tentmaker

The apostle Paul was a brilliant theologian and writer, but he made his living with his hands, too, as a tentmaker (Acts 18:3).

Quite the opposite - it is on the road to Damascus that a one-time tentmaker named Saul who cruelly persecuted Christians saw the light and went on to become Christianity's greatest missionary - the Apostle Paul.

1, "From Unschooled Tentmaker to Educated Rhetorician," 17-56; Kennedy 1999, 148-151.

The Montana Blend 8x10 from tentmaker Montana Canvas features an aluminum-tubed skeleton for maximum strength in high winds, a Grade-A, 10 ounce cotton duck treated roof, and fire-retardant canvas.

Now I have to go to Omar the Tentmaker. Isn't that a scream?"

(Ephesians 4:11) Leadership was also often itinerant and/or part-time or "tentmaker" in style.

McBeth, 20th Century Tentmaker: Autobiography (Chambersburg, Pa.: McBeth Corporation, 1986), 96.

The tentmaker would shelter all comers, new and old, under one big awning: "ya no sois extranjeros ni advenedizos, sino conciudadanos de los santos" (Efesios 2:19).

(32) Although Paul chose not to be paid for his spiritual duties and worked as a weaver (or tentmaker, Act.

This study was a follow-up to Donald Hamilton's groundbreaking research published in 1987 on tentmaker effectiveness.

The latter had performed a modern American repertoire in Australia a few years previously to some acclaim, and had just completed his first movie Omar the Tentmaker, so was considered by Williamsons as a star of sufficient international magnitude for an important lead role.

But he chose not to, and support himself by his trade as a tentmaker.