Sentences with phrase «preaching with»

Senator Ted Cruz (R - TX) sent an email urging pastors to «confront this evil in our nation by praying and preaching with an unbridled passion until funding for Planned Parenthood ends.»

In a comfortable office, Bible placed firmly atop his lap, 89 - year - old Harold Camping is preaching with utter certainty about the end of the world.

Or if they are already in it through present membership, we are preaching with the purpose that they may grow in the knowledge and love of Christ, the Church's Lord, more fully appropriate his grace in the community of his people, and more profoundly realize what it means to be incorporated into his ongoing life in the fellowship of the Church.

Criswell sometimes referred to himself as «a holy roller with a Ph.D.,» and he mesmerized the throngs who came to hear him in Dallas preaching with the bombast of Billy Sunday and the urgency of Savanarola.

For the last fifteen years I have been engaged in the teaching of biblical studies and of preaching with particular emphasis on social hermeneutics.

He foolishly linked his gospel preaching with the cross and how that God justifies freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus (Rom 3:24)

Like Briscoe's work, the book is helpful in modeling an expository approach to exegesis and biblical preaching with a focus on individual application.

There were minorities at variance with that situation, and they were prepared to receive the evangelical preaching with the eagerness of a castaway who finds a lifeline.

The author places John the Baptist within the ethos and practices of the Qumran Community, and links his preaching with that of the prophets.

If the preacher believes that he is preaching with his people, he is more apt to address them directly.

He did not expect that God would give him with no effort on his part the words which would be right; but he was sure that by «thinking prayerfully», in the attentive presence of God», about those words which seemed to him to be best he would be able to come closer to preaching with a sense that these were right for him to use — and what is more, he could commit them, along with his own admittedly inadequate and deficient effort, to God so that they might be used in a way pleasing to God and more likely to find acceptance from God's people.

(4) Balance introspective elements in preaching with those which look upward and outward.

More likely we hear a whole lot of «keeping people in line» preaching with a little bit of Jesus will save you and make you fit for heaven at the very end.

He is still saddled with the traditional image of preaching with its clearly discernible authoritarianism being communicated nonverbally not only in voice and manner but also in the form and movement of his sermon.

If he did not veer from that way of preaching with all of what he suffered, how could we think that there is some other way to do it?

The diagram on page 64 presents the basic holism of preaching with its integration of scriptural text, preacher, and community of believers, all set in the surrounding social context.

The zeal with which the Reformers elevated Scripture caused them for a time to mute the voices of that weighty preaching with which the church of antiquity had come to understand the meaning of Scripture.

Willimon cites a «classic article» by Richard Lischer, «The Limits of Story,» as testimony to «what story and narrative preaching can not do,» while failing to note Lischer's distinction between Craddock and those who equate preaching with storytelling.

Narrative theology came into vogue, followed by narrative preaching — understood variously as preaching about narratives, preaching with narratives and giving sermons narrative form.

The New Testament provides preaching with its subject matter and principles, its truth and reality.

I would like to offer two reasons why the speech experiment failed to take root at Candler: 1) my inability to identify, claim and integrate my emerging performance perspective on preaching with the dominant image of communication in the theological school.

Either he would be, next day, preaching with the help of a Barth who had convinced him or analyzing in his diary where Barth was fudging.

A few months before the last election, I saw a Baptist minister on a street corner preaching with some of his church members holding signs.

Protestantism has often identified preaching with prophetic ministry and relegated the rest of worship to a priestly role, as if there were some distinction between these two aspects of ministry.

Graham's message was not complex or unique, yet he preached with a conviction that won over audiences worldwide.

But many leaders are trying to lead and many preachers are trying to preach with half of their brain tied behind their back, so to speak.

In a world where sex permeates everything and where the dominant Reichian myth, preached with demonic plausibility by every movie, sitcom, and soap opera, is that sexual activity is what constitutes true existence, the place of single, celibate Christians is set to be a significant pastoral issue.

If the gospel is not preached with conviction — the convictions that humanity is in need of salvation and that Jesus is the Savior who liberates us into the fullness of our humanity and gives us eternal life — then the gospel will not be believed.

Great post, and the really disproportionate thing about it is this is all done using the «law» demanding the tithe when not one New Testament book endorses this model (The reference in Hebrews was not to establish tithe as it was to establish Jesus in a different order, and his comments in the gospels was to people living under the law)... how is it that no other «law» is preached with the same force and conviction as tithing?

That said, there are times when I preach with my fingers crossed and I don't like that.

So, let us believe it with confidence, and let us preach it with joy.

Our Pastor, a young man with a family has no pretensions and preaches with no pretensions but an honesty and sincerity in his love for God.

Otherwise, this text is too close for comfort, and Kierkegaard knew it: «In the magnificent cathedral the Honorable and Right Reverend Geheime - General - Ober - Hof - Pradikant, the elect favorite of the fashionable world, appears before an elect company and preaches with emotion upon the text he himself elected: «God hath elected the base things of the world, and the things that are despised.»

Undaunted by criticism, or even cease - and - desist letters from his superiors, he continued to preach with excellent results, adding thousands to the rolls of churches in the regions he visited.

Would it be one that preaches with notes... or improv?

(Mohammed, if you didn't know, is said to have preached with a cat in his arms.)

Or, if Iâ $ ™ m going through my own little spiritual crisis, how do I preach with that trying to drag me down?

Could you go out and preach with joy?

Someone wanted to know more about mutuality, more about this «mutual submission» thing in a marriage, and I watched my husband take the microphone and preach with great pride in my heart.

Growth has been seen to be as vulgar and plastic as Disneyland and, furthermore, sure evidence that the gospel is not being preached with its radical claims; e.g., «Blessed are you when men revile you...» (Matt.

Thanks for another example HS... odd, it isn't very subtle, but so many believers jump right in to preach with the choir, and pat you on the back... they don't seem to notice the lunacy, maybe because they are used to reading it in ther bible.

Interestingly, that seems to be the only scripture you're always guaranteed to hear preached with the caveat of: «Well, that doesn't apply to everybody.»

The minister whose imagination receives and shares these sights and sounds will preach with a realism beyond that of a journalistic mentality.

You piss on everything Jesus preached with your hateful attitudes.

How can he preach with a changing mind?

He was tempting God everytime he preached with a snake in his hands.

You can not wrap yourselves in professional mystery, for the glory of the Lord is such that it is preached with power throughout all the length and breadth of the world, by these investigators of his wondrous creation.

It has tended to confuse words with action, verbal solutions with real solutions, and sermons preached with sermons heard.

Preach with Conviction I think it was Goethe who said, after hearing a young minister, «When I go to hear a preacher preach, I may not agree with what he says, but I want him to believe it.»

Macarthur preaches with complete authority... the admonishment in scripture is to do that.