Sentences with phrase «as local gods»

The fires of faith burn hot, as local gods come under attack from a universal church that offers a stark choice - God or the Sword?

The Pharisees, at the time of Jesus, identified their supposed goodness with an absoluteness that made them see themselves as local gods.

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I doubt that in a local church in your area this Sunday you'll hear a pastor or a theologian share on the beauty of dancing as a spiritual offering of love to God.

«Nobody should go to God with such darkness,» said a resident in the Acibadem area of Istanbul, where officials and newspapers said Karabekir shot dead a local administrator as he and a group of soldiers tried to seize a building.

We understand the book is a cobbling together of myths, folklore, local legend and possibly some decent home cleaning tips, fraudulently claimed as the word of your god.

So while the «church» as it is today did not begin until Acts 2, we can say that throughout the history of God's people, there have been local gatherings of believers to accomplish God's will in their lives and communities.

Browsing the new arrivals shelf at your local theological library, you're now as likely to find titles by the Catholic dogmatician Matthew Levering, the Orthodox historical theologian Paul Gavrilyuk, and the Reformed theologian Kevin Vanhoozer on why we need to continue to speak, with the early Church, of God's inability to suffer — and of God's voluntary assumption of our human nature, in Jesus Christ, in order to share, and thereby overcome, our suffering — as you are to find another volume on God's suffering in the divine nature itself.

The liturgy is being re-established little by little, in the minds of God's people as the corporate worship not just of the local but of the whole Body of Christ, the universal Church, reaching across time and space and into heaven itself:

Just admit that the flood is a story probably written a while after a severe local flood, and that the theological point is to credit God for the saving of life as well as the promise not to destroy again.

Stories grew up around the local holy places, as at Bethel, where a typical legend records the way in which the patriarch Jacob discovered Bethel to be the «house of God.»

With God the Father setting the pace and God the Spirit enabling as we go, the church in its local congregational expression can become the body of the Son whose full ministry continues to unfold in the congregation's midst, not as our doing, but as Theirs.

He did not measure himself by the cultural standards of his day, as did some others, who scoffed at the fact that he was a carpenter (Mark 6:3), nor by the greatness of the order of the intellect (his education was that which could be gained at the local synagogue school) Some of the creatures made by the Word of God are greater in these respects than the one who is the Word of God incarnate, and that one is not ashamed of his inferiority.

The day will also be used as a time to lift up the needs of local communities to God.

As a full time pastor of a local church who loves the Church and God's people and all people, I concur that the Church is often the biggest stumbling block in the potential life of faith in an unbeliever.

Bodies like the Church of the Nazarene and the Assemblies of God were built up by a complex agglutinative process as various independent ministries, small groups, and local or state associations came together in merger.

As bad as slavery is, God wants local slaves treated better than foreign oneAs bad as slavery is, God wants local slaves treated better than foreign oneas slavery is, God wants local slaves treated better than foreign ones.

His first function is that of building or «edifying» the church; he is concerned in everything that he does to bring into being a people of God who as a Church will serve the purpose of the Church in the local community and the world.

But the organization's leaders deliberately emphasize the role of the local church «as the primary means of faithful expression to God» and continued discipleship among groups of women through its year - round Bible studies, called IF: Equip.

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In seven chapters, the author raises questions about belonging to a local church, observing the Lord's Supper, church leadership structures, tithing, preaching, worship, and the church building as the «House of God.»

One need only look at President Jimmy Carter, who went so far as to teach Sunday school at his local Baptist church, to see how a sitting president can make room for faith, said Balmer of Dartmouth, who counts among his many books «God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush.»

[3] The synagogue was the local religious school where Jews went as often as they could to learn the Word of God.

On the one hand, to be separated from a local church is frightening to me; on the other, you are so real, so genuine, so authentic, as in Christ, that I both admire you and have no doubt that God has something else for you.

Thus we hold that creative synthesis, as such, is then not subject to localization, and thus without contradicting the current laws of physics God is free to participate in the creative process across the entire universe, because God's contact with the world is not mediated by scientific abstraction and is therefore not subject to the restrictions of a local, postprojective theory.

Sam, it is not a personal preference, it is what God has clearly commanded in his Word as the order for His local congregations on earth.

Legal decisions, whether by local lawyers or the high council in Jerusalem, were in fact interpretations of God's will as found in the Scriptures.

Maybe he's busy getting his beliefs strengthened as his local house of stupidity, errrr, worship... Maybe he's busy praying to his imaginary friend, asking it to stop those pesky atheists from asking simple questions he can't answer... Maybe he's huddling with the likes of Adelina, HeavenScent and the rest of that ilk on the ultimate proof of their god (s)... Maybe He's realized the only way not to look like an even bigger fool is to remain silent...

