Sentences with phrase «as head of his body»

So we learn that Jesus Christ gives an ordinary man His own identity, as Head of His Body the Church.This makes the man's soul a reflection of Himself so that He - Jesus - can continuously minister His redeeming love to the world.

We imagine Christ as the head of the body of which we are all parts.

Which includes his «hands and feet» BTW, with Christ as the head of the Body, not the bylaws of a business organization, which is what many so called churches base their «memberships» upon these days.

Not exact matches

Steve is also CNBC's OPEC reporter, covering major meetings and interviewing top OPEC oil ministers, non-OPEC ministers and heads of bodies such as the IEA and EIA.

This set of traits is now known as the so - called Kinderschema which describes the head - to - body ratio, the position of the eyes (below the midline of the head), and size of the eyes relative to the size of the head and more.

The European Council, the elite body made up of the 28 EU countries» heads of state, issued a statement [PDF] urging a «swift decision» in favour of CETA, and encouraged «continued negotiations with a view to finding a solution to the outstanding issues as soon as possible.»

As Elliott ramps up its activism to an unprecedented scale, it is also accumulating a growing body count of deposed executives — not to mention ousted heads of state — who dared fight it.

When even energy - friendly bodies such as the International Energy Agency say the world needs to act now if we're to avoid the worst outcomes of what climate change has to offer the planet, then Canada should realize it can ill afford to stick its head in the sand any longer.

As head of the New York Fed I am vice-chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the body that sets our nation's monetary policy.

In a statement, the Swiss Federal Council — a body of seven that collectively serve as Switzerland's head of state — revealed the first major steps of its plans to regulate fintech development in the country.

Oh, and remember, Pope Benedict's last job before his promotion was head of the body of the Roman Catholic Church that we lovingly used to refer to as the Inquisition!

For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

We have no Head besides Christ, whose authority on earth is mediated through each and every Orthodox bishop equally as attested to by the entire Body of the Faithful.

A wife arranging the pillow under the head of her husband's no - longer - breathing body as she helps the undertaker lift him onto the waiting stretcher.

For Evangelicals, the Church as the one body of Christ extending through space and time includes all the redeemed of all the ages and all on earth in every era who have come to living faith in the body's living Head.

Eph 5:23 -» For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.»

Eph 1:22,23 - «And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.»

While as a man, Jesus could only be in one place at one time, as the Head of the church, Jesus can be wherever there are members of His body, the church.

As the Catechism puts it: «It is the whole community, the Body of Christ united with its Head that celebrates» in every sacramental liturgy (CCC 1140).

Perhaps the visual notion of the ascension is the movement of the Christ to the place at the head of the table as our great high priest, the head of the true state that is the church, the body of Christ of which Christians are all parts.

Christians should, given their tradition, be inclined to find sense in body language, not only because of the resurrection of the body but also because of the bread and wine of the eucharist as the body and blood of Christ, and the church as the body with Christ as its head.

The unity of the New Testament is the unity of life itself — that life which flowed from the risen, exalted Christ through the Spirit, and held the Christians together as one body, the Body of Christ, as Paul called it, nourished and vitalized from its common Head, to continue the figbody, the Body of Christ, as Paul called it, nourished and vitalized from its common Head, to continue the figBody of Christ, as Paul called it, nourished and vitalized from its common Head, to continue the figure.

We need instead to act, to live as if Christ were indeed the head of the body, and not some extra equipment we strap on when it's «third and long.»

Questions which the body politic or the academic world are unwilling to confront head - on are often dealt with through the medium of, say, science fiction: think of the Matrix films, or a novel such as Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.

And together, as a unified church, as a body of believers under the direction of Christ the head, Paul says we are the fullness of him who fills everything in every way or the fullness of him who fills all in all.

Our responsibility to take care of the poor is a personal one and a corporate one in the sense of the body of the Church — not a national one in the sense of putting a gun to the heads of our neighbors and with it, forcing them to do as we think is right.

Whitehead recounts a similar story after which he adds, «The woman with the Brahman head and the Pariah body was afterwards worshipped as Mariyamman; while the woman with the Pariah head and the Brahman body was worshipped as the goddess Yellamma» Henry Whitehead, The Village Gods of South India Revised Edition (New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1988), p. 116.

Paul does not see this is few and far between or even that only a few should participate, but rather like eating and drinking it should be part of what keeps us healthy and focused as a Body to Jesus as head.

