Sentences with phrase «god was with the people»

The story of Esther concludes in Esther 9 - 10 with a series of events which show that God is with His people, even when His presence is not actively recognized or seen.

God was with the people who passedfrom this life.

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«God not only uses our trails to better equip us to help others, he also brings us the right people at the right time with the right resources so that our impact in the world will be greater.»

Since 1970, Samaritan's Purse has helped meet the needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease and famine, with the purpose of sharing God's love through His Son, Jesus Christ.

«When people have our cookies, we don't want them obsessed with, «Oh my God, this cookie is better for the world»,» Tetrick says.

[14:18] Rules of the game to succeed, but not for fulfillment [14:40] God loves diversity; same is true with people — different sources of fulfillment [14:55] Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure [16:53] We all have something different as our inner desire, you need to find what fulfills you [17:05] A cautionary tale: Robin Williams, the loss of a national treasure [18:42] He lit everybody up, except himself [19:15] Most of us live a life where we succeed but we're not truly fulfilled [20:10] Richard: Tony, what is your method for happiness?

Those put into question your belief in the characteristics of the god, perhaps even the existence of the god itself, but it is still more comforting to assume something more powerful than yourself has your best interests in mind vs. the idea that we are left to our own devices — especially when you are surrounded by people that agree with and reinforce that idea and shun you when you do not agree with it.

«Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.»

I pray that the songs I write would bring people not only into an intellectual understanding, but a true heart connect with the God who is bending over the balcony of heaven to listen to them sing words that move Him and impact Him.

ER, think for a minute, with God making an entire universe billions of years ago, he's not going to fall over dead after making people.

But you are in love with your belief in God, and when a man loves even an imaginary person, like the Percy Sledge song says, he

I'm about to go preach the Gospel to indigenous people in Mexico, I love Jesus with all my heart and believe that He died for my sins as the Son of God... you think I'm going to hell?!? To which she replied «yes».

Hitler was a devout Catholic, friends with the pope and with a propensity for citing God's special love for the German people.

Please, are the gods so stupid that just because an alive person claims a dead one is now a different religion said god would have to throw them out of their old religion heaven and send them to the other heaven??? Really, some of you are more obsessed with dead people than the ones living.

As for the way we hear God other than reading the bible, it is in our mind with a clarity not matched by any human person on earth.

I have met God and know him and so have numerous people other people I have talked to so my rational thought is telling me to go with what I know is true.

Articles like this are a dime a dozen with the same tired excuses for why people want church to be about them instead of about God and Jesus and God's Word.

Mr. Hawking wins easy battles against uneducated (in science) religious persons, but taking his statement on perspective, He is based on assumptions with serious underlying problems, basically everything from mathematics, to the incompatibility of quantum mechanics and relativity, and the lack of proof and evidence for string theories, he is launching a very aggressive statement, probably his last effort on life to counter the anthropomorphic ideas of God, and this is very common in all scientists.

This is just as true for people with a conservative theology of gender as for egalitarians: we should all be able to agree that, as humans created in God's image, the oppression of women is unacceptable.

Certainly the New Testament talks about the priorities of that churchâ $» Jesus as its sole head and focus, daily encouragement among believers, plural and lateral leadership, open participation, and an environment of freedom so people can grow in him.â $ â $ œLike what I have with Jake?â $ â $ œAnd there will be others God will give you as you simply follow him, â $ John added.

There is no god and there is no «objective morality» there is only morality which many people might agree with.

To do that that with false motives is an affront to God and in certain cases condems the person.

God always dealt with people where they were in life not where they would have or could have been.

Friendship, and that includes friendship with God, comes from a deeper level in the human person, deeper than feelings, deeper than logic, from the very essence of what it means to be a person.

Making space for stillness in church — creating a place for people to truly engage with God in the silence — is not natural for us.

There is ample evidence for the existence of God, what you decide to do with this evidence is ultimately up to you, but do not claim that there is none... and I would submit to you that many people believe many things without evidence every single day... but do not lump all people of faith into one basket... I have personal proof that God exists, but proof for me may not be proof for you, some people can see something with their own eyes and still deny it, that is why I said it is ultimately up to you to decide what you believe... there is much evidence both for and against the existence of God, you need to decide which evidence you choose to believe...

