Sentences with phrase «more time ministering»

Look at every over 40 member of your church and see if any of them are spending more time ministering or discussing Jesus than they are freaking out about their gun rights or gay people or Obama.

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According to the Los Angeles Times, she is believed to be the youngest government minister in the world and her role is to create pathways for young people to have more engagement with government and within society.

Her comments follow media reports that the EU's Commission President Jean - Claude Juncker left London «10 times more skeptical» than he was before after a dinner with Prime Minister May last week.

On the initiative's launch, H.E. Huda Al Hashimi, Assistant Director General for Strategy and Innovation at the UAE Prime Minister's Office asserts that owing to the momentum of the previous years» innovation - themed week, this year, it was extended to a whole month to give people more time to visit and interact with activities.

Flaherty, 64, served as Harper's only finance minister from the time the Conservatives won office in January 2006 until last month, when he stepped down, saying he would not run in the 2015 election and wanted more time with his family.

However, The Times of London cited «allies» of the former minister as saying that the actual cause of his departure was that «he was unable to guarantee that there would not be more stories about inappropriate behavior with other journalists.

Upon hearing of Goodyear's plan to sell the plant, which would put more than 1,000 people out of a job at a time when France is suffering a 10.9 percent unemployment rate, Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg himself attempted to find a buyer for the plant last year.

Morgan is a close friend of Trump's — Trump spent more time talking to Morgan on the phone after the election than he did with British Prime Minister Theresa May.

- At the same time, both Iran and Iraq must make sacrifices for Saudi Arabia to accept the deal, Iran takes opposite view, insisting Saudi should cut more, as it boosted output most in recent years: oil producers that raised output in past years while Iran was subject to sanctions «will have to shoulder a bigger share of the output drop and accept more responsibility»: oil minister Bijan Zanganeh

Canadians are three times more likely to say NAFTA has benefitted their country than hurt it February 13, 2017 — When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets U.S. President Donald Trump face - to - face for the first time on Monday, the pair are

The Finance Minister stated that he had postponed the budget because he needed more time to better understand prospects for the global economy and the outlook for oil prices.

In the process, the prime minister spent a serious amount of time arguing that Andrew Scheer was little more than a Stephen Harper clone, with nary a sentence on the NDP and its rookie leader, Jagmeet Singh.

OTTAWA — An internal memorandum to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, prepared more than two years before the Lac - Megantic railway disaster, noted that oil shipments by train were on the verge of expanding by up to 20 times the volume.

For the first time in more than 40 years, Canada is poised to host not only an Indian Prime Minister, but one who is favourably disposed toward Canada and famous for making things happen.

My first Davos was in 1995 and I've come back many times since, both as a minister and, more recently, as president of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives.

For the first time in more than 40 years, a sitting prime minister of India will make an official visit to Canada this month.

Speaking with reporters in Toronto, the minister suggested a change to CPP is more a question of timing.

And RBC head Gordon Nixon made $ 12.6 million last year, 25 % more than the year before — 40 times the salary of the Prime Minister, 33 times that of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada — and 274 times the average Canadian wage.

There is no time when the minister is more sorely needed than during the crisis of grief.

Possible effect: Many a minister who could make it when a wife filled in the weak places in his ministry will have a much more difficult time without that assistance.

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.

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.

This IS WORK, it is taxing, it is hard, you have to be called, and yes it is worth it, but let's empower and enable ministers by not adding more of a financial burden on minsters on top of that to go out and work a full time job as well.

My father - in - law has been a minister for more than sixty years and I have seen how many hundreds, if not thousands of people he has brought comfort to in their darkest times.

A survey of campuses of the time suggests that somewhat more than a third of the faculty were ministers.

Making their approach from the functional point of view they tried to discover how ministers defined their more important objectives, how they rated the relative importance of their various tasks and how they divided their time in the performance of their duties.

Because we ministers rightly believe that involvement in the reconciling process is a central task, we are more reluctant than most people to step back when, at least for the time being, the initial conditions for that process are not present.

The Church at this time needs our leadership to address the crisis of marriage for heterosexuals — between divorce and extramarital sexual activity — more than it needs a few ministers to take a stand against gay marriage.

A new minister has been appointed to one of Scotland's most iconic cathedrals for the first time in 40... More

In February 1792, British Prime Minister Pitt justified the reduction of military expenditures and held out hope for more reductions to come by declaring: «Unquestionably there never was a time in the history of this country when from the situation of Europe we might more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace than at the present moment.

It is usually the case that the man most given to his mission as minister is also the man who is most conscious of his need for more time in his study.

In our more formal sermon - centered services little is required of the worshiper except to sit decorously, stand, and bow his head at appropriate intervals, and rare indeed is the minister who can capture his roving thoughts all the time from eleven o'clock until twelve - fifteen.

The campus offered the freedom to do that which was impossible in the parish, and more than one of us has maintained the title «campus minister» while inching ever closer to full - time teaching.

Involvement in the multitudinous problems of a rapidly expanding urban area or exposure to the increasingly bitter struggle between labor and management or entanglement in the luxuriant and rank growth so abundantly fostered by the new wealth of the «gilded age»: these and other factors caused many men to re-examine their roles as ministers and to seek more effective ways of ministering to the needs of their time.11 Perhaps the most important thing that happened to such men was that they became aware of the many factors bearing on human welfare and thus of importance to the Christian gospel.

The entire Western Highlands of Scotland have been left with just one full - time Church of Scotland minister... More

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.

Perhaps Satan wanted a little more time to corrupt the minister.

Environment ministers considered the Decision RIS at their meeting of 29 April 2014, and determined that more time was required for jurisdictions to consider the analysis of the Decision RIS.

As Ken Dryden, a six - time Stanley Cup — winning goalie and now Canada's Minister of Social Development, said, «There are a number of fans in this country who have sensed over the last... months that maybe [NHL hockey] was more habit than it was passion.»

My understanding is that the committee investigating governance in sport want a no confidence vote, but Sports Minister, Tracey Crouch wants the FA to have more time.

«Ruling out a referendum one day and then ruling it back in again the next looks like a prime minister spending more time managing his party than leading the country,» shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander commented.

There is a certain irony that diplomats who wish to publish diaries or memoirs frequently have a more difficult time than the ministers they served.

But while Sarkozy emphasised the need for humanitarian safe havens on Syria's borders, UK prime minister David Cameron talked more of gathering evidence on war crimes to hold Syria's leaders to account some time in the future.

The Prime Minister will have to decide whether she is willing to risk a second independence referendum which, if it goes in the nationalists» favour, would end her time at the head of the UK Government or whether making the Scottish Parliament more muscular might be a more prudent course of action.

Although Bo is identified with the elitist bloc for his time in Liaoning and as Minister of Commerce, during his tenure in the interior city of Chongqing, he adopted a number of populist policies more typically associated with the left.

At Commons question time, she asked prime minister David Cameron whether his lack of support for the No More Page 3 campaign was based on the views of a fellow Tory MP who argued that «Page 3 provides jobs for the girls.»

Former first minister Alex Salmond attempted to get devo max on the 2014 ballot, for example, while his successor, Nicola Sturgeon, accepted the Smith Commission devolution proposals while demanding more autonomy at the same time.

Mr Clarke, who left cabinet in May 2006, has been one of the more vocal opponents of Gordon Brown during his time as prime minister.

He proved, at times, an effective interlocutor at Prime Minister's Questions, though more often than not the clashes ended with a score draw.

During the tenure of different governments the title of Minister of / for Transport has been used to refer to the Secretary of State for Transport, one or more of the junior Ministers or even both the Secretary of State and the junior Ministers at the same time.