Sentences with phrase «synagogue leader»

Then a man named Jairus, a synagogue leader, came and fell at Jesus» feet, pleading with him to come to his house because his only daughter, a girl of about twelve, was dying» (Luke 8:40 - 42, NIV).

The stories of the synagogue leader, the healed woman and the ancient patriarch teach us about daring to hold God accountable for promises God has made to care for God's people.

Finally, there is the synagogue leader's daughter, who had died and was being mourned by her family.

But all three — Abraham, the unnamed woman and the synagogue leader — possessed a living faith and sensed that God would perform a sign of new life for them.

There is some indication that this was the way Jewish synagogue leaders put people out of synagogue — especially Jews who had converted to Christianity.

Not exact matches

Drucker may be too generous in his estimate of the role that the churches and synagogues of America are playing in this «management revolution,» but religious leaders have reason to pay attention to his call for the upgrading of voluntarism.

As Christians told and retold this story, it dawned on them that this was more than an attack on the leaders of the synagogue.

Rev Walters added: «Churches, mosques, synagogues, schools, colleges and political leaders; they're all invited.

Probably a lot of them had lost their job, because the Jewish leaders had put a ban on them or they were excommunicated from the synagogue.

See Edwin H. Friedman, Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue (New York: Guilford, 1985) for an extended discussion of the effect of family experience and roles on the life of a congregation and its leaders.

Thus the leader of the synagogue «kept saying» (RSV: «said»)» to the crowd that healings should not take place on the sabbath (Luke 13:14)

I don't think it was the healing that was the thrust of what was controversial and upset leaders, but when it was done on the Sabbath and in a synagogue, overriding their protocol about Sabbath rest with him pointing out the hypocrisy them criticising him while at the same time untying their donkey, say, on the Sabbath.

The fliers were handed out by masked men in front the main synagogue in Donetsk, where pro-Russian protesters have declared a «People's Republic,» Jewish leaders there said.

The leaders of the church, synagogue and mosque created the Tri-Faith Initiative in 2006 and purchased land for the facilities in 2011.

Paul Spiegel, the leader of Germany's Jews, was so overwhelmed by the pope's presence that he told reporters: «If someone told me 45 years ago, «You are going to be in Cologne, and the pope will visit you in a synagogue,» I wouldn't have believed it.

In fact, he exasperated the leaders of several Hellenized synagogues in Jerusalem because he outdid them in debate.

Founder and leader of the International God's Way Church, Bishop Daniel Obinim has called on Ghanaians not to disregard the prophecy of TB Joshua, founder and leader of the Synagogue Church of All Nations over a possible terrorist attack on the nation.

The Founder and Leader of the Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN), Prophet T.B. Joshua lifted the terrifying news on the shoulders of Ghanaians when he reiterated in his revelation that God has heard the cry of Ghanaians, and that no terror attack will befall the nation.

44 % of people told Populus they thought it was important for a political leader to have strong religious belief, 53 % disagreed (for the record, Tony Blair is known to be a practicing Christian who regularly attends church, Michael Howard attends a Liberal Synagogue on the High Holy feast days — not that it matters anyway, since neither of them will be leader of their respective parties by the time of the next election).

As faith and community leaders across the nation speak out during the third annual weekend event, First Lady McCray will address a mosque in the Bronx, a synagogue in Manhattan, and two prominent churches in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Community leaders have been particularly concerned about the security of synagogues since four men were charged in May with plotting to bomb two Jewish institutions in the Bronx.

Whether you are a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, teacher, church or synagogue member, or community leader, you can find some way to participate in this effort.

Unlike some other recent controversial Holocaust - themed art in Europe, like Santiago Sierra's ersatz gas chamber in a synagogue, the Hitler did not come down after Jewish leaders complained.

Rabbi Bradd Boxman, spiritual leader of Congregation Kol Tikvah, a Reform Jewish temple in Parkland, knows many of the students who attend Marjory Stoneman Douglas, including some of the victims, and opened his synagogue as a house of healing to help students and families cope with the stages of trauma.

Rabbi Bradd Boxman, the synagogue's spiritual leader, officiated Pollack's funeral and described the mood as «tremendous pain, sorrow, grief and anguish.»

For clergy and church leaders (management), church and synagogue employees and congregants, the same skills can be learned via Baltimore Mediation training and used within the workplace called the church or synagogue.