Sentences with phrase «public ministry»

They had grilled him throughout his years of public ministry, wondering where he was from and who he was connected to.

Within the space of a few days recently, I received news of two high profile Christian leaders who had withdrawn from public ministry following revelations about their failings.

Fredriksen differs from most scholars (as well as from Matthew and Luke) in rejecting Mark's chronology of Jesus» public ministry in favor of the Gospel of John's story of numerous appearances by Jesus in Jerusalem.

The opening scene of Jesus public ministry left no doubt: a commitment to Jesus involves a commitment to build communities of peace and justice.

Does our knowledge of Jesus public ministry give us all we need to know about his interaction / relationships with unbelievers.

Are the oldline Protestant churches going to resume their constructive, culture - shaping public ministry of economics?

Jesus» public ministry lasted at most three years, possibly not more than one.

Karl Ludwig Schmidt demonstrated that the order of events in the Gospels is not based upon a memory of the order of Jesus» public ministry inherent in the material, but rather is largely the contribution of the redactional process, which assembled unrelated stories, sayings, and small individual collections for devotional purposes, and then arranged them topically or theologically without any serious interest in chronology or geography.

John the Baptist, the elder cousin of Jesus who had initiated Jesus into public ministry sends messengers to ascertain whether Jesus is the Messiah or not.

«Yet only once during his three - year public ministry, prior to his arrest and trial, did Jesus answer a closed - ended question with a closed - ended answer (Mt 21:16).»

Bishop Michael stepped back from public ministry at the start of August after being questioned by police investigating allegations of historic sexual assault.

The California Insurance Fund, a public ministry that aids distressed parties in defaults, would make good on some of it.

I guess I was mocking those that use their public ministries to try and whip up some sort of emotional, or spiritual feelings based on their visions.

Under the Dallas Charter, when an accusation of priestly abuse is made, the priest is immediately suspended from public ministry, regardless of the accusation's merit.

When Frossard saw John Paul II at the Mass marking the beginning of the pope's public ministry, he wired back to his Paris newspaper, «This is not a pope from Poland; this is a pope from Galilee.»

But when Jesus began his public ministry, he read his mission statement: «The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has chosen me to bring good news to the poor... To set free the oppressed.»

This is what we will see when John begins his public ministry in Luke 3.

(1) This statement summarizes the entire period of John's life prior to his public ministry.

Amid the article's publication, Arlington Diocese noted he had voluntarily sought to temporarily step aside from public ministry, «for the wellbeing» of Church and parish community.

I'm a pastor's wife too, and am aware of the expectations of the «perfect - happy - family» that a public ministry role can bring with it.

We may thus take the baptism of Jesus by John as the firm historical starting point for any treatment of Jesus» public ministry.

Jesus began his public ministry with the announcement: The time is fulfilled, the kingdom of God is near, repent and believe in the Gospel.

Now he begins his public ministry, and it opens with a humble baptism that identifies him deeply with the people he has come to redeem.

And then when he started his public ministry it was with very few — just twelve — it all grew from there.

The classical presentation of the critical position divides the «Son of Man» sayings into three groups: apocalyptic sayings about the future «Son of Man»; sayings in which Jesus» passion is spoken of as the passion of the «Son of Man»; and miscellaneous sayings in which Jesus refers to himself during his public ministry as «Son of Man».

The Synoptic Gospels tell of only one visit to Jerusalem after the beginning of the public ministry; in John there are several.

Clearly Jesus did and said things over the course of his public ministry about which the early Church was not embarrassed.

He attracted crowds in his public ministry.

Between the false alternatives of «just general truths» or «explicit claims to messianic titles» there lies in Jesus» public ministry a whole area of eschatological action accompanied by theological commentary which Diem overlooked, and wherein resides both the historical and the theological point of departure for the Church's kerygma, and thus the crucial area of research for a new quest of the historical Jesus.

It also noted how the fresh allegations will likely reinforce concerns over whether Tchividjian — who spent only about two months away from public ministry — was restored to ministry too quickly.

This past May, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), with the approval of the Holy Father, issued a communiqué indicating that the decision had been made «to invite» Father Marcial Maciel «to a reserved life of penitence and prayer, relinquishing any form of public ministry.»

Maciel that he relinquish his public ministry and devote the remainder of his life to penitence and prayer.

At the same time, the invitation to remove himself from public ministry is undeniably a form of censure.

Jesus prefigured the advent of the eternal city of holiness, goodness, and liberation in a key moment in Nazareth at the beginning of his public ministry.

How do you deal with having such a public ministry?

That moment in Nazareth prefigured everything Jesus was to do in his public ministry.

With the Church no longer fulfilling this public ministry, the penal system fills in the gap by shifting its focus from retribution and restitution to rehabilitation.

In Luke 4:16 - 19, at the inauguration of his public ministry, Jesus preaches at Nazareth and chooses as his text Isaiah 61:1 - 2:

Dodd is only carrying out this logical consequence when he seeks to find a chronology of the public ministry in the kerygma; and the failure of this attempt should confirm the thesis that the basic meaning of Jesus» historicity for the kerygma has been misunderstood.

In two sermons of Acts various elements of the public ministry are mentioned, but without chronological order the «mighty works and wonders and signs» of 2.22 are not different facts occurring in that order in the public ministry; the only «order» one might sense is a certain parallel to the order in the immediately preceding prophecy from Joel 2.28 - 32.

But it is indicative of Dodd's intellectual stature that he nonetheless carried through the logic of his position, and does actually present us with a kerygmatic chronology of the public ministry.

We can infer from Acts 10.37; 13.24 f. that the public ministry's beginning at John the Baptist preceded its end on the cross; but since one knows a priori that the beginning precedes the end, this element reflects no more chronological information or interests than does the hymn of Phil.

«He is responding to general struggles in our culture and a moral decline that has existed through his public ministry.»

The first three Gospels — Matthew, Mark and Luke — record a large discourse of Jesus at the end of his public ministry about the signs of the end of the present age and the coming of the Son of Man.