The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target
Don't build your ministry on what you're against. Build your ministry on what you're for.
If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion.
Anytime you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we're denounced as being against their humanitarian goals. They say we're always "against" things-we're never "for" anything. Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.
Remove the centrality-of-Jesus-Christ message from ministry and meetings, and you can forget church life or organic meetings. He must be the center of everything. . . not in lip service, but in the dynamic experiential whole.
I am saying that the recent activities by Turkey's Ministry of Agriculture, particularly the culling and communication work, is good.
I started my ministry when I was 19, I was pastoring at 22 and I got married when I was 24, so I was building at such a young age and that fight, that dream and tenacity is still in me.
An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry.
When my time to die comes an angel will be there to comfort me. He will give me peace and joy even at that most critical hour, and usher me into the presence of God, and I will dwell with the Lord forever. Thank God for the ministry of His blessed angels.
Don't just throw the seed at the people! Grind it into flour, bake it into bread, and slice it for them. And it wouldn't hurt to put a little honey on it
Who was this women?' asked Harry. 'I dunno, some Ministry hag. ' Mundungus considered for a moment, brow wrinkled. 'Little women. Bow on top of er' head. ' He frowned and then added, 'Looked like a toad. ' Harry dropped his wand. Harry looked up and saw his own shock reflected in Ron and Hermione's faces. The scars on the back of right hand seemed to be tingling again.
The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.
Jesus said Communion first, community comes out of that, and out of community, ministry.
The ministry and mission of the church is at the center of Christian giving.
As a pastor our main ministry is exhortation.
God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun with politics.
One I've been passionately committed to, of course, is women's ministry; I believe solidly in it as a Gospel issue and we've found our way through that.
Ministry is just ZZ Top with technology.
Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.