Sentences with phrase «preaching as»

2/15/2015 Grace Cathedral in San Francisco at 8:30 am, The Rev. Bingham will be preaching as part of the National Preach - in on Global Warming

From that point forward, the shameless sinner reformed, dedicating his life to Jesus and seeking salvation by creating Christian - themed paintings and by preaching as an ordained minister.

This means that at the end of the day, Ivy has not just eaten her veggies, but she's eaten a variety of veggies — which is something I am always preaching as a chef and is key for Baby's nutrition.

Usually they teach Bible, theology, church history and preaching as separate subjects.

Those who see religion in this privatistic way, naturally, view preaching as suspect or on tenuous ground when it speaks not only of personal conversion, faith development, and spiritual nurture, but also of political realities, economic arrangements, care of creation, and the like.

This hook will not address all of the above questions but they are listed because they are connected with the present theme: preaching as a social act.

These include Clyde Reid, The Empty Pulpit: A Study of Preaching as Communication (New York: Harper & Row, 1967), and John Killinger, Experimental Preaching (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1973).

So preaching as some pastors do, though done with good intentions because it is similar to the way Christ taught, has gone wrong because the starting premise was incorrect.

(20) Preaching as an integrating theological discipline can not remain aloof.

I have a principle that uses Christ's preaching as the basis to interprete the Bible rather than Graeco - Roman philosophy.

The alternative to the clericalization of preaching is the recovery of preaching as exemplified in our Lord's preaching.

The criticism of much present - day Christian preaching as being too much concerned with these two things instead of having something to say on corporate or global issues must, if it is to be both honest and helpful, face the fact that in the foundation (and still authoritative) documents of the church precisely these were the overwhelming dominant concerns.

As I grew into adolescence, I came to regard good preaching as that which could bring the three - point formula to life.

Bultmann answers — and here he has the whole New Testament on his side: «Christ meets us in the preaching as One crucified and risen.

It is taken for granted everywhere in Paul, whose letters are the oldest Christian writings we possess; and Paul implies that it was his oral teaching and preaching as well — in his reproach of the Galatians, for example, «before whose very eyes Jesus had been crucified» in his preaching, (Gal.

Here the new hermeneutic leads to preaching as a subversive activity!

During an animated discussion with a colleague about a course listed in our catalogue entitled, «The Oral Performance of Scripture and Sermon,» he turned to me and said: «You don't think of preaching as a performance, do you?»

The result of this more interactive model is a greater appreciation for preaching as a community - centered, rather than preacher - centered event.

Early in his book, Rice defines «disembodied» preaching as that which is «motivated unduly by ego» and thus a «performance» for an «audience.»

No less than this is the potential for preaching as a subversive activity!

(14) Preaching as interpretation is always a daring, dangerous act in which the interpreter, together with the receivers of the interpretation, is consuming a text and producing a world.

My small group leaders and then other leaders in the church I grew up going to (which was as relaxed in their preaching as you can find (Presbyterian)-RRB- would confirms this to other high school guys and girls my age that unless he chose to believe in Jesus as the Son of God by the time he died on his deathbed he wouldn't join my Mom and sisters and I in heaven.

I lived through a good many conflicts which at first I denied had anything to do with sermon composition or preaching As I lived them through... I began to put a fresh and higher value on the pulpit and its varied meanings.

Inevitable, too, that one so placed and formed within the life of the church should practice preaching as an effort to rebuild the topsoil of memory on the eroded fields of faith in the hope that unfurnished poverty might be supplied.

It should be said immediately, however, in defense of such lacunae, that there is, in some quarters, a serious reexamination of the wisdom of having instruction in preaching as a separate curriculum item.

There seems to be at present a tendency to speak of preaching as sacramental in the sense that Christ is present speaking his Word, but not a sacrament in the sense of ex opere operato.

And, therefore, the expectation must not be cherished that, save for modest and obvious instruction about voice, pace, organization, and such matters, preaching as a lively art of the church can be taught at all... Disciplines correlative to preaching can be taught, but preaching as an act of witness can not be taught.

The church for centuries has sanctioned preaching as the expression of a separated, commanding individual.

And yet let him center upon preaching as a learned act and the measure of his mastery of speech arts will be the measure of his arrogance.

In black preaching, we come close to preaching as solo and choral music.

He refuses to accept payments from some churches, such as that at Corinth, for he is determined to regard his preaching as independent of them.

This coincidence between the apostolic Preaching as attested by the speeches in Acts, and as attested by Paul, enables us to carry back its essential elements to a date far earlier than a critical analysis of Acts by itself could justify; for, as we have seen, Paul must have received the tradition very soon after the death of Jesus.

It is to be observed that the apostolic Preaching as recorded in Acts does not (contrary to a commonly held opinion) lay the greatest stress upon the expectation of a second advent of the Lord.

The apostolic Preaching as adopted by Paul may have contained, almost certainly did contain, more than this.

I agree with your comment about what expository preaching as become.

When I tell the story of how I came into preaching as a calling, I have to acknowledge that my experience in the church is unusual.

Prophetic Preaching: A Pastoral Approach by Leonora Tubbs Tisdale (a couple others I've enjoyed by this author are A Sermon Workbook: Exercises in the Art and Craft of Preaching as well as Preaching As Local Theology and Folk Art)

There is a remarkable parallel between the Eucharist as an action in which the Christian fellowship regularly engages and the meaning of preaching as it proclaims the event of Jesus Christ, what that event has accomplished, and what its «benefits», or results in the life of the believer, bring to the believer.

Regulars, who often mention Keel's preaching as a major reason for their attendance, remember times when he has taken his sermon in a different direction because of the feedback he's getting.

Pew claims they are «far more likely» than Roman Catholics to name sermons and preaching as a significant factor in choosing a new church.

It reflects a view of the transaction of preaching as an opportunity to «deliver» theological goods by an effective use of the voice and body.

I think about preaching as communication, which means I focus on the field of relationships that finally affect the transaction between preachers and their listeners.

This article tells how one set of biases grew up and became convictions about preaching as communication and art.

The images that usually form our approach to preaching as communication blind us to the many permutations that the study of human communication has recently taken.

Preaching as communication can be blocked by many images: images that the clergy may have of the laity, and the laity may have of the clergy; images both may have of the church, the gospel, religion, or of the relation of the church to the world.

Christ meets us in the preaching as one crucified and risen.

Either the doxological core of what makes a congregation will be subordinated to information communication (preaching as lecturing: «What John Calvin thought about this text was...»), to moralizing, and to posturing («See, this is how to perform the liturgy with real ritual expertise»).

Once again, we should be on our guard lest language, which may now and again be liturgically apt and poetically appropriate, be taken in our preaching as if it were literal and precise.

But in answering this question, in accepting the word of preaching as the word of God and the death and resurrection of Christ as the eschatological event, we are given an opportunity of understanding ourselves.

He «connects the hope of salvation with his person to the extent that he sees the kingdom effective in his deeds and understands his preaching as the last word of God before the end.»