Sentences with phrase «only as the preacher»

Part of the preaching task is to overcome this ambivalence, and it can be done only as both preacher and people accept the ambivalence and help each other with it.

But they can be brought to that understanding only as the preacher dares to proclaim the Word in all of its fullness.

Jesus moved through the land not only as a preacher of the Kingdom and a judge of men, but also as their benefactor, who, with his special «charismatic» (i.e., God - given) gift of healing, practically demonstrated to many persons the nearness of God's Kingdom.

Not exact matches

This is funny since he only thinks there was a god because like most people that's what's been drummed into their heads by preachers and society as a whole....

Using those quotes from Carrey and Higgins, preachers can hold up the likes of Hoffman as examples of the failures of the fame and fortune dream; and point to the only role model who won't let you down.

Scripture functions in the worship of thousands of Protestant congregations only as a means of reinforcing what the preacher wants to say.

I thought straight away this is a joke as scriptures tell us only the father knows the time of his sons return and hes keeping it to himself he hasnt even told his son yet.Mark 13:32 This a mystery isnt God all knowing and isnt Jesus God it is a mystery.Yet I like that that is the case because it proves that the father is not the son and the son is not the father they are separate yet they are one just like the holy spirit.I have come across denominations that believe the father son and holy spirit are the one person i asked them how they can say that when Jesus was baptized we see 3 separate persons.We have enough information to know that we are in the last days the signs are present and increasing.Ever since Israel became a nation the countdown has begun.The verse the enemy will come like a thief in the night i have heard preached many times and i believe the preachers have got it wrong because they preach it from the view for the church to get there act together or you will miss out.This view is incorrect because if you are a born again believer following him in obedience and relying on the holy spirit you are not walking in darkness but are walking in the light so you will not be caught unaware as those who are sleeping this is a warning for those who are sleeping or walking according to the flesh they are in darkness.Remember the 10 wise virgins the ones who were alert and keep refilling there lamps went in with the bride those who slept were left behind and so it will be when the Lord returns.Now is the time to prepare our hearts and lives to be ready for his return.It is an exciting time to be living and we are to live in the expectation that the Lord could return at any time brentnz

Such big - time evangelists as Argentine Luis Palau and U.S. television preacher Jimmy Swaggart pack city stadiums with tens of thousands of enthusiasts; only the pope draws larger crowds.

The pulpit, which represents both the people and the preacher's professional responsibility, not only shares its foundation with the preacher but is also on the same level as he.

If I appear ignorant to you perhaps it's because I don't blindly follow the theocratic dogma, or accept the creative translations and cultural contexts that particular preachers try to pass off as the only «true» way to interpret the Bible.

But despite the linguistic problems associated with this designation, it seems that the epithet «preacher,» in the sense of «pastor,» is indeed an appropriate one, at least theologically.36 According to Duncan Macdonald, we have done Qoheleth an injustice by viewing his work as reflecting only a spirit of resignation and despair.

Here we are in the realm of speculation, of course, but we can say this at least: no preacher who knows his business and who is aware of «the wideness of God's mercy» can dare to talk as if only those who have visibly and expressly professed Christian faith are the concern of a deity whose «nature and name» is Love, Thus the preaching of the ordained minister must necessarily err, if it errs at all, on the side of generosity and charity.

There is no reason to assume that uniformity and sameness are required; the event of God in Jesus Christ is so «many - colored», as used to be said, that staleness is likely only when the preacher himself is stale and the preacher's grasp of the essential proclamation has become tired and hackneyed.

The wandering preacher would not only attract attention to his or her gifts as a performer, but also to the diety that she or he represented.

If «preaching,» as Bultmann is using the word, merely means standing in a pulpit and expounding the Bible, then it is not true that the decision of freedom and the authentic self occurs only when one is listening to a preacher.

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.

As I listened to the two preachers I was aware of the issues, but only now do I see the connections, the significance and relationship of the themes and the scale of their influence on American society today.

Such an understanding is of course the shared legacy of the so - called dialectical theologians of the «20s (one must include not, only Bultmann and Tillich here but the new hermeneutic movement as well), but it was Barth's formulation of it that I found particularly potent, especially his insistence that the theologian is the helpmate of the preacher, both as servant and as critic.

Interesting, Jim, You were the only one in the congregation that was NOT so shallow as to swallow and enjoy what the preacher had to say!

And those who support women in the pastorate might not be willing to attend a church that was willing to have only men preach (as the regular preacher or even just filling in).

read psalms 91 about the righteous man and his family protected from these storms... not everone has a telepathic link as you say only those who have overcome their sinlife (not many) by believe the Lamb of God took it at His cross... the rest have no hope in this life and that includes wicked so called christians and money / fraud preachers.

