Sentences with phrase «work as a preacher»

While not neglecting his duties to his day as a professor or citizen (he supported the anti-Nazi Confessing Church and welcomed the Americans in 1945), he felt called to essentially one work as a preacher.

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So, I don't think Berkshire would work as well if were just terribly shrewd but didn't have a little bit of what the preacher said about my grandfather.

As Flannery O'Connor said, whom I did recently read in entire works, the southern preacher prides himself on having learned nothing at all.)

Right now, as you are reading this devotional, listening to a preacher or watching a sermon DVD, as you hear God's Word, His power is released into your situation, working things out for you and turning your situation around for your good.

Teachers, preachers, and others who devote themselves to the work of instruction can be saved needless frustration and disappointment if they bear in mind the weight of educational influences exerted by the culture as a whole, and if they take account of the prevailing cultural patterns as they plan their teaching.

That is why we who are preachers of the gospel of Christ may seek for the homeliest and simplest, as well as for the most exalted and sublime, analogies for «gospel truth» in the life and work of our people.

It says that the preacher is contemporaneously, right now, attentive to the Word as it works right now, and not merely to recollections, intimations, memories, impressions, or other historical data.

Preachers who imagine themselves as actors in their own speaker's dramas will work toward congruity by working toward embodiment, the realization of theological truth through voice, body, and display in the moment of utterance.

But despite the linguistic problems associated with this designation, it seems that the epithet «preacher,» in the sense of «pastor,» is indeed an appropriate one, at least theologically.36 According to Duncan Macdonald, we have done Qoheleth an injustice by viewing his work as reflecting only a spirit of resignation and despair.

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.

In the end this gave to his thought a warmth and humanity and also a vivid and memorable use of imagery, which came naturally to him as a preacher and catechist, but is so often lacking in more scholastic works.

So I can't work on this book as if I am a preacher or a teacher.

They work as pastors, preachers and priests, teachers and scholars, evangelists and missionaries, writers and editors, administrators of denominational, educational, social service and reform agencies, as chaplains in prisons, hospitals and military establishments.

The preacher begins with the text as would any member of his congregation, asking the immediate and spontaneous questions, as in the paragraph above, but now his responsibility as pastor - teacher - preacher demands exegetical work, careful and honest.

(18) David Landry was helped immeasurably by these data in determining as pastor and preacher how to talk with people about how God works in their world.

Interesting how the preacher referred to the congregation as good people, but to their actions as the work of Satan.

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.

The book works hard to portray Fosdick as the remarkably inventive and productive preacher he was, to explain how he could sustain such a level of excellence week after week, and to give a sense of why more than one preacher visiting Riverside staggered out of the worship service sighing, «I can never preach again!»

Jesus work although did involve helping people he mostly was known as a teacher and a preacher of «God's Kingdom».

When more emphasis was given by preachers to the gaining of indulgences — for instance, by the good work of making a cash contribution to the building of a church — than to the sacraments, the liturgy and ordinary acts of charity, then it was made to appear as though the values of the Gospel were being abandoned.

Nevertheless, Shils cites such works as Kincheloe's The American City and Its Church, Niebuhr's Social Sources of American Denominationalism, Mecklin's Story of American Descent, and Pope's Millhands and Preachers as examples of American «sociology of religion.»

As the son of Franklin Graham, and a fellow preacher with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, he will be travelling to Falkirk in Scotland this summer to continue their work of preaching the Gospel, purely and simply.

Those with a soft patriarchy view generally believe that «the biblical context is cultural but the principles are permanent,» affirming the importance of submission and gender rules, allowing for women to work outside the home, but discouraging women from teaching or leading men in any way in the church — especially as senior pastors or preachers.

It is essential that, as theologians and preachers, we read sociology critically and these works, largely from a liberation perspective, provide assistance.

In Chicago to - day we have the case of Dr. J.A. Dowie, a Scottish Baptist preacher, whose weekly «Leaves of Healing» were in the year of grace 1900 in their sixth volume, and who, although he denounces the cares wrought in other sects as «diabolical counterfeits» of his own exclusively «Divine Healing,» must on the whole be counted into the mind - cure movement.

The vivid imagination and the sharp observation of men and nature that marked his mind; his acquaintance with common speech and his joy in the use of proverbs; indeed, his capacity to express in creative speaking with a skill that only a poet and genius possesses the whole range of human emotions from awe in the presence of the numinous to the feelings of the body — all are reflected in his sermons (as also in the commentaries, his work of the lecture room), not consistently, of course, and not every time, yet most impressively in the Church Postil Sermons, one of the products of his exile on Wartburg Castle, written in order to furnish to the preachers of the Reformation examples of Biblical preaching.

Keynote speaker Emmitt Jolly, a schistosomiasis researcher, noted that he was the son of a preacher and janitor, and worked in Alabama cotton fields for 2 years as a young man, but was still able to become a professor at Case Western Reserve University here.

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As a slave preacher, his master is paid to take him to other plantations to speak to the other slaves and encourage them to work and stay obedient to their masters.

He eventually becomes a preacher and the spiritual leader of the slaves working on the plantation, establishing his position as an influencer.

Living in equally abject poverty nearby is the Jackson family, headed by patriarch Hap (Rob Morgan), a preacher and tenant who labors over the 200 acres he will never own, and his hard - working wife Florence (Mary J. Blige) who plows the fields, raises her children, and works as Laura's maid.

In the Deep South, Reverend Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian) is a well - known preacher who began working in the ministry as a child and performed his first exorcism while still an adolescent.

One slight turn of the head as he sits listening to the preacher in his hometown church inveigh against his kind of music as the work of the Devil promises an explosion — not at the windy parson or the congregation or his dubious parents, but through a series of compositions and performances that will simply give such nonsense the lie.

Meanwhile, a pretty woman from Chicago named Maggie (Jessica Chastain) arrives looking for work and an escape from her former life as a dancer, which eventually leads to a romantic attachment for Forrest, and Jack's eye is drawn to Bertha (Mia Wasikowska), the daughter of a local Mennonite preacher who likes the idea of the more worldly living Jack could provide her.

Jeremy Deller: Joy in People will include a number of his pioneering collaborative works with fans and amateur cultural practitioners, such as The Uses of Literacy (1997), an exhibition created by fans of The Manic Street Preachers, which brings together paintings, collages, drawings, books, poetry and ephemera inspired by the band's lyrics.

Jenny Saville's 1990s breakout work with obese female bodies on supersized canvases — as seen on the Manic Street Preachers» Holy Bible cover — were discovered by Charles Saatchi, who supported her for 18 months before exhibiting the results as part of Young British Artists III when she was 23.

Joy in People presents a number of his pioneering works, such as The Uses of Literacy (1997), an installation incorporating art by fans of the Welsh rock group Manic Street Preachers, and Our Hobby is Depeche Mode (2006), a video and archive based on the international devotees of the 1980s electro - pop band.

Born a Methodist preacher's son in Knoxville, Tennessee, Delaney studied with the portrait artist Lloyd Branson until migrating, with Branson's assistance, north in the 1920s to Boston, where he worked odd jobs while taking art lessons at institutions such as the Massachusetts Normal Art School and the Copley Society.