Sentences with phrase «like missionary»

Your soul doesn't like the missionary position and wants to get down and dirty, but you should not let on that you fantasize the way you do.

I like the missionary position.

Some of the styles like missionary can be difficult late in the pregnancy.

Some were established to prepare nongraduates for Orders, like the Missionary College of the Church Missionary Society, founded at Islington in 1815.

Dubose wanted to focus on the church as «missionary» but specifically chose not to use that language since books like The Missionary Nature of the Church defined the term in ways he found problematic.

But the proponents of the term missional see it as a word set apart from other cousin - words, like missionary, mission, and missio dei.

Luke had buried them back in his Gospel, and once he had finished copying out the end of Q (at Luke 22:30), he rather explicitly said that the idyllic, unreal world of Jesus has been put behind us, for we must now come to grips with reality, buy a sword, become the church militant, and replace the kind of mission Jesus had advocated and practiced with one like the missionary journeys of Paul.

The novel is built like a missionary biography, one with the at - times brutal feel of a Scorsese film.

And it's not just radical when they behave like a missionary or social activist in their free time.

Like the missionaries.

There's a joke about atheists going door to door like missionaries, but the guy who answers the door looks at their pamphlet, and its blank.

Like the missionaries getting rich.

You are not going to find true selfless nuns like the Missionaries of Charity (the order previously led by Mother Teresa) in league with the LCWR.

Importing Vivaldi or Brahms or William Mathias into a church community whose native musical languages are closer to those of Madonna, Jimmy Buffett or John Tesh is like missionaries imposing European or North American religious styles on drastically different cultures.

To me, supporters of ABS are like missionaries assisting cannibals.

Not exact matches

Others — like PERC, a roaster of organic coffee — are fellow green missionaries.

When missionaries do sell their business they often seek to find a buyer like Warren Buffett who will not treat the business as an opportunity to create the equivalent of a strip mine.

Don't even pretend like you know something about Christianity until you've walked a mile in the shoes of a Christian missionary, a Christian pastor, a military chaplain, a christian volunteer at a homeless shelter, etc..

Christianity is «intolerant» in the sense that (like its monotheistic relatives, Judaism and Islam) it claims to possess a universal truth superior to the teachings of other religions; and it has spread this doctrine with a missionary zeal perhaps exceeding even Islam's.

I am also a life long Mormon, having served as a missionary just like many, many other LDS men and women.

What I have to wonder is, if we, as a Church, trust God to work and bring people to Him, or if we feel like we have to «help» by providing all these material possessions (which in the end are meaningless, the money spent on them might be better spent on improving the community, providing food for hungry, support for ministers and overseas missionaries).

I guess I just feel like many American Christians are succumbing to the material, consumer - driven ways of the society around us and are forgetting the beauty of simplicity — to use the money that we might have spent on the latest CD or DVD from a Christian artist and give it to the food bank, use it to buy supper for the person you see out on the street or as a monthly payment to sponsor a missionary.

though I like to go to a Christian and Missionary Allaince church, except there is not one near me...

Actually, there's more evidence that Paul was warning his Thessalonian converts not to listen to other gospels, which most likely means not listening to missionaries representing what his rivals, like Peter, were teaching.

So there are many orgs like World Vision, and missionary societies dotted around the place — is this because the local church is not doing it's job and therefore there is a gap that these orgs fill?

But the Christian missionaries also did not like the book because it repudiated the doctrine of the Trinity and condemned the Christians for their rejection of the Prophet of Islam.

It can sometimes seem like there's a hierarchy of holiness, with missionaries, pastors and brilliant preachers at the top and everyone in a more «ordinary» job further down.

While thinkers like Sir Sayyid and Iqbal were dealing with the problem posed by the impact of the West, a religious conflict was in progress because of the activities of the Christian missionaries and militant Hindu movements like the Arya Samaj, both of them trying to win Muslims to their own faith.

Indeed, any new initiative like this is going to have a slow start, and some tensions and complications — a glance at (or better, a serious examination of) the history of all missionary initiatives or religious orders will reveal that.

Ted, our ancestors in Britain were at first barbarians, some of them cannibals whose relish for certain choice portions of human bodies, like well - cooked male buttocks and female breasts, is in the historic record, and it was Christian missionaries who saved our forebears from their savagery.

If a missionary is not available, God could send angels to teach these people, or through the Holy Spirit moving like wind upon the earth, God could simply whisper more revelation to those who are responding to the truth they have received.

The world needs more pastors like you who realise they are missionaries.

Very interesting...» And here I thought missionaries and the like had been trying to convince others that they are wrong and you're god is the right one, killing all naysayers for centuries.

Handicapped people, people in hospitals, hospice, nursing homes, missionaries in remote locations, elderly people, folks with no transportation (like me) just to name a few instances.

The missionary Henry Martyn spoke of a visit to a Hindu temple as like being in the vicinity of hell.

And anthropologists stand in a structurally and ideologically oppositional relationship to Christian missionaries, who, like them, have taken to the foreign fields to interact with the natives, yet for obviously quite different purposes.

Like Spurgeon, early Southern Baptist leaders rejected hyper «Calvinistic theology with its anti «missionary bent, while embracing distinctively Reformed views on predestination, perseverance, and particular redemption.

For the Gospel, he, like Matthew, had access to «Q,» Mark, and possibly other fragments; for Acts, besides his diary and personal memories, he doubtless had some records of happenings at Jerusalem before the missionary journeys started.

well let's see Terry Lursen, are you one of those missionaries that encourage «witch hunters» that torture women they don't like?

While Greek - speaking missionaries like Cyril and Methodius did not teach their Slavic disciples to read Greek, Western missionaries had to provide the nations they converted with the rudiments of Latin and the means of learning it.

In fact, I would like to conclude that an analysis of the content of the missionary preaching may not give us very many clues to what Malayarayans chose to understand during conversion.

He sent out missionaries across the world just like Christains, only a few hundred years earlier.

like Romney tried to do to people as a Mormon missionary.

’39 Apparently the colloquial of Pulaya speech and language was vastly different from that of other caste groups like Syrian Christians and Nairs, with whom the missionaries communicated on a regular basis.

Like I told you, it took around 7 - 8 years to be a missionary in the assemblies of god, unless you new people, but you had to be an associate w / another missionary first.

Romney — Stake President (equiv to Archbishop according to his own 2008 campaign), Bishop, Missionary, draft - dodger, ambition to be an Apostle like his ancestor

Consequently, because personnel resources are free of the burden of finding financial resources, there are many South to South movements between the churches in CWM; and many of these, like the early missionaries, are artisans and craftsmen.

I wanted to become many things when I was young: a hairdresser like my friend Rita, a poet like Goethe, an architect, a missionary and even a pope.

Missionary Pentecostalism includes the efforts of U.S. denominations like the Assemblies of God, as well as missions from Sweden and other European countries.

Mitchell compares the Lakewood neighborhood, and many like it across the United States, to countries receiving aid from American missionaries.