Sentences with phrase «god made him the leader»

Moses wondered why God made him the leader over Israel.

As God makes us the leaders that we are, we can't be prepared to lead others if we do not serve as a proper example.

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They make people think that only the Religious leaders know what is and this is the misleading as ordinary people can know what God Is.

For now there are many religious sects / denominations due to man - made doctrines and people who believe but are too lazy to read the word and seek God for themselves so they hook themselves to a sect / denomination and are taught the leaders belief system instead of the pure word.

The leaders claim to speak for «God» when all they do is rehash archaic MAN MADE dogma attributed to a «God» who more closely resembles man's feeble mind and violent nature rather than the other way around.

In extracting «insights from sources as varied as Greek mythology, Catholic mysticism and fairy tales like Cinderella», Mr Rohr has followed in the steps of the religious leaders of Jesus day, who «made the word of God invalid because of your tradition».

«Kings who make speeches about submission only betray twin fears in their hearts: They are not certain they are really true leaders, sent of God.

Though there were dozens of royal rulers and religious leaders within a few miles of Bethlehem, God chose to make the angelic proclamation to people without power, riches, and authority — to poor shepherds in the cold, dark, night.

Naturally, all us have to make a living and do something on the side to pay the rent and the leaders of the church are no different and usually come from the ranks of successful and talented business people who have a lot to contribute to the Kingdom of God.

The stories of the synagogue leader, the healed woman and the ancient patriarch teach us about daring to hold God accountable for promises God has made to care for God's people.

The church will need its leaders to make good decisions that are in the best interest of the entire church as it pursues its God - given vision.

This new «leader» turns them back to their own ways and makes a mockery out of the cross, which was all done so we may believe in Him so we may enter God's kingdom.

My desire is to please God and doing so means that I am to pray for our leaders and our country that makes the laws we are to abide by.

This video package, with its graphics and catholic music and some leader that says he is the authority is pitching miss representation of the word of God as gospel and making the American public like it.

How effective of a leader would you be if your followers believed you had no knowledge of the environment, thus «god» is used to make your followers believe you are smarter than you really are.

One that always makes me upset is when some pastor or leader is praying to God, and all of a sudden they start talking to Satan.

No, you're not» = > my direct answer was: «My desire is to please God and doing so means that I am to pray for our leaders and our country that makes the laws WE ARE TO ABIDE BY.

Thankfully, some Christian leaders are recognizing the level of hate against Muslims has to stop — for the love of God and people made in His image.

As well as urging church leaders to take action, he also asked that Christians pray for God to intervene in the conflict and give the world's leaders wisdom to make the right decisions that will lead to peace.

The leaders within organized religions have made people believe in images of angry gods demanding all sorts of sacrifices «as no one can live up to what that image wants of us».

The devil has blinded the leaders of the churches of today when they serve carved images of the flag of any nation... In Exodus and Deuteronomy God said, not to serve or bow down to any carved image in the likeness of heaven above or in the likeness of the earth below... When you pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are pledging your allegiance to the carved images of the flag... The founding fathers made carved images in the likeness of heaven above and in the likeness of the earth below and set the carved images on a flag and the flag is high and lifted up on a flag pole... Some nations are serving the stars, the moon, and the sun, and others are serving the eagle, the bear, and the tree... The U.S. is serving the stars of heaven and the eagle of the earth... Canada is serving the leaf of a tree... Mexico is serving the eagle and the serpent... When you put your right hand to your heart or to your forehead, and pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are committing fornication with the carved images of the flag, God calls this IDOLATRY... The mark of the beast in the right hand or forehead is spiritual and identical to when you put your right hand over your heart or over your forehead... There is no way to go around God and the carved images of the flag, unless the devil has blinded the minds of the believer, like when he deceived eve and Adam in the garden of Eden.

Then there are the fatal questions... the questions that challenge authority itself, like where does the money go, can i still be an elder even though I question the existence of God, why do you assume authority over me, why do you do things the way you do because it doesn't make sense to me, can you explain why I should submit to you, why do we need a leader... can't we do this together.

Like all highly organized systems, ecclesiocracies are more concerned about whether their leaders are operating within a programmed, «professional» context than about whether their leaders» God - given gifts are allowed to flourish and make their special contributions to the body of Christ.

They made him into a god just like communist leaders are wont to do because they want to be the ultimate authority.

is god that stupid then to get nailed twice... the master of the universe, the head cheese, the mythical leader of billions of folks who have only read something about him.her / it and he can not make himself known.

An impartial reading of the Gospels, apart from the conditioning of an excessively juridical and rationalistic theological tradition, makes it unmistakeably clear that it was not God who demanded the death of Jesus; but the Jewish religious leaders and the imperial Roman government whose hierarchial power was threatened by the Gospel Message Jesus was preaching.

