Sentences with phrase «even for preaching»

Not even for the preaching of billy graham and martin luther will they turn, they have set their souls on fire with compromise.

I was not released from my position as pastor for moral misconduct or financial embezzlement or even for preaching heresy from the pulpit.

Not exact matches

In this world where it preaches tolerance for all except for when it comes to true Christian beliefs, a belief that goes against the system will never be given the time of day, even if said belief is the TRUTH.

Even if I don't like the music, can't stand the preaching, there's nothing for my kids, and I think the church is wasting my time and money, I will still attend faithfully.

even if they have been preaching it for years..

Because I have stayed away for so long I will likely never preach or even teach again and that is fine.

One force tempts us to lower artistic standards and preach an unadorned message; another tempts us to submerge or even alter the message for the sake of artistic sensibilities.

I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

The movie studio even asked a theologian to provide sermon notes for pastors who want to preach about Superman on Sunday.

So thanks, pastors, for your faithfulness in listening to, learning from, and preaching the Word, even when it's hard.

And once this recognition is at the heart of our ministry, our preaching will become effectual — not that we are ever more than unworthy and «unprofitable» servants, but that God in Christ can and does use our unworthiness for his own great ends and makes even our imperfections to serve him.

Having preached the sovereign grace of God — grace for a Syrian army officer or a poor pagan woman at Zarephath — Jesus demonstrates that he is free even from the community that professes to be people of the Book.

In 2 Corinthians 6:8 and 11:21, Paul says that even he was held in dishonor — for preaching Christ.

On the other hand, even from a purely natural point of view Christianity, properly preached and lived, is still a match for every other powerful propagandist Weltanschanung, though men's hardness of heart is often an obstacle to its acceptance.

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

There are even those who would have us that believe it to be a sin, and preach against it to be incarcerated for hate crimes.

«Everybody at work hates me because I am a Christian, and I am trying to do my best to preach the Gospel and stand up for Jesus, but now it has gotten so bad that nobody wants to work with me and even my boss is threatening to fire me.»

Preaching on these texts demands explicit attention to mental illness and suicide and, even more important, to the proclamation of God's love for the ill and despairing and of God's command that we extend this love.

A support organization for clergy who are still preaching even though they no longer believe.

But it wasn't like clapping for the great preachers at a preaching conference or even for Billy Graham.

You stand up for Muslim holidays... are you aware that many Christians don't even get their holidays off, many hard working Americans are forced to work during their holidays... I'm all for equality, but you are preaching to cater to Muslims, in effect, giving them more rights to holidays than their Christian counterparts.

Over the years, the music, preaching styles, and even the theology have diverged so drastically that it's very difficult for people to connect across styles.

For the younger theologians who follow in the trajectory of Karol Wojtyta and Joseph Ratzinger, the solution to the problems of both the Church and the World is to preach Christ as the alpha and omega of all creation, even if this amounts to the presentation of a master - narrative.

Protestants and Catholics will have to judge for themselves how well the declaration succeeds in stating «a consensus in basic truths,» and whether it makes the case that the 16th - century condemnations do not apply — even though they remain on the books as «salutary warnings,» to which teaching and preaching must attend.

I preach unorthodox, even heretical sermons fairly often, and, three years ago, the board took the results of the sale of some property, over a million dollars, and set the proceeds aside... for the meeting of human need in this city.

Its fantastic to view your hypocrisy you preach for acceptance of gays in your church but you also equate them as sinners even though in your article you state that their sinners because their gay according to the passages you follow in the bible but did it ever occour to you that others omit this passage from their religious views.

The principal points Paul made in that address are (1) to recall to their minds the character and quality of his ministry to them; (2) to remind them of the trouble the Jews gave him and the anxiety and suffering he underwent in their behalf; (3) to state that he preached repentance and faith in Jesus Christ as the essence of the gospel; (4) to testify that he went now to Jerusalem not knowing what would happen to him there except that he knew by the Holy Spirit that afflictions awaited him; (5) to assure them that nothing concerned him, not even the loss of life itself, so long as he could testify to the grace of God in Jesus Christ; (6) to say that he had no regrets about his ministry to the people in Ephesus, for he was clean of the blood of all the people there, for he preached the full gospel to all of them; and (7) to admonish them to be diligent in their oversight of the Ephesian church and to feed the church of God there, which Christ purchased with his own blood.