But besides that, Pastor Feinstein kindly supplies us with another disqualification: the Christian God is dogmatically asserted to be a person.

We know people with both male and female s.e.x organs are born into this world, so according to your dogma god made them that way.

As a Christian it is my belief that in order to show Christ risen we must embrace everyone and in order to do that we must be able to reach people where they are, and to not have a crisis of Faith in your walk with God is a lie.

I still don't think that I could ever be happy with my «saved» soul in heaven while my family (who may have been good people, just didn't believe Jesus was God) rotted in hell to be tortured forever.

Of those, God told one to steal a car and go to Minnesota to receive divine blessings (stopped by police on the way); another was «told» to spend all her money on a plane ticket as there was a grant waiting for her in another state to go to college with (there wasn't, and she had to call relatives to rescue her); another was told to cut himself; another was told to harm people (but only avoided doing this because he called police and was put inpatient).

So if you believe there is a creator, then you have to think with all these people claiming there God is the true God which one is right?

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.

All of those other debates were with people that believe the God of Abraham created this universe and life on it.

This is one of the problems that often hinders dialogue with radical atheists (not sure you are one, but you did answer a question I posed to people who believe God is a fantasy)-- rather than offer a defense they will attack in such a way as to obfuscate the purpose of the original discussion.

It is telling that people who feel competent to assert, with no doubt, that there is no God can not get simple historical facts straight.

I'm also a little frightened of someone who thinks there's a god out there purposefully creating people with genetic diseases and birth defects.

People's choices are either in alignment with God's will or they are not.

2) The notion of the U.S. as a «Christian Country» is revisionist history that started during the Cold War (when, for example, «under God» was inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance, where for sixty years prior it had been absent) and continues today with people like Rick Santorum «wanting to vomit» at the notion of a secular nation.

Many people over the years have had opinions about things that later on recanted when faced with contrary viewpoints, perhaps you have just not realized that if there is a God and He commisioned the Bible then whatever He said could not possibly be either ignorant or prejudiced since He would be the ultimate authority...

I think you could do your «almighty God» a favour by keeping your legs closed before you're married, giving to the poor, involving yourself with defending other people's rights or even giving to your own struggling Christian organisations.

One would like to see him apply his exceptional abilities towards clarifying what St. Augustine did not succeed in clarifying: the paradox of a creaturely person, that is, a being who though existing through God is nevertheless established in himself to the point of being able to dispose over himself» a being who is not only a creature of God but also a partner of God, existing in a dialogical relation with him.

I will no longer discuss with them or listen to them tell me how homosexuality is «an abomination to God,» about how homosexuality is a «chosen lifestyle,» or about how through prayer and «spiritual counseling» homosexual persons can be «cured.»

I find that the majority of posters here seem to be, from what I have read, seem to be nice people, but I still never read of any regrets in your dealings with the people you know, but always regrets in your dealings with God.

missing the point wrote: people are fighting if God is really or not but your missing the point it does not matter if God is real or not...... What someone believes does not matter is it what they do with that believe is what is really important ************** This brings me to one of my top reasons why I won't believe in gGod is really or not but your missing the point it does not matter if God is real or not...... What someone believes does not matter is it what they do with that believe is what is really important ************** This brings me to one of my top reasons why I won't believe in gGod is real or not...... What someone believes does not matter is it what they do with that believe is what is really important ************** This brings me to one of my top reasons why I won't believe in godgod.

Have you seen the faces and IQ's of the most relgious people... look att the Deep South, Look at the brainwashed kids in the Madrassaas with an IQ approaching 90 at best, God is there to control you from going agianst the system of those ho control the fiancial markets... every king need the bishops to reaign in the masses.

And just what is the root of most of the violence and chaos today... RELIGION... backward thinking people with bronze age gods and symbols.

This is a theological discourse which, though spoken in the third person, entirely coheres with the confessing praise of God.

It's only in the last century that people have tried to make the Bible fit their beliefs rather then align their life with what the bible says, and look at the results, the world is in turmoil and on a downward spiral out of control and this article is a good example of trying to make God's word an excuse to do every wrong thing there is real good reporting.