, financial responsibility, and other topics at community funchurch members and leaders Actively serve on multiple nonprofit boards focused on education and community development Lecture on leadership development, financial responsibility, and other topics at community functions

I also served on staff part - time from 2008 - 2011 at Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Dallas, TX where I was primarily responsible to care for the youth staff, provide crisis counseling for students and families in the youth department, and teach bi-monthly parenting classes for parents of youth.

Prior to Vatican Council II, the Church tended to think of catechesis ~ and marriage preparation ~ as a process best accomplished by trained teachers (experts) and education / formation was a «one way» street (the teacher taught, the student learned).