Sentences with phrase «as a preacher who»

As a preacher who shakes hands, I believe worship leaders have a quite different job: to expose illusions at every turn, including the illusion that they are something more than fellow players in the drama of worship.

Others have seen him as a preacher who was close to the Pharisees.

Owen: As the preacher who promotes list - building for artists, I can't believe I forgot this very important point.

Not exact matches

In closing arguments, Gowdy gave a powerful description of victim Ricky Samuel's last moments as he was lured to a pond by the accused, who posed as a preacher to get Samuel's confidence.

One big problem today is that the world is full of preachers who don't have the guts to tell the truth and just give people their weekly feel good and sent them out into the world just as lost as they ever were.

I had the delight of going immediately from Canberra to Singapore, where I visited friends who are serving the church there as seminary teachers and preachers.

Oh, by the way, the time after jesus or christ whatever you want to call this preacher that did good for the barbarians who lived 2000 years ago and then abandoned them and left them with what was supposed to be a time of enlightenment and spritual awaking but turned out to be almost as bloodinga time period as the old testament.

Certainly it can do nothing for the confidence or the credibility of preachers who still invoke those norms in other areas of sexual behavior such as chastity, adultery, and, not least, homosexuality.

Also, I couldn't quite get this into words as I was writing before, so: I am believe that I am correct in my view of Scripture as it has been handed down to me from teachers, preachers, writers and others; I believe that I am correct in my beliefs about who God is, and about His self - revelation, in the same way that all people believe that the opinions they hold are true.

The son who God gave would grow up to become a carpenter - turned - itinerant preacher with a heart of compassion for the people the world had trampled as it fed its scarcity fears.

I agree that there are conartist who masquerade as preachers and healers and whatever.

Those who purport to speak for god, such as preachers, or evangelists, should be soundly ridiculed

Using those quotes from Carrey and Higgins, preachers can hold up the likes of Hoffman as examples of the failures of the fame and fortune dream; and point to the only role model who won't let you down.

In this great sermon, the preacher argues that the one who created the vast universe and all that is in it has the power to restore the Hebrews as a people.

And lest anyone think this scenario is limited to Julie, it isn't — similar (though not as extreme) methods of gaslighting, shaming, dismissing, etc. have been applied to anyone who challenges the holy hipster male missional crew albeit Mars Hill, Outlaw Preacher, Emergent Village, etc..

No matter how much they say that the husband should love his wife as Christ loves the church, they (the leading complementarian preachers and scholars) are handing husbands the right to ignore truth when it is his wife who has it and he doesn't — that is, when his wife is right and he is wrong.

Unfortunately, though, with people being discouraged to pursue the liberal arts in the 21st century, openings for these positions are becoming few and far between, and people who have that philosophical blood running through their veins sometimes take on preacher positions as a way to make ends meat, which is wrong because it is the essence of living a lie.

For 700 years the poem has provided vivid inspiration to painters and preachers, who have kept alive a popular vision of perdition as a physical place of fire and brimstone, extraordinary torments and monsters.

Teachers, preachers, and others who devote themselves to the work of instruction can be saved needless frustration and disappointment if they bear in mind the weight of educational influences exerted by the culture as a whole, and if they take account of the prevailing cultural patterns as they plan their teaching.

Had Brown not been cut down, he may have grown into a more life affirming position; perhaps as an internationally renowned neurosurgeon, a nationally syndicated newscaster, a White House cabinet member, a military general, a preacher of the Gospel, or perhaps as a simple and ordinary man who loves his wife and leads his family well, like so many who sit in our congregations every Sunday.

That is why we who are preachers of the gospel of Christ may seek for the homeliest and simplest, as well as for the most exalted and sublime, analogies for «gospel truth» in the life and work of our people.

Our task, as those who would be faithful preachers of the Word of God, is to bring to our people the Lord Jesus Christ, so that they may share in his «grace and truth.»

There will be some people, of course, who will resist and be alienated by such honesty between preacher and congregation, but their responses have to be accepted as inevitable.

A common disabling image that lay people frequently hold is that of the preacher as an otherworldly idealist who knows little about life.

These fears are not so different from the fear I see in the eyes of protestors carrying signs that depict President Obama as Hitler, the fear I see in the red faces of angry preachers urging their parishioners to «take America back for God,» the fear I detect in some of the books against emerging church, the fear I detect in some of the books in support of the emerging church, the fear I hear in the voices of both gays and the conservative evangelical activists who lobby against them when both sides consider for just a second the possibility that maybe they have it wrong.

I thought straight away this is a joke as scriptures tell us only the father knows the time of his sons return and hes keeping it to himself he hasnt even told his son yet.Mark 13:32 This a mystery isnt God all knowing and isnt Jesus God it is a mystery.Yet I like that that is the case because it proves that the father is not the son and the son is not the father they are separate yet they are one just like the holy spirit.I have come across denominations that believe the father son and holy spirit are the one person i asked them how they can say that when Jesus was baptized we see 3 separate persons.We have enough information to know that we are in the last days the signs are present and increasing.Ever since Israel became a nation the countdown has begun.The verse the enemy will come like a thief in the night i have heard preached many times and i believe the preachers have got it wrong because they preach it from the view for the church to get there act together or you will miss out.This view is incorrect because if you are a born again believer following him in obedience and relying on the holy spirit you are not walking in darkness but are walking in the light so you will not be caught unaware as those who are sleeping this is a warning for those who are sleeping or walking according to the flesh they are in darkness.Remember the 10 wise virgins the ones who were alert and keep refilling there lamps went in with the bride those who slept were left behind and so it will be when the Lord returns.Now is the time to prepare our hearts and lives to be ready for his return.It is an exciting time to be living and we are to live in the expectation that the Lord could return at any time brentnz

These include the preacher's own appetite, interest, curiosity and passion, as magnets for those same capacities in those who listen.

