During this time of year animal control receives hundreds of complaints from aggravated citizens complaining
about their neighbors who have cats and are letting them run all over the neighborhood, defecating in flower beds, walking on vehicles and urinating on porches.
Not exact matches
«A lot of times people will just talk
about what they're working on or turn to their
neighbor and ask them,» says Bacigalupo, (
who, by the way, was recently featured on the cover of Inc.).
What originally began as a show
about three California Institute of Technology physicists (and one engineer, Howard,
who has his master's from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and a quirky «actress»
neighbor, has progressed into a full cast surrounding a love of science and odd friendship.
For Kleinfeld, it started when a pair of people
who identified themselves as private investigators showed up at the door of his next - door
neighbor in New York's Westchester County
about a year ago, inquiring
about «loud parties» at his house.
Imagine you have a
neighbor who often complains
about his cat peeing on the floor inside the house.
If you have a friend, co-worker,
neighbor, parent, sibling or cousin
who is thinking
about Pure Barre, and is not sure if they can join in — share this blog with them!
So when you're scared of Muslim or Islam, just go upto your Muslim
neighbor, your Muslim coworker or just walk into a mosque and speak with Americans
who speak the same language, drinks the same coffee and watches the same Simpson and tell them «Hey, I'm scared of you / your religion, and I don't want to be, so tell me
about your religion and why I should NOT be scared of you just because you're a Muslim.»
i'm concerned with sin as well but i'm worried
about the log in my own eye before i start throwing around ugly steretypes and comparing my
neighbors to rapists and pedophiles (
who are also my
neighbors but that's beside the point).
The great thing
about Jesus» teachings is that all of the laws and commandments from the Bible, many of which you just posted, will be followed by someone
who loves God with all of their heart, all of their mind and all of their soul; and if they love their
neighbor as themselves.
Or... you can put asside your prophecies of doom & gloom, praying and hoping for God to smite all the yellow, black & brown people
who don't believe the way you do anyway, and attempt to make peace with your
neighbors, not by converting them at swordpoint, but accepting them and learning
about their cultures and traditions and give them as much respect as you want them to show you.
Carthage had to feed not only itself and the
neighboring villages — whose populations are calculated to have been
about three times the present population — but the Roman population as well, including a very large migration of people
who were then looking for new opportunities in Rome.
The stuff I've written on topics like getting to know
neighbors and being the church in the community doesn't seem to connect with church people,
who usually think church is
about sermons, a belief system, music, political causes to be for or against and so on.
In this way, as we live in the light, honest and real in all our strengths and failings, as weask our
neighbor about their kids or their dreams, we do so as people
who display animpossible and authentic hope.
Who frees us to live, outwardly, for the
neighbor, without having to worry
about pleasing Him.
The person
who loves his
neighbors and his enemies will often ask serious questions of himself, of the Church, and of God
about how to truly care for them.
For our purposes, the most satisfactory definition would be: Christianity is the total life of the community of men and women
who respond to what they know
about God — along with their
neighbors,
who are caught up into the social movement or process we call «the church» (however this may be understood)-- in terms of the socially remembered event of Jesus Christ.
Obviously that thing Jesus said
about loving God and
neighbor was added by some nutcase
who didn't have a firm grasp on reality.
The wrong Christians are those
who only care
about two issues Jesus NEVER mentions and ignore all his commands to love your
neighbor.
Her mother told her that she (the mother) would like to have
neighbors like that
who she could call if she got in trouble (She has concerns
about living alone).
Yup, Love you
neighbor as yourself, take care of the orphans and widows, visit the sick, and teachings
about some silly guy named Jesus
who went around rebuking the religious and healing the sick and demonized.
So - called «
Neighbors» (
who actually lived in a housing development built multiple blocks behind, and after, the original church) complaining
about things like the sound of the bells and the smell of fish from the Lent Friday meals.
Isolate: And YOU overlooked everything else Christ had to say
about who is one's
neighbor, and brother, etc etc..
Mark has a circumstantial story (copied by Matthew and Luke)
about the way the donkey was «found» Apparently it had been left «tethered at a door outside in the street» at the entrance to the village (presumably either Bethany or the
neighboring Bethphage), ready to be released to messengers
who gave the password, «Our Master needs it.»
And the president actually, in his heart believes in Christ's wish, «love thy
neighbor as thy self, THIS is the GREATEST commandment»
Who knows what Romney really cares
about.