«Bigness» is, moreover, a «powerful evangelistic tool «28 and provides the resources necessary for effective programs of worship and ministry.29 The local church is here viewed as a mechanism with the capacity for greater or lesser efficiency in doing the work of God.

Give generously with joy to your local food pantries, homeless shelters and widows as a family member of the Ekklesia and as the Spirit of God would lead you.

We have there a valid yardstick to apply to our lives as individual Christians, local congregations and as missionary people of God in the world.

As God laid a prophetic mantle upon the prophets he called in the Old Testament, local congregations could do more to affirm and confirm callings today (including commissioning those who feel called to leave, as God guides themAs God laid a prophetic mantle upon the prophets he called in the Old Testament, local congregations could do more to affirm and confirm callings today (including commissioning those who feel called to leave, as God guides themas God guides them).

Yet it succeeds remarkably in doing this not only on a world scale, as is evident in the very existence of the missionary and ecumenical movements, but in every local congregation where people of many private interests sit together to worship God.

Any oaf who is so presumptuous as to wrap his arm around God in his bid for the local throne is being profoundly contemptuous of his fellow humans.

In a metropolitan model, the Presbyterian and the Methodist see themselves primarily as ministers in a local community, co-laborers with the Lutherans and Pentecostals and Catholics on the next block, working together to build a semblance of the city of God within the city of man.

It would underline the importance of the Word of God, episcopal ministry, etc. as constituting the essential ingredients of the local church.

However, as governmental authority rested on the notion of divine right, it was threatened by those who denied the existence of the local god.

American Baptists believe that God's intention can be sought and followed in local congregations and other gatherings of Christians in associational, regional, national and world bodies as they receive from one another mutual counsel and correction [SCODS].

but here you are preaching your opinion to everyone else if you believe in god and support a local church you support the preaching of god in the pushing of god into other peoples faces because that's what the church is there for so if you go in you support your just as bad

I wondered if that might be a nudge from the Holy Spirit, so I took a few steps back and, as I got to know Chris and the rest of the team, I learned they were centered on empowering and resourcing local leaders for the long - haul precisely because of their great love for God.

I have struggled for 30 years in my local Parish Church and have been tempted to leave several times but God has called me back as i eventually learnt that it's not what I get out of Church thats the main thing, it's what I can add, so if I remove myself I'm being mean spirited, I'm like a child who has a ball but if I don't get my own way in a game of football, I pick it up and take it home so no one gets to play.

E.A.T. Marketplace is hosting a variety of harvest events including «Gather at the Table,» a Local Craft Harvest Beer Pairing and Dinner (October 5); «God of the Vine: Dionysus,» a speakeasy Pop - Up Bar with entertainment and delectable snacks; as well as «Yoga & Wine... is Divine!»

At the same time, the Ezzos prepared a parenting curriculum entitled «Growing Kids God's Way» that many churches (seemingly many evangelical churches) began to purchase and offer as parenting classes in their own local churches.

[31] With their advanced weapons and the presence of a central authority they easily invaded and occupied the lands of the local people ruled by the Tendamba (land god priests), established themselves as rulers over them and made Gambaga their capital.

«Getting the federal, state, and local stakeholders, as well as industry partners together on a hot Saturday in August ensures that, God forbid this were to happen, we're as prepared as possible.»

And to think that the local «gods» in the Fante area that have so far been quoted as blessing Akufo - Addo to win Election 2016 adds a different complexion to the joke.

Why is it that it is the NPP's Akufo - Addo who is so fixated on God (and the local gods of areas he visits) as the basis for his political electioneering campaigns?

There is an overwhelming mass of noise from certain quarters easily betraying their political allegiance as they invoke the name of the Supreme Deity (God) and their local «gods» (conceived and characterized in diverse senses and guises) to sustain the NPP's Akufo - Addo that he is divinely destined to defeat President Mahama at Election 2016.

Cacao, known as the Food of the Gods by the Aztecs, comes from a plant native to Costa Rica (where it was once used as local currency).

Matthew Heineman's Cartel Land opens with what looks like an outtake from Breaking Bad: a torchlit scene of masked men cooking crystal meth, on about chemistry and local poverty and how they'll keep doing this «as long as God allows,» come what may.

«God's Pocket» will be directed by John Slattery, who you know as «Mad Men»» s silver fox Roger Sterling but who is making the move to directing (having helmed several excellent episodes of the series in which he stars), adapting a Pete Dexter novel about Mickey (Hoffman), whose attempts to move on after the suspicious, and not unwelcome, death of his unstable stepson are frustrated by a local reporter with a hunch.