Sentences with phrase «such as ministry»

There are high opportunities in vocations of Christian leadership such as the ministry, the mission field, and Christian education, and many more young people should be entering them; there are also rich opportunities for Christian service and witness in an endless number of occupations to which God calls the layman.11

This bill would have limited it to students who were preparing for a religious career, such as ministry.

Not exact matches

Previously, as a ministry official, he had visited the Cabinet Office to discuss the MOF's intervention strategy and the importance of containing the yen with officials such as a junior minister named Shinzo Abe.

Another option younger clients should consider when they leave their parent's health plan is a health - care sharing ministry, such as Medi - Share or Christian Healthcare Ministries, CFP Tyler Gray said.

Civil - service jobs providing front - line service to the public and support to government bodies such as municipal departments, or provincial or federal ministries.

«Iran strongly condemns any such unilateral strikes... Such measures will strengthen terrorists in Syria... And it will complicate the situation in Syria and the region,» ISNA news agency quoted Foreign ministry spokesperson Bahram Qasemi as saying on Frisuch unilateral strikes... Such measures will strengthen terrorists in Syria... And it will complicate the situation in Syria and the region,» ISNA news agency quoted Foreign ministry spokesperson Bahram Qasemi as saying on FriSuch measures will strengthen terrorists in Syria... And it will complicate the situation in Syria and the region,» ISNA news agency quoted Foreign ministry spokesperson Bahram Qasemi as saying on Friday.

The pro-Europe SPD will take over key ministries such as finance and foreign affairs.

«Consumers need to be alert and extremely cautious as to avoid getting trapped in such Ponzi schemes,» the finance ministry said in a statement on Dec. 29.

Meanwhile, the finance ministry is drafting a bill to legalize cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and regulate their circulation.

Efforts ranged from family ministries in individual churches to «parachurch» pastoral groups such as James Dobson's Focus on the Family to national political organizations such as Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority.

The Bully Pastor delivers contradictory / mixed messages constantly, such as imploring people to «follow their calling» or to «become more involved» creatively in ministry.

I'm fascinated by the fact that such ministries as Mark Driscoll's continue to grow.

The sense that the kingdom was at hand and that a new age was dawning gives coherence to Jesus» ministry, but such a belief would have been controversial, just as a generation ago many white South Africans could not see how the apartheid regime could ever be changed.

Surprise, surprise, there is no such ministry as «Leader» nor is there «leadership» in the Kingdom.

For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is.

The theology behind such «incarnational ministry» is regarded as sound by the Church of England, and my CNN boss has her own take on it, too.

Such a ministry is geared toward early help with minor emotional disturbances, crisis situations, parent - child relationships, and critical life experiences such as birth, death, illness, marriage, school, and work adjustmSuch a ministry is geared toward early help with minor emotional disturbances, crisis situations, parent - child relationships, and critical life experiences such as birth, death, illness, marriage, school, and work adjustmsuch as birth, death, illness, marriage, school, and work adjustment.

As it is, he really only spends one paragraph talking about this, but Jesus emphasized such outward - focused love during His ministry, and the church at large could benefit from more of a reminder that the Kingdom of God is not just about loving one another, but is also about loving and serving those who live in darkness and fear.

The ministry of the church encompasses a variety of things such as worship, preaching, teaching, administering programs, and prophetic witness.

At FPU religious freedom would only apply to the seminary and to undergraduate programs such as Bible and Christian ministry.

It is a manifestation of the Catholic truth that to the Church as such there belongs not only the institutional ministry, but all the baptized, and the Spirit of God himself, that Spirit who blows where he wills.

The parallel between the situation envisaged in the saying and that providing its point of departure in the ministry of Jesus is such that we must see the table - fellowship of that ministry as a table - fellowship «of the Kingdom» and as anticipating a table - fellowship «in the Kingdom».

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

The line is, I think, between those who see such teaching as a form of ministry and those who disassociate teaching from ministry and regard religious teaching as a «higher» calling than the ministry.

«Teaching» as such belongs indissolubly with «ministry,» special function or no.

The first task, manifestly, was to disclaim possible elements, meanings, or implications in the shepherd - sheep relationship that conflict with ministry understood in other or larger senses; i.e., using such criteria as we have already tried to summarize in relation to the preaching and administering images.

What such ministry might just possibly accomplish in specific cases could be as significant as the technical help that is also needed.

Colloquium explores such issues as race, urban ministry and the role of women in the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana).

