Sentences with phrase «time ministry for»

Having been in full - time ministry for years and now not being in it... I see how when I was in full - time ministry that my view of things was a bit skewed.

I've been in full - time ministry for 12 years and currently lead a church community in Orlando, Fla., called STATUS [one of the campuses of Discovery Church].

Not exact matches

The final number for the total payment will be disclosed at a later time, said ministry spokesman Baik Tae - hyun in a briefing.

As far back as 2002, while vice minister, Kuroda used an opinion column in the Financial Times, co-written with his deputy at the finance ministry, to call for «aggressive monetary policy» from the central bank, including an inflation target, aimed at «drastically changing price expectations.»

He's engaged people in politics in a way that we haven't seen for a long time with his tweets and all the rest of it,» Boris Johnson, who heads the U.K.'s foreign ministry, told BBC Radio 4 on Thursday morning.

«I can imagine these changes would be really good for the morale for the Chinese diplomats at the foreign ministry at a time when the morale of the diplomats in the US foreign service is at an all time low,» Susan Shirk, a former deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asia, told Bloomberg.

The subject of the order is Mordechai Mayer, an Israeli settler arrested for «his involvement in violent activities and terrorist attacks in recent times», a defence ministry statement said.

India's foreign ministry did not respond to a request for comment on Russia's ties with Pakistan, but has previously said that its own relations with Moscow have stood the test of time, and that the two nations are building up defense and energy relations, including collaboration on nuclear reactors in India.

According to this June's Financial Times «Expenditure by local and central governments in China jumped nearly 25 per cent from the same month a year earlier, a sharp acceleration from the 9.6 per cent growth registered in the first four months of the year, according to figures released by the finance ministry,» and HSBC's Flash PMI index suggests for the first time in six months that there has been an expansion in manufacturing, although the flash index is, of course, preliminary and may be revised.

The Greek government had to meet the payment deadline to continue negotiating with the IMF and eurozone finance ministries for another bailout package that would keep the country afloat — for the time being.

Larry, a widely experience overseer of a denominational region, for example, has frequently observed the tendency of leaders to allow their practice of ministry to become their identity over time, meaning that their call to ministry becomes so intertwined with doing ministry in a certain mode that they lost the ability to see the difference.

«Institution is essential for the church's ministry,» and at the same time institution is inimical to the church's ministry.

Jesus first word of his ministry was «Repent» if I'm not mistaken: Mat 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

The Church of England Diocese of Chester said in a statement: «The Rev Simon Marsh has agreed not to conduct services or be actively engaged in parish ministry in Bramhall for the time being.

With no training or ministry background, I was forced to trust God — I only stood in front of the church for the first time a year before.

And when you are ready, when God's timing comes, he will transplant you from the desert you find yourself in to the area of ministry He has prepared just for you.

I don't know about you, but I would have difficulty supporting such a ministry, especially if they had been doing this for 2000 years and their effectiveness became worse and worse over time.

Now, for the first time, nine men will be ordained together by an English Bishop who can give them regular oversight as they begin their ministries.

The Wesleyans did not see the biblical injunctions against the ministry of women as providing a norm and pattern for all time.

Often people in what we call «full time ministry» for get that their family are people too.

Instead books and blog posts like many of you my ministry has been more person to person (I am not diminishing your ministries in anyway, I am very grateful for them, but I have quoted many of you here many times!)

During that time, I established an online preaching ministry, Virtual Deaf Church, for deaf people like myself.

It is for family in a consecrated state of loving, and makes that loving an office and a ministry in the Church, in time and for eternity.

Rev Mike Weaver, 49, used to co-own Los Locos, a venue which prides itself on being Covent Garden's longest happy hour bar but after resisting a call to ministry for ten years, he decided it was finally time to ditch the nightclub business.

Ruth and Patrick have been in full - time church ministry for over fifteen years, and live in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The new language recognizes for the first time the reality that I have witnessed in more than 20 years of ministry with lesbian and gay Catholics: «they wish to encounter a Church that offers them a welcoming home.»

