Sentences with phrase «sabbaths make»

Imagine this: «Good Sabbaths make good societies.»

Taken this way, good Sabbaths make good Christians by regularly reminding us of God's creative, liberating and redeeming presence, not only in words but also through a practice we do together in response to that presence.

They reminded me that I was always quoting the Puritan phrase «Good sabbaths make good Christians.»

David, just googled Buddha's raft again, I'd forgotten the clue... It also makes me think of Jesus» saying: the sabbath made for man and not the other way around.

Not exact matches

Was that Sabbath included in the posted Decalogue in Alabama, or the modified, man made sabbath?

11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

God could have made the world instantly, but chose to make it in 6 days to set up the calender week and the sabbath rest pattern for the human race.

Yet, he does mention stuff like «make no graven images, keep the sabbath, etc..

When one discovers that NOT «remembering the sabbath» doesn't make them a bad person, yet it is treated with the same severity as killing people according to god, then why would a Christian have any reservations towards letting people suffer and die?

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

In fact, the «WORK» of God «in the all - exceeding greatness of his Power» is made manifest not only in the Resurrection of Christ from the dead, but also in the BURIAL of Jesus in the WORK of his faithful followers ON «THAT DAY BECAUSE IT WAS GREAT DAY SABBATH» OF THE PASSOVER OF YAHWEH.

I have learned, for example, that good sabbaths not only make good Christians; they make good pastors and good churches too.

These kids are going to be heartbroken when they find out all pro sports play on the sabbath and do nt make exceptions.

I'm guessing a Jewish team hasn't made the playoffs very often in that league, where the games have happened to fall on the sabbath.

That this was the point of Jesus» defense of the disciples is indicated by another statement (Mk 2:27): «The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath.»

They added a few not so common like keeping the sabbath, not worshiping idol's and don't covet, but do those really make a difference for most Christians lives?

Mark says simply: «The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath; so the Son of man is lord even of the sabbath» (Mark 2:27 - 28, RSV).

Matthew, perhaps aware of this difficulty, has omitted the word «already», making it possible for the words to mean, «while evening was coming», and both Luke and John have understandably omitted the whole of this time reference which reduced the available time to nil, and instead have ended their versions of the burial by saying that the sabbath was then about to begin.

The Egyptians in the neighborhood of Alexandria, and the inhabitants of Thebaïs, hold their religious assemblies on the sabbath, but do not participate of the mysteries in the manner usual among Christians in general: for after having eaten and satisfied themselves with food of all kinds, in the evening making their offerings they partake of the mysteries.»

One rarely Sabbaths; the other makes every day a Sabbath.

Most often, Sundays will make the best Sabbaths, and not only because our schedules are relatively open on that day.

If any charge were to be made against the mainline church, it might be our laxity about the laws: sabbath practice, tithing, prayer, worship, scripture study and fighting injustice.

The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath.

Jesus» message in the Gospels involved the political act of trying to transform a tradition — defying the law and picking corn to eat on the sabbath because «humans were not made for the sabbath.

Oh and later on... «the sabbath was made for man not man for the sabbath.»

Being respectful of the opinions of others - if not devout themselves - they waited until the sabbath was over before they made their visit.

By the end of my personalized sabbath I felt rested and energized without doing much more than making a personal pledge to skip e-mail, social media and my laptop.