Sentences with phrase «with congregations»

They have secured media coverage for many of their events and, through Hoosier IPL, will share their experience achieving Seventh Day status with congregations statewide.

Hang out with congregations of Manta Rays while they feed, clean and dance on the shallow reefs and rock formations.

A particularly exciting night dive with congregations of hunting fish.

I appreciate how you all share them with your congregations, and not just at Christmas.Many blessings to you all.

These religious leaders, however, with their congregations of millions, have no problem with what he said.

You are not being objective comparing a cattle rancher who only dealt with mute animals, with a former university professor cum pastor who dealt with congregations of students and worshippers... Osinbajo has been solving people - related problems all his life, he knows what to say to diverse folks with divergent points of views.

Its location next door to a Baptist church, with both congregations enjoying very cordial relations, is testimony to the good race and religious relations we have locally.

Studies are enhanced by internships with congregations in the US and abroad, exchange programs with the seminaries in Stuttgart and Hamburg, Germany, and the opportunity to study with students and faculty from around the world.

A former United Methodist pastor, Easum works as a consultant with congregations and religious organizations.

The local associations appeared to exert the greatest power and threat to congregational autonomy, so the Baptists gradually nullified the power of these groups, and thereby eliminated the most effective instrument for balancing the powers of the state and national conventions in their relations with the congregations.

I've heard of several other pastors and bloggers who are also planning to work through Esther over the next few weeks — both online and with their congregations — so I'll be keeping an eye on their work in order to share it with you.

At the same time study of that same congregation also involves comparing it with congregations in earlier periods whose enactments of the universally practiced worship of God are markedly different

And then at the other end of the spectrum are the churches who are so welcoming that they end up with congregations that spend all their time at the baths, in the book stores, or watching porn, which gives you a church full of sex addicts who are not seeking recovery because the church accepts gays with open arms.

My own sense is that the true vitality lies with congregations that are able to take the contemporary interest in spiritual life and growth seriously and yet are able to draw on the riches of Christian tradition and history to do so.

It is worth noting that some predominantly secular service organizations with religious roots — Goodwill is a prime example — are trying to recover those roots in order to partner with congregations.

In the United States there are over 240,000 clergymen who are active in parish or synagogue work and dealing directly with congregations.

With so much of our lives lived publicly with our congregations and various ministerial contexts, we find ourselves valuing the time we have without a church steeple looming overhead.

(43) A number of studies show that the «prophetic» preachers of the sixties were often in deep difficulty with their congregations.

In Puerto Rico, Samaritan's Purse has connections with congregations that participate in its iconic Operation Christmas Child shoebox program, as well as pastors like Paz who took part in president Franklin Graham's crusade there in February.

I'm going to tell you a little about myself by way of introduction and how I happened to get into the work that I do — of working primarily with congregations and occasionally with other religious organizations around issues of human differences.

I'm going to tell you a little about myself by way of introduction and how I happened to get into the work that I do - of working primarily with congregations and occasionally with other religious organizations around issues of human differences.

As I travel around the country visiting and consulting with congregations and clergy, I find that many are caught in vicious cycles.

I know that there are all kinds of problems with Christianity as an enterprise; however, there's another image of the church that I see very often that bothers me more even than the image of the church as an enterprise, and the model that comes to me again, and again and again as I am working with congregations, is the image of the congregation as the Junior League.

I doubt many realize how unrewarding the ministry can be, how much pressure working with congregations who do not want to change and who would rather judge than understand can be.

It includes contacts with congregations, individuals and pastors in the homeland or in other parts of the globe, spread in a sort of diaspora.

Are Christian pastors honest with their congregations regarding the evidence for the Resurrection?

Faculty leaders and doctoral students will also work with congregations and participate in the programs.

Indeed, what ought to dismay would be the absence of distancing tensions in a theological school's relationship with congregations.

RHE: I once wrote a post entitled, «Dear Pastors, Tell Us the Truth,» and was heartbroken by how many pastors responded to it by saying they would never feel comfortable being that honest with their congregations.

Christian congregation; some have seen a theological school as distinct from but interrelated with congregations in ways analogous to the relation in the Reformed tradition between the congregation and its clergy; others have seen a theological school as related, not to congregations, but to a cadre of active clergy for whom it provides «in - service» or «extension» education.

b. Pastors whose personal scores are close to the mean orientation of the congregation seem frequently to enjoy a more satisfying relationship with their congregations than do pastors whose own scores differ significantly from those of their flocks.

It is further bound together by Hopewell's strong theological convictions about how narrative functions as God's work with congregations.

b. Pastors close to the mean enjoy a more satisfying relationship with congregations.

... who told me that if they were honest with their congregations, they would be fired.

They don't want to be dishonest with their congregations and leave their ministries.

I am in my last year of seminary in the states and deeply want to be as honest and open with my congregations as you are on your blog.

Most are quickly reported to civil authorities as required by law,» he said, but he warned the leaders that they must respond quickly to reports and share information with their congregations for the sake of transparency.

One of Family Promise's programs pairs families with congregations that provide temporary housing and meals, Pagliarini said.

I haven't read a lector's guide yet that did not emphasize eye - contact with the congregation.

Last year I did an experiment with the congregation.

I think the other issue is that a lot of Christian ministers suffer from mental health problems but feel unable to share those with their congregation or even more privately.»

Few ministers, priests or pastors share this truth with their congregation, however.

I share this with our congregation frequently.

I really like that you talk with the congregation and don't just preach, turn the mic off and go home.

I've yet to experience a change in pastors; that could prove to be problematic... The vision of my pastor is a major reason why I stay with this congregation.

This is the ninth successive year that I will be involved in an Ash Wednesday service with my congregation.

The next day our U.S. delegation, along with the congregation in Cuba, prayed for families who had lost loved ones.

Early in my time with this congregation, I learned that a member had been admitted to the hospital.

But sometimes the fault — if there is one — is neither with us nor with the congregation / community.

When you speak of faith you apparently picture a church with a congregation of people reciting a creed.