Sentences with phrase «hear the gospel from»

In hindsight, I feel like I endured four years of Señora Nicora, our arduous Spanish teacher, in order to hear the gospel from this gentleman.

Imagine if you had heard the Gospel from him, embraced it and then discovered his end result.

Not exact matches

The event drew an enthusiastic crowd of entrepreneurs, investors, and several hundred others interested in hearing the gospel straight from one of venture capital's leading apostles.

Was there some external «eyewitness» to these temptations, or did the Gospel writer just hear the story from Jesus, or the Devil?

In terms of pushing past some of the archaic ways that keep the Gospel from being heard in today's culture... NP is dead on.

The convictionâ $» endemic among churchfolkâ $» persists that, if problems of misapprehension and misrepresentation are overcome and the gospel can be heard in its own integrity, the gospel will be found attractive by people, become popular, and, even, be a success of some sortâ $ ¦ This idea is both curious and ironical because it is bluntly contradicted in Scripture and in the experience of the continuing biblical witness in history from the event of Pentecost unto the present momentâ $ (William Stringfellow, quoted in A Keeper of the Word, p. 348).

But it is through preaching that we get our marching orders, it is through preaching that the lost world hears the gospel so they can be transferred from the side of the enemy and join our side, the side of our victorious Jesus Christ.

They're going to hear the gospel much clearer from Tyson Fury, someone they can identify with, and has behaviour, language and culture closer to theirs, and who is willing to very loudly and boldly proclaim that he loves and needs Jesus.

She heard it from YOU and she said she respects your opinion highly so it must be gospel!

The Gospels have in their way met this problem, not only by placing the kerygma on Jesus» lips, but also by presenting individual units from the tradition in such a way that the whole gospel becomes visible: At the call of Levi, we hear (Mark 2.17): «I came not to call the righteous, but sinners»; at the healing of the deaf - mute, we hear (Mark 7.37): «He has done all things well; he even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.»

Third, the people have heard the proclamation of the gospel in scripture and sermon and have begun to separate suffering from evil.

That is probably how the majority of Christians hear readings from the gospels.

21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in [your] mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled 22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: 23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and [be] not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, [and] which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

I had my moments of disconnect: sitting out the Eucharist because I'm not Catholic, hearing the gospel reduced to salvation from hell, welcomes that felt patronizing from people who have been praying that I come to my senses and go back to believing, behaving, and voting just like them.

I think that as people respond to the revelation they have received, God obligates Himself to provide more revelation to them, so that they receive enough revelation from God to either accept the offer of eternal life by faith alone, or to reject such an offer (See What About Those Who Have Never Heard the Gospel?).

From the gospel accounts of his spoken words at the Last Supper, the unity of Catholic tradition holds that the Real Presence is divinely given in the sacrament of the Eucharist — substantively more than any lesser parallelism on our part of either seeing or hearing.

Whether in private conversation, group discussion, a sermon or a speech, or in the interaction within the community, the question is whether there is, on the one side, conviction about what the gospel means and, on the other side, unqualified readiness to hear the other people and see the world from their point of view.

I'm really looking forward to hearing your perspectives on the rest of the gospels and learning from you all!

In discussions of the «indigenization» of the church in non-Western cultures one hears that the New Testament itself is a particular indigenization and that the gospel message needs to be extracted from first century «cultural clothing» to be re-clothed in that of another age.

The job of a Christian preacher, he said, is to «proclaim the given gospel to the given world,» The given gospel — that is to say, the gospel which has come to him from the Christian tradition which he represents and for which in his preaching function he speaks; the given world — that is to say, men and women in their actual concrete situation, with their interests and worries, their concerns and their problems, And the two are to go together, so that the gospel will be heard and (one hopes) accepted by those who hear its proclamation as directly relevant to their own lives.

If, instead of gospel, what is proclaimed in the churches is nothing more than the kinds of «musts» and «shoulds» and «ought to's» that one can hear from many other quarters — along with the ubiquitous language of «rights» — then we can not expect church people to be any more receptive to such exhortations than are their counter parts in society at large.

Already in the twenties, a few sensitive American Christians were hearing the new voices from central Europe and reappraising the social gospel in light of these.

So I've heard from more than a few of my Reformed brother and sisters that I have a bad habit of painting the Reformed tradition with a broad brush (especially when I'm disagreeing vehemently with more conservative groups like the Gospel Coalition!).

Your salvation and discipleship are not dependent on whether the preacher from whom you heard the Gospel is genuine, but rather on whether the Gospel itself is genuine.

On Sunday, churches around the world read from the Gospel of John and heard the story of Lazarus, in which Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the dead, as part of Lazarus Sunday.