If shepherding is such a pervasive image that it has even monopolized the language, surely we can move securely and discard all complex dialectics in our interpretation of the ministry as shepherding.

One such distortion is a kind of premature closure on this image as if it represented the whole goal of Christian faith and life instead of what it actually is, the basic mode of ministry to evoke faith and life.

As it enters its third decade of life, COCU is working consciously to foster such togetherness, in theological agreement, in ministry and mission and in congregational life.

The student also enrolls in four classes each semester in areas such as Old Testament, New Testament, theology, ethics, pastoral care, community ministry and spiritual disciplines.

Even though such ordinary hallmarks of commitment as policy statements and printed materials are missing, one might argue that the church has actively sought a role in ministry at the local level.

As it becomes aware of the specific form in which ultimate human problems present themselves in our own time, the ministry, and therewith the schools that prepare men for it, begin to understand more sharply what the pastoral function is, in what language the gospel speaks to this need, and what form the Church must take in serving such men in such a time.

Mergers as such interest him less than shared Eucharists across boundaries, mutually acceptant ministries among the formerly competitive and participation in each other's gifts.

He seems to have been the first person to attempt to construct in writing a sketch of the whole ministry of Jesus, although he must have worked on the basis of an oral account such as the skeleton speeches in Acts suggest formed part of Peter's preaching (e.g. Acts 10:37 - 42).

In the same and in other schools uncertainty about the meaning of the ministry comes to appearance also in the feeling of conflict in a faculty between its loyalty to a traditional idea, such as that of the preacher, and its sense of obligation to denominational officials, alumni and churchmen in general who urge a more «practical» education.

To discredit completely the Marcan framework would not only leave us in the dark as to the main features of Jesus» ministry — that is an alternative which the honest historian must face — but would also leave inexplicable the fact that one who taught of himself and the Kingdom in such terms as Q, for example, relates, was also crucified as a false Messiah.

As such, they could participate in the ministries of the SBC as well as shape the direction of those ministries by sending credentialed designates to the annual meetinAs such, they could participate in the ministries of the SBC as well as shape the direction of those ministries by sending credentialed designates to the annual meetinas well as shape the direction of those ministries by sending credentialed designates to the annual meetinas shape the direction of those ministries by sending credentialed designates to the annual meeting.

In such a matter as this, it may be that no one may call the terms for another, no ministering person for any other minister, no citing of attributes for ministry in general from one's own assessment of general ministry.

In this world, in this time; in ministry responsive to the Word of God and the word of earth; in a nation and a church in which it is as if there were no Sermon on the Mount; in such a time of durable earth crisis, we will not only be called troublers of Israel, we will be in Ahab's sense troublers of Israel.

Rejecting the recommendation of a task - force study that such ordination be allowed, the assembly voted instead that only repentant homosexuals who choose celibacy or seek a reorientation of their sexual desires should be considered as qualified candidates for ministry.

Even David Moberg, for example (someone I have aligned with the perspective of The Reformed Journal), believes that the church's social task is best described using terms such as «social ministries, social obligations, social responsibility, social concern, social service, social welfare, or social action.

I get this maybe because I am sort of an artist, or maybe this is reality for many of us in ministry — such as I. Regardless, thanks for sharing this.

Lyle Schaller writes about the importance of recognizing certain ministerial tasks as «winners» and others as «losers» in The Multiple Staff and the Larger Church, «Winners» are the tasks that lead people to sign up for ordained ministry: preaching, presiding over sacraments, being present at key life transitions such as weddings and funerals — in other words, the prominent, visible and generally rewarding parts of ministry.

While research by Barna Group has found that women are more involved than men in church «extracurriculars» such as Bible studies and small groups, plenty of today's churches lack robust women's ministries — perhaps due to lack of resources, or deliberate efforts to do away with stereotypical ladies teas and craft bazaars.

Today, women may launch their own organizations — such as Christine Caine's Propel, a ministry for women in the marketplace, or Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth's True Woman, a spinoff of her radio program — or simply build off the success of a book or blog.

Your hate blinds you such that you continue to slander me and others here who have nothing to do with xxxchurch.com other than I see them as a valid ministry that loves people in the Name of Jesus and frees them from the sin you hate so much.

In all my correspondence with thousands of people in 45 years of ministry, I have never been confronted with a situation such as this, and God and my family and close friends know how grieved I have been.

The coercive power of the state has forced the secularization of charitable work, leading to such tragedies as the closing of religious charities that refuse to secularize their ministries.