Sentences with phrase «more than the ministry»

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Speaking to Radio National's Phillip Adams in his first post-resignation interview, Varoufakis also said he «jumped more than he was pushed» when he resigned from the ministry.

Russia's economy ministry said on Saturday it expected gross domestic product to fall 3 percent this year, more optimistic than many analysts» forecasts of a 4 - 5 percent drop.

Teach Away's clients — education ministries, colleges, and other organizations that provide ESL training — are situated in more than 50 countries around the world, including the Middle East, Asia and Eastern Europe.

Through its ministry, Operation Christmas Child, the organization delivers more than 8 million shoe box gifts to poor children in more than 100 countries each year.

With more than 60 % of the results counted, official projection from Greece's interior ministry shows no vote set to win with an overwhelming 61 % share

The budget highlights the huge imbalances created by five years of economic crisis: Spain will set aside $ 36.6 billion ($ 49.5 billion) to service its fast - rising pile of public debt, $ 2 billion more than it will spend on the 13 government ministries.

The two first female attorneys - general in BC history were appointed, Our 125,000 + civil service, finance ministry and largest Crown corporation were run by women, and more than a third of our government board appointees were women.

TOKYO (AP)-- Japanese transport ministry officials raided the Tokyo headquarters of scandal - ridden Mitsubishi Motors Corp. on Friday after the government alleged the automaker cheated on mileage ratings on more models than earlier reported.

China's finance ministry announced on April 4 that it would impose an additional 25 percent tax on more than 100 U.S. imports.

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

While most leaders or aspiring leaders would agree with this in theory, many life - long Christians, especially those with ministry responsibilities, spend more time pursing a deeper understanding of leadership principles than they do learning to hear God and submitting themselves to following.

The Church's department for social ministry has a network of approximately a thousand volunteers in Moscow — a city of more than 12 million.

Standing with my father in his office after preachign for him in a retirement service that capped 40 years of pastoral ministry, I witnessed a man who lost more than a title.

I don't think that anyone (here, at least) would say that there's no room for women in * any * ministry in the church, but perhaps that there are certain ministries that women are more equipped for (both «more equipped for as women» and «more equipped for than men»).

The Institute offers several more courses than the previous colleges and considerably expands the ministry and education opportunities for lay members of the church.

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

Having served in both communities (military and ministry), the comparisons are more than valid and more than fair.

I think it is so much more difficult for people in the ministry / preisthood to deal with institutional drag than it is for lay people.

However, in my experience of 40 years in ministry in New England, the Midwest and on the West Coast, I have found churches to be more like matriarchies than patriarchies.

They assert in one of their introductory chapters that pastoral ministry is no more difficult today than it was four decades ago.

In reality, most of those working in healing ministry are more concerned with winning people to Christ than the finer details of theology.

And it is the dominant note of hope that, more than anything else, characterizes the ministry of Fr.

Giving to one's local church is much more preferable than mailing money to some TV or radio ministry because (presumably) the local church will actually provide an annual financial statement that accounts for every dime received.

Furthermore, the program was based on a model of ministry that was more psychological than theological, and it addressed individuals more than communities.

Forty years into her life as a preacher and minister, 72 - year - old Joyce has written more than 100 books and heads up a ministry with more than 700 employees based in the St Louis suburb of Fenton, Missouri.

Unfortunately, her reply is little more than a show of concern for herself and her friends, and the fact that we are once again faced with an accused person in a ministry position who spews indigation without the slightest attempt to engage by offering counterpoints or supported statements lends still more credibility to Julie's account.

I hope that those from all sides of this incredible story will come to an agreement that each individual person is more important than any reputation, ministry or movement.

And the New Testament highlights Jesus's nonviolent response to violence as a pattern to follow more than any other aspect of His ministry.

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.

The new language recognizes for the first time the reality that I have witnessed in more than 20 years of ministry with lesbian and gay Catholics: «they wish to encounter a Church that offers them a welcoming home.»

Sometimes nothing is more discouraging than ministry in the messy middle of things.

It is an amalgamation of my many years — more than 20 — of being a part of womens» ministries in various churches of various denominations in many different contexts.

Clay and Sally Clarkson have followed the beat of God's heart for parents during more than three decades of personal ministry.

And once this recognition is at the heart of our ministry, our preaching will become effectual — not that we are ever more than unworthy and «unprofitable» servants, but that God in Christ can and does use our unworthiness for his own great ends and makes even our imperfections to serve him.

I've grown more being out of church ministry than any other time in my life.

There are few places at which a minister can invest his pastoral time more helpfully than in a supportive ministry to the mentally ill and their families.

I do not believe that there is any sexual problem that I have not dealt with pastorally in some form in my more than twenty years in the ministry.

«There is one thing amongst all others, the loss of which is more deplorable than words can express; We allude to the most holy Sacrifice in which Jesus Christ, both Priest and Victim, daily offers Himself to His Father, through the ministry of His priests on earth.

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

In the Gospels of the New Testament more attention is devoted to the healing ministry of Jesus than to any other subject except the passion story of the last week of Jesus» earthly life.

Failure to act as direct teacher and dean or principal of a school of discipleship by its pastoral leader probably accounts more than any other single factor for a congregation's inability to mature in its ministry.

A representative of a particularly socially active denomination postulated that Spanish is probably a more important language to know today than Greek; how can one propose to do ministry in the U.S. currently without a knowledge of Spanish?

More than a decade later, Khang is still on staff, serving as IVCF's regional multiethnic ministries director.

It has been incredibly freeing and I'm doing more ministry than I ever did as a full - time vocational pastor — that is, I'm ministering «with» others to those who are not - yet believers rather than ministering «to» and «for» people in the church.

But the witnessing Christian must not always wait to be asked, any more than the charitable or justice - seeking Christian waits for an invitation for these ministries.

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?

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.

In varying degrees, most of them want practical theology to become more critical and philosophical, more public (in the sense of being more oriented toward the church's ministry to the world rather than simply preoccupied with the needs of its own internal life), and more related to an analysis of the various situations and contexts of theology.

According to the findings of a new research study, interest in church planting is on the rise, some of America's best and brightest ministry leaders choose planting as their career path and church planting efforts are much more successful and promising than anticipated.

Counseling, chaplaincy and other forms of ministry to groups and organizations are also attractive, and more than a quarter of entering students are headed for teaching, social service or administration.