Sentences with phrase «of prayer ministry»

So to not be able to talk about such embarrassment had been a hindrance for me at the time rather than the time of prayer ministry being a help.

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Throughout my ministry as a priest, I have been sustained in grace by the prayers of the parishioners and religious that I have been privileged to serve and by the prayers of my brother clergy in the Archdiocese of Birmingham.

Voice of the Martyrs, a persecution ministry that operates a popular and powerful Facebook page in which American Christians post prayers for persecuted Christians around the world, has highlighted Easter persecution, as well.

Fifteen years of parish ministry have made this parson no less Pauline, no less Augustinian, no less a believer in the common prayer of every person for a Savior, than he has ever been.

Only then can we hope to know those wonderful grace - filled moments; times when through prayer and song, listening to and reciting the familiar words of grace and the stories of redemption, our hearts soar; times when we are caught up in the stream of love — when we sing praise to God with all our hearts and minds and souls and strength — which flows from us to God through the ministry of Christ and his people and which we return to God with prayer and praise.

There I learned of 17 Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy whose weekly time for breakfast, prayer and textual study is life - giving for ministries that take on poverty, crime, drugs and AIDS.

Usually when we pray this Christian prayer, we think that God is going to send us into high profile ministry positions, places of honor and glory, and opportunities to be heard.

The truth is, today we have a lot of paid «deacons» — pastors who mainly administrate and don't have time for «prayer and the ministry of the word.»

There is a large body of Christian literature on the value of prayers and pastoral ministry for convicts on death row or on the scaffold.

In the course of a very successful ministry — informed by piety (he wrote wonderful prayers), pastoral experience (he cared for his flock) and learning (he regularly wrote reviews and articles for journals)-- he became increasingly critical of the economic system of the late 19th century.

He told Premier about how Christians balance the power of God and the fact that we live in a fallen world: «We do believe that God heals and it's quite clear from scripture that prayer for the sick is part of the ministry of the church but at no point does it say anywhere in the Bible that we shouldn't seek medical help and support.»

Karadima was a charismatic preacher who was removed from the ministry by the Vatican for sexually abusing minors and sentenced in 2011 to a lifetime of penance and prayer.

If by the power of God's grace we are in a position to accept ourselves as pilgrims, as mortal men seeking their way with difficulty through the darkness, as failing again and again and yet bound in duty to an earthly task; if the Church effects that acceptance by celebrating the death of the Lord, and makes us men of prayer who are really conscious of the future judgment of God, if the Church sends its children strengthened with God's grace out into their own maturity which burdens them but sets them free, then the Church by its official ministry has done what it alone can and must do.

This past May, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), with the approval of the Holy Father, issued a communiqué indicating that the decision had been made «to invite» Father Marcial Maciel «to a reserved life of penitence and prayer, relinquishing any form of public ministry.»

Mr Barros was a protege of the Reverend Fernando Karadima, a charismatic preacher and darling of Chile's conservative Catholic society who was removed from ministry and sentenced by the Vatican in 2011 to live in penance and prayer for having sexually abused minors.

A growing range of ministries claim to be»em erging church» including: youth church, prayer monasteries, church in an office, pub or coffee shop.

The situation is too worse in the countrysides Being that the situation, my ministry has launched the forty days for fasting and prayers that we can evangelize and plant churches in villages of Shinyanga region.

Although this is only a footnote to the main line of this address, we may properly note in passing that some of Protestantism's subsequent difficulties with prayer and the devotional life, and with religious symbolism, come from neglect of those aspects of the medieval image of ministry that ought not to have been set aside.

If the ministry of disciplining is to avoid the image of punishing, it must find its roots in the word «disciple» with its emphasis on voluntary commitment and self - disciplining, and an image of the minister in prayer as he both disciplines himself personally and professionally, and encourages the laity to do the same.

Maciel that he relinquish his public ministry and devote the remainder of his life to penitence and prayer.

He should be sitting on a chair beside the bed, rather than standing, partly to show that he is not administering medicine but mainly to suggest that the nature of his ministry is through conversation, talking and listening, and other procedures like prayer and reading which also involve verbal means.

The mission and ministry of Jesus were undergirded by prayer; and Jesus not only taught his followers what they should pray for, but he set before them the supreme example.

It affirmed that the ministry is a gift of God through Christ to his church, and is essential to the being and well - being of the church, that men gifted for the work of the ministry, called by the Spirit and accepted by the church, are commissioned through an act of ordination by prayer and the laying on of hands.

