Sentences with phrase «which ordained»

An image could have been constructed in which the ordained minister is shown in a private residence, seated beside the father, with the rest of the family grouped around.

I am thinking of independent churches, the Holiness traditions, the Assemblies of God, and the Nazarene Church, and the Baptist General Conference, which ordained its first woman in 1943 — the Reverend Ethel Ruff.

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful He (Allâh) has ordained for you the same religion (Islâmic Monothesim) which He ordained for Nûh (Noah), and that which We have revealed to you (O Muhammad SAW), and that which We ordained for Ibrahîm (Abraham), Mûsa (Moses) and «Īsā (Jesus) saying you should establish religion (i.e. to do what it orders you to do practically), and make no divisions -LSB--RSB- in it (religion)(i.e. various sects in religion).

Otherwise, there would be a violation of that law of justice which ordains that every person should receive his due.»

Not exact matches

Veteran broadcaster and ordained priest, Patrick is also an author whose book, The Gospel of Folly, explores the connections which bring hope to a stressed society and confused Church.

Mozart was divinely destined to die young, an impossible prodigy appearing and vanishing like a flash of lightning crossing the heavens, while it was ordained from everlasting that Haydn should enjoy a serene longevity in which to unfold his genius; Keats grown old would have been a drastic error of taste on the part of providence, while it was absolutely necessary that Wordsworth begin as a «lyrical» radical but end up a withered Tory sage penning sonorous banalities.

In 1229, this same pope decreed that only ordained priests were allowed to read the Bible and two years later he began the Inquisition which lasted 600 years.

The lay vocation, as understood by Evangelical Catholicism, is primarily one of evangelism: of the family, the workplace, and the neighborhood, and thus of culture, economics, and politics, bringing the gospel into all of those parts of the world to which the laity have greater access than those who are ordained.

Regardless, you have not only the Crusades, but the Spanish Inquisition, George W.'s phony Iraq / Afghanistan wars, WWII, WWI, the European invasion and of the Americas and consequent slaughter of countless natives, all the «god» - ordained wars in the Old Testament in which Yahweh told Israel to go do «his» dirty work for «him», the KKK, the Salem «witch» trials, slavery in the US (and all of its ugly murders), etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. to contend with.

What man does at «Free Will,» which is not caused by God, does not mean it is out of God's Sovereignty, since God foreknew it before the foundation of the world and ordained it to come to pass.

Four of the six were elders and all of them had been ordained in the church to which I was called.

Was it ordained before the foundation of the world that the year 2015, which saw the rise of Donald Trump's candidacy and his clumsy attempts to establish Evangelical bona fides, should also see the publication of the long - awaited first volume of In the Beginning Was the Word, Mark Noll's history of the Bible in American public life?

Beyond the considerable body of research that has emerged in the past three decades which demonstrates that women played a far more generous role in the early Church than perhaps Neuhaus has imagined, my own Wesleyan holiness tradition has apparently escaped his ecumenical vision as well for it was already ordaining women in the nineteenth century.

«He hath ordained for you that religion which He commended unto Noah, and that which We inspire in thee (Muhammad), and that which We commended unto Abraham and Moses and Jesus, saying: Establish the religion, and be not divided therein» (Surah XLII, 13).

When a man is ordained to the sacred ministry in any of the Reformed churches — and this includes the Anglican Communion, which even the staunchest defenders of its «catholicity» must acknowledge is a «reformed» catholic communion — a form of words is used in which the centrality of the preaching office in that ministry is affirmed.

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him?

I'm sticking to my position on gender equality in the home and Church --(which doesn't mean I don't think there are differences between men and women, by the way; it just means I am reluctant to declare those differences universal and prescriptive or indicative of some sort of God - ordained hierarchy between men and women)-- but I want to «fight fair» if you will, especially with folks I consider to be my brothers and sisters in Christ.

I sometimes reflect on my dreams for the church into which I was ordained in the 1960s.

In the Reformed branch of the Reformation, responsibility was often assigned to the ordained minister or «teaching elder» of a congregation (hence in that tradition clergy were expected to be above all «learned ministers,» which meant that they had the resources of information and conceptual capacities that empowered them to fill this role).

And the product of this ordained se - xual encounter was one Ishmael, who is considered the antecedent of the Arabic people, from which Islam was fabricated.

The Arab laity complained that their churches were allowed to deteriorate and that no new ones were built; that the Greeks ordained illiterate Arab priests, forbade them to preach, and limited their duties to the performance of the Sunday liturgy; and that the Greeks encouraged Arab deacons to marry prior to ordination, so as to render them ineligible for promotion to bishop or appointment to the celibate Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, which governs the Patriarchate.

An endorsement of such actions raises about a million questions, the most pressing of which is: if God ordained ethnic cleansing in the past, might God ordain it in the present or future?

When the image of God entered into the species which is humankind, that species was ordained to find its order on a plane other than the animal, and because of the presence of that divine image, dominance on the human plane is not a natural order but a disorder.

