Sentences with phrase «preacher loves»

Preachers love to paint it in a rosy light, but the reality is that real, heart - level communion and community isn't always pretty.

It is no ones business and preachers love to act like they have the answers to heaven and hell so people will keep giving their hard earned money and feel so guilty that they should be giving more.

You preachers love to display Satan as the prime villian because then you can answer the question suffering with, as the church lady used to say, «could it be... Satan?»

To the right of that post, a bit under the gallery, sits Bishop Anderson of Chicago, and two seats away is the saintly face of the Rev. Alexander Whyte of First St. George's Church, Edinburgh, whom more American preachers love than any other living pulpiteer.

Not exact matches

Yes, the preachers and chaplins came with prayers, but our love for each other and family was what we talked about.

I love how you have a piece written buy a guy who knows more about what the bible says in and out and in different translations than any poster here, someone who has studied it for years and years, knows its history, and the history of the time it was written, but people still don't believe what he is saying because of what they hear from a preacher on Sunday mornings.

Most mainline preachers I know are quite bold about calling out structural sin or proclaiming gospel truths like Christ's love for the oppressed, the poor, the victims, and the marginalized.

I love the Presbyterians and the Mennonites, the Baptists and the no - names, the preachers of L.A. and the practitioners of the simple way, the megachurches and the house churches.

If you can dismiss me because I didn't go to Yale or Fuller, because I'm a non-American woman, because I'm a lady - preacher, because I'm charismatic, because I still love the local church, because you don't like my tone or my face or my age or my race, because I'm too much into All That Grace Stuff, then I'm not worthy.

I was nineteen years old and crazy in love with Jesus when that preacher told an auditorium I was «damaged goods» because of my sexual past.

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.

Had Brown not been cut down, he may have grown into a more life affirming position; perhaps as an internationally renowned neurosurgeon, a nationally syndicated newscaster, a White House cabinet member, a military general, a preacher of the Gospel, or perhaps as a simple and ordinary man who loves his wife and leads his family well, like so many who sit in our congregations every Sunday.

There is some Biblical truth for what the preacher was saying even though he did not put it across with better understanding and in love (Ephesians 4:15).

She left a life of ease and generously gave her resources to an itinerant preacher who taught her about loving the poor and outcast.

Vine also speaks of his love of John Stott describing him as one of the best preachers ever.

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.

Only the preacher deeply aware that even God's judgment is a manifestation of his love can acknowledge its reality, for himself and others, and realize that the very capacity to acknowledge it is itself a demonstration of the grace that guides it.

Still, loved ones said Mr Graham saw himself as a humble preacher who would have been embarrassed by such fanfare.

Do we lose the power of the claim that an itinerant Jewish preacher who taught about love and was murdered by the political establishment of his time was God become human flesh if we turn out to mean only that it's useful to say that?

Not every way of communication honors the truth: sometimes the manner in which something gets conveyed subverts reality, as when a preacher says all the right words about God's love but in a tone of voice and with a concluding string of «oughts» (therefore we ought to do this and we ought to do that) that makes you feel guiltier than ever.

Public discourse was never enough; private admonition, catechetical instruction, personal pastoral care, the administration of the sacrament the leadership of public worship — all these needed to be faithfully attended to; but in everything he did the preacher had one thing to do, namely, to bring home to men the gospel of divine love.

These two holy apostles would have been better fit as bouncers outside an expensive casino in Vegas owned by a mobster, than preachers of the gospel of love.

They fall in love with some preacher who «loves the Lord,» and that is the end of that.»

Having spent 25 years in ministry in London, RT Kendall has become one of Britain's best - loved American preachers.

It is perfectly possible for a preacher simply to affirm that «God is Love» as if it were an interesting significant speculation about the nature of the divine reality.

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.

stupid a $ $ «in god we trust» - i was raised RC & do nt believe in God because of people like you, the catholic church & this moron preacher - if you are «so» christian, why don't you love you fellow man & woman?

At the same time, the preacher is to affirm that the release of the divine power of love, pointedly effectual in this particular incident in the reported healing of the daughter, is also for all people, bringing to them the «comradeship and refreshment» of which they stand in need for the living of a truly human life.

Sorry, I'm not seeing a lot of truth or love from the preacher there.

PS — I love the «Preacher» avatar

Love preachers can be awesome manipulators.

The gospel which a preacher is to proclaim is to be seen as a bold affirmation, based upon the earliest Christian witness and the confirmation of that witness in the agelong Christian tradition, that we humans are loved, that we can be delivered from the lovelessness which makes us miserable and lonely, and that we can be enabled to return love even if very inadequately and partially.

What Matthew Arnold styled «the best that has been thought and said» in the past has its contribution to make to the preacher, if he or she is not to appear superficial or easy - going in presentation of the «good news» of God's love - in - act as it meets human sensibility at its most profound.

Hence the preacher can not rest content unless he or she has spelled out the wider implications of God's loving act in the event of Jesus Christ.

God loves the fat preacher.

I believe that my friendship with Joey and me being my normal self at work, somehow helped Joey to open his heart to the words of the preacher and the love and forgiveness of God.

Most Catholics who leave the church don't really know the teachings of the church therefore u cant love and cherish what u never learned so they leave and follow a charismatic preacher who falsely guides them to the real path of life

«If I do what the preacher said, then I will be worthy to receive God's love.»

If the preacher is speaking of love in the framework of the steadfast covenant loyalty of the Hebrew Bible, that needs to be made clear.

All of us who care about peacemaking and alternatives to a nuclear holocaust — those of us who still believe that God loves the world God created and expects us to do all we can to preserve and enhance life on earth — have a responsibility to pay attention not only to what these preachers are saying but also to what our own tradition teaches about «the last things.

No, It's another preacher preaching that a loving relationship between two people that God chose to create as gay is okay.

Undergirding the Preacher's words is the faith that vanity, the absence of meaning, the «striving after wind» (1:14,17, and repeatedly), and all frustration and vexation (2: 23) are resolved in the life and purpose (one might almost but not quite say «the love») of God.

Its been a tough journey being a born - again, accepting and giving my life to Christ Jesusover 2 years ago... aside from being in his word throughout my walk, watching sermons of bold preachers such as David Wilkerson, Leonard Ravenhill, Paul Washer... I totally missed out on the love, mercy, grace side of things.

In Marilynne Robinson's book Gilead, the preacher protagonist looks out over his Iowa fields and says: «I love the prairie!

There is a book in the Bible not much loved by Christian preachers, even though it is called «The Preacher», or by its Greek title, «Ecclesiastes».

This ministerial task requires a double sophistication and a double pace: the preacher must constantly repossess with the deliberate steadiness of history's pace the accumulated resources of the fields of faith, and he must at the same time race along with his time in instant knowledge of its lusts and loves, its longing and its lostness.

Give it all to Josh Osteen and his wife, the rich money loving spread the work preacher.

He added that he's not a hate preacher and «the most loving thing that a preacher can do is tell people the truth...»

It's too bad these preachers probably have theological concerns about Diana Ross because I just wish they would «STOP in the name of love».

Sometimes Christian preachers there talk about God's tender and patient love.