Sentences with phrase «nerdfighters perform acts»

It's been close to half a century since Trump retained Cohn (and more than 30 years since the iconic fixer, who died in 1986, performed an act of legal brutality for Trump).

I can and do love and listen to the Buddhist, the Hindu, the Muslim, and the Mormon, but if I do not pray nor challenge them with truth in the long run then I am simply performing an act of contextualization — which is a far cry from the true seed planting of evangelism.

You also can't perform an act where you know cancer is the natural, end result, like you can in pregnancy.

American politicians know that they need something more than secular contract theory to persuade Americans to perform these acts of political loyalty.

Judas performed an act that was required in order for all of us to have our sins forgiven once and for all by Jesus.

When you perform an act of costly charity, it is God acting through you.

Instead, God decreed the act, and then selected the one who was to perform the act, but He did not «make him evil» in order that he should perform the deed.

On the other hand, I believe he also tought that performing an act which we believe to be sin will be counted as sin against us wether or not it is scriptural.

In doing so, he will be aware that should God answer his prayer, the answer will assume the form of a clear «cut, unilaterally performed act.

It would appear that the Church goes about being this mission in the world in two ways: first, by articulating through verbal signs the gospel message (kerygma) and, secondly, by performing acts of concerned, involved service (diakonia).

And when the Church performs her acts as Church it is Christ who acts.

The «meetings» in the new testament don't seem to be primarily about performing acts of worship as they are about helping one another live as Christians, obeying Jesus, Kingdom building, etc..

But all agreed that in time of distress, war, and destruction, the Church had to offer succor and redemption; so it performed its acts of mercy and love in ministering to the sick and dying.

It is not we who in any direct sense perform the act of the theft of the inheritance.

Yet the position of the feet is the only difference between committing a felony and performing an act that the states concede is constitutionally privileged... [T] here is no meaningful difference between the forbidden and the privileged practice.

Nor is it fair to claim that, because some churches perform acts of charity or goodness, their underlying supernatural beliefs are any less silly.

If, said Mr. Chicken, «for every criticism of the Pope you wished to make online, you were to pay for the privilege by first performing an act of real charity for someone in secret (for you can not be certain that the comment you planned on making is such), then we would have a holier Church and a lot more gentle comments.»

I tried to believe that I wasn't performing an act of self - denial or self - discipline, neither of which I'm very good at.

I can try to persuade you to choose this rather than that, but I can not perform your act of choice for you; nor can you perform my act of choice for me.

Leviticus suggests that everything we do can have a sacred quality if we pay attention to the details and perform each act properly.

God requires more than just faith; he also requires that we stop doing evil and perform acts of kindness.

Only man can perform this act of setting at a distance because only man has a «world» — an unbroken continuum which includes not only all that he and other men know and experience but all that is knowable now and in the future.

Yunus sura 10: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful And thou (Muhammad) art not occupied with any business and thou recitest not a Lecture from this (Scripture), and ye (mankind) perform no act, but We are Witness of you when ye are engaged therein.

Verses 23 - 27 are confusing, bu apparently the Old Testament references are designed to meet the objection that Jesus should have performed his acts of healing his own native village.

The aim of the parables is to persuade the listener to «the obligation to adopt an attitude, or perform an act, of fundamental importance.

Luke places the baptism of Jesus afterward, without saying who performed the act.

When I say, «I believe in Jones,» I am performing an act of believing.

I understand that they remit temporal punishment due to my forgiven sins, if I die without performing the acts of penance a priest has imposed.

Nerdfighters perform acts of «awesome» together, such as planting trees or raising funds for relief and development charities.

In the Christian view, however, man is, through his freedom, capable of determining as a whole and definitively; hence he does not only perform acts which may be morally qualified but are transitory and for which he is only legally or morally accountable.

If one would rightly serve the unseen God, one performs acts of piety in ways that avoid being seen.

Paul's theology concerning Judaism inhabited a world of «progressive revelation», from old to new, his heart bled for his people and he did not abrogate the ability to perform acts of Torah, he merely abrogated their sufficiency and ability in the light of the overruling fact of the cross.

He writes, «Every man, no matter how innocent he may be, owes God more than his life; and so, although these persons do not will it by any explicit act, yet they perform an act that is owed, since all men are obliged to give their blood and their life whenever God's honor demands it.»

And even more fundamentally, if we are bearers of inviolable dignity and a basic right to life in virtue of our humanity, and not in virtue of accidental qualities such as age, or size, or stage of development or condition of dependency --- if, in other words, we believe in the fundamental equality of human beings --- how can a right to abortion (where «abortion» means performing an act whose purpose is to cause fetal death) be defended at all?

In performing an act that is traditionally limited to God, as Job 9:8 indicates, Jesus by his use of «I AM» reveals the identity and destiny of the new humanity, that community of «life - giving spirits» that is willed by God to be transformed into the image and stature of the risen Lord.

to choose God, exercise faith, or generally perform any act that moves towards restoration to God.

As a pastor, I am invited from time to time to come to a person's home and hear stories about spirits, or demons, and to perform acts of cleansing or exorcism.

You need to be (a) contrite, (b) trying to follow the events at World Youth Day live and (c) performing these acts with «due devotion.»

A four year old child who describes performing an act of fellatio on her father did not acquire that knowledge from watching Sesame Street.

I do not agree that a part of a mind can perform an act which the whole mind does not perform, for the simple reason that I experience mind and its action as an indivisible, although complex, whole.

He even performs an act of a servant when he washes their feet.

I will neither prescribe nor administer a lethal dose of medicine to any patient even if asked nor counsel any such thing nor perform act or omission with direct intent deliberately to end a human life.

Unlike Oedipus, he does not perform his acts out of fate, but out of a destiny.

If I feel that I ought to do something, that means that my sense of obligation attaches to my idea of myself as performing that act.

One can perform the act denoted by the f - word with anyone (indeed, with any thing).

In asserting his faith, the beggar performs an act of subversion; he violates all the conventions and steps out of his assigned role.

The salience of a particular viewed action for the viewer is dependent to a large extent on the perceived consequences of performing the act.

Those that perform this act should be charged with a felony and put in jail.

The likelihood of a given person's behaving in conformance with a given «act» is a function of three factors: «salience,» the degree to which the particular behavior exists psychologically for the person; «repertoire,» the summed salience of all possible acts for the person in his present situation (any single act is a fraction of repertoire); «arousal,» which is the extent to which the person is activated to perform any act in his present situation.

The extent to which television is able to add new, salient alternatives to the person's repertoire is dependent on gaining the person's attention, achieving retention of the behavior, and the person's ability and motivation to perform the act.