Sentences with phrase «ordained before»

Like others, Crooker notes that some of the most notorious serial offenders were ordained before Vatican II, in «the good old days» when seminaries insisted on obedience to the Magisterium, scorned effeminacy, and were strict about «particular friendships.»

Was it ordained before the foundation of the world that the year 2015, which saw the rise of Donald Trump's candidacy and his clumsy attempts to establish Evangelical bona fides, should also see the publication of the long - awaited first volume of In the Beginning Was the Word, Mark Noll's history of the Bible in American public life?

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It states that sinfulness does not proceed from God, hence my belief that God did not cause people to crucify the Lord Jesus Christ, and that He (God) from all Eternity, out of His Will, ordains what comes to pass, hence out of His Sovereign Grace, Will, Wisdom, and Command fore - ascertained the «Ultimate Provision» for our Salvation out of the betrayal of man, before the foundation of the world.

5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the naBefore I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nabefore thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

For those that believe life is sacred and ordained by God, how can those that believe so put millions, billions, or even trillions before belief in the protection of life.

What man does at «Free Will,» which is not caused by God, does not mean it is out of God's Sovereignty, since God foreknew it before the foundation of the world and ordained it to come to pass.

In case this didn't get posted before: I'm a Presbyterian minister, ordained in 1973, retired in April 2013.

Bill tells us that he heard one TLU insist that before breakfast the Pope could declare that women could be ordained and then after breakfast ordain as many of them as he liked.

Ordained at Arundel Cathedral in 1993, he worked irst as assistant priest at St Joseph's, Epsom, and Our Lady of Ransom, Eastbourne, before being appointed to St Joseph's, Dorking.

I am convinced that one of the reasons the English have such an innate sense of natural justice about the authority they feel ordained to exercise within their own four walls is that long before England became a political reality, she existed as a spiritual realm.

I attended First Baptist Reidsville for ten years before I was ordained; I was loved and formed by this community in ways I could have never imagined (see Chapter Four of Saffron Cross).

Another convert priest who had been married but was widowed before he was finally ordained, Fr Ronald Walls, admits in his autobiography that even as a Presbyterian minister he had felt torn between «giving himself totally to his wife and family and «giving himself to the people to whom God had sent him.

Before I was ordained and became a «professional» in ministry, I absolutely loved preaching and studying texts and commentaries etc. and gladly did it for free.

He took the missionary oath (the promise to return to England despite the capital risk) before being ordained priest and returned to England in the same year as the Armada sailed.

Jeremiah argued or questioned for one question «Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.»

Then the word of the Lord came to me saying, «Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations» (Jeremiah 1:4 - 5)

Even before I began making the notes that have led to this book, and long before I began writing it, I was convinced that the ordained ministry is a unity, although a complex one, functionally speaking.

Clearly, before Jeremiah was even born, God «knew» him, «sanctified» him, and «ordained» him.

I was a church pastor too once, now I'm ministering in a way that looks a lot more like the «7:00 am to 7:00 pm» job that I had before I got ordained.

For example, in one speech Hitler said, «In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that He may grant us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that He may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger... I am convinced that men who are created by God should live in accordance with the will of the Almighty... If Providence had not guided us I could often never have found these dizzy paths... Thus it is that we National Socialists, too, have in the depths of our hearts our faith.

Before Sinai, before Exodus Nineteen, the Hebrew people were an escaping band of slaves; but after Sinai they were a holy nation, a people of destiny, a nation of priests ordained to serve the Before Sinai, before Exodus Nineteen, the Hebrew people were an escaping band of slaves; but after Sinai they were a holy nation, a people of destiny, a nation of priests ordained to serve the before Exodus Nineteen, the Hebrew people were an escaping band of slaves; but after Sinai they were a holy nation, a people of destiny, a nation of priests ordained to serve the world.

An ordained minister with four early Georgia pastorates behind him, Outler is a duly educated (Yale, Ph.D., 1938) professor of theology who taught at Duke and Yale before leaving his stamp and seal on Southern Methodist University.

This point of view periodically gains strength before undergoing a counterattack from those who claim that capitalism is ordained by our faith and blessed by God.

He was not prepared for the ministry and was not called, so the Plymouth Colony got along without the sacraments for four years before an ordained clergyman arrived.

