The organization's current theme is "Turning the Tide," with a reference to a biblical verse about personal transformation (Romans 12 2), and an exhortation to live "an extreme faith," a phrase one official said was aimed at younger men, who have presumably been bombarded with the popular culture's use of the word "extreme," as in extreme sports.
Nneka has partly modeled herself on American songwriters like Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu, who mix exhortations with glimpses of personal life and mingle some rapping with their singing.
Ryan's indictment of "inner-city" laziness, with its obvious echoes of Ronald Reagan's "Welfare Queen" rhetoric, doesn't sound so different from Barack Obama's exhortations to African-American personal responsibility — which were on display in the White House at the end of last month, when the President launched his initiative to help young men of color.
Armed with this exhortation to embrace discipline and personal responsibility, the program's graduates crowded together with their families and friends, clapping, hugging and cheering, their arms raised in celebration as Bishop Shirley Holloway declared them graduates of her program.
Then follows a list of potential writing pitfalls passive voice, abstract words, etc.—and an exhortation to replace indefinite pronouns, like "one," with personal ones, like "you".
Early in 1940, he welcomed Myron C. Taylor, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt's personal representative to the Vatican, but did not heed Taylor's exhortations to condemn Nazi atrocities.
Schaeffer didn't like the formal melding of church and state, but his exhortation to readers was that Christianity, properly applied, "brings forth not only certain personal results, but also governmental and legal results".
By leaving space for local inculturation, by allowing time for personal discernment, Francis is putting into practice the decentralization of the church that he called for in previous exhortations.
"U Comin," was the only exhortation.
