Sentences with phrase «giving as the ministry»

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«In the last several decades the Palestinian leadership has missed one opportunity after the other and rejected all the peace proposals it was given,» the crown prince said according to a wire sent by the Israeli consulate in New York to Israel's foreign ministry in Jerusalem which summarized the meeting, as well as information from several US and Israeli diplomats with knowledge of the meeting.

Gary wrong again, Gary wrong again: I was a guest before this on this blog: Even check out Martin Zender; The World's most outspoken bible scholar facebook; You will find me there; he knows me, and his crew knows of me; Father has others too that have been with me for years that are not in my city through their ministries also that have come up along side of me, but I do not want you to come against them as they have their own trials to overcome, therefore; no names given there, they also know me and my testimony: I am God's workmanship therefore, I was brought up in Christ along side witnesses as His testimony: Gary; this is going to be shocking, but because God does not inform you of a thing, means to me, that He has kept very much from you: Now why would that be?

But along with your tithes, establishing a pattern of giving (to charities, ministries or even to friends and families in need), can serve as a constant reminder of who your money actually belongs to.

Now, for the first time, nine men will be ordained together by an English Bishop who can give them regular oversight as they begin their ministries.

As he finds the self - oblation and self - immolation of Christ in the Mass, he knows that «in the likeness of Christ, he has to give himself, body and soul, to be «bread broken for you» in the ministry of Christ.»

I know it sucks to have dirty laundry aired, but this looks like more that airing of dirty laundry — if Julie is correct (and I realize I'm hearing her side in this thread), denigrating your partner to give you an out, and maintain your state of paragon exemplar in ministry strikes me as a sinister act.

The sense that the kingdom was at hand and that a new age was dawning gives coherence to Jesus» ministry, but such a belief would have been controversial, just as a generation ago many white South Africans could not see how the apartheid regime could ever be changed.

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.

It is at best a prolegomenon which seeks to suggest an element in the ministry of Jesus that gives it a constitutive as distinct from an exemplary character, that makes it the supreme action of all history (action that is fully and entirely human, yet unique), action which crowns a ministry in which the ambiguities of human life are progressively articulated, being action in which their burden is endured à l'outrance.

A proper understanding of the context reveals that pastors can not use this verse to encourage greater generosity in tithing, but instead, the pastor should give sacrificially from his own income to help the poor and needy in the church, as well as those who partner with him in the ministry.

At the church I'm currently attend they give money to a community ministry so they funnel all the needy towards them so as to not get their hands dirty.

(KJV James 1:27) In one of his final opportunities to teach his disciples in his mortal ministry the Savior said this «A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

When we look at the combined elements of this image, I contend that we are viewing the essence of ministry as administering in exactly the sense that the image of open - Bible — pulpit — preacher gave us the image of preaching.

However, the recent letter on pastoral care of homosexuals (already referred to), as well as the demand by the Vatican that ethicist Charles Curran retract his position on homosexuality and other sexual moral issues, or relinquish his position as a Catholic theologian, and its more recent order to me that I give up all ministry to homosexual persons, have convinced me that I can no longer in conscience remain silent.

The young people will give a presentation on the various ministries they engage with as a part of Coptic Youth Mission.

So far as I have any key to this new kind of «collegiate» ministry, it is given in the previous chapter on administering.

All these aspects of mission were said to have a grounding in the ministry and mission of Jesus Christ and New Testament teaching, and that none of these can be isolated from the others and given preeminence as the controlling motif and motivation for mission.It was also assumed that the theological basis for an understanding of holistic mission would be spelled out as the journey of CWM as a partnership of churches in mission continued.

Under ordinances forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, churches have been taken to court for refusing to hire a homosexual as church organist or as teacher in the church school, ministries to the poor have lost their funding when they refused to tolerate homosexual behavior within their programs, and a Jesuit university was required to give recognition and support to a gay rights group.

No wonder the atheist movement is growing... all of the scandals over let's say just the last 30 years... from all the child molesting that is rampant to mega church ministries and their ministers personal wealth and property... (why don't they live modestly and give all their money to those in need as they preach).

As Paul encouraged Timothy when he was young and starting out in ministry: his gift was given by God, so he had to make sure to «not neglect his gifts» (1 Timothy 4:14), but rather «fan them into flame» (2 Timothy 1:6).

The «Marcan hypothesis,» as Bishop Rawlinson insists in his Commentary, is no longer tenable — the hypothesis, namely, that Mark's order and point of view are infallible and must be adhered to in every case — and yet the general outline of the ministry, as given by Mark, is not only the earliest outline we have, but commends itself upon grounds of probability.

God «reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation... We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us.

In my own ministry I have talked with a number of thoughtful people — mainly young people — who accept belief in God as giving meaning and joy and hope to this life but reject, or are at best highly doubtful about, any concept of personal resurrection or immortality.

They previously belonged to God as His followers, but God gave them to Jesus so that Jesus could fulfill and complete His earthly ministry.

Early in my pastoral ministry I offered advice freely, as if that would give people a short cut.

