Sentences with phrase «jesus by the shoulders»

Hell, after the should - have - been strike out / throw out double play yesterday, Fran turned and practically grabbed de Jesus by the shoulders to presumably express disdain for the call.

Not exact matches

If those opinion turn out to be support for those who are downtrodden and oppressed by the religious (the Jesus - like part), then you (a Christian) should be the last to object and take it personally.

They are ones we should be aggressively pursuing with Christ in our hearts, so that the love and grace of Jesus being real and here on earth right now, can not be ignored by the people who may be on the fence with who Jesus is and IF he is, and especially not by the unbelievers who happen to walk through the doors.

So, by your reasoning, if «People put so much importance on words» (implying that they don't matter and we shouldn't take thought of how we use them) then I ought to be able to sing along with the lyrics from pac's «hit»em up» with my black friends, curse in a kindergarten class as well as a corporate meeting for my boss... what impression would a client have of my boss if I were cussing in a professional meeting or at a charity event... it doesn't add up, it's a cop - out rebuttal... trying to find loopholes or applying «human reasoning» like» ll take a swearing guy who's helpful» doesn't change Jesus or scripture it's just setting up a what - if scenario and trying to allow that to in some way justify your stance when again, that doesn't change The Holy Spirit or His heart in those who have been born again... the verses (inspired by His own Spirit) speak for themselves.

This is a sacrament and should be observed with the highest regard to its ultimate purpose as taught by Jesus himself.

As for the argument that we should look to our churches... the BILLIONS spent by organized religion to build exorbitant places of worship (Jesus preached in open fields and I'm confident that God hears MY prayers in the privacy of my home) and the building of health clinics in third world countries would help a lot — but they are not inclined to help those in need HERE!

These beliefs are apparently the ones set forth by Messrs. Johnson, Hoge, and Luidens in «Mainline Churches: The Real Reason for Decline» (FT, March 1993): (1) That Christianity is the only religion with a valid claim to truth, (2) that persons can be saved only through Jesus Christ and otherwise go to hell, and (3) that therefore one should try to convert others to the Christian faith.

I guess Jesus should have been bent out of shape for not getting subsidized by the Emperor Augustus.

That should speak volumes to its If you take one moment and give consideration to this one thought — If Jesus Christ is not real, why are people offended by His name?

«It would have been perfectly proper,» Wood begins by insisting, «if Mailer had knocked Jesus off his throne, as a serious writer should try to do.

You should do a study on what Jesus meant by lust.

The point of this is that Jesus in his quality as human being had no control on his birth at all, where and by whom he should get born.

Blessed are the Cheesemakers You should more impressed by the fact you just expressed Jesus to be of form and substance more like God than scientifically provable organic matter that existed and is falsifiable.

Acts 4:27 - 28 further reveals that the actions of Herod, Pontius Pilate, the Gentiles, and the people of Israel had been determined and decreed by God Himself to occur as they «gathered together against» Jesus and did «what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen.»

Claiming Romney and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints are non-Christians is an insult and it should not be encouraged by other Christian clergy as is so often is.

But the kind of abject poverty that over one billion people endure — those living on $ 1 per day — wouldn't be tolerated by Jesus and should not exist today.

We are told many hard things by Jesus most involving kindness and how we should treat one - another.

It was predicted that Jesus should be born by a virgin.

They discredit what Jesus said in Mark 16:16 ``... and is baptized will be saved,» by saying that because some of the earliest manuscripts did not have Mark 16:9 - 20, therefore Mark 16:16 should not be included in the Bible.

For how old Hinduism is... shouldn't it be growing instead of dwindling if it were the one guided and guarded by Jesus Christ?

Jesus also promoted the idea that all men should castrate themselves to go to heaven: «For there are eunuchs, that were so born from their mother's womb: and there are eunuchs, that were made eunuchs by men: and there are eunuchs, that made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake.

Simply put, the beliefs and understandings that directly affect our salvation are the essentials (Jesus, His divinity, His death and Resurrection for the forgiveness of our sins, our ability to be in relationship with God through His Son and Spirit and how our life should be lived as taught by the Bible etc.).

Don't get me wrong, you can't be a full believer in the bible (since it is written by people who lived hundreds of years after Jesus died, and edited throughout the Middle Ages by terrible people), but that should not prohibit you from believing in Jesus or God.

We should do whatever we can to alleviate the sufferings of others, but Jesus also invites us to «take up our cross» each day and follow him by making our lives a sacrifice of love to God's glory and in the service of others.For more information see our video on Suffering.

We should do whatever we can to alleviate the sufferings of others, but Jesus also invites us to «take up our cross» each day and follow him by making our lives a sacrifice of love to God's glory and in the service of others.

