Sentences with phrase «as his preacher saying»

@EVAN: «But, as my preacher says, it takes a lot of sinners burning in hell to keep God's people warm in Heaven.»
Bummer has had for 20 years Jerimiah Wright as his preacher saying» its not God bless America but GD America» and you call HER a religious wacko.
He was as the preacher said «accused number 30» in the treasonable felony trial.

Not exact matches

So, I don't think Berkshire would work as well if were just terribly shrewd but didn't have a little bit of what the preacher said about my grandfather.
As Flannery O'Connor said, whom I did recently read in entire works, the southern preacher prides himself on having learned nothing at all.)
Jesus gave us a clear picture of what that was all about as did others say Peter for example 2 Peter 2:4 - 6: For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved to judgment; 5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; 6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample to those that after should live ungodly;
I think I said doing so was stealing and lying, but in any case I said it was wrong, and also pointless, since the congregation is not going to think less of the preacher because he says, «As John Smith says
So you're saying that a preacher giving you the choice with the warning of eternal afterlife consequences is as convincing as the mafia coming to you with a choice warning of bodily harm or immediate harm to your home and family?
It is a chance to say a word about their lives as a kind of testimony in miniature or to add a coda to the sermon by pointing out something that, in their opinion, the preacher left out or got wrong.
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.
Months later, he said to me, as he already had to many others, «Preacher, I've got half a mind to leave this church.»
Scripture functions in the worship of thousands of Protestant congregations only as a means of reinforcing what the preacher wants to say.
As I have said, the images and illustrations preachers use should illuminate the text.
Preachers should remember that the words they say about the stories are never as important as the words that say the stories.
Jesus came to help and heal the actual poor people and there are many preachers that try to get away with saying that Jesus actually came to help the poor in spirit as a reason for not helping poor people.
There were pictures of women, every tribe, every tongue, on every wall, and so it felt like everyone here in the world was there with us, somehow, and a gigantic canvas on the stairs said: There is no such thing as small change, and the famous red couch at Idelette's was worn out and comfortable, especially with Kelley sprawled on it, twisting her hair unconcernedly when she really got talking about the theology of adoption and Lord, yes, that woman can preach and teach in a living room beside a piano better than some preachers I've seen in thousand - dollar suits on a television show.
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
Some basic statement like, «Accept Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and savior and you will be saved from your sins» is meaningless in any real sense unless the preacher says something about what he means by Jesus Christ.
It says that the preacher is contemporaneously, right now, attentive to the Word as it works right now, and not merely to recollections, intimations, memories, impressions, or other historical data.
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.
You preachers love to display Satan as the prime villian because then you can answer the question suffering with, as the church lady used to say, «could it be... Satan?»
One day, my friend sat behind a couple and when the female preacher was introduced by the male preacher as going to give the sermon of the day, the man in front of her looked at his wife and said «let's go» and they left.
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.
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,
Not every way of communication honors the truth: sometimes the manner in which something gets conveyed subverts reality, as when a preacher says all the right words about God's love but in a tone of voice and with a concluding string of «oughts» (therefore we ought to do this and we ought to do that) that makes you feel guiltier than ever.
The next thing to say is that, as the believer, theologian, and preacher that I am, I read Scripture in the way followed before me by Chrysostom (regularly), Augustine (fitfully), and all Western professional exegetes since Colet, Luther, and Calvin that is, I approach the books as human documents produced by people of like passions with myself.
In his wooing of Dinah, Adam had explicitly said that she need not think of marriage as an impediment to her career as a preacher, but now we find that she has after all ceased to preach.
Perhaps the kinds of studies that have been made of the art of administration, of the relations of policy and administration, of organization and management in other: spheres will be carried forward into the sphere of the Church and may show how much the pastoral director of our time, as pastoral preacher, teacher, counselor and leader of worship has also become the democratic pastoral administrator, that is to say, a man charged with the responsibility and given the authority to hold in balance, to invigorate and to maintain communication among a host of activities and their responsible leaders, all directed toward a common end.
Please read genesis where there is no where it is mentioned that there was another partner with the Lord God... don't you think if what you are saying is correct than it will be mentioned in the OT... or OT and NT are contradicting each other... i could show more from the bible itself... i think most of the follower of it does not pay attention what to follow... they just follow blindly as Catholic church does not allow to have a copy of bible with the worshipper while they are at the church... they just have to be listening to the preacher....
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.
So wrong, there is NO evidence of evolution, but you must have faith that it happened as your preachers have said it does.
There is no reason to assume that uniformity and sameness are required; the event of God in Jesus Christ is so «many - colored», as used to be said, that staleness is likely only when the preacher himself is stale and the preacher's grasp of the essential proclamation has become tired and hackneyed.
What Matthew Arnold styled «the best that has been thought and said» in the past has its contribution to make to the preacher, if he or she is not to appear superficial or easy - going in presentation of the «good news» of God's love - in - act as it meets human sensibility at its most profound.
We have said something about the place of the Bible in the living Christian tradition which preachers represent and for which they function; we have discussed a few of the problems or questions which are raised both for preachers and for people; and we have tried to sum up the theological and moral implications of the gospel as these have been worked out in the tradition down the centuries.
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.
The word here translated «preaching,» kerygma, signifies not the action of the preacher, but that which he preaches, his «message,» as we sometimes say.
Another preacher preaching what ever goes is ok with Christianity... If your going to preach Christianity based on the Bible, then you might as well forget gay marriages are ok... If you want to twist it around then thats up to you... Paul said, «The Berens were of noble charachter because they didn't believe what they heard, but they took what they heard and confirmed it with the Bible... So its like the Yen or Yang... Its either Gods church or Satans Church... Can't be any other way... Do I hate gays, no... I have some very close friends that I have had for over 30 years that are gay, but I think they will be accountable for their life styles... Thats the thing about Christianity, we are held accountable, its not an everything goes belief... Its rules we have to follow... And rules we will be held accountable... So maybe this preacher needs to start a dfferent faith or religion... One where there are no rules and where its people are not accountable for their actions...
Reminding the church that it was still subject to the judgment of God, he said that «every vehicle of God's grace, the preacher of the word, the prince of the church, the teacher of theology, the historic institution, the written word, the sacred canon, all these are in danger of being revered as if they were themselves divine.
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).
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.
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.
The second implication for the preacher from what has been said about hermeneutics is that he see himself first of all as a listener to the Word of God.
Interesting, Jim, You were the only one in the congregation that was NOT so shallow as to swallow and enjoy what the preacher had to say!
As Brandon Scott says, «The preacher is entrusted with the community's metaphorical stock, its repertoire.»
Having said all this about Biblical preaching that moves inductively, how is the preacher to approach the text as he prepares for his message?
read psalms 91 about the righteous man and his family protected from these storms... not everone has a telepathic link as you say only those who have overcome their sinlife (not many) by believe the Lamb of God took it at His cross... the rest have no hope in this life and that includes wicked so called christians and money / fraud preachers.
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