Sentences with phrase «which preacher»

I recall hearing a sermon in which the preacher told how «miraculously» he missed his aeroplane and thus God saved his life — because otherwise he would have been the victim of an air disaster.

The theology of ministry implicit in this kind of preaching, in which the preacher sees himself as solely responsible, contradicts the doctrine of ministry that we profess.

The theology of ministry implicit in which the preacher sees himself as solely responsible, contradicts the doctrine of ministry that we profess.

These are read neither as «elegant extracts», nor as merely historical information — least of all as «pegs» upon which a preacher may hang ideas of his own.

To clarify the process let us imagine a case in which a preacher is preparing a sermon about abortion, and let us describe a few people who will be present in the congregation, their names fictitious but their situations true to life.

This apostolic witness is the basic datum with which the preacher has to deal.

That world which the preacher mediates is one possible world out of many that could be offered.

Soon after I read this book I heard a sermon on «The Star of Bethlehem» (Matthew 2), in which the preacher quoted Roof.

This frequently translates into a hierarchical, authoritarian stance in which the preacher, in the language of no less a gathering than Vatican II, «molds and rules» the people.

The extent to which the preacher's mind dwells upon the general, universal, and abstract will be the measure of his lack of humor.

The inductive sermon, in which the preacher begins with the elements of experience and, in the course of the sermon, brings them into a theological perspective, works well for both the affirming and the challenging sermon.

The answer is, it depends on which preacher is interpreting it.

The gospel which a preacher is to proclaim is to be seen as a bold affirmation, based upon the earliest Christian witness and the confirmation of that witness in the agelong Christian tradition, that we humans are loved, that we can be delivered from the lovelessness which makes us miserable and lonely, and that we can be enabled to return love even if very inadequately and partially.

One such approach imagines the process of preparing and performing a sermon as a «speaker's drama» in which the preacher is an «actor».

I grieve for a lost opportunity whenever I attend a baptism in which the preacher fails to preach on the meaning of the event.

Then, on the clergy side, the model focuses on the manner in which preachers responded to and attempted to seize control of the emerging popular dissent.

We have said something about the place of the Bible in the living Christian tradition which preachers represent and for which they function; we have discussed a few of the problems or questions which are raised both for preachers and for people; and we have tried to sum up the theological and moral implications of the gospel as these have been worked out in the tradition down the centuries.

Byrd refrains from preaching his own sermon about Christianity and war, but his research shows the degree to which preachers and politicians have manipulated the Bible.

Any of these names makes sense in terms of the church's emphasis on the «fire» of God's presence and baptism in the Holy Spirit, a fire that is burning away the dead underbrush of cultural Catholicism; on the outward expression of this personal experience, especially glossolalia; and on the inner work of sanctification, which preachers describe as the process of being conformed to Christ or Christ being formed within us.

That Law can not be mixed with Grace which preachers do all the time.

Were it agreeable to you, Most Reverend Father, you could examine my disputation theses, so that you may see how dubious is this belief concerning Indulgences, which these preachers propagate as if it was the surest thing in the whole world.

Not exact matches

Fortunately, my cumbersome family - edition New International Version (NIV) Bible was large enough to conceal a succession of magazines, the contents of which would have made a preacher blush.

Carrying a placard which read, «Jesus Gives Peace, Jesus is Alive, Stop Immorality, Stop Homosexuality, Stop Lesbianism, Jesus is Lord,» sixty - nine - year - old street preacher Harry Hammond went into the center of Bournemouth on a Saturday afternoon in 2001.

You're arguing over the race of a cartoonish character which was mostly created by Coca Cola advertising and a wandering Jewish preacher from 2,000 years ago in the Middle East.

In both England and America, Victorian preachers, novelists, poets, and statesmen alike struggled hard to maintain a national ethic of private domesticity and public respectability without the church and chapel in which that ethic was born.

That form of «religion» is an entertainment industry in which standard form for preachers, teachers, and speakers IS to package and promote themselves in a constant competition for top celebrity status, on such venues as TBN, just as aspiring popular music groups and singers are over on MTV.

2) your preacher which i knew you permitted to brainwash you, you weak freak, is a sick sadistic ass if he can come up with things like that to say about a place like hell to justify it.

Truth is many evangelical preachers are involved in priestcraft which actually turns people so off of organized religion that they stop going to church and then stop believing in a higher power.