The Latin tradition claimed with increasing emphasis, not to say stridency, that, presiding over the pastoral and prophetic ministry of the Church's bishops, is an «office of Peter» which is vested for all time in the bishops of Rome.

Since those times I had done a ton of reading, research, etc on trends in Christendom and I am convinced that over the last 30 years more and more narcissists are now attracted to ministry where they have instant audiences, power, etc and are paid for it.

In fact, he used Namaan's healing by Elisha as the ancient Hebrew warrant for his own ministry to the gentiles: «There were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Namaan the Syrian» (Luke 4:27).

Sunday morning, a weeknight for small group, regular service on a ministry team, occasional church projects and retreats... Add the expectation to be friends and find community with other church members beyond the organized settings, and I have little time left for my neighbors.

So to not be able to talk about such embarrassment had been a hindrance for me at the time rather than the time of prayer ministry being a help.

There I learned of 17 Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy whose weekly time for breakfast, prayer and textual study is life - giving for ministries that take on poverty, crime, drugs and AIDS.

Perhaps it is time to warn people planning to study for ordained ministry that if they are seriously interested in preparing for pastoral ministry they would do better to apply to Yale than to Harvard, to Wesley than to Garrett - Evangelical.

David Wilkerson (1931 - 2011) was founding pastor of Times Square Church in New York City and founder of Teen Challenge, an addiction recovery ministry for troubled youth.

The truth is, today we have a lot of paid «deacons» — pastors who mainly administrate and don't have time for «prayer and the ministry of the word.»

In the second stage of his ministry a few years later he became a kind of lifeguard — a great helper «humbly proud» of his role, from time to time jumping into the river to put his arm around someone going down for the third time.

While in ministry, I was quite intentional about time away for reflection / meditation.

Churches do nt require their members to belong to any party, in fact the pastors are usually so busy and barraged with requests for help and running food ministries for the poor, they do nt have time to be curious about party affiliation.

So rather than wearing out my voice in calling for an end to evangelicalism's culture wars, I think it's time to focus on finding and creating church among its many refugees — women called to ministry, our LGBTQ brother and sisters, science - lovers, doubters, dreamers, misfits, abuse survivors, those who refuse to choose between their intellectual integrity and their faith or their compassion and their religion, those who have, for whatever reason, been «farewelled.»

The result envisioned by all of these suggestions for the guide as administrator is not to burden the administrator further but to multiply many times over the ministry which the clergyperson now attempts to carry on alone.

During that time, I realized that most of the ministry conferences around the country were oriented for — and run by - «successful» pastors at «successful» churches.

This was an extremely helpful resource for me and my wife during a very difficult time in my life and ministry.

It has been incredibly freeing and I'm doing more ministry than I ever did as a full - time vocational pastor — that is, I'm ministering «with» others to those who are not - yet believers rather than ministering «to» and «for» people in the church.

And yet, as I progressed through high school and college, got a job in full - time student ministry, and even traveled through Europe for a few weeks, checking each of these dreams off my list (sans Aussie heartthrob), I found myself at age twenty - four absorbed in feelings that I didn't expect to come for at least another fifteen years, if ever.

Whether for the first time he was then convinced that he was the Messiah, whether he had already come to this conviction or had been coming to it and now felt that he had received the seal of God's approval, or whether he did not believe that he was the Messiah at all but considered himself only a prophet and forerunner of the coming one, his baptism was the turning point between his previous life of preparation and waiting and the active ministry in which he would henceforth be engaged.

At the time I was studying for the ministry, I was also studying history and archaeology.

For me, this has been one of the most beneficial and rewarding aspects of leaving full time pastoral ministry.

I will gladly stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ and answer for why I refused to pay the preacher, but I will first explain, as Jesus already knows, that before I refused to pay the preacher, I myself resigned from full - time ministry so that no one would have to pay me to preach.

It does no good to one's ministry to take no time out from it for family and hobbies and just sheer recreation.

And of course all the time I knew that the nine types of function selected for consideration were not exhaustive of the ministry.