Even now when I travel to preach, at least three women will always quietly thank me for being a woman who shops in the plus - section and gets up on stages to preach.

The history of Jesus, even as history, was of decisive importance for the tradition, just because in the Preaching the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus were held to be the climax of all history, the coming of the Kingdom of God.

Even though the church preaches change, it really doesn't allow for it.

2And many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room for them, not even about the door; and he was preaching the word to them.

In the so - called practical fields the unity is even greater; here there is common concern for developing relevant, effective preaching in the local church on the basis of Scriptures; for a religious education Christian rather than either humanistic or denominational in character; for guiding men into pastoral work that meets human needs.

If he is a Christian educator, does he simply forget that, even for him, preaching and pastoral care are aspects of ministry from which he can not disidentify himself even if his time spent on hem is less than if he were not a functional specialist?

Our congregations are busy with study groups, prayers, youth work, Sunday - school preparation, preaching, outreach and even mission activities that they believe help prepare them for the new life of the kingdom Christ will bring.

For the Reformers, the «face» of the Church was publicly unveiled not primarily in political action or even in «little platoons» of Christians involved in ministry, but in the gathering for the preaching of the Word and the celebration of the EuchariFor the Reformers, the «face» of the Church was publicly unveiled not primarily in political action or even in «little platoons» of Christians involved in ministry, but in the gathering for the preaching of the Word and the celebration of the Eucharifor the preaching of the Word and the celebration of the Eucharist.

I appreciate that it may be hard for some to come to terms with this, but in the light of the most basic and central Christian gospel, the message and achievement of Jesus and the preaching of Paul and the others, there is no reason whatever to say, for instance, that Peter or Paul, James or John, or even, dare I say, the mother of Jesus herself, is more advanced, closer to God, or has achieved more spiritual «growth», than the Christians who were killed for their faith last week or last year.

She recalls that for 30 years, even though her father often spoke in college chapels, only a handful of churches invited him to preach in their pulpits.

A minister who has preached on Christian love for twenty years in a white congregation and then finds resistance even to the admission to the church of a member of another race experiences this hard fact.

Now that so much data is available to make the unexplained less frightening... and that the historical record has shown that most church doctrine was made up and that even the Jesus birth story / son of god born of a woman etc etc has been recycled in numerous different religions for over 4000 years... preaching Faith in a fairy tale is a losing proposition.

Years afterward it was difficult for us to preach about anything Fosdick preached about without being in his debt in ways we were not even aware of.

Is it possible that a place that preaches love and kindness could produce friction and make situations for some even worse?

Just as it would make no sense to preach to an American congregation in Greek, it would be counterproductive to force on American Christians all the cognitive and normative assumptions of the Hellenistic world that even Paul took for granted.

To preach on the subject and on the sins of the day during the penitential seasons, even increasing the available times for confession as a witness to the value the Church places on it can have surprising effects.

Jeremy I believe you answered the question in another discussion why God seemed evil by punishing other nations i prefer the word you used which is judgement.God weighs up the hearts and then judges fairly thats not evil in fact he weighs up all the factors before he makes his decision and his decisions are perfect and wise.When he commanded Israel to wipe out other nations it was Gods judgement on these nations because of the evil they had committed in alot of ways its exaggerated because they did nt have Christ to shield them like we have if anything it shows how merciful God is towards us today.In those days gods judgement was quick and immediate.What happened to Israel when they broke the laws God gave them they immediately fell into judgement often resulting in many deaths to there own people until the sins of the people were dwelt with.So even for Gods people it was a conditional on there attitude and actions towards God.Again we see God is merciful to these previous nations that were destroyed as Christ after his crucifiction went and preached to them giving them the opportunity to repent so again we see God is still merciful.His word is true The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness.

He has been preaching Grace for some time now and even has resistance from his own brother who is also a pastor.

People talk about living the «resurrected life,» and sing about it, read about it, preach about it, and even pray for it, but it rarely seems to happen.

For unto this end was the gospel preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.»

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American parent to the child that babbles on his or her lap; let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges — even especially in our law schools; let it be written in textbooks, spelling books, and in TV guides; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

Imaginative preaching will help members begin to make those connections even as pastoral leadership will explore concrete ways for members to experience these connections.

Also, today's religious leaders bow to whatever flag happens ro be flying over their head, and actively recruit for and support militaries all over the world, sending even their own offspring to kill Christians living in othger lands whie they preach that «Those who live by the sword shall die by the sword».