Sentences with phrase «altar set»

When you see home yoga rooms in magazines, there always seems to be some kind of altar set up.

He denied that communism had become the nation's official creed, but a photo of the Great Leader is captioned, «Chairman Mao - his photo and his sayings - replace Confucius in this home altar setting.»

Not exact matches

He carries the earth and sets up an altar to God; this marks his break henceforth with his own earth, his country, and the gods of his fellow - citizens.

I am sure they were kind - hearted and loved the Lord deeply, but I wondered if what we were doing, whether we knew it or not, was worshipping at the altar of our American - defined ideal of success, only in the setting of a local church.

In 167 B.C. Antiochus precipitated a full - scale revolt when, having already forbidden the practice of Judaism on pain of death, he set up in the Jewish temple an altar to Zeus and offered swine's flesh upon it (which the Book of Daniel refers to as the «abomination of desolation») Antiochus was an apostle of Hellenism and meant to bring his entire realm under the influence of Greek ways.

Having now set forth at least the principal meanings and symbolic implications of the dominant Reformation image of the ministry, we may return to a comparison and contrast of this image with that of the medieval period: preacher — pulpit — open - Bible in relation to priest - before - altar.

So to whom do you set up the household altar?

Leviticus 26:27 - 31The Crystal Cathedral, being a high place built for the worship of Self, is being destroyed, its blasphemous altars where the incense is burned to the god of Flesh are being cut down, and the sanctuary set aside to glorify the idol of Self - Esteem is being brought to desolation.

The sermon, known as The Second Spring, and published in Sermons Preached on Various Occasions, set out to portray England before the Reformation in a way which has now become familiar to readers of Eamon Duffy's The Stripping of the Altars.

As we read through the Old Testament, we see the people of God setting up altars all over the place as reminders to future generations what God did at that place.

The relatively brief section in 20:18 - 21:1 is apparently transitional, like a bridge: it serves as a conclusion to the scene of chapter 19 and as a religious addition to the Decalogue (it restates the prohibition against images and sets certain limitations with respect to the building of an altar); at the same time it serves as an introduction to the Covenant Code.

«I remember the rude Mongols far away in the midst of the Gobi Desert, setting apart in their tents the little altar at which they worshipped.

Brother Martin lay prostrate before the altar, arms stretched out in the form of a cross in the great church, while the Prior recited: «Lord Jesus Christ our leader and our strength, Thou has set aside this servant of Thine by the fire of holy humility from the rest of mankind.

On the altar the cross of Calvary was again set up.

He proposed that each build an altar, lay upon it wood for the fire, and on that place the victim, then call upon their respective gods to consume the sacrifice by setting the altar fire ablaze.

What matters is the sign which is given, the setting up of a replica of the Assyrian altar.

Moving pictures of fairly recent import are shown on Friday nights, and on Sunday the Methodist bishop sets up an altar and conducts services.

Here's how I hope the Colin Kaepernick collusion case plays out: There is a video tape, and on it, 32 owners are sitting in a circle in a dark Knights Templar / Skull & Bones / Stonecutters setting, wearing robes, and decreeing before a golden altar that no team shall sign Kaepernick.

Modeled on the community - centric approach to improving youth sports safety highlighted in MomsTEAM's PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer», the program will award SmartTeam status to youth sports organizations which have demonstrated a commitment to minimizing the risk of physical, psychological and sexual injury to young athletes by implementing a comprehensive set of health and safety best practices, providing safety - conscious sports parents a level of assurance that they have made health and safety an important priority, not to be sacrificed at the altar of team or individual success.

I set up my little meditation altar and would meditate each day to see if there was more work to unravel.

We learned the sad news of the death of Pattabhi Jois yesterday and so today we set up a humble altar to him during class with a large striking photograph of his ebullient face as the centerpiece.

When Dr. Weston Price studied native diets in the 1930's he found that butter was a staple in the diets of many supremely healthy peoples.1 Isolated Swiss villagers placed a bowl of butter on their church altars, set a wick in it, and let it burn throughout the year as a sign of divinity in the butter.

If you have an altar or sacred space in your home (we wrote about creating sacred space here), set yourself up there.

Even as a newborn, she would calm down immediately when we set her down in front of our altar to chant.

Start by setting aside an area in your house to create your altar.

If you're single and option - free, write the note to your would - be lover and set it on an altar for two weeks.

We got a cute musical clip that takes us from the altars of the living, to the land of the dead with our little hero Miguel who sets off a chain of events to unlock a mystery.

Richard Gere, always watchable (and he plays competence well), is arrogant defense attorney Vail, fallen from grace from the DA's office, who've set ex-flame Janet (Laura Linney) opposite him in a trial of the century involving disturbed altar boy Aaron (Edward Norton, in his film debut).

Runaway Bride is simply just fluff, with a typically preposterous set - up to match: New York - based USA Today columnist Ike Graham (Gere) hears about Hale, Maryland resident Maggie Carpenter's (Roberts) penchant for abandoning bridegrooms at the altar — 3 and counting — from a stranger at a bar and then proceeds to write an unflattering piece on her.

The altar - set provides an opportunity to study the interplay of tradition and innovation in China and the impact of growing western interests.

This Buddhist altar - set was created in the court glass workshops of the Qianlong emperor, third ruler of the last of the Chinese imperial dynasties, the Qing (1644 â $ «1912).

For Whom the Bell Tolls: 6,689 @HoustonISD students, 59 % Black, 40 % Latinx, < 1 % white, and 84.5 % economically disadvantaged, are set to be sacrificed at the altar of #privatization on Tuesday.

We could also establish an agreed - upon set of work skills — like the Common Core for career and technical education — but it would no doubt be slaughtered on the altar of local control.

Savannah goes to see a matchmaker, specializing in setting up couples who meet at the altar.

Set atop an altar - like plinth or landscape, the figure lies in a submissive pose.

The artist also designed the set, transforming a centuries - old Ming Dynasty temple into an altar, palace, crematory, and heaven.

Denny takes on popular entertainment and consumer cultures, creating aquarium - like sculptures, which quote in an ironic - melancholic way the former status object of the television set as an item of furniture and living room altar.

Manifesting themselves as walls of light, an ode to Hollywood - style storybook - endings, and the post-victorian beauty of a deconstructed chandelier, the works by Violette in the setting of the church will together form a new type of altar.

Two identical bronze figures, one standing, the other lying across an altar or table, suggest a sacrificial tableau against which is set a large wooden figure and carved head.

I gather the scattered flowers into a bundle, clean up the altar area of overgrown grass, find the stones, rebuild the altar and set in place a lovely bunch of blossoms picked this morning.

On February 7, 1993, the architect William McDonough, a prophet of the sustainability and clean - technology movements, which set in motion many of the green design practices that are commonplace today, delivered a centennial sermon from the high altar of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, in New York City.

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