Is there something in our communication in church, society and culture, which we should have clocked by now — something about how Jesus structured his communication to trigger his listeners» brains?

Jesus is the re-enactment of the «root out of dry ground» of Isaiah 53 who has «no form or comeliness that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him» — who is «despised and rejected by men.»

What we read in the Old Testament should not be interpreted as God's approval of such crimes against the human person, but rather we should see how far humanity had to mature, be healed and be guided by God in these times before Jesus Christ's revealing and redeeming work for us.

This was simply the culmination of the way Jesus lived: he never dressed as we think a king should, or did things properly by our standards.

The reader should not, then, be disturbed by Jesus» response to the urgent message about Lazarus's illness (11:3 - 6): Jesus stayed two days longer where he was.

That Luke did so by replacing this cry with a statement of exemplary piety should not tempt us away from the paradox of the Markan and Matthean reports, which invite us to affirm that God was present although not even Jesus could see that this was so.

So we argue and condemn people over the issue of infant baptism vs. adult baptism, baptism by sprinkling vs. baptism by immersion, and whether a person should be baptized in the name of Jesus vs. in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Very impressed that you will speak out against adultery by remarriage, or adulterous behavior, even more than you speak out against homosexual marriage and / or homosexual behavior... after all, the direct words of Jesus should carry far more impact than just the words of Paul or Moses, right?

Pictures of the terror by which rulers in the ancient world sought to maintain their authority ought not to be applied to God's exercise of his rule and should not, in my opinion, be used to suggest that Jesus taught that the wicked would burn for ever in hell.

From prison he sends to Jesus to ask him if he really is the promised one sent by God or if he and the people should wait in expectation of another.

And when I live by faith — I choose to follow Jesus from my heart — not just live by rules of my mind or what should be done.

In an attempt to follow Jesus» instructions, many parents and churches teach (usually by example) that every prayer should conclude with the words ``... in Jesus» name, Amen.»

Lord Jesus, I am willing to be possessed by you, to be bound to your body and led by its inexpressible power towards those solitary heights which by myself I should never dare to climb.

The present volume is really a collection of studies, and it might easily have grown to twice its size if other topics had been included: for example the miracle stories — I should have liked to examine Alan Richardson's new book on The Miracle - Stories of the Gospels (1942)-- or a fuller study of the so - called messianic consciousness of Jesus, the theory of interim ethics, the relation of eschatology and ethics in Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's book on the subject, Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book, Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Prince Booth.

If people want to do something evil, they should just do it, rather than claiming Jesus told them to, or by trying to make it seem not so bad because they are doing it for Jesus.

As noted by others here, Jesus does not explicitly teach about beastiality, rape or incest, yet should we conclude that «the jury is out» on these behaviors?

With all their laudable effort to understand the integrity of the Scriptures, both Old and New, and to insist on the basic unity of the Bible; with all their recognition of the place of Jesus within the setting of Jewish piety and religious thought, these scholars sometimes fail to see that the very truth about God which the Bible as a whole affirms, and above all that which the New Testament says about Jesus himself, can be smothered by sheer biblicism and thereby made meaningless for those to whom the gospel should be a living, vitalizing, and contemporary message.

Stupid things such as, «Jesus wants me to be rich», «the Earth is 6000 years old and every human is descended from Adam and Eve», and «my ignorant beliefs should be imposed on everyone by the government, as long as I don't have to pay for it.»

Someone who has been changed by the indescribable measure of Jesus» grace should have different goals than someone who hasn't.

It should be mandatory that every person who knows they are dying truly gets to understand what Jesus teaches and weren't conned (or, don't care) by some false preacher / teacher discussing man made lies..

while the writer has little knowledge of the bible, he is also greatly lacking what he should know to write such a article, the laws give to people of all walks of life is the commandments given by moses, religion does not have anything to do with goverments laws or rulings, he told us straight the one law that there is no forgiveness for is murder, rulers and goverments take it upon themselves to make the decision whether to go to war, or if a person should be put to death, as far as jesus and the apostles are concerned thier labours was a work of love and true humanitarian towards all peoples, races, religions, they never asked for anything for themselves, and they never took from one to give to another.

Despite John's protests that John should be baptized by Jesus, not the other way around, he submitted to Jesus» request.

In the words of Swiss liturgical theologian J. J. von Allmen, «Christian prayers must not express any statement or wish, but should be controlled by what we know of God's will revealed in Jesus Christ.»

This is not what Jesus preach to everyone and is definately not the lifestyle that we should live by.

They may or may not receive the glory that belongs to God alone by not doing these things openly in the name of Jesus who is the author of the good works He ordained that we should walk in.