Sentences with phrase «such as preacher»

When you do movements which utilize arm curling, such as the preacher curls, the intensity on the long head of your biceps will drop, instead raising the intensity on the short head.

Those who purport to speak for god, such as preachers, or evangelists, should be soundly ridiculed

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Such as God told Noah that that no more flooding would occur following this one, hence global warming is a hoax, and this came from a political leader not a marginal preacher in Florida looking for its 15 minutes of fame on TV with his proposed koran burning protest.

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Americian clerics (preachers) such as cotton mathis were killing women and girls as feveriously as were thsir counterparts in terror under islam.

That form of «religion» is an entertainment industry in which standard form for preachers, teachers, and speakers IS to package and promote themselves in a constant competition for top celebrity status, on such venues as TBN, just as aspiring popular music groups and singers are over on MTV.

Certainly it can do nothing for the confidence or the credibility of preachers who still invoke those norms in other areas of sexual behavior such as chastity, adultery, and, not least, homosexuality.

Darby's teachings were featured in the sermons of some of the great preachers of the 1880 - 1920 period: the evangelists Dwight L. Moody and Billy Sunday; major Presbyterian preachers such as James Brooks; Philadelphia radio preacher Harry B. Ironsides; and Cyrus I. Scofield.

What is probably true is that mainline preachers are less likely to call individuals out on personal sin, because it is not on our radar, as such.

Books and articles are still written about the major contributions of particular religious figures such as Jonathan Mayhew, the great Boston Puritan preacher, or the overall contributions of each of the particular denominations from the Baptists to the Roman Catholics.

Popular preachers, such as Peter the Hermit, whipped up support of the people, often by maligning Jews and Muslims.

Therefore when we see «hard» rules, such as do not kill, many preachers easily put them aside if someone that we want to kill comes along.

Christianity constantly sought more light yet in God's Word, and great preachers such as Bushnell, Beecher, and Brooks felt that they had found new light that enabled them to remain faithful to the Christian message and at the same time honestly to face up to the new findings of science.

For a preacher such as Augustine, the trustworthiness of this heavenly treasury had to be emphasized time and again.

For instance, when speaking eschatologically about the nuclear arms race, a preacher would refer to such things as the blasphemy of destroying God's handiwork and the idolatry of the bomb, not simply to a nuclear freeze.

There were pictures of women, every tribe, every tongue, on every wall, and so it felt like everyone here in the world was there with us, somehow, and a gigantic canvas on the stairs said: There is no such thing as small change, and the famous red couch at Idelette's was worn out and comfortable, especially with Kelley sprawled on it, twisting her hair unconcernedly when she really got talking about the theology of adoption and Lord, yes, that woman can preach and teach in a living room beside a piano better than some preachers I've seen in thousand - dollar suits on a television show.

There will be some people, of course, who will resist and be alienated by such honesty between preacher and congregation, but their responses have to be accepted as inevitable.

Such big - time evangelists as Argentine Luis Palau and U.S. television preacher Jimmy Swaggart pack city stadiums with tens of thousands of enthusiasts; only the pope draws larger crowds.

Applegate does not argue that Beecher, in the midst of such tumultuous times, was especially innovative as a preacher, politician or theologian.

The fundamental (excuse the pun) problems with far - right Christianity are exactly the same issues our Savior spoke about to the Pharisees: judgmentalism, hypocrisy, intolerance, and the hyper - extremity of observing the letter of the law rather than its spirit (as evidenced by statements from various preachers that people such gays and disobedient children should be killed).

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

Such groups have claimed that federal hate crimes laws will silence preachers, ignoring those laws» robust protections for free speech and religious expression, as well as the experience in the many states with such protections already in plSuch groups have claimed that federal hate crimes laws will silence preachers, ignoring those laws» robust protections for free speech and religious expression, as well as the experience in the many states with such protections already in plsuch protections already in place.

As long as the vocabulary of black theology — like theology in general — remains arcane, James Cone's assertion that «black theology is not academic theology» will continue to confound black preachers while they desperately try to interpret the meaning of such statementAs long as the vocabulary of black theology — like theology in general — remains arcane, James Cone's assertion that «black theology is not academic theology» will continue to confound black preachers while they desperately try to interpret the meaning of such statementas the vocabulary of black theology — like theology in general — remains arcane, James Cone's assertion that «black theology is not academic theology» will continue to confound black preachers while they desperately try to interpret the meaning of such statements.

Instead he was basically a normal American giving his ideas on religious belief, although he mixed politics into his speech such as with Obama, many people do this who are not currently holding office, preachers especially.

One such approach imagines the process of preparing and performing a sermon as a «speaker's drama» in which the preacher is an «actor».

