Sentences with phrase «who ordain»

By that notion, God is merely reacting to the whims of men who themselves ordain whatsoever comes to pass.

We the people who ordain and establish this Constitution intend the rights protected by this Constitution to be the rights of natural persons.

Who ordained Jesus a rabbi?

Did you know that one of his very good friends was a black man, who he ordained to a high church position?

Know the world from Yahweh's perspective who ordained it, created it, and in love sustains it.

Here we are not emphasizing a merely verbal correlation but rather a profound fact: that the master only becomes fully aware of the sense of his mastership in its highest and final form through a perceptive and comprehending disciple, and it is the disciple who ordains his master to mastership.

And interestingly, it wasn't even true to the wishes and example of founding prophet Joseph Smith, who ordained a black man, Elijah Abel, to the priesthood as early as the 1830s.

Not exact matches

These two teams need to be married, and the only person who has the authority to «ordain» this marriage is the CEO.

Myles Munroe was a Bahamian Christian evangelist, ordained a Pentecostal minister, public speaker, and author who was the founder of Bahamas Faith Ministries International.

Nathan, until I finally accepted that I was gay (and ok) at age 31, I was incredibly outspoken against those who tried to tell me that being gay was ok (I was an ordained minister in a charismatic church).

It contends that two men who use each other's anus» for sexual gratification are in love and may therefore live in the covenant relationship God ordained between a man and a woman.

The ordained leaders of the Church, and the laity who are Christ's principal witnesses in the public square, do not enter public life proclaiming, «The Church teaches...» When the question at issue is an immoral practice, they enter the debate saying, «This is wicked; it can not be sanctioned by the law and here is why, as any reasonable person will grasp.»

You can at least call a legally ordained priest to those who would be willing to confess of their transgressions against God.

Mankowski, who holds quite different views on ordaining women, agrees with Weakland that it would have been much better if the writers of the pastoral came right out and said what they mean by lamenting the sins of sexism in a hierarchical church.

May God bless and anoint those who do this work, and any reading who may be the «chaplain» whether ordained or not, who is there.

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.

Mr Faure was ordained by Richard Williamson, who was kicked out of the church for denying the extent of the Holocaust, around two weeks ago.

The parishes will be led by former Anglican clergy - including those who are married - who could be ordained as Catholic priests, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

With that definition in place, Louie Crew proceeds to grade the 113 bishops in the Episcopalian House of Bishops who have since 1979 voted on one or more resolutions having do with ordaining homosexuals.

That is the fundamental message of Christianity - John 3:16 ------------------------ Yeah, the blame rests on us because we are all sinful, but you must also understand that although there is a general responsibility that rests on the shoulders of all men, there is also a specific responsibility held by those who were directly responsible for specific sins, even though they were ordained of God.

America has so many people who identify themselves as religious because A) some of our initial settlers came to the colonies because their beliefs were out of line with the government ordained religion in their country.

The Church is working at cleaning these people out and setting up stringent entrance requirements for seminarians so that no new priests will be ordained who are pedophiles.

If inclusive language and the ordained ministry of women can help change our image and experience of God to include the God who loves us like a mother holding her baby to her breast, that may be the Great Awakening in our 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.

«Yes,» counters the one who believes God divinely ordains everything.

Mindfulness and similar forms of meditation were traditionally the domain of ordained monks and nuns, not the average people who make up the great bulk of Buddhist societies.

It was receiving desperate emails from women whose husbands and pastors told them that submitting to abuse was part of their God - ordained role and who had nowhere else to turn because their church would shame them if they stepped forward and reported the abuse.

Another convert priest who had been married but was widowed before he was finally ordained, Fr Ronald Walls, admits in his autobiography that even as a Presbyterian minister he had felt torn between «giving himself totally to his wife and family and «giving himself to the people to whom God had sent him.

Davidek and some of the other putative bishops had already died, but those men whom they had ordained and who were deemed qualified for the priesthood were «conditionally» ordained and their positions regularized under the hierarchy.

Indeed, those who belong to the same religious group can be fierce in their disagreements, even though they have a great deal in common, as has been shown by the recent arguments in the churches about whether women should be ordained.

Writing early in the second century CE, Clement of Rome identified God as the «Master of the universe» (1 Clement 8:2) who oversees without dissension or opposition the divinely ordained orderliness of all that transpires in creation (20:1 — 12).

The Vatican stepped up its battle with the Chinese Catholic Church this weekend, excommunicating a bishop who was ordained during the week without the pope's permission.

But pastoral care is the ministry of the whole congregation — not just those individuals who happen to be ordained or called into the formal leadership of the church.

However, the court stated, «Cannata's lack of formal training in Catholic doctrine is immaterial; this is because the ministerial exception does not apply only to those who are ordained.»

I've heard from women who said they tried desperately for years to quiet their ambitions and leadership skills because they felt those gifts violated God - ordained «femininity.»

But they also discouraged others, including those who believe the Catholic Church should ordain women.

(to clarify, many of the gay folks who wanted to be ordained without having a lot of questions asked simply joined religious orders, to avoid the prying eyes)

They are then further disturbed that the headteacher loyally supports the staff member who has made the children shout out «penis» or «vagina» at the front of the class, or has said that the Church will one day ordain women priests, or has talked openly about their gay partner.

Editor's note: Daniel A. Helminiak, who was ordained a priest in Rome, is a theologian, psychotherapist and author of «What the Bible Really Says about homosexuality» and books on contemporary spirituality.

They may or may not receive the glory that belongs to God alone by not doing these things openly in the name of Jesus who is the author of the good works He ordained that we should walk in.

Andrew Birks, who was ordained a Church of England priest last year, was one of five officers investigated after 40 - year - old Sean Rigg collapsed and died at Brixton police station in August 2008.

Soper, who was ordained as a priest in 1970, claimed the use of discipline had been interpreted in a «sexual way» amid a «tsunami of media attention as I am named fairly frequently».

All of us who know, however underwhelmingly, the call to prophetic leadership, lay or ordained, are very well aware of what this seminarian is talking about; and in this sense there is, I am afraid, something almost inescapably deceiving in the stance of the preacher / Iecturer / writer — at least this one.

A guest «My Take» post we ran this week from a college psychology professor who has a background in religion (he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest, for instance) challenged that conventional wisdom.

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.

As Romans 13 instructs, the powers that be are ordained of God, rulers are ministers of God, and those who resist those rulers resist the ordinance of God.

Erwin, who was ordained a pastor in 2011, played down his election as the ELCA's first openly gay bishop.

The two have become a rarity in the Catholic Church — a father and son who became ordained Catholic priests at the same time.

My father — who is ordained — baptized my sister and me on the same Sunday.

In his homily ordaining 16 new priests, Francis thanked those who came out for the Mass, noting that some people had travelled two days to attend.