Just because you believe in God doesn't mean that being a preacher is «the highest calling to which any human being could aspire.»

An accomplished preacher and author, he edited a collection of sermons related to the infamous Rodney King riots entitled, Dreams on Fire: Embers of Hope, which became one of the top ten religious books of 1992.

We're in a conversation about spiritual abuse — the process by which people who have spiritual authority (pastors, preachers, priests, etc.) take advantage of that authority to do harm to those entrusted to their care.

Some preacher along the way had convinced him he had committed the unpardonable sin, the M word, for which he would burn forever in the lake of fire.

A third - generation Pentecostal preacher and the founder of Renovatus: A Church for People Under Renovation in Charlotte, North Carolina, Jonathan has taken the Pentecostal heritage with which he was raised and made it his own in some surprising and inspiring ways.

Unfortunately, though, with people being discouraged to pursue the liberal arts in the 21st century, openings for these positions are becoming few and far between, and people who have that philosophical blood running through their veins sometimes take on preacher positions as a way to make ends meat, which is wrong because it is the essence of living a lie.

The Imams and religious preachers do not discuss the problems which are agitating the minds of the educated people; they are even ignorant of the very existence of such problems.

A subtle form of oppression has been the subjection of the congregation to the preacher's own private canon of Scripture, which frequently excluded most of the Old Testament and much of the New.

It was customary among the Reformers themselves to speak of a «valid» ministry as one in which «the pure Word of God is preached and the sacraments be duly administered according to Christ's ordinance» (to quote the Anglican Thirty - nine Articles, which are paralleled in other and similar «confessions»); and the history of the ministry in the Christian Church as a whole makes it abundantly clear that «authority to preach the Word of God,» or the right to «dispense the Word of God,» or the giving to the candidate of the Church's recognition and authority to be «preacher of the Gospel» — all these are more or less synonymous phrases — has been an integral part of ordination.

Third, the content of preaching, I am afraid, demonstrates an unrelatedness of the gospel to life which has been acquired by the preacher in an academic study of Christianity.

The arrangement, moreover, confirms the stereotype of the relation between clergy and laity in which the Word is removed from the people and made the preacher's exclusive sphere of responsibility.

His father Martin Luther King Sr. came to Georgia and became a preacher and married the daughter of the founder of the Ebenezer Baptist church which is in Atlanta and became its pastor.

A clergyman functions as a preacher when he proclaims Christ, the significance of Christ for men, and the need for acceptance of Christ as bringing wholeness of life; he is to preach for repentance and for participation in the Church which is the setting for the gospel.

Often it is what one might call «the background material» which is the most important problem for the preacher.

«Whenever... preachers, instead of a lesson in religion, put [their congregation] off with a discourse on the Copernican system, on chemical affinities, on the construction of government, or the characters or conduct of those administering it, it is a breach of contract, depriving their audience of the kind of service for which they are salaried, and giving them, instead of it, what they did not want, or, if wanted, would rather seek from better sources in that particular art of science.»

The hellfire - and - brimstone preachers wonder why so many fall away after evangelistic campaigns in which a God of hellfire and anger is preached.

This means that every preacher has the job of building bridges of understanding between the historical meaning of traditional words and the contemporary situation or symbol in which the same meaning is imbedded.

i will tell you that the one thing that god gave us is the power of will or choice and that is why we can decide to do good or bad or follow him or not but the evidence of a true christian is that person life will change and not is a small way.my people open your eyes and do not be fools to believe that there is no god because you know in your own heart while you say it, deep inside you can see that a god do exist and i do not need to tell you that or prove it to you because you know it is true.unfortunately there are false preachers who do not teach the truth or a halph truth which has led millions down the wrong path and today we see the result of it everywhere.

Which got me thinking... just like the preacher pounds the pulpit during his weakest points, maybe those who talk loudest about grace are trying to compensate for a lifestyle that lacks grace.

Perhaps a sermon should be regarded as great, not because everyone in the congregation agrees with the preacher, but because at the end of the service those present just can't wait to talk about it; to debate it together, because the text around which it was built has captured their imagination and curiosity.

He knows that Scripture receives its full meaning only through the preacher's actual interpretation, by which faith is awakened.

The pastoral preacher tries to assist the person suffering from those two distinguishable psychological syndromes — which Gregory terms precipitancy and anxiety.