Since Jesus Christ founded the Catholic Church and placed good men in charge of it, and because it was the Catholic Church which put the Books of the Bible in the Bible and coined the word «Bible», and because the Bible tells us that the Church is the pillar and foundation of Truth, and because these good men [that you refer to as misguided] are the ones ordained and «sent», [just like Jesus was «sent» by the Father], are at the «helm» of His Church and have the absolute authority to interpret the Bible, I am so inclined to be ever so thankful that Jesus Christ set it all up this way so that the burdens and crosses that I may bear will become as light as the yoke that Jesus Christ promised if we are willing to follow him, and not our will be done but His.

What troubles me about the situation is not what happens to this full - time teacher, but the inferiority complex which his training and his (collective) sense of a «higher» calling give to ordained ministers.

The three-fold job to which bishops are ordained is to «teach, sanctify, and govern.»

We have «manifested oreintations» in which all societal complexities of situational life orders may be ordained from.

In this instance, the virtue of docility includes a respect for bishops that requires recalling them to the duty and the dignity to which they were ordained.

For example, in one speech Hitler said, «In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that He may grant us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that He may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger... I am convinced that men who are created by God should live in accordance with the will of the Almighty... If Providence had not guided us I could often never have found these dizzy paths... Thus it is that we National Socialists, too, have in the depths of our hearts our faith.

This preference exists «even in those denominations which have ordained women to full ministerial status for 50 years or more, according to her little - publicized nationwide study.

Romans 13 (which sees government as God - ordained) and Revelation 13 (which sees government as demonic), exodus and captivity, the kingdom present and future, standards of equality and standards of need - all must be properly weighed.

This preference exists «even in those denominations which have ordained...

Ordained ministering is in no way separate from the wider ministry of Christian people; it is «distinct» from that wider ministry, in that it functions for as it also represents the service which is proper to all who belong to the Church.

The eye of sense alone is dim, And nothing sees but water; Faith sees Christ Jesus, and in Him The Lamb ordained for slaughter; She sees the cleansing fountain red With the dear blood of Jesus, Which from the sins inherited From fallen Adam frees us, And from our own misdoings.

Although that was not the sentiment in the denomination in which I was ordained, that phrase resonates within me still.

This is partly due to the later age at which many women are being ordained (close to retirement age and therefore not applicable for stipendiary ministry).

Dude has 166,279 cell groups, 172,346 deacons and 12,820 full - time staff (9,543 of which are ordained clergy) The numbers are beyond comprehension: average Sunday worship attendance is 552,364, a figure amassed in 11 services averaging over 50,000 each.

It is at the basis of inspiration, which becomes, as one might say, a sort of exaltation of what has first been ordained and fixed by the intelligence.

God has ordained that your brothers should be your slaves: therefore him whom God hath ordained to be the slave of his brother, his brother must give him of the food which he eateth himself, and of the clothes wherewith he clotheth himself, and not order him to do anything beyond his power, and if he doth order such a work, he must himself assist him in doing it.

My harvest Time will be upon my cross-born death and then I will be taken into my body of the Gods» temple to become that which GOD Himself shall ordain for me to become!

The corporate life which was an ideal of the Middle Ages, with its combination of the recognition of divinely ordained authority and the voice of the people, might have avoided both the extremes of unregulated absolutism on the one hand and unchecked democracy with its mass hysteria and demagogy on the other.

Even if, however, all the contextual and exegetical material presented above is wrong, and this verse does in fact teach that God ordained these particular Gentiles to receive eternal life (which the arguments above show He did not), this verse is still not a good proof - text for the Calvinistic doctrine of Unconditional Election.

As that which was ordained beyond all willing and all comprehension, moira was also a darkness surrounding the radiant, but all too narrow, world of consciousness.

When a validly ordained priest pronounces the words of institution, it is not the death of Christ which is repeated, but the oath by which He swore to die.

The church also has a ministry of ordained persons which can trace its historical development back to very early Christian days.

v. 16) Thus the death and resurrection of Christ are interpreted as the divinely ordained crisis in history through which old things passed away and the new order came into being.

103:3 — Except those who believe and do righteous good deeds, and recommend one another to the truth (i.e. order one another to perform all kinds of good deeds (Al - Ma «ruf) which Allah has ordained, and abstain from all kinds of sins and evil deeds (Al - Munkar) which Allah has forbidden), and recommend one another to patience (for the sufferings, harms, and injuries which one may encounter in Allah's Cause during preaching His religion of Islamic Monotheism or Jihad, etc.).

On the same day Lincoln delivered his Second Inaugural a man from Wisconsin wrote, «An all «wise Providence will end the strife and misery, as soon as the purpose for which it was ordained is accomplished.»

But their responsibility for Word and sacrament will be surrounded with ambiguity unless they are able to claim the ministry to which they were ordained.

The discussion that follows is about the biblical bases and the historical development of the ordained ministry, which means not special privilege but particular responsibility.