I found Christ in everything in the Church, so it is very odd that the woman at the beginning of the article did not hear about Jesus??! At Mass we listen to three readings from Scripture: the Old Testament, the New Testament and then the Gospel reading, plus we have Pslams which are read (or sung) inbetween, not to mention the entire Mass ceremony with the consecration JUST like in Scripture when Jesus was with the Apostles.

You hear the gospel that God delivered his Son for your sins and raised him from the dead for your justification.

To paraphrase Charles Dickens just a bit, we have a far, far better gospel and a far, far better Savior to offer this world than what they have heard from us at times.

I could already hear the piano runs, the black and white spirituals, the gospel folk tunes from the hills, the glorious harmonies of the male quartets — it all welled up from my memories of hot, humid nights in the small, dimly lit churches of my youth.

In other words, though God may order the events which allows a person to hear the message of the Gospel, and while God gives eternal life and confers the status of sonship to those who do believe, God does not force anyone to believe or restrict others from doing so.

If one goes to a tabernacle or tent meeting, he hears jingly «gospel» songs, animated tones, shouts from the preacher, and frequent «Amens» or other more pointed ejaculations from the pews.

Expect to hear many a sermon from the pulpit over the next decades on such topics as «ambiguous gender imagery,» «God as woman,» and how St. Luke's Gospel «is an attempt to legitimize male dominance in the Christianity of the author's time.»

In this new series, Premier Christianity will be hearing from some of the world's leading sceptics, beginning with former evangelical Christian Bart Ehrman, whose questioning of the Gospel accounts led him to lose his faith

This faithfulness stems from the church hearing anew the old time gospel of Jesus Christ in the sacred scriptures, tempered by the communal hearing of that Word, which is its collective memory.

Gospel hymns were a part of my environment; and I still remember snatches of songs that I have heard, so far as I know, only from them.

In short, the gospels are all «I heard it from somebody who heard it, from somebody else who heard it, from somebody else who said they were there.»

Madtown No, those that God knew would benefit from the opportunity to hear the Gospel were given the Good News.

I would think that Martin Luther had heard of these verses: Galatians 1:8 - 9 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema.

In the conversations reported, the laymen are wrestling with the meaning of their lives and are unable to hear and understand the preaching of the church; and the preachers are struggling with the meaning of the gospel with such exclusive concentration that they are estranged from the meanings of their people.

Conversations are reported where the laymen are wrestling with the meaning of their lives and are unable to hear and understand the preaching of the church; and the preachers are struggling with the meaning of the gospel with such exclusive concentration that they are estranged from the meanings of their people.

I found the speech to be very moving.I also liked what the president said about Billy Graham.There was a time when this country seemed more at peace within.Billy Graham seemed to command respect from most quarters, and he had the role of a patriarchal leader, in his own way.I'm sure he has political views, but I have never heard him say things that are polarizing, unlike too many ministers today.This country needs another Billy Graham, who will stand for the gospel, and his convictions; but who doesn't major in alienating others.

In today's gospel reading from Luke chapter 24, we hear the words of Jesus, «You are the witnesses of these things....

To invite a person to hear the Gospel, a relationship must be built from trust first, otherwise, we are only stepping on God's plans and possibly causing more damage.

But what I'd heard about his work with Dare 2 Share Ministries from friends in the Billy Graham Evangelistic Organisation was so exciting, so exhilarating, so in tune with my own hopes for my own kids, so radical in its belief in the power of the Gospel and so confident in the capacity of teenagers to actually live it and share it themselves, that, well, I was prepared to travel all the way to Luton to talk to him.

According to John's Gospel, our Lord said, «Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me, has eternal life; he does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.»

NP is not saying anything different than Paul would have heard in his lifetime â $ «and NP is not backing away from the gospel either (or his message to his congregation).

One can not understand the meaning of preaching in the total work of the Church apart from direct personal hearing and proclamation of the gospel, nor know the character of worship, its direction, the requirements it makes on the self and its relations to proclamation and service unless one is a worshiper.

You see, sometimes, blatant sin gets in the way of an unbeliever hearing and receiving the Gospel, and they need to repent and turn from that sin before they can hear and believe the Gospel.

The proclamation of the good news of divine love, of the forgiveness of sin and the deliverance from evil; exhortation to lead the Christian life; instruction of young and old in the Christian faith — these evidently require not only that the minister have heard and apprehended the gospel, comprehended the law and learned the creed, but that he have gained insight into the ways of God and men and that he grow continually in his understanding of them; that further he have grasped the meaning of preaching and teaching in relation to all the other activities he and the Church carry on.

We took our children to hear live music; they heard everything from the 4 part harmony of southern gospel to the rousing marches of John Philip Sousa.