Sentences with phrase «as a ministry for»

First, people think of Christian education as a ministry for children.

We operate as a ministry for our PCA church.

Not exact matches

On Thursday, a spokesman for China's commerce ministry signaled Beijing has anti-trust concerns about Qualcomm Inc.'s $ 44 billion purchase of NXP Semiconductors, a Dutch firm, a move trade experts on both sides of the Pacific interpreted as a direct response to the ZTE ban.

Najib Danish, a spokesman for the interior ministry, said a suicide bomber appeared to have posed as a media worker and blew himself up where reporters and rescue workers had gathered.

As far back as 2002, while vice minister, Kuroda used an opinion column in the Financial Times, co-written with his deputy at the finance ministry, to call for «aggressive monetary policy» from the central bank, including an inflation target, aimed at «drastically changing price expectations.&raquAs far back as 2002, while vice minister, Kuroda used an opinion column in the Financial Times, co-written with his deputy at the finance ministry, to call for «aggressive monetary policy» from the central bank, including an inflation target, aimed at «drastically changing price expectations.&raquas 2002, while vice minister, Kuroda used an opinion column in the Financial Times, co-written with his deputy at the finance ministry, to call for «aggressive monetary policy» from the central bank, including an inflation target, aimed at «drastically changing price expectations.»

«It's extremely regrettable and I apologise for this,» Aso told reporters, when asked whether he felt responsible as head of the ministry involved in the alterations.

Sagawa headed the ministry division that submitted the documents before he was tapped as tax agency chief in July, an appointment critics saw as a reward for his efforts to diffuse the issue with his statements to parliament last year.

Graham's relationships with U.S. presidents also boosted his ministry and became a source of pride for conservative Christians who were so often caricatured as backward.

The Dutch embassy in Ankara and consulate in Istanbul have been sealed off for «security reasons», Turkish foreign ministry sources said on March 11, as tensions soar between Turkey and the Netherlands after a Dutch ban on the Turkish foreign minister's visit.

After serving as a senior pastor for 15 years, he left the ministry for corporate America, joining Anadarko, an oil and gas company, as HR manager.

«A responsible source at the Foreign ministry expressed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's full support for the American military operations on military targets in Syria, which came as a response to the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons against innocent civilians,» a statement released by state news agency SPA said on Friday.

The finance ministry had published an earlier draft of the latter bill on its website in January 2018, and noted that the central bank took exception to a provision that would allow decentralized cryptocurrencies to be traded on exchanges for other digital assets as well as for fiat money.

Azari - Jahromi, Iran's youngest minister and known as an innovator, said in a tweet in February that his ministry's Post Bank had been working with local experts on an experimental cryptocurrency model that would be presented to the country's banks for review and possible approval.

The German foreign ministry welcomed his comments and ministry officials underscored the Saudi role in pushing for an Arab peace initiative as early as 2002.

Before the «Dispensation of Grace» of God, by which we are saved through «Faith in Jesus Christ» as Lord and our personal Savior, Jesus Christ fulfilled the «Law of God» on our behalf during His ministry on earth, died on the «Holy Cross» for the «Remission of Our Sins» once and for all, descended to hell and defeated death, then rose from the dead on the third day bringing us «Eternal Life» and «Reconciliation» with God the Father!

Gary wrong again, Gary wrong again: I was a guest before this on this blog: Even check out Martin Zender; The World's most outspoken bible scholar facebook; You will find me there; he knows me, and his crew knows of me; Father has others too that have been with me for years that are not in my city through their ministries also that have come up along side of me, but I do not want you to come against them as they have their own trials to overcome, therefore; no names given there, they also know me and my testimony: I am God's workmanship therefore, I was brought up in Christ along side witnesses as His testimony: Gary; this is going to be shocking, but because God does not inform you of a thing, means to me, that He has kept very much from you: Now why would that be?

Thanks for the insight, I pray that when I finally make into the ministry (as a pastor), that I don't fall into the trap of, «people - pleasing».

The group operates a ministry called Indelible Grace Music, which seeks to be a resource to the church by writing original hymns as well as new melodies for traditional hymns (usually simple folk or bluegrass tunes).

For me it is now no longer a question of male vs female «ministers,» but rather what constitutes real ministry as opposed to simply another religious exercise.

I don't think that anyone (here, at least) would say that there's no room for women in * any * ministry in the church, but perhaps that there are certain ministries that women are more equipped for (both «more equipped for as women» and «more equipped for than men»).

«Jesus is Lord» is a proposition, but a proposition that compels assent only when Jesus» earthly ministry, death, and resurrection are understood as (collectively) the pivotal and definitive moment in the long history of God's covenantal love for His erring people.

Nestled in the picturesque Bavarian Alps, Ettal became a sanctuary for Bonhoeffer as he found himself zwischen den Zeiten — still officially a pastor of the Confessing Church charged with training ordinands for ministry, yet drawn inexorably into a conspiracy against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime.