Preachers who allow themselves a playful measure of «pastoral omnipotence» over the text - as - object stand to discover things in and through it that elude their more timorous colleagues, he says.

Still, loved ones said Mr Graham saw himself as a humble preacher who would have been embarrassed by such fanfare.

I am not talking about the corny jokes or funny introductions many preachers use as a lead - in for 30 minutes of platitudes and abstractions, but honest truth from a person who believes what they are saying and has seen how it plays out in everyday life.

But to think a preacher or what even you'd like to call these people who think gays should be all dead maybe they should take a step back and look at their own life before saying things about others as well.

Instead he was basically a normal American giving his ideas on religious belief, although he mixed politics into his speech such as with Obama, many people do this who are not currently holding office, preachers especially.

Those who wrote them, being believers, theologians, and preachers themselves, were seeking to make God and godliness known to their original envisaged audience, and the first question to be asked about each book has to do with what its writer saw it as saying and showing about God himself.

Jeremy Myers, i think you are wrong and David is right, so many out there are preaching you can live any way you want and be right that Grace covers any sin, they really believe that, that is not what the bible says, God was very concerned about sin so much he sent Jesus his son to die on a cross for us, if we accept Jesus as our savor then we are to obey his commandments, not break them, we are to live a righteous and holy life as possible, the bible plainly list a whole list of things if we live in will not to to heaven unless we repent, if we die while in these sins, we will not go to heaven, what is the difference, between someone who said a prayer and someone who did not, and they are living the same way, none, i think, if we are truly saved it should be hard to do these things let alone live and do them everyday, i would be afraid to tell people that it does not matte grace covers their sins, i really think it is the slip ups that we are convicted of by the Holy Spirit and we ask for forgivness, how can anyones heart be right with God and they have sex all the time out of marriage, lie, break every commandment of God, i don't think this is meaning grace covers those sins, until they repent and ask for forgiveness, a lot of people will end up in hell because preachers teach Grace the wrong way,, and those preachers will answer to God for leading these people the wrong way, not saying you are one of them, but be careful, everything we teach or preach must line up with the word of God, God hates sin,

It is a drama that unfolds in several contexts at once: within the historical context of a «great cloud of witnesses», that is, in relationship to all of those who speak (and have spoken) as «Christian preachers»; within the context of the speaker's own human existence in relation to other statements of faith collected as «Christian theology» within the time and space set aside for the performance of Christian liturgy.

Preachers who imagine themselves as actors in their own speaker's dramas will work toward congruity by working toward embodiment, the realization of theological truth through voice, body, and display in the moment of utterance.

Sad that a preacher who taught universal tolerance can be so twisted as to now epitmomize intolerance.

Fox acquaints his readers with the Niebuhr who was a preacher, perhaps pre-eminently a preacher; the Niebuhr who was pastor as well as professor to generations of seminary students; the Niebuhr who was (as a Jewish friend of mine put it beautifully) «a holy man.»

Additionally, he used to be a revival preacher who preached on hell as he invited people to repent and turn to Jesus.

In the same and in other schools uncertainty about the meaning of the ministry comes to appearance also in the feeling of conflict in a faculty between its loyalty to a traditional idea, such as that of the preacher, and its sense of obligation to denominational officials, alumni and churchmen in general who urge a more «practical» education.

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.

The job of a Christian preacher, he said, is to «proclaim the given gospel to the given world,» The given gospel — that is to say, the gospel which has come to him from the Christian tradition which he represents and for which in his preaching function he speaks; the given world — that is to say, men and women in their actual concrete situation, with their interests and worries, their concerns and their problems, And the two are to go together, so that the gospel will be heard and (one hopes) accepted by those who hear its proclamation as directly relevant to their own lives.

He protested about the fashion in which those who proclaim the gospel often spend most of their time in stimulating an artificial sense of utter failure and sinfulness, so that then those preachers could declare that after all God still cares for such miserable wretches as he has induced his hearers to think themselves to be.

This excerpt is from a chapter written by Andy, who talks about the two voices — his father's and his wife's — that have shaped his own voice in his identity as a preacher and pastor.

Using Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s I Have a Dream message as an example, he says that sermons are not just for religious people who already agree with the preacher.

When we identify said preachers as false teachers leading both themselves and those who follow them to hell, when we declare others as on their way to hell, and especially when we warn them they are lost, we often hear these words (or the equivalent), «Judge not» (Matthew 7:1).

Therefore, preachers who become conscious of the social function of the language of the sermon can use language in such a way as to encourage social effects that are appropriate to the gospel.

No most people would remember me as the guy who said most of the preachers were gay rapists, and the whole thing was a con game.

Is the preacher, then, to move away from historical considerations in search of the immediacy Bultmann has found in regarding the preaching event itself as the eschatological occurrence, the end - time for the man who hears Christ address him in the sermon with the threat of death or the promise of life?

In my VERY humble opinion (and let me say that I am neither a seminarian, nor a preacher, just a reader of God's Word and a follower of Jesus Christ), salvation is something that is offered as a free gift to anyone who will receive it.