Sentences with phrase «test for preaching»

Not exact matches

This test of the strength of any intruding topic is healthy; where there is no planned order of subjects for preaching, the blank page for next Sunday hungrily welcomes every passing issue and invites it into the pulpit.

A technique for testing the relevance and empathic qualities of one's preaching is to listen to a tape of last Sunday's sermon while imagining that one is a despairing person with whom one has counseled recently.

Jeremy i think satanic forces is more likely in that particular storm with Jesus and his disciples in the boat that was to test his disciples faith and they failed the test.Jesus rebuked the storm there was a power that was out to destroy them why else would he rebuke it maybe he was waiting foir them to rebuke it themselves they had prayed for people and seen healing they had commanded evil spirit to come out of people so they were aware of the power of God.Yet they were in fear of there lives faithless and afriad.Paul on his way to rome was caught in a storm and through an angel paul was told many would die Paul interceeded for the crew and lives on board and God promised that all would be spared.Paul had warned them before the voyage that it would end in disaster but they did not listen.Satan wasnt happy with that plan because he had hoped to kill as many people as possible there was over 300 souls on board and many had been expected to die.So satan attempted to kill Paul and he was bitten by a snake but satan is no match for Jesus Christ he has been defeated and so Paul lived and continued to preach the gospel was many being saved.brentnz

One man I know makes it a regular practice to test with selected members of his congregation the meanings they have for certain words he is going to use in his preaching.

Thus as in the context of evangelicalism, learning for the minister was increasingly conceived as instrumental, the conversion of sinners became the real test of effectiveness, and preaching tended to become almost exclusively persuasive.

For me the real litmus tests for progressive educators is not how much technology they use or how many Twitter followers they have, but the extent to which they believe in independent learning, and then how much they practice what they preaFor me the real litmus tests for progressive educators is not how much technology they use or how many Twitter followers they have, but the extent to which they believe in independent learning, and then how much they practice what they preafor progressive educators is not how much technology they use or how many Twitter followers they have, but the extent to which they believe in independent learning, and then how much they practice what they preach.

Virtual education is much cheaper to facilitate so, maybe they should get on the internet instead of trying to do what scientific research clearly states getting preached by teachers that only ask study for a test is not learning.

Their own Dogmatic Postulation of CO2CAGW «tenets», which in effect constitute an instant litmus test for defining Believers as against «deniers», and their incessant repetition of statements which publicly preach a Liturgy involving a coming Apocalypse, both contribute to bringing their Ideology very close to constituting at least some kind of Religion.

Amazon's CTO Werner Vogels has been preaching this religion for many years, suggesting the only way to test the true robustness of a system is to «pull the plug.»