Sentences with phrase «as preacher in»

Sometimes, to lay more emphasis on the uniqueness of this «sonship» of Jesus, his birth and infancy, which would seem in fact to have been ordinary and obscure (his home and family were so ordinary that his fellow - townsmen would not accept him as a preacher in their synagogue), were pictured as having been miraculous and attended by wonders and glory.

(ENTIRE BOOK) A reassessment of the minister's role as preacher in contemporary society — a re-evaluation made necessary by developments in theology and culture.

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.

Netflix description: «During the Great Depression, a stranger with a violent past poses as a preacher and rallies farmers to mount a strike in a rural Iowa community.»

«I could not be more proud to stand with President Trump as he continues to stand shoulder to shoulder with communities of faith,» evangelical preacher Paula White told Religion News Service, «This order is a historic action, strengthening the relationship between faith and government in the United States and the product will be countless, transformed lives.»

Such as God told Noah that that no more flooding would occur following this one, hence global warming is a hoax, and this came from a political leader not a marginal preacher in Florida looking for its 15 minutes of fame on TV with his proposed koran burning protest.

My question is: Shouldn't the preachers» brainstorming on homosexual activity in more and more disrespectful details be considered as perversion and a sin?

Americian clerics (preachers) such as cotton mathis were killing women and girls as feveriously as were thsir counterparts in terror under islam.

Two years later I became the son of a preacher man as our family left the confines of Ft. Worth, Texas, to plant a church in the rain of Vancouver, Canada.

I'm sure even though CNN doesn't seem to be covering this as far as i can tell on TV the propaganda machine at Fox will be all over it and in the most negative way imaginable complete with «color commentary» by the choir preachers.

And his apostles do not come as propagandists of a secular doctrine of salvation «with sublimity of words or of wisdom» (1 Cor 2:1), but as «ministers of the Word» (Luke 1:2), as his «witnesses to the ends of the earth» (Acts 1:8), as preachers and teachers of the Gentiles in «faith and truth» (cf. 1 Tim 2:7).

As Flannery O'Connor said, whom I did recently read in entire works, the southern preacher prides himself on having learned nothing at all.)

When the recent Southern Baptist upheaval» called simply the Controversy» began in the 1970s, many saw it as just another preachers» fight, a spectacle with all the charms of a late - night row among alley cats.

Dr Eric Thomas, popularly known as ET or «the Hip Hop Preacher», headed up the Urban Life 2016 in Kilburn, north - west London on Saturday.

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;

That form of «religion» is an entertainment industry in which standard form for preachers, teachers, and speakers IS to package and promote themselves in a constant competition for top celebrity status, on such venues as TBN, just as aspiring popular music groups and singers are over on MTV.

... as a recovering teenage Baptist evangelist, now Atheist, I have always been concerned about preachers of all kinds reading the bible like they read the want - ads in a newspaper.

«As one of the [UU] denomination's many itinerant clergy, he [Hosea Ballou] was riding the circuit in the New Hampshire hills with a Baptist preacher one afternoon.

The highlight came when the dean of a seminary jumped in and condemned me for being so judgmental and urged his fellow preachers to use other peoples» material as if it were their own.

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.»

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.

@EVAN: «But, as my preacher says, it takes a lot of sinners burning in hell to keep God's people warm in Heaven.»

All those «prosperity gospel» preachers rely on senile old ladies to keep sending in their pension and Social Security checks every month, but as long as the little old ladies don't escalate to sticking up convenience stores to support their evangelical habits, they'll never come to your attention.

As time went on, the black preacher became the white man's telephone to the black community — in the words of Charles Hamilton in The Black Preacher in America, «the natural, most convenient tunnelpreacher became the white man's telephone to the black community — in the words of Charles Hamilton in The Black Preacher in America, «the natural, most convenient tunnelPreacher in America, «the natural, most convenient tunnel.»

Professionally Bonhoeffer was forced by the government ban to sacrifice his public vocation as a preacher and theologian, and he had to become extremely cautious in contacting his former students.

Darby's teachings were featured in the sermons of some of the great preachers of the 1880 - 1920 period: the evangelists Dwight L. Moody and Billy Sunday; major Presbyterian preachers such as James Brooks; Philadelphia radio preacher Harry B. Ironsides; and Cyrus I. Scofield.

Forty years into her life as a preacher and minister, 72 - year - old Joyce has written more than 100 books and heads up a ministry with more than 700 employees based in the St Louis suburb of Fenton, Missouri.

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.

«I sat on the edge of my seat as this preacher challenged us to participate in the cause of justice, not to slumber while the world changed around us.

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.

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 peoplIn 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 peoplin it has the power to restore the Hebrews as a people.

The word is always enfleshed — in Jesus, of course, but in the preacher and the worshiper as well.

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.

«This image [fishers of men] indicates that the disciples will be preachers and active witnesses of the Kingdom: they will be as effective in seeking men as they have been in catching fish» (p. 106).

Scripture functions in the worship of thousands of Protestant congregations only as a means of reinforcing what the preacher wants to say.

It was customary among the Reformers themselves to speak of a «valid» ministry as one in which «the pure Word of God is preached and the sacraments be duly administered according to Christ's ordinance» (to quote the Anglican Thirty - nine Articles, which are paralleled in other and similar «confessions»); and the history of the ministry in the Christian Church as a whole makes it abundantly clear that «authority to preach the Word of God,» or the right to «dispense the Word of God,» or the giving to the candidate of the Church's recognition and authority to be «preacher of the Gospel» — all these are more or less synonymous phrases — has been an integral part of ordination.

The answer to this question can not be found, as is so often claimed, in the inadequacies of the preacher so far as his rhetorical skill, his use of apt illustrations, his logical development of theme, and so forth are in view.

But the real explanation of our ineffectual preaching lies much deeper: far too many of us, far too much of the time, do not recognize the terrible truth that as preachers we are engaged in nothing other than the task of confronting our listeners with the very Word of God.

Preaching is frequently done to an invisible congregation because the lights have been turned down; yet the facial expressions and bodily postures and movements of the congregation are communications in response to the preacher, and he needs to see and note them as at least partial guidance for his speaking.

«I bless you, matter, and you I acclaim: not as the pontiffs of science or the moralizing preachers depict you, debased, disfigured — a mass of brute forces and base appetites — but as you reveal yourself to mc today, in your totality and your true nature.

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.

My point is that he is not to look upon himself, in his function as preacher, as a teacher or as a director of souls or as a theological lecturer.

Jesus was fond of calling the Pharisees a «brood of vipers,» plus his style as a traveling preacher was to teach in stories, or parables, that needed to stick in the minds of his audience.

A clergyman functions as a preacher when he proclaims Christ, the significance of Christ for men, and the need for acceptance of Christ as bringing wholeness of life; he is to preach for repentance and for participation in the Church which is the setting for the gospel.

Just like the protestant preachers with their $ 20 million $ churchs that stand as monuments to themselves while not a mile away people starve everyday and live in cardboard boxes and the dumb sheep keep giving to these conmen.

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.

In 1787, Wesley was required to register his lay preachers as non-Anglicans.

The preacher's task is to confront us with the distinctively Christian understanding of existence as that is found in the New Testament.

Meanwhile, another former member of the «holy club,» George Whitefield, was having remarkable success as a preacher, especially in the industrial city of Bristol.