Ephesians 5:22 - 24 The women to the / their men are being subject just as they are being to The Master; (recognizing) that the man is source / head of the woman just as Christ is the Head of the ekklesia and He is savior of the body; even as the ekklesia is being subject to The Christ, so the women are being subject to the / their men in all (thinhead of the woman just as Christ is the Head of the ekklesia and He is savior of the body; even as the ekklesia is being subject to The Christ, so the women are being subject to the / their men in all (thinHead of the ekklesia and He is savior of the body; even as the ekklesia is being subject to The Christ, so the women are being subject to the / their men in all (things).

Rabbi Ruchman adds that the Sanhedrin members covered their heads with ashes, their bodies with sack cloth, and cried when they heard these words, and the Jerusalem Talmud dates this occasion as a little more than 40 years before the destruction of the temple, that was in 70 AD.

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The division of the Body of Christ into many thousands of dis - unified parts, many of which give no more than lip service to the Lord Jesus Christ as the Head.

In summarizing the positive results of this survey we hope to prepare the way for the distinctive thrust of our own christological proposal that the body of Christ with the risen Lord as its head constitutes the next evolutionary emergence beyond man.

For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Savior.

It began with the human life of Jesus, but culminates in his being «raised up,» both as the living Head of the body and as «seated in heavenly place» at the right hand of God, thus becoming a privileged means of interaction and mediation between God and man.

On numerous occassions Paul uses the imagery of a body to teach us what the Church should look like, such as in Ephesians 1:22 - 23: «And God placed all things under His feet and appointed Him to be head over everything for the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills everything in every way.»

The sense of «churchly appurtenance,» in von Hügel's phase, is something we must cultivate these days, to help our people recognize that in and through the parish of St. Vitus, Smithville, the very glory of the mystical Body of Christ shines forth, «the holy Church throughout all the world» is reflected, and Christ is present still as we offer ourselves, m union with His perfect Sacrifice, in the eucharistic memorial of the passion and death of our Head.

As Saint Paul teaches, the Church is the Body of Christ, and Christ is her Head.

And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.»

For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.

«Again, respect of persons, in uncovering the head and bowing the knee or body in salutation, was a practice I had been much in the use of; and this, being one of the vain customs of the world, introduced by the spirit of the world, instead of the true honor which this is a false representation of, and used in deceit as a token of respect by persons one to another, who bear no real respect one to another; and besides this, being a type and a proper emblem of that divine honor which all ought to pay to Almighty God, and which all of all sorts, who take upon them the Christian name, appear in when they offer their prayers to him, and therefore should not be given to men; - I found this to be one of those evils which I had been too long doing; therefore I was now required to put it away and cease from it.

Jeremy Kosky, chairman of the school's governors, told The Times: «The governing body is proud to have a non-Jew as its head teacher and prouder still that he has been able to find time to take his own religious beliefs to the next level.»

As stated by one group of physicians, «as the physician manually performs breech extraction of the body of a live fetus, excepting the head, she continues in the apparent role of an obstetrician delivering a child.&raquAs stated by one group of physicians, «as the physician manually performs breech extraction of the body of a live fetus, excepting the head, she continues in the apparent role of an obstetrician delivering a child.&raquas the physician manually performs breech extraction of the body of a live fetus, excepting the head, she continues in the apparent role of an obstetrician delivering a child.»

The figure of the church as the body of Christ, in which the individual cells have no direct relation to the head, needs to be complemented by the figure of the people of God, in which the individual persons can have direct access to their Lord.

In communities gathered as the body of Christ, Christ operating through the Spirit as head and source of life in the gathered body takes the place that clerical leadership must occupy in the discipleship phase.

We may perhaps think of a body as the head, torso, feet and hands etc located in one place and time.

Following Christ as our head and each of our brothers and sisters as important and equal parts of His body is the Church to me.

Biblically speaking the church is the Bride of Christ, that metaphor and the other being that we (the church) are the Body with Christ as our head, are two of the biggest metaphors used by Christ to describe the relationship between him and his church.

The members of Christ's body with Him as the head is the MYSTICAL BODY of Chrbody with Him as the head is the MYSTICAL BODY of ChrBODY of Christ.

The unity of love within the church itself witnesses to its life as the one body of Christ, with many diverse members, with Christ as its head.