I learned early on as a preacher's daughter that only happy faces were acceptable, that no one wanted to hear my questions, my experiences.

As a lot of Christian preachers lazily take only excerpts of the bible, pluck them out and use them out of context to fabricate a message of a hateful and vengeful god.

... 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.»

Examples are teaching from the pulpit, teaching Sunday School classes, teaching at Bible conferences, Bible colleges & on the radio, TV or internet (which is by far the greatest way that Woman preachers reach not only women but other men as well).

His career as an itinerant preacher was fairly brief — no more than three years, possibly only one year.

Clyde Fant's concept of the «oral manuscript» employs the act of speaking, not only as a way of finding the «arrangement» (dispositio) of the sermon but also to increase the preacher's capacity to remember it (memoria).

Because of his power in the pulpit the preacher was not only in demand as a popular lecturer but was also regarded as an authority on a wide variety of subjects.

The overall result mixes literary and theological concerns in a way that not only gives preachers something to preach, but also gives them some clues as to how.

All around him people were agitating pro and contra his Theses, which he had in any case only intended as exploratory and as a weapon to try to force the Archbishop of Mainz to tame the preachers of Indulgences in the middle of the growing controversy it was intolerable to remain silent.

Only 1 per cent view him as a «political revolutionary,» and the turn - of - the - century liberalism that saw him as moral teacher, prophet or itinerant preacher hardly shows up on the screen.

And you can only get that interpretation from a true sent preacher (as he gets his interpretation from God).

The vivid imagination and the sharp observation of men and nature that marked his mind; his acquaintance with common speech and his joy in the use of proverbs; indeed, his capacity to express in creative speaking with a skill that only a poet and genius possesses the whole range of human emotions from awe in the presence of the numinous to the feelings of the body — all are reflected in his sermons (as also in the commentaries, his work of the lecture room), not consistently, of course, and not every time, yet most impressively in the Church Postil Sermons, one of the products of his exile on Wartburg Castle, written in order to furnish to the preachers of the Reformation examples of Biblical preaching.

One need only turn on the television to watch Machine Gun Preacher for a similar portrayal of a white character who travels to «Africa» to «save the children» against the backdrop of black - on - black slaughter, rape and torture which is never historically contextualised (see The Guardian's Catherine Shoard's critique of the white criminal - turned - saviour character of Sam in Machine Gun Preacher as «half saint, half psychopath»).

Ms. James, whose voice booms like a preacher's at press conferences, has emerged as one of the loudest members of the City Council when it comes to issues she's focused on, including not only CityTime but cuts to social services, the police department's stop - and - frisk policy and the controversial Atlantic Yards development project, located in her Fort Greene - based district.

«As preachers everywhere, not only Nigerian preachers, we should be focused and know what God has called us to do.

Gary Oldman, as the fiery preacher out to rid the world of demons and their influence, saves this bedtime story that confuses itself with a typical detective whodunit (only here it's who - is - it: who's the big, bad wolf?

With his long hair and kind eyes, Salva looks a bit like Jesus, and Bigardo (Daniel Giménez Cacho), the creator of the show, decided to play the resemblance for all it's worth; the home audience not only acquits Salva, but he's given a new job as a TV preacher.

Not only is the biracial Irish actress tearing up the small screen as the badass Tulip in AMC's «Preacher,» but her first major role on the big screen earned her a Best Actress Oscar nomination.

For his only outing as director, actor Charles Laughton decided upon this warped fable of good vs evil, the story of an insane «preacher» who marries and murders a widow and chases her children down for $ 10,000 in hidden treasure.

It's a fairy tale of a film noir, about a couple of kids on the run from a psychotic conman who poses as a preacher to marry their mother and steal her deceased husband's secret stash of money, unfortunately, only the two kids know where the money is hidden.

These three add a level of class to a film about four mental patients — a child molester, a deranged war vet, a psycho preacher and someone known only as «The Bleeder» — who escape their asylum and attack the family of a new psychiatrist, whom they mistakenly believe killed their old doctor.

But it's exceptional in two respects: Robert Mitchum turns in a truly creepy performance as a psycho just out of prison (even Dwight Macdonald conceded how good he was), second only to his even creepier part as the homicidal preacher in Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter.

After Gus arrives to the town of Archangel, death follows in rapid succession, and he finds himself not only fighting for his own life, but protecting the local preacher and a young, violated girl, as he makes his way south to confront Hardin.The inevitable final showdown is about to take place in the dusty Mexican pueblo...