The New Testament (except Revelations for a different reason) is to be trusted as events that happened, since Christian faith relies on the premise that Christ's ministry did occur.

As for what this priest wrote, he forgets that most Catholic parishes, at least in the USA, depend very heavily on retired men and women to help out with many parish duties, from helping to serve communion at daily Mass to assisting with the front office or helping out with various ministries, so to say seniors have been forgotten by the Church is not true...

Voice of the Martyrs, a persecution ministry that operates a popular and powerful Facebook page in which American Christians post prayers for persecuted Christians around the world, has highlighted Easter persecution, as well.

As I explored the farm with my host, Clint Hail of e3 Partners, another Dallas - based ministry, we fell into conversation with Kebe Cummings, a recovering addict, and Mark Carter, who had recently finished a long prison sentence for selling heroin.

Today, we accept, sometimes even admire, communes, divorcées, and spinsters — and make provision for them in our laws of taxation, property, and zoning as well as in our pastoral, diaconal, and pedagogical ministries.

Trying to birth the ministry was so hard and I had so much opposition, and for me as a woman in ministry, when I started 40 years ago, it was very unheard of and unpopular... you got a lot of judgement and criticism for it.

The first is that discipleship precedes and provides the premise for ministry: formation as disciples within groups is therefore a necessary preparation for their ministry.

«Just as any parent enjoys watching their kids have fun, God delights in watching His children enjoy what money can buy,» Brown writes on the website for his ministry.

During this year's convention of the National Association of Evangelicals, Blair, an NAE member, launched a group called Evangelicals Concerned, which is described as «an educational task force for ministry with homosexuals and their families and churches.»

Now, for the first time, nine men will be ordained together by an English Bishop who can give them regular oversight as they begin their ministries.

The Wesleyans did not see the biblical injunctions against the ministry of women as providing a norm and pattern for all time.

A profound Christian revival of local congregations might be too much to hope for as a consequence of coming to grips with inclusive language, if there were not another factor common to most of the churches that have taken inclusive language seriously: they are also the churches most likely to be open to the ministry of ordained women.

Mark understands, as Markan scholar Joel Marcus notes, «the preparation of the Lord's way in a rather prosaic manner as the arrangements people make for the ministry of Jesus.»

As he finds the self - oblation and self - immolation of Christ in the Mass, he knows that «in the likeness of Christ, he has to give himself, body and soul, to be «bread broken for you» in the ministry of Christ.»

Filled with beauty, hard truth, and brave vulnerability, Jesus Feminist urges the church to stop asking «man or woman» as a qualification for ministry and to start helping everyone find freedom in the fullness, hope, glory, and work of Christ.

He was to put aside things which were not in any way bad in themselves, but indeed good in themselves, so as to be completely dedicated to God in prayer and pastoral ministry (The Case for Clerical Celibacy, p. 99).

John Paul II explained that this was to be seen as a gesture in recognition of the spiritual value of their previous ministry in the separated churches The conditions involved keeping the actual office of Parish Priest for celibate clergy.

Cardinal Stickler in his The Case for Clerical Celibacy (first published 1993, English edition Ignatius, 1995) summed up the crisis as not only priests renouncing their ministry and fewer vocations but also a «profound secularization» by many who stay in active ministry (p. 85).

As Lynne (wife) and I have watched this, it has been extremely painful for us to see this controversy continue to be a distraction that is hindering our Elders and church staff, as well as the WCA (Willow Creek Association) staff, from carrying out the work of these fantastic ministries.&raquAs Lynne (wife) and I have watched this, it has been extremely painful for us to see this controversy continue to be a distraction that is hindering our Elders and church staff, as well as the WCA (Willow Creek Association) staff, from carrying out the work of these fantastic ministries.&raquas well as the WCA (Willow Creek Association) staff, from carrying out the work of these fantastic ministries.&raquas the WCA (Willow Creek Association) staff, from carrying out the work of these fantastic ministries.»

This is true in Moody's case as it engages in necessary changes to adapt its ministries for the future.

Paul Nyquist, president of Moody Global Ministries, referenced «challenging ministry trends and financial demands over the next decade» as the reason for the shift.

As a result, others may seem better suited for ministry than you.

After twelve years in ministry, she is transitioning to a new role as Program Coordinator for a foundation serving high school students in NYC and Kalamazoo, MI.

But I hope we can stay engaged for the sake of a healthier future for all of what was once known as the «emerging» ministry movement from which New Calvinism / Mars Hill, Emergent Village / Emergent, missional, post-evangelical, progressive, and other movements sifted themselves out.

In fact, he used Namaan's healing by Elisha as the ancient Hebrew warrant for his own ministry to the gentiles: «There were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Namaan the Syrian» (Luke 4:27).

For 17 years, after a mid-life call to ministry, she answered to Pastor Diana in two churches where she served as Associate Pastor.

Yet there are some ministries there are culturally relevant; ones that truly work within the community for its good, rather than as means to feed the machine.

If, as was maintained in the «60s, the church is mission, then the overarching image for the total ministry must be more assertive.