Sentences with phrase «for deacons»

«Arch» is more or less straightforward: prime or pre-eminent, and capable of adding a knavish cast to the nouns that follow (except, perhaps, for deacons).

Phoebe now bears the title of «deacon» in Romans, while in 1 Timothy, in a passage dealing with qualifications for deacons, the translators changed the wording from «their wives are to be women worthy of respect» to «the women are to be worthy of respect,» implying that women deacons may be in view.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

I hold that she was a servant because Paul clearly lists the requirements for a deacon and it is a husband of one wife.

«You need to exhaust yourself,» Hunter said to the crowd, while explaining the Democratic Party needs them to get out and work hard for Deacon and other Democrats the last few days before Nov. 8.

The rally, while primarily held for Deacon, also served as a platform for the politicians to speak about Clinton.

Katko is supported by more than three - quarters of Republicans, compared to 62 percent of Democrats for Deacon.»

U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer, D - N.Y., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D - N.Y., will stop at Sunshine's Coffee Shop on Thompson Road in DeWitt to rally voters for Deacon and talk about their support for a bill to provide paid family leave for American workers.

Katko had more than $ 1.1 million cash on hand as of Sept. 30, compared to $ 144,445 for Deacon.

But she keeps running into obstacles that keep her from finishing the job, not to mention exploring her feelings for Deacon.

Clearing out the nests also decreases the local freaker population, making it a little easier for Deacon to scavenge nearby areas for supplies.

Sony Bend is working hard to create compelling and rewarding gameplay loops that provide numerous forms of progression for Deacon.

Sony Bend is working arduous to create compelling and rewarding gameplay loops that present quite a few types of development for Deacon.

Clearing out the nests additionally decreases the native freaker inhabitants, making it a bit of simpler for Deacon to scavenge close by areas for provides.

One of the most intriguing and often - reproduced American paintings in the collection of the National Gallery of Art is the inspiration for Deacon Peckham's «Hobby Horse» — a focus exhibition on view on the Ground Floor of the East Building from May 27 through October 8, 2012.

Not exact matches

PERTH law firm Deacons has been awarded the Senses Foundation's Teresa Way Award for its contribution to blind and deafblind Western Australians.

BTW if you have not been following the blog it looks like Bill Deacon has departed the scene I hope for good.

A second court session has been held in Iran as two pastors and a deacon continue their appeal against six - year sentences for political charges.

At that first service, John carried Lucas, and because of John's position as music director, they sat in the deacon's box, a spot reserved for congregational royalty.

And as for the «husband of one wife» mandate, it was exclusively for elders, deacons and pastors.

She got away with this for three years, until she demanded that a bride kick a girlfriend of a different race out of her wedding party and her enraged father demanded a meeting with the board of deacons.

One deacon while «preaching», named a man by name and ripped him to shreds for not being there, for battling depression.

Meanwhile, for more than a year, we went to Mass every Sunday, and every holy day of obligation, sitting where we knew we could get in line to approach the celebrant priest (not a deacon or extraordinary minister) with our arms folded to receive a blessing.

They show us what level of Christlike character and life - skill development are necessary for elders, overseers, deacons.

In the denomination where I grew up and served for so many years, there was never a woman pastor or deacon.

When Kingman got wind of these two actions planned for the church, he called in the faculty deacons.

For a year I shall serve purely as a deacon, an office set up by the first apostles to serve the community, as recounted in chapter 6 of the Acts of the Apostles; read on and you'll learn how the first deacon, Stephen, quickly also became the first Christian martyr.

Nationally syndicated columnist Dan Savage may be better known for his very public critiques of Catholic leaders than for the year he spent in a high school seminary, or for his Catholic deacon father, or for the baptism he and his husband sought for their son.

Certainly Coll tries to demonstrate the relevance of these passages, but in a book that is over 400 pages long, and for those who are interested in the subject matter of the book, namely women deacons, this proves is a considerable distraction.

The truth is, today we have a lot of paid «deacons» — pastors who mainly administrate and don't have time for «prayer and the ministry of the word.»