Yes, this was evidence that God also was upset about what this man named Jesus was teaching, and had seen fit to make Him a public spectacle in the sight of all so that nobody would ever again seek to challenge the teachings of the religious leaders or the traditions of the Jewish people.

Neville i mentioned those people only because the discussion was talking about dominionism the combination of the church and state as a governing rule all those people were government leaders all of them suffered in there own way.Its was the suffering that prepared them for the roles that they were to play and there faith in God was what helped them get through.We are made stronger in our weakness no matter how important or unimportant we may appear to others.I guess it is easy to fall into the lie about political involvement that its hard to make change but some people have had a huge impact.Really it is God who deserves the praise he is the one that creats the opportunitys to make impact on the world as in our strength we can do nothing.In hebrews the great men and woman of faith there are those that seemed unimportant to the world and many suffered for there faith Our Lord knows everyone by name and every small act of faith we do he remembers because we do it out of our love for him that is what the christian walk is about living for Jesus and sharing that love with others.brentnz.

As church leaders, while it is often a good idea to make plans, I think we sometimes get derailed from God's vision for our lives by naysayers and setbacks.

I have a dream that multitudes of God's people will no longer tolerate those man - made systems that have put them in religious bondage and under a pile of guilt, duty, condemnation, making them slaves to authoritarian systems and leaders.

I believe that while God wants the church to lead the world in bringing out cultural change and redemption, the church is too often resistant to change, and so God turns to culture to be the primary leader of the change He wants to see, that's why some churches at City Central are always looking for a change, and to improve and make people improve.

This suggests that the pastor's role as spiritual leader is to make an intentional effort to help the people live in faithful response to God.

In such times Protestant church leaders double their efforts to encourage parents to play their «God - given» roles in making sure that their children will be Christians.

As far as I can see, most of their critics were religious leaders who really didn't want anything ruled as being unlikely, simply because it would make their work of holding the NT up as God's inspired Word more difficult.

The «atheistic» regimes to which you refer aped the forms and rhetoric of religion and their leaders made themselves gods in their own cults of personality.

``... When Christians are told that God is love, but that «love» looks and feels like the opposite of what we know love to be (it's angry, it's emotionally unstable, it's violent), it's not a far journey to make for some leaders in churches to ALSO claim that their angry, unstable, and violent actions are «loving».

Now mind you, I do think woman have to sometimes take up that mantle (example, when the men of Israel wouldn't go to war, Deborah was made their spiritual leader and got her instructions from God.)

It took the destruction of the people of Korah by Almighty God to make Israel understand that it was God who had appointed Moses to lead them and that self - made leaders such as Korah would not work in the way of delivering Israel another country.

listening to the leaders making speeches during the second world war all mentioned they have god on their side.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

The fact that this leader gets «revelations from god» which can change church beliefs at any moment does make the nature of a mormon candidate's faith a concern.

Following Exodus 31, in which God makes the Sabbath the sign of an irrevocable covenant with the people of Israel, Jewish leaders have emphasized its special place in Jewish life and heard in its rhythm the structure that has kept Jewish identity alive amid terrible adversity.

You've had only made God to look like a mob leader and an extorionist but you didn't only fail prove His non-existence but otherwise confirmed it.

They have made it hard for us to hear God: He doesn't always call us to be the kind of saints our parents and our church leaders wish we were.

But now that there is a substantial chance that a Mormon will be US President, with the power to allocate billions of dollars in «Faith Based Initiative» money, we find that God has sudenly revealed to many conservative Evangelical leaders that they have been wrong all along and they need to make nice with Mormons.

Youth leaders are saying, Let's step back a little, and make use of what God has given us to help pass along the faith.

Tom DeLay, the Republican majority leader of the House of Representatives, confided to a Texas Baptist audience that God had made Bush president «to promote a biblical world - view.»

For its only love and grace that truly sets us free from the power of the law and the orphaned heart of leaders who don't understand that it isn't their gifts, title, or works that make them acceptable to God, but the sacrificial love of Jesus.

No. 6: In this story from the Book of Judges, an Israelite leader, Jephthah, makes a rash vow to God, which has to be carried out: «And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord, and said, «If you will give the Ammonites into my hand, then whoever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return victorious from the Ammonites, shall be the Lord's, to be offered up by me as a burnt - offering.»

It is unfortunate that a country of this stature, who rules the world, from the skies like a god, and lacks comprehensive leadership to deal with these pressing issues... where are the Presidents akin to our late leaders that took the initiative and got things done, America has become a cold, hostile place to live, We lack the sense of unity that made us what we are... There are hundreds of thousand unemployed, Why can't the government promote an agency akin to the peace corps, that utilizes the young folks sitting on their a $ $ and make them earn their unemployment check by working in this storm zone, to rehabilitate and get these folks back on their feet... it would promote a culture of selflessness and charity and would without a question cause a paradigm shift in the minds of our youth, This is what makes a nation great!