As I said yesterday in my prayer from the cell post called «satellite phone», I have this strange feeling of alienation from God since I left the professional ministry and haven't been to church...

But, today's modern evangelical fundamentalists, going back to the days of Abraham Vereide founding of the religio - business - political cabal The Family / The Fellowship / C Street / National Prayer Breakfast, chooses to ignore Jesus» comments about his ministry and are bound and determined to have our government controlled by theocratic politicians who are passing laws to further their goal of turning this country into an theocracy.

As the gospel writers make clear, Jesus returned to mountain and desert throughout his ministry for the explicit purpose of prayer.3 Down the centuries — from Desert Fathers to monastic communities to contemporary pilgrims — the wilderness has proved less a place of bewilderment than a setting to get one's spiritual bearings.

Personally, the hardest part of being single is feeling like I don't have a partner in ministry — a built - in encourager, prayer partner and someone who is journeying with me in the mess that can be the Christian walk.

There is a ministry belonging to all Christian people as participant in the Body of Christ; as the Good Friday prayer puts it, «every member of the same, in his vocation and ministry» is to serve the purposes of God in Christ.

On the eve of his death, ministry partners, fans, and friends urgently asked for prayer on social media this weekend, offering a wave of early tributes that spread through end - times prophecy circles and chapters of Concerned Women for America (CWA), the 600,000 - member public policy organization founded by LaHaye's wife, Beverly.

One of the reasons Jesus» ministry was so effective was because of the time and effort he put into prayer.

Alpha is the invitation: it's up to the congregation to care for the guests after «the Alpha event,» to shape habits of prayer and worship, activate individual ministries and help people to form Christian friendships.

You may want to include formal ministry, prayer times, discussion sessions and times of worship, but leave plenty of time for fun and fellowship.

One simple, powerful ministry of the Temple is its open - door policy: it leaves the air conditioning or the heat on in the sanctuary and keeps the sanctuary open for prayer.

Two collect prayers, products of ministry to inmate congregations, reveal the complexity of the process.

At the introduction of Enoch in the Mormon version, there is a long section continuing through chapter 6, with 71 verses, and chapter 8 with 85 verses, dealing with Enoch's ministry, his prophecies, visions, prayers, etc..

3Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business; 4but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.»»

And at the end of his ministry he quoted the prophetic word that the temple should be a house of prayer for all nations (Mark 11:17; cf. Isa.

The work of the twelve apostles was prayer and the ministry of the word (Acts 6:2).

The wording of the CDF's announcement, that it has decided «to invite the father to a reserved life of penitence and prayer, relinquishing any form of public ministry», leaves it open to the movement to continue to believe that he has been unjustly accused.

There is a prayer I often use when I reflect on the ministry of pastoral care.

«We hope that the discernment in the Electoral Synod will enable them to elect a new bishop who will lead the Diocese of Brechin in its future ministry and mission, and hold each of the candidates and the Diocese in our prayers during this process.»

Prayers, confession and absolution, holy unction and Holy Communion may all be part of the ministry offered to those who are dying.

The courageous work of pro-life groups in vigils at abortion clinics, of street pastors working with clubbers at night - time in city centres, of those offering prayer ministry for healing in shopping centres, of street evangelisers such as the St Patrick's group in Soho - all these examples need to be better known, and imitated.1 Then there's the output of media groups working through radio, TV, internet sites, blogs and video teaching programmes, such as Catholic Evangelisation Services; these too, while offering an independent type of Christian teaching, provide an important stimulus to on - the - ground evangelising.

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?

How many of our people, indeed how many of us in the ordained ministry, really understand that prayer is essentially what St. Thomas Aquinas, following St. John Damascene, said it is: «the elevation of the mind to God»?

Let's get serious in our prayer lives, our ministry and the practical support of widows, orphans, immigrants, refugees and every other marginalized person in our nation.

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An inseparable part of the ecumenical task is to move the churches toward visible unity in, as the New Delhi statement put it (I abbreviate), «one baptism, one gospel, breaking the one bread, joining in common prayer, a corporate life reaching out in witness and service to all, a ministry and membership accepted by all, and the ability to act and speak together as occasion requires.»

It provoked a crisis of faith in Greig who was publicly leading a global prayer ministry, while privately questioning whether God existed at all.

We might choose an artist to support monetarily or with encouragement and prayer for a month, connect with local artists and find out what their supply needs are (paint, canvas, etc. is expensive), invite an artist to paint live at an event, commission them to make art for your family or one of your church's ministries.