Sentences with phrase «much as preachers»

The new lectionary benefits musicians as much as preachers by making integration of sung and spoken word much more readily achieved.

Actually, I really wonder if most religious folks actually value Truth or Salvation as much as their preachers and priests try to tell them they should.

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No matter how much they say that the husband should love his wife as Christ loves the church, they (the leading complementarian preachers and scholars) are handing husbands the right to ignore truth when it is his wife who has it and he doesn't — that is, when his wife is right and he is wrong.

But the real explanation of our ineffectual preaching lies much deeper: far too many of us, far too much of the time, do not recognize the terrible truth that as preachers we are engaged in nothing other than the task of confronting our listeners with the very Word of God.

Jonathan Edwards's success as a preacher was as much due to his brilliant use of images as it was to his brilliant thought.

I love to hear preachers talking about how much God values us, made us in his image, and is willing to walk alongside of us as a loving, joyful friend.

Instead — and with as much success as any Christian preacher could expect — he addressed the fears which gripped young and old.

Jeremy Myers, i think you are wrong and David is right, so many out there are preaching you can live any way you want and be right that Grace covers any sin, they really believe that, that is not what the bible says, God was very concerned about sin so much he sent Jesus his son to die on a cross for us, if we accept Jesus as our savor then we are to obey his commandments, not break them, we are to live a righteous and holy life as possible, the bible plainly list a whole list of things if we live in will not to to heaven unless we repent, if we die while in these sins, we will not go to heaven, what is the difference, between someone who said a prayer and someone who did not, and they are living the same way, none, i think, if we are truly saved it should be hard to do these things let alone live and do them everyday, i would be afraid to tell people that it does not matte grace covers their sins, i really think it is the slip ups that we are convicted of by the Holy Spirit and we ask for forgivness, how can anyones heart be right with God and they have sex all the time out of marriage, lie, break every commandment of God, i don't think this is meaning grace covers those sins, until they repent and ask for forgiveness, a lot of people will end up in hell because preachers teach Grace the wrong way,, and those preachers will answer to God for leading these people the wrong way, not saying you are one of them, but be careful, everything we teach or preach must line up with the word of God, God hates sin,

Perhaps the kinds of studies that have been made of the art of administration, of the relations of policy and administration, of organization and management in other: spheres will be carried forward into the sphere of the Church and may show how much the pastoral director of our time, as pastoral preacher, teacher, counselor and leader of worship has also become the democratic pastoral administrator, that is to say, a man charged with the responsibility and given the authority to hold in balance, to invigorate and to maintain communication among a host of activities and their responsible leaders, all directed toward a common end.

No amount of other reading does me much good as a preacher unless I regularly read the Bible.

He will continue to be ordained by the institution and will, if he is faithful to it, have as much authority as the institution he represents has; spiritual authority is as necessary to him as to ministers of every other type; he is not less under the authority of Scriptures or less representative of it than the preacher; but his relation to all these authorities is different.

Community and Scriptures have been brought much more closely together in practice and in theory than was the case in the older view of the minister as preacher.

For it is not so much what we proclaim as preachers; it is whom we proclaim.

Perhaps we will find that we are not as perfect as we have told ourselves that we are and perhaps, His compassion for people that we call sinners will be much greater than what some local nut job preacher thinks it should be.

I figured as much; you've never taken any classes in religion that weren't taught in YOUR church by YOUR preacher, and you believe that's the ONLY interpretation that could possibly be correct.

Because images, in a book or in a sermon, are generally regarded as decorative and hence optional in their bearing upon the principal form and content of the communication, the imaginative preacher may have to endure such comments as «His sermons don't seem theologically weighty» or «It was too interesting to have contained much truth», or perhaps such inverted compliments as «I was much involved in your talk, or whatever it was.

I notice that many preachers these days avoid the name Jesus, but refer to him always as «Christ» or «the Christ,» almost as if using his real name would make him too much like us.

The preacher should not look upon these disciplines as otherwise, for the Bible as a collection of ancient documents surely deserves the compliment of objective examination as much as other literature.

Sometimes this monarchical air and distance is not so much assumed by the preacher as projected on him or her by the people.

Why is it that we continue to flock to megachurches, eat hungrily from the hands of prosperity - gospel preachers and buy Christian - living books that aren't much more than humanistic doctrine camouflaged as biblical exhortation?

I freely admit that I take greater satisfaction in using my own insight and craftsmanship (such as they are) in preparing a sermon than in using those of any other preacher, however much more scholarly or eloquent he may be.

Hellenistic Jewish missionaries had learned much as regards method from the preachers of popular philosophy, who went from city to city and often found ready audiences.

Considerable debate is going on as to how much influence the religious right has, the extent to which it influenced the results of the 1980 election, and how many people listen regularly to right - wing preachers on television.

... And thenceforward he denied all such requests, saying: A man possesses of learning only so much as comes out of him in action, and a monk is a good preacher only so far as his deeds proclaim him such, for every tree is known by its fruits.»

Deftly citing Luke 4, in which Jesus» townsfolk in Nazareth are said to want to kill him for suggesting that Gentiles are to be graced by God as much as Jews, Keller quipped that he couldn't be that good a preacher since nobody had yet tried to kill him.

This task is very demanding; and that is why it is so necessary that the preacher be informed, so far as this is possible for him or her, about what has gone on m the past, quite as much as what speaks meaningfully to present - day thought and experience.

He is much sought after as a preacher and lecturer.

It is the simple fact that in the early Church it was not so much the crucified Christ as the risen Christ that the early preachers preached.

I've heard the arguments of some preachers too: that some debt is a sin but other sources of debt are not, or, as you say, «too much» debt is a sin.

She endorses John E Kennedy's response of 1960 to the Baptist preachers of Houston when he assured them, in effect, that he would not let his religion impinge upon his politics (or, as it turned out, much else in his life).

@HawaiiGuest — yep... looks like Jennifer is as much a coward, as the preacher she admires.

The renowned preacher also emphasized the need for people to care much more about the salvation of their souls rather than seeking for miracles and prosperity as they will continue to be used by unscrupulous people who are supposed men of God.

Having this mind, we can conclude that preacher curls are not as efficient for building your biceps peak, making them much better exercise for your inner biceps.

As much as it would nice to work my lower bicep or lengthen my bicep, preacher curls do not do this, and either do any exerciseAs much as it would nice to work my lower bicep or lengthen my bicep, preacher curls do not do this, and either do any exerciseas it would nice to work my lower bicep or lengthen my bicep, preacher curls do not do this, and either do any exercises.

Much like Preacher before it, The Boys was initially set to be adapted as a feature film, with Columbia Pictures picking up the rights in 2008.

Orthodox preachers found it difficult to achieve a foothold in the state, Calvinists being particularly unwelcome as much for their unyielding doctrines as for their associations with the forces of government.