Sentences with phrase «work as a church»

In her work as a church historian Roberta C.Bondi has sought to make the wisdom of the early church and the insights of monastic spirituality available to contemporary Christians.

He began his career as a college English teacher and then worked as a church planter and pastor for twenty - four years.

The suggestion of Jesus would get put to vote before the board for discussion, and everybody was reminded how hard everyone had worked as a church to get where they were, and how many people made great sacrifices to achieve their success.

We call on the Cuban authorities to repeal the sentences against the pastor and his wife, and to allow him to continue his work as a church leader.»

I am honored to have been asked to speak this morning on the topic of ecumenism from a Reformed perspective shaped by my work as a church historian and by my engagement with the work of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches.

He has worked as a church planter, pastor, and Bible school teacher, and now serves as Director of Immigrant Mission for the Evangelical Free Church of America.

Since then he has studied Journalism and Creative Writing, worked in a radio news room, gained a Theology degree, taught and lectured at a variety of seminaries, and worked as a church pastor both in Perth and in the UK.

I have worked as a church custodian for over 5 years now, and I am quite accustomed to the several things that need to be kept into account when working in a place that requires much in terms of dedication and hard work.

There are no specific requirements to work as a church instrumentalist.

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• To work as a Church Secretary for St. Luke Lutheran Church utilizing exceptional capabilities in handling administrative work such as calendar organization, main dissemination and event planning, with a view to ensuring operational smoothness.

I was working as a Church Secretary until about six months ago when I moved to Brockton from Franklin and have since been looking for a position in this capacity.

Not exact matches

Before joining the Common Desk team, she worked as the Marketing Director for both a startup and a church.

In other words, I as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ, can do the work for the person who has died by being baptized for him.

«As he is now appointed to be the next Bishop of Leeds, I express my warmest thanks to Mgr Stock for the great work he has done here in London on behalf of us bishops and the Church.

Most of the people I work with are aware of it, and some the stuff I do on the side is because of it, like youth ministry and working as part of the teaching team at our church.

He frequently cites the work of Frank Furstenburg and Arlie Hochschild, two sociologists of family and gender relations whose views are by no means ideologically conservative, and he avoids value - loaded language, especially when it comes to describing the mainline Protestant churches whose leadership has, by and large, capitulated to the secular - elitist acceptance of extramarital sex, abortion, homosexuality, and other practices that conservative Christians view as inimical to moral life and family health.

Doctrinal pluralism, despite its intellectual incoherence, will work so long as something akin to Liberal Protestantism is held by the leadership of the church and so long as those who are not Liberal Protestants acquiesce.

This friendship with the Lord Jesus is found in the Word of God recognized as such by the Church in the Bible; in the sacraments; in works of charity and service; and in the fellowship of those who have recognized and embraced the risen one.

It isn't always so easy to rebrand oneself when you have a 10 year work history as a pastor of a small church, a worthless Th.M degree, mountains of student loan debt, and a family to feed.

Confessional Protestants — those whose churches explicitly hold to one of the great Protestant confessions of the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries and who value classical orthodox formulations as being faithful to scripture — should focus their ecumenical energy in dialoguing and working with those denominations which share their most basic commitments, especially to the Nicene Trinitarian identity of God.

In contrast to Orthodox «getting things right» books, Everyday Saints depicts the Church as people with warts and flaws through whom God nevertheless works for good.

Too many priests simply want laypeople to submit to church authority and tradition, and too many laypeople regard Orthodoxy as nothing more than a collection of rituals from which they pick and choose what works for them.

The pundit, who does not work on Sundays because of family and church commitments, said afterwards that his faith would not affect his work as a breakfast presenter.

Here in China where I live and work as a teacher, there is a state church that is monitored heavily by the government and there are the House churches that are now beginning to be heard and are holding there services out in public, but the members are being arrested and thrown in jail and yet they continue to hold there services.

Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul of Tarsus (and Jesus, whoever he really was) and the rest of the first century evangelists read the OT Bible, as did the later church officials who decided which works to include in the compilation of the Bible.

$ 23 In a now familiar genre that combines heavy doses of self - pity with unbridled polemic against an allegedly homophobic society and church, Mel White, an evangelical Protestant who now works with a gay church in Dallas, capitalizes on his brush with fame as ghostwriter to the likes of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.

«As they did through decades of civil war, the churches once again stand as one of the few signs of hope, giving voice to the needs of the people of South Sudan... Their commitment to working for peace and reconciliation is as strong as ever.&raquAs they did through decades of civil war, the churches once again stand as one of the few signs of hope, giving voice to the needs of the people of South Sudan... Their commitment to working for peace and reconciliation is as strong as ever.&raquas one of the few signs of hope, giving voice to the needs of the people of South Sudan... Their commitment to working for peace and reconciliation is as strong as ever.&raquas strong as ever.&raquas ever.»