But to think of it solely, or even primarily, as salvation from hell and to heaven is to distort the emphasis that Jesus gave it throughout his ministry and teaching.

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.

We never object to giving to support these things as well as our own ministry of Word and Sacrament in that spot for the last 52 years.

This could apply both as we love God, by giving us a spiritual companion to pray and worship with constantly and consistently, and as we love others, by having someone to raise children well with or to do ministry with.

As a matter of convenience, and because these are the crux of the matter so far as the ministry of Jesus is concerned, we will restrict ourselves to exorcisms, giving two characteristic passages from the Hellenistic literaturAs a matter of convenience, and because these are the crux of the matter so far as the ministry of Jesus is concerned, we will restrict ourselves to exorcisms, giving two characteristic passages from the Hellenistic literaturas the ministry of Jesus is concerned, we will restrict ourselves to exorcisms, giving two characteristic passages from the Hellenistic literature.

The story will be given additional legs as the Dallas charter is implemented and good and beloved priests are removed from ministry.

The technical emphasis in recent theological education has given us better pedagogies, opened up the larger society as a field for ministry, redistributed authority and power in the schools, and added new and important areas of study.

This special character of the ministry as sacred office constitutes a major resource in dealing with the sick soul; but it also gives rise to real problems.

One of the movement's founding documents, The Danvers Statement, states as its chief concern «the increasing promotion given to feminist egalitarianism» and «the widespread ambivalence regarding the values of motherhood, vocational homemaking, and the many ministries historically performed by women.»

One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.

It feels like the ministry and the calling God's given me is like a Barbie dream castle as far as my mind goes.

Schleiermacher had defined law, medicine, and ministry as «professions» by reference to the leadership each gives to practices that are indispensable to the well - being of society as a whole.

He uses the word SHAPE as an acronym to shows us the five things that make each of us unique for our God given ministry.

As the Crew learns use their God - given gifts for ministry, each one grows into maturity, and the church as a whole becomes perfecAs the Crew learns use their God - given gifts for ministry, each one grows into maturity, and the church as a whole becomes perfecas a whole becomes perfect.

After the fact, pastoral leaders may find themselves for the first time in a position to receive ministry as well as give it.

And if only «religious groups» are given protection, we are a long way from full, robust protection for religious conscience, which belongs to everyone who can be a moral agent: individuals, groups, churches, ministries, nonprofit - sector corporations, and for - profit corporations too (as in the case of Hobby Lobby in the HHS mandate controversy).

It can nudge women with a gifting in ministry to see their abilities as merely a watered - down version of what God gave men.

In response to a $ 1 donation sent to the Rex Humbard ministry in January 1980, the author received in a four - month period 10 letters, including one thanking him for the contribution, one seeking a special prayer request he may have along with a further contribution, three inviting him to become a member of the Humbard «Prayer Key Family,» one advising him that he had been enrolled as a member of the Prayer Key Family (though no indication of willingness had been given), and four seeking urgent financial contributions to prevent cancellation of the program in the area.

As for the reports of the «witnesses» during Jesus» lifetime, the stories told about him, the reports of his teaching, his sayings, parables, interpretations of the Law, controversies with the scribes, and the application of Old Testament laws and prophecies — all this was undoubtedly orientated and controlled by the eschatological outlook of his teaching and ministry as a whole, but also undoubtedly it lacked the sharpness of focus which the Resurrection was later to give iAs for the reports of the «witnesses» during Jesus» lifetime, the stories told about him, the reports of his teaching, his sayings, parables, interpretations of the Law, controversies with the scribes, and the application of Old Testament laws and prophecies — all this was undoubtedly orientated and controlled by the eschatological outlook of his teaching and ministry as a whole, but also undoubtedly it lacked the sharpness of focus which the Resurrection was later to give ias a whole, but also undoubtedly it lacked the sharpness of focus which the Resurrection was later to give it.

Evangelical retrieval of a proper biblical theology of Mary will give attention to five explicit aspects of her calling and ministry: Mary as the daughter of Israel, as the virgin mother of Jesus, as Theotokos, as the handmaiden of the Word, and as the mother of the Church.

As a result he determined to enter the ministry and to give up the practice of law.

In my 35 years of ministry, I have stood beside parents as they gave doctors permission to withdraw life support from their babies.

Passing from these writings, which in part chronologically overlap the documentation provided by the New Testament, we turn to the Apologist Justin Martyr, whose incidental references give us the first firm evidence after the Apostolic Fathers as to the nature and function of the ministries of the Church.

As his calling as an evangelist became clear, so the Philo Trust was born, giving J.John and his wife Killy a ministry to reach thousands of peoplAs his calling as an evangelist became clear, so the Philo Trust was born, giving J.John and his wife Killy a ministry to reach thousands of peoplas an evangelist became clear, so the Philo Trust was born, giving J.John and his wife Killy a ministry to reach thousands of people.

Given that one newspaper described J.John as a blend of Mr Bean and Easy Jet founder Stelios, you may wonder how the evangelist has continuously filled churches and auditoriums through his ministry with the Philo Trust.