Sentences with phrase «addressed by pastors»

Indeed, this widespread and largely irrational fear has become a second epidemic — one that must also be addressed by pastors concerned for people's spiritual health.

Not exact matches

She kept brides from reporting their concerns to my husband by claiming she had full authority, all concerns were to be addressed by her because the pastor didn't want to be bothered by them, the pastor's wife isn't on the wedding committe, etc..

So many people try to silence any pastor's critics by saying that they need to put unity before any problems that need to be addressed.

Platt is joined by a number of white pastors in recent days who have spoken openly about the church's need to address racism in wake of the 50th anniversary Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, including John Piper and Matt Chandler.

Speaking the Christian God may be of some use to local church pastors and worship leaders who address these questions week by week and evaluate alternative trinitarian naming.

Some years ago James Smart observed that one of the reasons the Bible is «strangely silent» in congregations is because pastors are not able to bring a «critical» perspective on Scripture to bear on faith issues.5 With that in mind, I have attempted to address a biblically informed theological reflection to the key issues raised by transition in culture, church, and family.

Any people and pastor wishing to take God's Word in Scripture seriously, therefore, will regularly be asking what issues or values in the surrounding society are addressed by that Word.

If you have an African pastor who expects people to address them by their title and people say «hello mate», then things become tricky.

Deprived of native sympathy for academics and of a sense of ease in dealing with them — indeed, inclined to view them with misgiving — these ecclesiastics did not by instinct address themselves to their institutions in their office as articulate exponents of their faith, nor as pastors, nor as prophets.

Given Driscoll's alarming preoccupation with sex and «masculinity,» and the immaturity with which he has addressed these subjects in the past, one would think Christians would approach this book the way they would approach a book about nutrition written by a pastor who struggles with obesity... (or a book about overcoming procrastination written by me!)

Nevertheless, some themes emerge which form part of the overall thrust of the study and its suggested responses to modernity with which Faith Magazine would not only wish to take issue but would also criticise as harmful to the project of the new evangelisation called for by Pope John Paul and addressed by Cardinal Ratzinger as a theologian and Pope Benedict XVI as the supreme Pastor.

The General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Lagos, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has warned that Nigeria is on the verge of another Civil War following the yet - to - be addressed incessant killings of other Nigerians by herdsmen.

The third is our strength, by which we wear the armor and use the sword.The message in this book, when originally presented by Charles Spurgeon in his final address to his own Pastor's College, was received rapturously and enthusiastically.