Starting backwards with Coll's fourth point, that it is what deacons and deaconesses are rather than what they do that is significant for the Church, Coll explains that on the issue of ordination generally, the «ontological» versus «functional» debate continues (p207).

The men, good ol' boys, including deacons, including the pastor, covered for him until I finally blew the whistle after 3 years of adultery.

Deacon Philip Cunnah is a seminarian for the Diocese of Middlesbrough.

The Arab laity complained that their churches were allowed to deteriorate and that no new ones were built; that the Greeks ordained illiterate Arab priests, forbade them to preach, and limited their duties to the performance of the Sunday liturgy; and that the Greeks encouraged Arab deacons to marry prior to ordination, so as to render them ineligible for promotion to bishop or appointment to the celibate Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, which governs the Patriarchate.

1 Timothy 3:5 means: «Of one wife»... The meaning is not that every bishop should have a wife (for St. Paul himself had none), but that no one should be admitted to the holy orders of bishop, priest, or deacon, who had been married more than once.

One day I happened to mention to the head deacon (in that church the deacons were responsible for the money and the hiring and firing of staff) that in the previous twelve months the church had lost ten percent of the congregation.

Relying on a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes about a carriage made by a deacon, Thomas tries to distinguish between a life that breaks down and (what would be for him a truly natural culmination) a life that wears out.

In my judgment, the evidence to date indicates that deaconesses belonged to a women's order analogous to the male diaconate, carried out a ministry to women (in the congregation or in a monastic community), were ordained in rites similar but not identical to those for men (e.g., the typology in the prayers is either feminine or masculine), and were prohibited from the liturgical ministry at the altar entrusted to deacons.

The first finding appears to exclude women on the grounds that deaconesses were not admitted to the same office as deacons, and the second finding names the problem the ordination of women as deacons would pose for understanding the unity of the sacrament.

She had been attending the church for some time, but when one of the deacons asked if she was giving her tithe to the church, she said that she could not afford to.

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

Bill Deacon Address the known demands from the Vatican for ormeta, the clergy sworn to secrecy.

It tells many of you who want to offer sacrifices for the good of the church — countless hours of volunteer service as elders and deacons or a lifetime in demanding and low - paid pastoral ministries — that your life choices are so much more sinful than the rest of ours that we've had to erect special barriers to keep you from laying your gifts at the altar.

He is God incarnate, to whom all authority is given (Mt. 28:18), and from whom the power of the sword is delegated to the civil magistrate as God's deacon for the reward of good and the terror of evil (Rom.

The main biblical evidence is (1) the stories of the creation (Gen.I: 26 - 27 with 5:1 - 2; 2:18 - 25) and the fall (3:16 - 20); (2) Jesus» respect for women, whom he consistently treated as men's equals (Luke 8:1 - 3; 10:38 - 42; 11:28 - 28; 13:10 - 17; 21:1 - 4; Mark 5:22 - 42; John 4:7 - 38; 8:3 - 11; 12:1 - 8; (3) references to women ministering in the apostolic church by prophesying, leading in prayer, teaching, practicing Samaritanship both informally and as widows and deacons, and laboring in the gospel with Apostles (Acts 2:17 - 21; 9:36 - 42; 18:24 - 26; 21:9 Rom.

Not for me of course, Bill Deacon's birthday is coming up.

About the only thing you get from the New testament is support your pastor, and support the poor / widows (which is what deacons were originally for — to help organise things).

@Bill Deacon Did you hear that the Irish government is providing recompense for the victims of the Magdalene Asylums?

Pastor Haghnejad and Deacon Rabbani were subsequently released; however, Pastor Irani remains in Ghezal Hesar Prison in Karaj, where he is serving a one year sentence for action against the state and a five - year sentence for «action against national security».

It is inconceivable to me that Paul can be quoted by modern male chauvinists as the biblical authority for excluding women from accepting God's call to serve others in the name of Christ, when Paul himself encouraged and congratulated inspired women who were prominent — to use his own descriptions — as deacons, apostles, ministers and saints.