Sentences with phrase «through preaching»

However, his goal is not to beat people over the head for what they presently believe but rather point them to Jesus through the preaching and teaching of the Bible.

Under the Word of God, the church must also constitute itself as a fellowship of faith through preaching, teaching, celebration of the sacraments, spiritual discipline, and benevolence.

It was believed that a humanistically and theologically trained minister who had been taught how to interpret the Bible would effectively lead the common people in Christian faith and life, chiefly through his preaching and teaching.

Having entered the ministry to «help people» and / or «serve God» through preaching, teaching, counseling, and pastoral work, he finds to his dismay that he is expected to «keep the machine running.»

I've managed, by the grace of God, to be the instrument through which some people really have heard the Good News (at least as David, the Prodigal Prophet and I interpret it), through my preaching and through personal interaction.

The Rev Billy Graham, who transformed American religious life through his preaching and activism, has died at the age of 99.

The man who is shaped and molded by his continuing participation in the round of Christian liturgical worship is the man who comes gradually to be informed by the spirit which animates and governs the liturgy — and that spirit is nothing other than response to the gospel of Christ, made known and communicated through the preaching of the gospel, but not through verbal symbols alone; the response becomes effective through the whole action which includes mind and body, will and emotions, in an offering to God in union with his brethren.

Reading, understanding and retelling their stories is vital to the health of the Church and should indeed be exciting and encouraging as we ask similar questions, face similar dilemmas, and — above all — worship the same triune God through the preaching of the same Word and the administration of the same sacraments.

Tony, I agree with you because I believe that women ought to spread the Good News through preaching and evangelism in the world and in the invisible church (via internet, for example).

Did he not fall into favour with many through his preaching in the synagogues?

As Wayne Oates suggests, helpful messages of comfort, reassurance, inspiration, and teaching can frequently be communicated more effectively through preaching than through counseling.

Whether that impulse comes through the preaching of a George Whitefield, the spiritual search of a Martin Luther, the passion for justice of a Sojourner Truth or Martin Luther King, or the humility of a Pope John XXIII, renewal always comes from a rediscovery of the spiritual power of the gospel.

In this view the preacher creates social order through preaching, and, therefore, the understanding of social order in a parish is the preacher's view of this order.

This approach demands that the church make a twofold honest analysis: (1) The church must help people make a self - analysis through the preaching of judgment.

In the light of this, how can the church be nurtured through preaching to become a prophetic community (53) rather than a «sacred canopy?»

Christian values can be communicated and reinforced through preaching and worship.

But before Philip was stoned, he led multitudes to Christ through his preaching.

The saying is usually thought to be telling those who had rejected Jesus himself when he was alive that afterwards they are not irretrievably lost but have a new chance through the preaching of the disciples equipped with the Spirit after his death.

Through their preaching, teaching, and leadership, they are taking their churches in exciting directions!

«He changed a lot of people's lives through his faithfulness and through his preaching and through his teaching.

The word of God enters this situation through preaching or private reading.

As such, I would not call Lydia a new believer here, but rather a woman who was already a believer, but who had limited knowledge about what she believed, and who came to a fuller knowledge of her faith through the preaching and teaching of Paul.

Through our preaching we do not «save» anybody, that is a sovereign work within the Providence of God; however, we are to make disciples of those who have repented and accepted Christ as Lord and Savior.

The people who hold the «just war» principle have much to do between wars, not only teaching the criteria but also nurturing the virtues commensurate with the tradition — justice, temperance, patience, courage — through preaching and teaching, liturgy and works of mercy.

It is sustained by the virtues inculcated through the preaching and teaching and practices of discipleship that characterize the life of the Christian community.

To what degree can pastoral care meaningfully occur through preaching?

This makes the public task of care of souls through preaching challenging and exacting.

The Rev Billy Graham, who transformed American religious life through his preaching and activism, has... More

Luther argued that the task of government was to keep the peace so that God could gather his people through the preaching of the gospel.

Through his preaching, teaching and especially the sacraments, husbands and wives receive from God the life they need to live out their vocation and go deeper into it.

Through his preaching, by taking the Eucharist to many members in nursing homes and those too ill to come to church, and in countless other ways, he had helped people see how the Eucharist made caring for one another intelligible.

But it is through preaching that we get our marching orders, it is through preaching that the lost world hears the gospel so they can be transferred from the side of the enemy and join our side, the side of our victorious Jesus Christ.

It is through the preaching of the Word that people are saved, and it is through the preaching of the Word that the saved are strengthened.

I am a member of Mars Hill Church and can only say that through the preaching at Mars Hill Church, I have truly come to faith and grace through Jesus Christ.

In his account, the Church's attempts to tame violence through preaching humility and peace had a negligible effect on the ancient traditions of manliness until its efforts were joined with the state's in the early modern period.

Not exact matches

The owner of Legal Marketing Maven — a firm that helps law firms streamline their practices through outsourcing — Sparks practiced what she preached from the start, hiring an outside bookkeeper and slowly adding to her virtual team of contractors.

They preach a good game, but they don't follow through with their own actions in areas that is their responsibility.

Here were two average Canadians preaching savings through financial growth.

21 Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never know him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save those who believe.

Since God in His wisdom saw to it that the world would never know him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save those who believe.

God knows what He is doing in this strange time between «worlds,» but hopefully He is inviting us again to engage the enemy through the godly weapons of preaching and sacrament.

That story and the institutions that embody it is the enemy we must attack through Christian preaching.

Billy Graham has preached to tens of millions of people face - to - face, with some estimates saying more than two billion people in total have heard the Gospel through his minstry.

It's actually about people's hearts being opened up to the Spirit of God through His Word that is preached.»

Love, joy, peace, and hope become flesh «through the practices of the Church: witness, catechesis, baptism, prayer, friendship, hospitality, admonition, penance, confession, praise, reading scripture, preaching, sharing peace, sharing food, washing feet.

The message heard through the entire Bible; as the prophets repeatedly admonished the people of Israel and as Jesus preached and taught the Disciples and crowds, what God wants is not the enforcement of the letter of the Torah.

ekklēsia) is the universal body of believers that functions under the headship of Jesus Christ and meets regularly in local assemblies to carry out the Great Commission through observing the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper and listening to the preaching of the Word of God, all for the edification of the believer and the evangelism of the world.

But the thread running through his letters and papers in prison is the dawning awareness that historical change was gutting much of Christianity's inherited doctrinal and structural apparatus, forcing believers to ask who Christ was and how he was to be preached and worshiped in a «religionless» world.

Also, I was preaching at this time through the book of Ephesians, and my research and study on Ephesians 1 helped me to see that this chapter does not teach Unconditional Election as many Calvinists claim.

And through it all, he kept preaching about his big God.