As patients were released, the sisters organized work for them in construction, agriculture, and church arts (such as workshops for icons, church furnishings, and church textilesAs patients were released, the sisters organized work for them in construction, agriculture, and church arts (such as workshops for icons, church furnishings, and church textilesas workshops for icons, church furnishings, and church textiles).

When I rebranded myself from church work to prison work to worship leading to taking food to the woods as a woman... I submit I do know what I am talking about.

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

At the same time, we recognize that, during the past five hundred years, the Holy Spirit, the Supreme Magisterium of God, has been faithfully at work among theologians and exegetes in both Catholic and Evangelical communities, bringing to light and enriching our understanding of important biblical truths in such matters as individual spiritual growth and development, the mission of Christ's Church, Christian worldview thinking, and moral and social issues in today's world.

What is the balance, if any, of a pastor having a «vision» for the church as though God only speaks through him and the team fulfills that vision with their gifts and abilities, and with the church working together under the direction of elderS (plural) for all people to use their gifts and abilities for God's vision for all people?

True, there are themes that will be familiar to anyone who has followed the work of Ratzinger - Benedict over the years, and, as one would expect from a pope, the document draws deeply from Scripture and the Church's tradition.

He refused to believe that Vatican II, the ecumenical council he had experienced as a powerful work of the Holy Spirit, could only lead to permanent incoherence and division in Catholicism; and by providing an authoritative interpretation of the Council, John Paul II's pontificate energized the living parts of the Church and made Vatican II the launch platform for the new evangelization and for the Church's rediscovery of itself as a missionary enterprise.

Release International is an advocacy movement on behalf of the persecuted church, formerly known as Christian Mission to the Communist World which is part of the International Christian Association, a global alliance of fifty ministries working among the persecuted church These organisations will often urge readers to write to their MP or the appropriate ambassador to register concern at the way human rights are being flouted.

Schickel's work» represented here by 175 full - color photographs» brings us face - to - face with the concerns of our own culture war, especially as it is manifested in clashes between traditionalists and liberals in the Church over the past three decades.

As grand as that is, less than five percent goes to international work, leaving 95 percent in our own country for our churches, university endowments and symphonieAs grand as that is, less than five percent goes to international work, leaving 95 percent in our own country for our churches, university endowments and symphonieas that is, less than five percent goes to international work, leaving 95 percent in our own country for our churches, university endowments and symphonies.

New resolutions can act as a rallying cry for further work on racial justice and racial unity, allowing SBC entities, churches and organizations to point to this resolution as a reason for continuing to preach, teach and speak out.

As Todd Brenneman argues in his recent book, Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism, sentimentality may be a defining characteristic of religious life for many Americans, and so most readers in the dominant Evangelical culture, outside a few hip and urban churches, are more likely to encounter the treacly poetry of Ruth Bell Graham than the spiritually searing work of R. S. Thomas or T. S. Eliot.

What I have to wonder is, if we, as a Church, trust God to work and bring people to Him, or if we feel like we have to «help» by providing all these material possessions (which in the end are meaningless, the money spent on them might be better spent on improving the community, providing food for hungry, support for ministers and overseas missionaries).

But wondering if that would work out they decided to push on churches to spread and depute pastors to travel to those countries for preaching and converting masses to bring those countries in to division among them selves for easier penetration in the name of saving Christian believers or generate hate and fights among them as with the operation that Egypt recently had and accused Muslims for it just to bring Egypt in to division for in the end to call for separation of the country in to more than one as one Islamic and one Christian just as being planed for Sudan North and South!?

As the drums for war become deafening, I hope students at Liberty and in schools across the land, and working people in churches and work places will rise up and repudiate the policies of War, Famine, Pestilence and Death.

Mr Cox went on to say: «I would like to see churches pray for increased opportunities to celebrate truth and justice in the media and for lives to be changed as a result, for Christians working in and with the media to shine for God and to become more influential.

Experiencing the kindness of strangers offered relief to Mormons who had been feeling «a little under siege,» said Bennett, who first got to know Romney through church in 1978 and worked with him for five years at Bain & Company, a global consulting firm that Romney eventually led as CEO.

The curriculum of the seminary should be determined by and reflect the liturgical life of the church, for the most promising way to reclaim the integrity of theological language as the working language for a congregation is for seminaries to make liturgy the focus of their lives.

While many of the Church committee's 183 recommendations entrust oversight responsibilities to agency types, cabinet officers, and President's men who have been untrustworthy in the past, the Church plan taken as a whole attempts to put our check - and - balance system into better working order — not to tie the hands of intelligence but to enable it to serve a democratic society's needs without undermining its cherished principles.

I see duplication of effort, with denominations and individual churches not working together; and the «not - invented - here» syndrome, as very often the information or the thing we are trying to produce is already being produced somewhere else.

In the church, as in marriage, love compels us to stay together and work through our problems.

Might a church that believes in and practices diversity in religious opinion, as well as «Biblical equality» of men and women work better for you?