Sentences with phrase «more about his ministry»

To find out more about the ministry of Elam and the growing Iranian Church, visit elam.com.

Before commenting on whether or not he should step down, I'd like to know more about his ministry.

Go to http://www.swazipartners.org/give to learn more about their ministry and give online.

If you want to learn more about this ministry, you're invited to visit www.themustardtreeministry.org.

Learn more about the ministry of Three Angels and how you can become a part of reaching orphans and at - risk families in Haiti.

Not exact matches

I don't spend time in my study figuring out how to save the world, how to grow the church, how to get more money out of people's pockets, how to promote this church's ministry, how to enthrall our people more with sexy worship music, how to make myself more awesome before my people, how to get more people to hear about and come to our church.

Keep in mind the congregation probably knows more about pastoral ministry than you.

I have thought more about church finances in the last 8 months than in all of my previous years of ministry combined.

We will remember this about Jesus as we step into a more «normal» portion of our ministry of being with family instead of on the «field» in «mission.»

But ministry moves a notch deeper when there can be a hand on a shoulder and an invitation to sit together and talk about more than a handout.

To be more specific, the Synoptic Gospels represent Jesus» ministry as exercised chiefly in Galilee until about the last week of his life; John has much to say of a ministry in Judea before Jesus began his work in Galilee.

As it is, he really only spends one paragraph talking about this, but Jesus emphasized such outward - focused love during His ministry, and the church at large could benefit from more of a reminder that the Kingdom of God is not just about loving one another, but is also about loving and serving those who live in darkness and fear.

Ed: More than anything, I lead a group because ministry is about people.

You will learn more about young adults, understand some of the many reasons they leave the church and often stay away, network with other leaders in your area and walk away with some do - able next steps and encouragement for your ministry.

Could it be that God has given some people more than others, not so that they can feel extra special, or become puffed up about how great of people they are in God's eyes, or how wonderful their ministries are for the advancement of the Kingdom of God, but so that those to whom God has given more can use what they have to bless others who have been given less, and in so doing, be blessed in other ways in return?

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This does not mean that women's ministry must become heady, academic, or political, but it's got to be about more than mere survival.

Finally, women in ministry must begin talking with one another more seriously about the reservations they sometimes have concerning senior pastorates.

To make matters worse, the average congregation is more worried about overpaying the staff than underpaying them which leads to the church being crippled spiritually by pastoral changes as the pastor moves to a better deal or leaves the ministry or works multiple jobs just to support his family.

Conversely, inability so to invest, or the more frequent grumbling about the investment, are rooted in an attitude that at some level still regards basic consultation as an enemy of ministry.

In my consultative work I have nowhere been more baffled than when asked what a center for disturbed children could do about ministry.

Here is one more example, one of my riders was invited to speak about the motorcycle ministry at a local church.

What's happened, of course, is that over the past thirty years the central purpose of Catholic worship» the Eucharist» has been all but lost in a sea of concerns about community building, lay ministry, liturgical language, battles over music and statues, and yet more community building.

In the same and in other schools uncertainty about the meaning of the ministry comes to appearance also in the feeling of conflict in a faculty between its loyalty to a traditional idea, such as that of the preacher, and its sense of obligation to denominational officials, alumni and churchmen in general who urge a more «practical» education.

It is also pointed out that uncertainty about the office of the ministry may be a by - product of that more intimate interaction among denominations and communions which has been characteristic of recent times.

He examines the speeches in Acts and also the editorial skeleton in Mark, and he finds that they follow a more or less common pattern: the ministry began with the «baptism» of John, that is, his message of repentance and work as a baptizer; following John's arrest, Jesus began his own ministry in Galilee, and there «went about doing good,» and «healing all that were possessed by the devil»; then he came up to Jerusalem, where the rulers put him to death by crucifixion; on the third day he rose again, and appeared to his disciples, who were now «witnesses» to the truth of these reported events, namely to his resurrection from the dead.

For Protestants, though, seminary need not be about ministry; at some of the more - established old line institutions in the U.S., for example, only a minority of students actually enter active ministry after graduating.

The other day I posted an older cartoon suggesting that people are more important than ideas, and quickly wrote a short post about the Reverend Gretta Vosper, a United Church of Canada (UCC) minister who is being tried for her fitness for ministry.

Let's look at them one at a time to learn a bit more about their lives and ministries.

By that time various legends about Jesus were growing steadily, such as that of the Virgin Birth, and the more miraculous stories of what he did during his earthly ministry.

My ministry has been more about relationship evangelism which sometimes takes years!

The notion that it is God who calls seems a commonplace piety when we are talking about «church vocations,» calls to «ministry» or «the religious life,» but it sounds more like an afterthought or theological overlay in regard to ordinary life.

The Valparaiso Project is now in the process of becoming much more explicit about how our work is situated within practical theology and what its implications are for ministry.

«A lot of what I said... I had a new - found faith and I saw this an opportunity to talk about the faith on national TV and more as a ministry opportunity.

I've spent far more time than I care to admit combing through complementarian literature, reading debates about whether women can read Scripture aloud in church, whether female missionaries should be permitted to give presentations on Sunday evenings, what age groups women should be allowed to teach in Sunday school, whether women can speak in small group Bible studies, what titles to bestow upon worship leaders and children's ministry coordinators so that they don't appear too authoritative, and on and on and on.

Another kind of position about the ministry, which now seems likely to be adopted to a certain extent by the Roman Catholic Church, is to create a group of subministers, who are permitted to perform nearly (but not quite) all the functions of the priest, but who will be trained much more quickly.

In this situation more than a hundred theological schools have agreed to examine themselves and the status of theological education in general, to raise immediate and ultimate questions about their purposes, their methods and their effectiveness in discharging their duties; to seek also ways of improving their own ministry.

The quest for «the historically verifiable Jesus» ends up with nothing more than an estimate about greater and lesser probabilities, and what is historically verifiable «is not at all necessarily what is most central or pivotal to Jesus» ministry, any more than we can deduce from what is unique to a person what is essential to that person.»

After more than 20 years of professional ministry experience and a decade focused on philanthropy and developing leaders for the nonprofit world, I often get into conversations about how to know if all the work we're doing is actually worthwhile.

I think knowing more about his life before he started his ministry would make him more interesting to people and allow us to embrace our humanness.

I knew that if I hoped to understand what drew him into ministry in Japan, I needed to learn more about Christianity.

What if elder's meetings were more about prayer for the people and ministries of the church than discussing the myriad and minute problems and issues of the church?

It is clear from the ministry of Jesus, that more than anything else, He went about casting out devils and healing folks.

Can you say more about your sense of ministry as a vocation?

Since I was in positions on campus that were considered to be ministries and studying towards being a pastor it would have been very risky for me to be more vocal about it.

But I am convinced that Christians will create more difficulties than they resolve by minimizing the New Testament emphasis on fulfillment, or by talking about a Christ event that is incomplete, a messianic ministry that has not been fully accomplished.

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Month - over-month enrollments doubled and tripled throughout the year at Samaritan Ministries — one of the country's biggest health care sharing ministries, which now has about 113,000 members, 43 percent more than it did a year ago.

While the question of what to do with information about harm done to a child or an elderly person is important, it is the myriad of more mundane questions such as these that are more likely to have an effect on the church's day - to - day ministry.

What we have just been noting about the interrelatedness of the prophetic and teaching functions will suggest the difficulty of separating the teacher and the prophet from each other; and, if they belong together, it seems on the whole more plausible to regard them as belonging to the local ministry.