Sentences with phrase «as a christian minister»

His credibility as a Christian minister is shot so his opinion has no value here.

Therefore, in our roles as Christian ministers, we, the undersigned, commit ourselves to disengaging civil and Christian marriage in the performance of our pastoral duties.

To put it bluntly — and to focus solely upon the most important issue that I, as a Christian minister, must consider — I will state it as follows: Because Mormonism is a church of Satan, and Mitt Romney, in his leadership role (s) in this insidious and abominable cult, is a disciple of Satan, no Christian can support his campign.

To put it bluntly — and to focus solely upon the most important issue that I, as a Christian minister, must consider — I will state it as follows: Because Mormonism is a church of Satan, and Mitt Romney, in his leadership role (s) in this insidious and abominable cult, is a disciple of Satan, no Christian can support his candidacy.

My GUESS is that he not only liked them but, as a Christian minister, felt Christian love and compassion toward them.

So my full time job now is as a Christian minister.

It is an open question whether the court in Welsh would have condoned an undercover officer posing as a Christian minister claiming to have power to affect police investigations through prayer.

Not exact matches

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, Home Secretary Theresa May and Lord Chancellor Michael Gove, all Christians, as well as former London Mayor Boris Johnson are all thought to be favourites to become the next Prime Minister.

As a child, I remember our minister saying that in the early years of Christianity pagans would remark, «See those Christians, how they love one another.»

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Back then, during his first bid for president, he faced opposition from candidates including Mike Huckabee, a former Baptist minister and favorite of evangelical voters who billed himself as the «Christian leader.»

«We were not acting out of hate, as many thought,» says Douglas Hacker, pastor of the Sherwood Oaks Christian Church, whose views represent another group of ministers who disagreed with Miller's statement.

jazzguitarman: Suffice to say that, as a «center - left» evangelical minister, I have been actively «fighting» the so - called Christian Right for at least two decades.

Though seminary faculties like to affirm, in principle, a relationship between Christian theology and the life of the church, academic theology tends to view the ministering congregation as an addendum to the really interesting issues of ethics, philosophical and political theology, or social policy.

As long as you keep getting your information from a tainted source (read a christian minister or catholic priest that spins information for their own benefit), you will continue to look ignorant to facts and the trutAs long as you keep getting your information from a tainted source (read a christian minister or catholic priest that spins information for their own benefit), you will continue to look ignorant to facts and the trutas you keep getting your information from a tainted source (read a christian minister or catholic priest that spins information for their own benefit), you will continue to look ignorant to facts and the truth.

Some Iraqi church leaders and politicians such as Prime Minister Nuri al - Maliki have been discouraging Iraqi Christians, one of the oldest Christian civilizations in the world, from leaving.

As the prime minister of Pakistan visited the scene of the Muslim nation's worst Christian persecution in recent memory Thursday, observers wondered if the violence will finally prompt the repeal of the country's notorious blasphemy laws.

«So I think that Christians in all honesty, are doing as much as they can but to be told that they're unkind neighbours and that they're neglecting their families in the way that these two ministers have said - I think it's both ignorance on the part of the ministers and I think it's an insult to the Christians who are working like hamsters on a wheel to do their very best.»

Christians should burn their copies of the NT for the 2000 year old con job that has been perpetuated on them by popes, bishops, priests, ministers and evangelicals such as Osteen.

It matters not whether we be conservative or liberal, traditionalist or modernist; in whatever category we may be placed, or place ourselves, the fact remains that insofar as we are Christian ministers, ordained by Christ in his Church to be his ministering agents, our preaching can be nothing other than the proclamation of God's Word for the wholeness of men.

Most Christians believe David Cameron's time as prime minister has been bad for British believers, according to a new poll, while 81 % believe Britain is going in the wrong direction morally.

Christian ministers attacked it as a book from the devil.

Most of us were trained to minister to a culture that had a Christian baseline, but we weren't trained how to reach people who don't accept the Bible as true or know about Christ.

[2] One apparent exception to this is Christian Identity and Theological Education by Joseph C. Hough, Jr., and John B. Cobb., Jr. (Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press, 1985), who make a point of stressing that theological education must have as its end or telos the education of ministers (pp.4 - 5).

Moreover, these problems are such that the theologian may be able to say something about them which will be relevant to the whole enterprise of Christian thought and communication, as this is focused in the preaching office of the minister.

Only the notion of specifically Christian maturing and the special means appropriate to that end are finally of use to ministers as prophetic guides to maturing in the Christian life, since it is part of the confessing consciousness of the churches they lead that Christian faith and life are not the same as in any other religion.

