Sentences with phrase «accept the invitation of»

In 1971 he accepted the invitation of R. Yehuda Amital, who had recently founded Yeshivat Har Etzion in the Gush Etzion region, to join him as a co-Rosh Yeshiva.

If you're feeling exhausted and overwhelmed, needing a bit of purposeful peace this season, my pal Tara Owens is running an «online spiritual retreat» of sorts called «When the Heart Waits: Accepting the Invitations of Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany.»

When Imam Husain learned of Yazid's plans he decided to accept the invitation of the people of Kufa and set out on the journey from Mecca to Kufa.

My wife, Mary Jane, and I had accepted the invitation of Antonio Heras to visit the home of his mother, Josefina, the «chile queen,» who lives in the town of Cumpas.

When that doesn't pan out, he accepts the invitation of spooky old geezer Howard Howe (Michael Parks) to spend the night at his crepuscular mansion and listen to tales of a misspent youth, including Howe's castaway adventures with a beloved walrus he dubbed «Mr. Tusk.»

«I am deeply honored to accept the invitation of the International Academy of Education to become their newest fellow,» Reimers says.

Ms. Garcia said she applauded the «court's refusal to accept the invitation of voucher proponents to issue a broad ruling that could place in jeopardy the ability of states to protect their public education system.»

Dr. Cozine accepted the invitation of the police department to bring Jahydeen's second grade class to the awards ceremony, where they enjoyed cheering for their friend... and a pizza lunch!

Now that the concept of ebooks and digital reading is firmly solidified for the industry, more and more publishers are accepting the invitations of a growing number of ebook subscription services.

American Humane began doing animal relief in August 1916, by accepting an invitation of the War Department to help animals used by the U.S. Army during World War I.

American Humane began doing animal relief in 1916, by accepting an invitation of the War Department to help animals used by the U.S. Army during WWI.

iam proudly accepted the invitation of Belgian gallerist and book dealer Johan Deumens to be the subject of the inaugural exhibition at his new gallery in Haarlem, in Spring 2008.

The Court of Justice did not accept the invitation of the AG to provide clarity on the issue of permanent residence and simply followed the referring court by observing that Mr Gusa never claimed to have acquired a permanent residence right (para. 21).

Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School, Patrick Monahan, has accepted the invitation of the President of York University to become York's new Vice-President Academic and Provost.

'' We welcomed and gladly accepted the invitation of Change Board Member to provide, as exclusive contributor, the Romanian chapter.

Not exact matches

Still, EU president Donald Tusk on Thursday accepted an invitation to visit Baku as the EU seeks a new agreement with Azerbaijan after Aliev declined one offered under the terms of the Eastern Partnership.

One day after Trump accepted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's invitation to meet, Tillerson was woken up in his hotel room by a phone call from White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, sources said in the report.

The whistleblower who launched the scandal, Christopher Wylie, formerly of Cambridge Analytica, said on Twitter he had accepted invitations to testify before U.S. and UK lawmakers.

President Trump accepted Xi's invitation to visit China later this year so there will be plenty of opportunity to discuss troublesome issues later.

US President Donald Trump has accepted his counterpart Xi Jinping's invitation to make a visit to China, said Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

Thus, as one who firmly believes in Judaism's teaching of the ubiquity of moral freedom for all humans, I had to suppress my understandable Jewish reticence and accept this invitation.

Maybe it's just an issue of semantics but I always thought that accepting the invitation to drink meant we were submitting to Christ's authority — removing ourselves from office and inaugurating a new leader.

After Whitehead accepted the invitation to give the Gifford Lectures, he devoted the summer of 1927 to them, writing nine and one - half of the ten planned (SJP 7:333), 3 intending to supplement these lectures with the materials he had been collecting for the book on metaphysics.

Yes, Muslims from all over the country accepted a White House invitation to attend the Iftar dinner earlier this month with the President to break our fast, to break bread, and to build bridges of understanding.