Many young people in Latin America,
who were motivated by the Gospel to love their
neighbor and be concerned for justice and freedom in their society, have often become Marxists simply because their churches did not provide biblical instruction
about Christian discipleship, or because they [their churches] were blind to clear demands from the Bible and opportunities and challenges provided by new social situations.80
Consider the case of our
neighbor who knew almost nothing
about Christianity and
who had never attended a church service of any kind.
When we speak
about abortion today, we are speaking to women
who have had abortions; to men
who have asked women to have abortions; to young people
who have lost brothers and sisters to abortion; and to the mothers and fathers, friends and
neighbors of those women and men.
But old - line Protestants in the same congregation may not agree
about who is considered a
neighbor, or what it means to love your
neighbor.
But, we need a conversation
about how we will show love to our
neighbor who differs on the issue (that's a growing majority) and particularly
about how we might love our LGBT
neighbor.
After running, I talked to another
neighbor about some details for the upcoming block party that she is helping us organize, then greeted another
neighbor, a widow
who told me her phones had not worked for two days and she could not call anyone because she had also lost her cell phone.
I know many churchgoers
who never, EVER volunteer or practice the well - preached «take care of thy
neighbor» community - minded sermons given at their local churches (oh, the rich ones can write a check in
about 15 seconds, but do they donate?
I do understand the concept of the trinity, but let's be realistic...
who made that up??? There is a lot of ignorance in this world, but if you can read the ten commandments — and they are very simple and straightforward — and know what they mean and convey then 1) the concept of the trinity goes out the window and 2) this entire debate
about the building of the mosque goes oput the window as well because God instructed us «Love thy
neighbor».
It is
about our learning to be approached by our Victim,
who is forgiving us, moving toward us, nudging us out of our excitements and false identities into the quiet, gentle bliss of recognizing ourselves as loved and of loving our
neighbors as ourselves.
This is one of the reasons it is so important to get to know our
neighbors (as Sam Riviera has been pointing out — and
who previously wrote
about The Refuge).
If I had to choose between a Bible expert
who could recite large chunks of Scripture from the Greek and Hebrew yet
who did not show love toward his
neighbor, and someone
who barely knew anything
about Scripture but
who did show love to his
neighbor, I will choose the second person every day of the week.
I suppose that's true to a point... but what
about the Hutus
who died protecting their
neighbors or standing up to the killers?
For the symbolism of baptism to work properly, the symbolism has to be understood not only by those getting baptized, but also by those
who observer the baptism, including the surrounding non-Christian culture of friends,
neighbors, and coworkers
who hear
about it.
And as a committed African - American Pentecostal, I never thought I could become such dear friends with so many in the faith community - Christians and Muslims, Hindus and Jews, conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats -
who care first
about God, and second
about their
neighbors, and seek to live this care out into the world.
I would bet that the gay
neighbor in the 1999 film American Beauty,
who, it is implied, loves guns, collects Nazi trinkets, and turns to murder all because he represses his own urges, formed more people's views
about how to regard homosexuals than did the entire decade's research into psychosexuality by the whole scientific community.
I was an adult before I figured out
who Jesus really was and I wondered why I had never heard anything
about loving our
neighbors and living like Jesus had taught and had shown by example.
Even though I discovered that the weekly meetings were a prime place for schismatic people to sow their seeds of divisiveness, it was also the perfect place for people
who cared
about fellowship and community to exercise their love and network with their
neighbors in constructive ways.
For a few days after the event, border police in
neighboring countries — Holland, Belgium, France — were less strict
about repelling Jews
who dared the desperate nighttime dash over a frontier in the woods.
I like the story of the little old lady
who was praying, her atheistic
neighbor ask what she was praying
about, answering she told him that she was praying for an orange.
My
neighbor who is hurting or hungry cares not a whit
about the differences between Calvin's view of predestination vs. Arminius» view.
Martin Buber tells the story of an old Hasidic master
who asked a rabbi what puzzled him most
about his
neighbor.
And if we really want to show our love for our
neighbor, we can tell them
about the One
who gives of Himself completely, and perfectly, for their sakes.
I have to think
about myself and family first, then my
neighbors, and then God (again —
who is self sufficent).
Cookies make great holiday gifts, but how
about sending a few of your favorite holiday cookie recipes to your kid
who's away at college, your
neighbor who just moved, or your cousin
who lives in a different state?
I learned
about that one a couple years ago from a
neighbor who had a large patio garden.
On this occasion, Mamma was excited to tell me
about the new
neighbors, a young, entrepreneurial Italian couple
who imports two Italian specialties: handmade furniture and Parmigiano - Reggiano cheese.