And to my ordained colleagues I say, since it is in God's presence that we exist or, more literally, before whose face we are standing, there is no essential difference in our stance before an Obadiah or before the altar; and quite deliberately I seize this moment of the text to urge that in preaching and in the conduct of public worship, laughter be permitted, encouraged, elicited.

Before joining the ATS staff in 1990, Aleshire, an ordained minister with a Ph.D. in...

«Yet no one can deny that God foreknew what end man was to have before he created him, and consequently foreknew because he so ordained by his decree.»

Yet no one can deny that God foreknew what end man was to have before he created him, and consequently foreknew because he so ordained by his decree (Calvin, Institutes, III.xxiii.7).

Back in the 1990s, before Brenda Salter McNeil was a professor and ordained pastor, she founded Salter McNeil & Associates to speak and consult on issues of racial reconciliation in the church.

«We all have a God - ordained purpose in our life, but I have to add to that because I learned... that before he will lead us into each stage of our purpose, drawing us closer and closer, he has to do things in our life so we when we get to that next stage, we won't misfire, destroy or lose,» he says.

The son of a strict Calvinist preacher, Putnam was ordained as a Congregational minister in 1868, before eventually becoming a freethinking lecturer and author of such pamphlets as Religion a Curse, Religion a Disease, Religion a Lie.

Raised a Southern Baptist, Grady became a charismatic in college, attended an independent charismatic church, then was ordained by the Pentecostal Holiness Church before being drawn to the conservative Episcopal parish.

Speaking to Premier before the service, Bishop Geoff said: «It's a chance in the cathedral - with family and friend - for my personally to say thank you to God for the ordained ministry he had allowed me to share in for the last 43 years.»

Enns skillfully dismantles some of the common responses to these passages — that the Canaanites were super-duper evil and therefore deserved to be exterminated, that war with the Canaanites was inevitable, that God's bloodthirsty portrait in Joshua is balanced out by more flattering portraits elsewhere in Scripture, that questioning biblical accounts of God - ordained genocide is sinful because God can do whatever God wants to do, etc — before offering his own controversial, yet well - argued, conclusion: «God never told the Israelites to kill the Canaanites.

He went on to talk of arrogant, moralistic sermons he had heard before he was ordained, preachers speaking as if their role granted them some moral perspicacity not granted to lesser mortals.

Ninety per cent of the presidents of colleges before the Civil War were ordained ministers.42 In the post-War period these men were rapidly replaced, especially in the larger and more influential institutions, by members of other professions.

It was, then, over two decades before he published Origin of Species that Darwin replaced biblical literalism with a «more simple and sublime» theology, one in which God is viewed as ordaining that creation operate without interference, through the natural law that he established.

The nine men - eight will be ordained deacon, and one as priest - all had theological training and went through a process of discernment before being selected.

Before any bishop is ordained, he has to have a pontifical mandate from the Pope showing his acceptance of his authority and a sign of his communion with him (Canon 1013).

She was ordained in 2001 in the capital and served her curacy in St Saviour's Battersea Fields, initially as a self - supporting minister, before leaving her Government post in 2004.

In KJV Jer 1:5 Jeremiah find mission among nations: Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the naBefore I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nabefore thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

Sara Butler is a world - class theologian who helped the Anglicans get women's ordination and thought it would be a matter of time before the Roman Catholics would ordain women as well.

Why do some churches still refuse to ordain women or grant women full equality before God?

Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

Their schools are known for their academic rigor and the priests endure extra years of training before they are ordained.

They did not change their social class by being ordained; their rank reflected the social class / stament they belonged to before joining the church.

Mr. Díaz's father, an ordained minister born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, was elected to State Senate in 2002 after a short stint in the Council — but, for two decades before that, Rev. Ruben Diaz Sr. was an incessant nuisance to the Bronx political machine, a «gadfly,» as the borough president called him.

Russell, who founded the Center for Theology and Natural Sciences to foster interaction between science and religion in California in 1981 (before Polkinghorne was ordained), eventually teamed with the Vatican Observatory to launch a Divine Action Program.

They argue that the fate of an embryo depends on the way the egg organizes itself, and that polarity in the egg can ordain either a successful or failed pregnancy before conception.

16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.