The preacher of the Reformation needs institutional empowerment, but ordination plays no such role in his accreditation as do first of all the study and personal appropriation of Scriptures and especially of the gospel, and, secondly, the corresponding discipline of life.

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.

He protested about the fashion in which those who proclaim the gospel often spend most of their time in stimulating an artificial sense of utter failure and sinfulness, so that then those preachers could declare that after all God still cares for such miserable wretches as he has induced his hearers to think themselves to be.

The irony of the South, of course, is that it could give the nation such different Baptist preachers as Martin Luther King Jr. and Jerry Falwell.

The son of a strict Calvinist preacher, Putnam was ordained as a Congregational minister in 1868, before eventually becoming a freethinking lecturer and author of such pamphlets as Religion a Curse, Religion a Disease, Religion a Lie.

That is why earlier (and still useful) terms such as «preacher» or «pastor» may well be more descriptive.

Because images, in a book or in a sermon, are generally regarded as decorative and hence optional in their bearing upon the principal form and content of the communication, the imaginative preacher may have to endure such comments as «His sermons don't seem theologically weighty» or «It was too interesting to have contained much truth», or perhaps such inverted compliments as «I was much involved in your talk, or whatever it was.

Therefore, preachers who become conscious of the social function of the language of the sermon can use language in such a way as to encourage social effects that are appropriate to the gospel.

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.

The Christian Post: Creators of «Real Housewives of Atlanta» to Produce «Preacher Wives» By now many have heard of the numerous «Housewives» series, such as «Real Housewives of Atlanta» or «Basketball Wives» that often depicts dramatic women and questionable moral choices.

Such an understanding is of course the shared legacy of the so - called dialectical theologians of the «20s (one must include not, only Bultmann and Tillich here but the new hermeneutic movement as well), but it was Barth's formulation of it that I found particularly potent, especially his insistence that the theologian is the helpmate of the preacher, both as servant and as critic.

Moreover, he seeks to do this in such a way as to serve the preacher's conscientiousness for truth and maintain the credibility of the gospel in all its seriousness for his hearers.

In further detail Robert Funk has analyzed the parable and the epistle as oral speech.33 It will not take a lengthy exposure to such studies of the lively modes of discourse used by Jesus and the early Christian evangelists to cause the average preacher to look upon his own standardized sermon outline with a new lack of appreciation.

We remind ourselves, then, at this point that the route from text to proclamation is an old and difficult one, but not such as should discourage the preacher but rather should help him to see that interpretation is not an alien and abusive intrusion upon the Scriptures.

In a world such as this, what right has the preacher to impose a symmetry that he alone can see.

On the contrary, most preachers are quite skilled at translating such criticism into «crosses to be borne» and appropriating for themselves the blessing lodged in some proper text, such as «Beware when all men speak well of you».

Being a preacher pays too well to risk such things as talking down to «rich folk».

I freely admit that I take greater satisfaction in using my own insight and craftsmanship (such as they are) in preparing a sermon than in using those of any other preacher, however much more scholarly or eloquent he may be.

The problem with these street preachers is that they are closer to Pharisees than disciples of Christ because they slander with shallow judgment despite what the numerous passages that condemn such actions such as Matthew 7, Luke 3, John 7:24, John 8, Romans 1, 1 Corinthians 6, Galatians 5, Ephesians 4 - 5, Colossians 3, Titus 1 - 3, and 1 Peter 2.

Based on Nielson - type ratings, it shows that the nonpolitical though rather conservative preachers such as Oral Roberts and Robert Schuller have many more listeners than does Jerry Falwell.

... And thenceforward he denied all such requests, saying: A man possesses of learning only so much as comes out of him in action, and a monk is a good preacher only so far as his deeds proclaim him such, for every tree is known by its fruits.»

His strict Scotch Presbyterian mother had wanted him to become a preacher, and as a Times man he had become one, his column being the podium from which he could spread his Calvinist view of life throughout the land, thrilling thousands with his sound logic and clarity, influencing students, educators, and politicians, sometimes infuriating such presidents as Eisenhower, who once asked, «Who the hell does Reston think he is, telling me how to run the country?»

Homileticians» interest in the ways that the literary forms, designs, and shapes of scripture «come through» in the design of the sermon can be complemented by understanding how a literary - rhetorical form, such as a sermon, comes through the body and voice of the preacher.

There had been popular preachers before 1865 but no one of them51 ever matched the national popularity of such men as Henry Ward Beecher, Phillips Brooks, T. DeWitt Talmadge, and Russell Conwell.

The book works hard to portray Fosdick as the remarkably inventive and productive preacher he was, to explain how he could sustain such a level of excellence week after week, and to give a sense of why more than one preacher visiting Riverside staggered out of the worship service sighing, «I can never preach again!»