People call upon me for all sorts of health and wellness advice, and I'm always happy to give some.
But if it is a supplementary image to the clinical image, then it can be a potent reminder that the pastor goes into the highways, byways, new housing developments, and slums to find and assist with needs, and does not merely call when needs are already known or wait until
people call upon him.
Not exact matches
«We remember those who were
called upon to give all a
person can give, and we remember those who were prepared to make that sacrifice if it were demanded of them in the line of duty, though it never was.
This is because there hasn't been a so -
called «killer app» that keeps
people interested enough to spend hours
upon hours wired up to their headsets.
Most
people never stray beyond the
call / put options, but if you can spot opportunities that lie outside this scope, you will want to capitalize
upon them.
It has gone so far as to
call into question the criterion established in Familiaris consortio, which in number 84 says: «The Church reaffirms her practice, which is based
upon Sacred Scripture, of not admitting to Eucharistic Communion divorced
persons who have remarried.
All faithful
people, at some time in their lives, are
called upon to witness to one another, offer comfort and encouragement, and remind one another of God's promises.
Therefore, I
call upon You: I wish to devote my mouth and my heart to you; I shall teach the
people.
Give thanks unto the Lord,
call upon his name, make known his deeds among the
people.
I now believe it does a tremendous disservice to honorable
people who are faithful believers to place on them the additional burden of guilt, shame and magnified suffering that comes from the kind of doctrine that promotes (sells) prayer as a magic talisman which will somehow change God's mind, alter physical circumstance, and fix intractable problems — if only the one praying has enough faith or asks in the right way or lives a holy enough life or professes Jesus enough or waits patiently or never gives up or any of a hundred different gotchas that can be
called upon to justify the lack of an affirmative answer.
Again, the problem is that «Christ» has connotations that Jesus was divine, whereas the actual words used, «anointed one» simply refer to any human
called upon by God to aid the Jewish
people.
There still remain places and occasions when a designated
person of faith is
called upon to offer an invocation, a benediction, grace before a meal, a prayer of dedication for a new building or a blessing for a bike race.
Call upon representatives of the various religions, sects and denominations to confront all forms of religious bigotry, villification, and denegration of what
people hold sacred, as well as all speech that promote hatred and bigotry;
He was born under such and such circumstances; he came under the formative influences of the
people to which he belonged; and when
upon reaching maturity he felt an inner impulse and
call to this end, he began in his own way to teach others.
In the previous discussions of the Qur» an we have seen that it contains many specific passages
calling upon the
people to follow its teachings and be guided by its legislation.
Islam
calls upon all
people to accept its beliefs and code of laws regardless of race, sex, color, rank, or any other difference.
For Christians exile has been not only a condition forced
upon a small group of
people but a state into which everyone was
called by God for their human maturation — a place of formation, where attitudes and motivations were molded by a community without earthly roots.
In
calling upon the
people to guide their lives by these ethical principles, Islam insists, in the main, that they should be moderate in all things, sparing themselves misery and not lowering their status in life.
This quest
calls for a total encounter with the
person of Jesus, and
calls upon the seeker himself to make a radical decision.
(Jeremiah 15:20) It is not strange, therefore, that when temple and altar were destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, and the exiles in Babylon, bereft of their sacrificial system, were in confusion, Jeremiah's faith was expressed in a message to them concerning personal prayer — anywhere, in any land, sacrifices or no sacrifices, the God of Israel was saying to his
people, «Ye shall
call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
People in the congregation who have had similar experiences may be called upon to help people through the process of making a difficult decision or surviving a c
People in the congregation who have had similar experiences may be
called upon to help
people through the process of making a difficult decision or surviving a c
people through the process of making a difficult decision or surviving a crisis.
Moreover, the blood of Jesus
called down
upon the Jewish
people in Matthew 27:25 is not the blood of Abel which cries out for vengeance and punishment, but rather the Blood of the New Covenant which heals and brings reconciliation.
The church also convened an international conference in Crete, but as Patriarch Bartholomew says, «our efforts will be meaningless if they remain fragmented».19 The demands of the world
call upon Christians not only to act ecumenically but together with all
people of faith and good will.
I've met a lot of
people who are living out their vocation based
upon a
call to a particular mission.
On their replying that Allah and His Messenger knew best, he said, «These are the clouds (anan), these are the water - carriers of the Earth, which Allah drives to
people who do not thank Him or
call upon him.»
Later, as I reflected
upon the incident, I pondered whether it might be possible to have a more satisfactory confrontation with these good
people who feel
called to push doorbells.
