Sentences with phrase «rain gods by»

Rain Gods by James Lee Burke.

Rain Gods by James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster Audio) The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (Random House Audio) The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Penguin Audio) The Shawl and Rosa by Cynthia Ozick (HighBridge Audio) The Women by T.C. Boyle (Blackstone Audio)

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For the period from 1914 to the present, Blumhofer switches to the developmental model used by William Menzies in an earlier work, Anointed to Serve: The Story of the Assemblies of God (1971) She illustrates many of the points with fresh anecdotal material and brings into greater focus certain aspects of the history, such as the denomination's response to the New Order of the Latter Rain.

The words of Christ in Matthew make it plain that Christ knew that God loves His enemies, and even blesses them by sending them rain and sun even though they do not «deserve» His love and blessings.

By contrast, those peoples who identified their God with some creature within creation ¯ the serpent, the jaguar, the rain ¯ were afraid, lest by inquiry or experiment they might arouse His angeBy contrast, those peoples who identified their God with some creature within creation ¯ the serpent, the jaguar, the rain ¯ were afraid, lest by inquiry or experiment they might arouse His angeby inquiry or experiment they might arouse His anger.

I came a bit too close to God down by the equator, and I feel safer here, in my nice home with my stocked freezer, listening to the rain falling steady.

Elijah was raised up by God to plead for nation - humbling drought and then for merciful rain.

In previous generations God has left the gentiles without revelation, only intimating his power by his gift of rain and of the seasons which produce food and consequent gladness for men (Acts 14:15 - 17).

if God is offended by something, and God is the All Powerfullest of the All Powerful Sky Pixies, then God is perfectly capable of expressing God's Own Displeasure by causing a rain of aircraft carriers and rabid weasels to fall upon the offender.

It was raining and the roads were muddy; but this desire grew so strong that I kneeled down by the side of the road and told God all about it, intending then to get up and go on.

For the earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears herbs useful for those by whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God; but if it bears thorns and briers, it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

He will also get ready for battle by assembling his troops... which makes no damn sense because as soon as he gathered his troops, god rains down fire on him and cast him into the lake of fire and brimstone forever... so what's the purpose of releasing him for a thousand years and gathering up troops to fight a battle that will never happen??? Beats me!!

This about finding favor in the eyes of the Lord and Noah found that favor because by faith Noah trusted God a built a giant ark in a dessert that had not seen rain.

When I was a child (9 or 10) I believed I could stop the rain from falling on my head by praying to God and asking him to stop it.

«When asked by the younger Margrave why he wrote with such vehemence he said, «Our Lord God must precede a heavy shower with thunder and then let it rain in a very gentle fashion so that the ground becomes soaked through.

Then the rain started and his house started to flood and a man came by in a boat and offered to take him with him and the guy said «No, God will save me» and he stayed.

President Buhari, while thanking God for the good rains, the successful efforts of the Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh, an indigene of Benue State, whom he described as «a great asset in my government,» said his administration would continue to empower farmers with loans by the Central Bank of Nigeria.

Apparently not happy with the role played by the three Senators representing Kaduna State at the National Assembly (NASS) on the rejection of the $ 350 million world bank loan for Kaduna state, Governor Nasir el - Rufai on Friday rained causes on the senators and prayed God to punish them.

The kneeling woman is reminiscent of the later classic Mayan wind god, and the other woman seems to be shadowed by a rain cloud.

There, virgins are sacrificed in fire to bring rain, the Princess (Olivia Wilde) suspects Zed may be chosen by the gods, and the fat, flamboyant High Priest (an unrecognizable Oliver Platt) has lotion rubbed into his hairy chest by Oh.

Zhao uses what happened to Easter Island's Rapa Nui civilization that led to their extinction as an analogy for what may happen to us post Race to the Top, given both sets of people are / were driven by false hopes of the gods raining down on them prosperity, should they successfully compete for success and praise.

Within its dark recesses you will discover large clay jars, left long ago by the Maya people, in hopes that the gods of rain and fertility would find them suitable offerings.

It is believed the cenote was used by Mayans for ceremonial purposes, including human sacrifices to the Mayan rain god.

Lu - zo After visiting the caves of Lanquin, a site sacred to the Mayans they believed was inhabited by the Chacs, the gods of rain, nawal - ws of the four directions and the four colors of the Maya worldview: red, black, white and yellow.

The ATM Cave was used as a sacred place during the Classic period (AD 250 - 909) by the ancient Maya who believed that the Gods who provided rain and agricultural fertility resided in this cave.

A few days we ago, we reported a press release that Sony sent out confirming God of War III, MAG, Heavy Rain and Uncharted 2 were coming out by the end of this year, however, Sony looks to have made a mistake.

17,843 rectangular - cut crystals enhance the mystery and fear of God conveyed by this imposing work, conceived to seem like a face that appears out of gloomy, black rain.