A speech delivered on behalf of the Scottish Government's minister for community safety and legal affairs, Roseanna Cunningham MSP, praised the work of Christian organisations such as the Salvation Army's Greenock Floating Support services, Christians Against Poverty and the Bethany Christian Trust.

Perhaps in no other area of clerical practice do the master role of prophetic guide to maturing in the Christian life and the professional role called for by the institution blend so nearly into one as in the case of the minister as pastor.

The definition of worship as «the celebration of life» was coined by Chicago's UU minister Von Ogden Vogt (who also guided the construction of a Gothic UU church freighted with symbolism but devoid of any traditional Christian symbols beyond the cruciform floor plan!).

This, however, does not mean that there can not be serious differences of theologi - cal opinion within the Church, nor that a Christian could never refuse to obey a certain particular order of a minister of the Church because his conscience considers it as incompatible with justice or charity, despite the minister's good faith.

The fact that this authority comes from Christ in no way contradicts a democratic manner of appointing its ministers, nor does it contradict the fact that their decisions are determined by the nature of man as well as by the gospel in such a way that they are not without relation to the will of the Christian people.

But I've also got a nagging feeling that something isn't right, that even if homosexuality is a sin, Christians haven't been handling it the way they should... and if it isn't a sin, then we've forever damaged our ability to minister in the world as followers of Christ.

When it is done well, it ministers to every level of Christian maturing as well as to crowd interests.

«Law - abiding citizens, such as Christians, could be caught by the vague definitions of extremism that get bandied about when ministers are trying to talk tough.

Or, one could take a more Gnostic approach and turn the whole story round on Yahweh, indicting him, as did early Christian ministers like Valentinus.

You do know that Harvard was founded as a Christian University to train ministers of the gospel.

He lived and died a minister of the Christian Church, as his father had before him.

A number of factors account for these striking differences, but certainly key among them is the high status of the rabbinate, which goes hand - in - hand with starting salaries as much as twice as high as beginning salaries for Christian ministers.

In an interview with The Politico, University of Virginia theologian Charles Marsh, author of Wayward Christian Soldiers and the son of a Southern Baptist minister, stated: [68] «As someone who grew up in Mississippi and Alabama during the civil rights movement,... my reading is that the conservative Christian movement never was able to distinguish itself from the segregationist movement, and that is one of the reasons I find so much of the rhetoric familiar — and unsettling.

After attending the Institute for Creation Research in San Diego and Dallas Theological Seminary, he served as youth minister at a large Baptist church in San Diego and taught science at the affiliated Christian high school.

But if these learning processes have been undergone, through experience as well as thinking, then it is unthinkable that preaching and pastoral care, rightly understood and humbly practiced, can be in fundamental contradiction within the functions of the Christian minister.

As white Christians, my sister who is a minister and my father who is a WWII vet will be voting for Obama because they believe he better represents the values of Christ.

On the part of the minister there is an empathetic or phenomenological concern for the attitudes of all the other people (and their conditions such as broken arms) to all serious things, including Christian faith but not confined to it, regardless of the existing content of those views and conditions.

A constructive image of evangelizing requires a review of contemporary methods like revivalism and mission, and leads to the concept of the Christian, whether minister or layman, encountering others, whether as individuals or in a group, in a discussion of their expressed needs, and depends more on attitudes than techniques.

In terms of functions performed, the other Christian may be said to be as truly ministering to the minister as he may be said to be ministering to them.

The «bounds of possible thought» about nuclear weapons may be set by the prevailing «nukespeak,» as Paul Chilton has pointed out (in Nukespeak [Comedia Publishing, 1982]-RRB- But through persistent «peacespeak» they can also be expanded, much as the bounds of possible thought about race were expanded by the civil rights movement — under the image - sensitive leadership of Christian ministers.

Tyagi Bill supported by the Prime Minister Desai restricting religious conversion and also the discrimination of scheduled caste converts to Christianity in the special benefits to people of the scheduled caste background, may be mentioned as violations of the covenant on the part of the State; and the Christian people have been unhappy at giving up minority communal safeguards and many efforts to organize Christian political parties off and on have been made in several states especially in the South by Christians.

While many ministers argued that evolution had undermined the Bible as a source of Christian insight and practice and while others argued that the new historical critical approach destroyed all reverence for the Book, a history - making event occurred.

Here we are in the realm of speculation, of course, but we can say this at least: no preacher who knows his business and who is aware of «the wideness of God's mercy» can dare to talk as if only those who have visibly and expressly professed Christian faith are the concern of a deity whose «nature and name» is Love, Thus the preaching of the ordained minister must necessarily err, if it errs at all, on the side of generosity and charity.

Ordained ministering is in no way separate from the wider ministry of Christian people; it is «distinct» from that wider ministry, in that it functions for as it also represents the service which is proper to all who belong to the Church.