Islam, in its invitation to accept its beliefs and to submit to its rules, rejects any methods which are not based on liberality and freedom of choice.

He accepted the invitation and made the pastoral visit on the day I write, the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes.

In words reminiscent of Exodus, God invites the people to go out into the wilderness again — though without the endless thirst of the Israelites who left Egypt — and it seems the people ignore the invitation, or at least put off accepting it outright.

A. N. Whitehead (1861 — 1947) retired in 1924 from an academic career in England in the fields of mathematics and education and promptly accepted an invitation to join the faculty in philosophy at Harvard University, where his work took off in a totally unexpected direction.

When Rauschenbusch became ill and lost some of his hearing, he accepted an invitation to become a professor on the German faculty, and later the English faculty, of what became Colgate Rochester Divinity School.

He went to the crowds with healing and also with an invitation to accept the reign of God by making a personal commitment to follow him.

Most of us get far more invitations than we can accept.

Where faith invites the Holy Spirit to participate in human decisions, in answer to God's invitation to participate in God's work of creating human beings, Africans accepted to be unmade, Christianized, catholicized, presbyterianized and pentecostalized as a price to pay for the salvation of their souls.

I accepted his invitation and decided to lecture on the theme of «Christianity and Black Power.»

Perhaps those who accept invitations to preach in the White House should reflect on this, for they stand in danger of joining the same company.

My only qualification for accepting the honor of the invitation, I think, is a lifetime of attempting to comprehend the same mysteries that you yourselves seek to address.

When I accepted the invitation to join the faculty of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge I had two compelling reasons: Aware of the Vatican's repression and removal of creative theologians in West German universities, I anticipated a similar development in the U.S. I made therefore a conscious decision not to remain in an academic situation where I would have to spend the rest of my career fighting ecclesiastical backlash.

After I affirmed the importance of her preaching, however, Joan told me that she couldn't accept the invitation.

Thus, God's freedom remains always an invitation to be accepted freely, not by the compulsion of argument or proof.

It's a risky invitation to accept because it means living in the tension of hearing ourselves make the great confession «Jesus, you're the Messiah!»

Those who accept the invitation, however, must recognize that while they will be given blessings and benefits from the overabundance of God's generosity, these blessings and benefits must be gained the right way (by entering through the front door, which is Jesus), and must be used in the service of others.

The original guests, who were thought to be worthy of an invitation from the king, are later pronounced unworthy because they do not accept the invitation.

The parable of the great banquet, which in somewhat variant forms appears in Matthew 22:1 - 14 and Luke 14:12 - 24, has as its theme the divine invitation which must be accepted without excuses.

After issuing his private invitation which only Ali accepted, Muhammad made his call public to all the people of Mecca.

Even setting aside all those Romantic exaggerations about Juan's Promethean or Luciferian defiance of God, one can still say that his unwillingness to repent and his insistence on accepting that final dreadful invitation actually affirm both the existence of divine law and the godlike power of the soul to choose its own destruction.

At the age of sixty Whitehead moved across the Atlantic to accept an invitation to become a professor of philosophy at Harvard University, where he remained for the rest of his life.

But the emphasis is not upon these others, despite the interpretation of the story in the tradition, it is upon the original guests and their ultimate failure to accept the invitation.

More people now accept invitations to suicide gatherings of the kind Francis once wanted.

Sometimes that is literally a theatre of war, but some also speak of more nuanced divisions: such as «The House of Truce», «House of Calm» — non-Muslim territories where Muslims are free to practice — and «The House of Invitation» where Islam is not yet fully accepted but is in the process of being introduced — ie.

A transcript of the benediction after the jump, along with a few words from Hunter's blog about why he accepted the invitation to give the benediction even though he's a Republican.

Hundreds of people living near the scene of the Grenfell Tower disaster have accepted invitations from the evangelist J.John to hear the good news about Jesus.