Sentences with phrase «effective in»

These broadcasters, who once could not get enough time, have been so effective in their struggle that they now hold a virtual monopoly over air - time used for religious programming, having forced most other religious programs off the air by their cut - throat purchase of time.

The staff clergyman's job is to help them be more effective in their work with people.

Will power is not very effective in the curbing of resentment.

While Faith continues primarily to reason for the existence of God through science, the book's salutary contribution to this reviewer's thought is the case that the moral argument is the most effective in reasoning for God's existence on university campuses.

St. Paul is the agent through whom the resurrection life becomes effective in the faithful (2 Cor.

They clearly are effective in focusing their groups to achieve at a high level, but that also doesn't make them true.

Thanks again for blessing our people at this conference, may the Lord continue to use you to encourage others in how to be more effective in serving our Lord.

The homosexual lobby has been very effective in aligning itself with minority groups, is prominently represented at the Holocaust memorial service [12] each year and has created an image of itself as a group of people under persecution.

If prayer is to be effective in the common life, it must reckon with the common life as it is.

They are willing to hire junior executives with broad educational backgrounds and provide the special training they need to be effective in their companies.

The available evidence suggests that the mission approach is often effective in producing initial sobriety by arresting the «runaway symptom» aspect of alcoholism.

This tack has been quite effective in working with pagans, wiccans, and several people who have joined some questionable new age groups... like the mother of a friend who after years as a pentacostal became a scientologist... were still working on that one... time to go to bed.

Just because I suck at it doesn't mean that other women can't be fulfilled and effective in its pursuit.

He «connects the hope of salvation with his person to the extent that he sees the kingdom effective in his deeds and understands his preaching as the last word of God before the end.»

Were the church able to provide a vision of a unified planetary society organized both politically and technologically in such a way as to make available the full resources of the earth for the benefit of all the world's people, would it be effective in generating social change?

Can they be equally effective in shoring up support for marriage?).

For the Church to be effective in today's secular world, we must recognise the workplace as a key area for Christian witness by word and action.

and, personal experiences are not effective in conveying the existence or the nature of god.

If eternal objects are effective in the becoming of actual occasions, it must be by virtue of some agency beyond themselves.

The fact that AA has grown from one person to over 375,000 in thirty years would seem to be ipso facto evidence that it is very effective in producing initial as well as long - term sobriety.

Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and other like - minded apostles of social change, and their followers, have been effective in challenging the prevailing power structure because they did not merely appeal to reason and high purposes.

However, if the system of understanding breaks down — stops producing what is most important — then an openness may exist toward an alternative framework of orientation which will be more effective in guaranteeing vital interests.

«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).

Reality therapy, as a therapeutic tool, is uncomplicated in its working concepts and effective in

Man and Woman: A Defense by Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, and Robert P. George Encounter, 168 pages, $ 15.99 No argument is more effective in promoting gay marriage than the insistence that its rejection offends our sense of justice and equality, especially as concern for the....

Recently several pastors and seminary students told me that they will do «whatever it takes... to be effective in ministry... to turn their church around... to work for the kingdom.»

It is strong language and is often effective in making a point.

These drugs were used primarily to treat cancer but they were also reasonably effective in producing medical abortion, at least up to eight weeks gestation.

Arguments like Mills's and George's are no doubt effective in rallying the troops, and I do not begrudge the troops their militancy.

No argument is more effective in promoting gay marriage than the insistence that its rejection offends our sense of justice and equality, especially as concern for the underprivileged and marginalized lies at the heart of our Judeo - Christian heritage.

This procedure has been very effective in helping us shape our church character and build our ethos and hone our practises as well as curtail our expenses to focus on and meet only the requirements of these eight basic building blocks.

There will surely be occasions on which the state must intervene in the life of families in order to protect children, but it is more likely to be effective in acting against manifest evils than in positively restructuring families.

On the other, atheists would argue that a world directly guided by reason and evidence is more effective in addressing both general and specific issues affecting the rights and quality of life of individuals and societies.

Because churches have built - in constituencies and a moral stance, they can be effective in fighting gambling.

(I wonder why we don't talk more about some of the successful programs in this country which have been 100 % effective in stopping this sort of evil.)

(Ps 113:6 - 8) Hence, to be effective in reaching others, is it not necessary to be on the same level with whom we are talking with rather than voicing a condemnation?

God is effective in the world through the love that he pours back into it.

So we see the paradox of cyberspace, which enhances the illusion of images as reality because we can move and change the images and thus are deluded into thinking we are effective in the real world (Phelan 1984, 1988).

Like any good apologist, Ally is scholarly, winsome and devastatingly effective in debate.

Second, women pastors may be more effective in dealing with the feminization of the local church which has taken place increasingly, and which troubles many mainline congregations.

Yep, the * idea * of a god (bogeyman) is quite effective in controlling folks... that doesn't mean that it is real.

The most robust opponents of assisted suicide — and the most effective in my view — are disability rights advocates.

Together they might be very effective in bashing Romney from different angles.

Betel is wanting to work more closely with other Christian groups that promote abstinence, as well as the thousands of Christian ministries to the homeless in the UK to become more effective in tackling the problem.

He is a convinced and convincing proponent of classical liberalism, which means he is today what is called a conservative, and is especially effective in urging that we recover the role of the institutions of civil society» most importantly the family» in constructing a democracy less troubling to the common good.

While Greene's project is an ideal way to reinvigorate one's Bible reading (as I hope will be the case with my copy) or introduce readers to Scripture for the first time, it won't ultimately prove as effective in helping us read Scripture theologically and spiritually, with and for the Church, as the editions you and I already have on our shelves.

First, much of the mathematics that is so spectacularly effective in physical theory was worked out as an abstract exercise by pure mathematicians long before it was applied to the real world....

If that is so, then Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad might be more effective in getting modern secular viewers to rethink their assumptions about cosmic justice.

Using food as an illustration seemed to prove effective in illustrating what Net Neutrality advocates see as the problem of deregulating the Internet.

A new report has been published to help churches and Christian organisations better understand young people so they can be more effective in evangelism.