The prevalence of anti-gay messages encourages bullying and hate crimes, and there are literally confused, hurt, frightened young
people who actually kill themselves over issues like this — and yet
people still insist
upon calling homosexuality a sin.
I guess you can still
call upon people's fear of death, and what lies beyond that to give God some «teeth», but even this is losing it's edge.
Archbishop of Canterbury Rt Rev Justin Welby has
called upon people to pray for
people around the globe who have been forced to leave their homes.
The surge of patriotism has sometimes spilled over into jingoism, which is not surprising in view of the brutality of the assault
upon the security of what now, quite suddenly,
people are
calling our «homeland.»
Warning that millions of
people already in debt are being left with «nothing to fall back on», Dr John Sentamu
called upon minister to reduce the time period.
Today as i was thinking about Jesus sending the demons into the pigs and i thought God is not punishing but judging and he made a decision.This idea came from your other discussion which i believe is what he does he decides to make a judgement
call he is sovereign and it shows his tender heart and mercy that not a single
person was afflicted.The pigs unlike men have no soul so have no eternal consequence
upon them they live and they die.either way they were going to get killed.We can be assured that Gods judgements are right and just the pork was going to the gentile nations who worshipped other Gods and no doubt would have been offered to idols so there is a consequence when we disobey the Laws of God even even when we do nt know or understand his laws.brentnz
He
calls upon us to try to expand our sense of «us» as far as we can, to seek to understand marginalized»
people, to see traditional differences as unimportant when compared with similarities with respect to pain and humiliation, to create a more expansive sense of who «we» are.
The original message of Jesus, as was the case with all other Prophets, such as Abraham, Moses and Muhammad (peace be
upon all of them), was to
call the
people to worship the ONE TRUE GOD ONLY.
There are limits to human potential, and
persons are
called upon to acknowledge their creaturely status.
It is rather the risk of abuse to which canonical texts are subject that
calls upon the teacher to be more restrained than the poets and prophets in the interpretations which he or she allows
people to commend to one another.
The fact that
people are tempted to abuse Scripture by
calling upon it to support whatever they believe is one of the reasons it is inappropriate most of the time to think that the primary theological debate is about whether the biblical text is authoritative or not.
This unique emphasis
upon what in Anglo - Saxon cultures we
call «the communitarian individual» (the individual who is not atomic and alone, but a member of many different, smaller communities) provides two different forms of protection from the State, one for the individual
person and the other for what Edmund Burke
called «the little platoons» of daily life.
YOU, on the other hand, are a self - admitted slave to a bunch of rules that
call for the death of other
people based
upon imaginary criteria subject to your own level of schizophrenia.
Soon, an acquaintance observed a while ago, the New Yorker would have cartoons (the magazine insists
upon calling them «drawings») with naked
people in bed.
But as more and more of us find ourselves
called upon to provide such prosthetic support to afflicted parents, relatives, or friends, we may find it a challenge to remember that such patients are never less than
persons.
The accounts of the «
calling» of disciples are bald, and less informative than we might wish, but it stands firm that Jesus
called upon certain
persons to cut loose from home, family and livelihood and commit themselves to an insecure and precarious existence — and all for the sake of a cause which they only dimly understood — and that they responded.
As Christ reforms
people, they are
called upon to work with everyone else to create or reform the societal instruments that meet our basic needs — first among these is government.
When the political infringes
upon God's character and
calling, it's important to speak loudly and clearly — even if it upsets the
people in the pews.
«Together with the Synod, I earnestly
call upon pastors and the whole community of the faithful to help the divorced, and with solicitous care to make sure that they do not consider themselves as separated from the Church, for as baptized
persons they can, and indeed must, share in her life.
The culture
calls upon its religious institutions to bless the status quo and
upon religion's educational institutions to nurture
persons into acceptance of it.
The prince of this world has power to bring storms, so i think everyone is wrong, it's not God who bring any storm that brings suffering
upon a
people but it is the so
called god, an evil god, the prince of this world that brings suffering
upon a
people, if anything it's this evil so
called god that would bring such a storm
upon a
people of UNITY = RNC
The language of Christianity is seen at Zephaniah 3:9, which says that in our time period,
called the «last days» or Jesus (invisible) «presence» (Matt 24:3, 27, 37, 39), that «then I shall give to
peoples the change to a pure language, in order for them all to
call upon the name of Jehovah, in order to serve him shoulder to shoulder.»»
When the pastor writes a sermon, an empathetic imagination sees again those concrete experiences with his
people which
called upon all his resources, drove him to the Bible and back again, and even now hang as vivid pictures in his mind.
A number of Lancashire MPs have expressed concern over the visit, while more than 7,000
people have signed a petition
calling upon the Government to refuse him entry to the UK.