Sentences with phrase «as pillars of fire»

And not only that, during the Exodus God was appearing to all the people as pillars of fire (at night) and smoke (during the day) to lead them through the wilderness.

And yet this same God appears now in the burning bush, then in a still small voice, and again as a pillar of fire.

Not exact matches

The disciples were speaking of a God who protects God's people from enemies and anxieties by leading them as a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.

The God who, the ancient story tells us, led the people of Israel with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night can lead us by the clouds of the subconscious and the fires of imagination as truly as by consciously studied thought.

However inapplicable to immediate conditions in this present age some precepts in the New Testament may seem to be, the ethical ideals of the New Testament as a whole have gone ahead of the race like a pillar of fire by night and of cloud by day.

The true surprises here are Eva Mendes, who is usually pretty much okay but happens to bring the fire as one of the emotional pillars of the film, and the two young men who anchor the third act of the triptych.

It rests on three pillars: simple job security and longevity, really a form of guaranteed continuing employment (often viewed as a fringe benefit that substitutes for higher pay); protection against diverse forms of discrimination, favoritism and capriciousness on the part of employers; and academic freedom, meaning in essence that instructors can almost never be fired on account of what they say or write.

Larry Dinkins, a bishop in Pillar of Fire and a former pastor of the Cincinnati church, said Eden Grove Academy is a «ministry» for the church as well as for the staff who work there.

As I continued to write and edit over the following year, the title changed again to Pentecost — based on the pillar of fire that (in my story) empowered the stones of the Apostles.

You will discover a varied assortment of corals in this region as well, including brain coral, black coral, white coral, fire coral, flower coral, star coral, leaf coral, pillar coral, sea fans, gorgonians, elk horn coral, sea rods, stag horn coral, sea whips and club finger coral.

I'm mowing down hordes of cute, walking bullets with a gun that fires junk mail, while a turtle in a space helmet provides covering fire as I frantically roll from upturned table to stone pillar.

Originally described by Greenberg as «pillars of fire», the Stripe paintings represented a new departure from the Veils and Unfurleds that had dominated Louis» previous output (C. Greenberg, letter to Morris Louis, 5 May 1961, Morris Louis Archives).

Here too there is a curious oblique Biblical resonance: the story of the escape of Israel from Egypt describes how the Israelites were guided in the wilderness: «And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light...» (Exodus 13:21) The natural «fire from heaven» reverses this supernatural pattern: by day the ground and sea receive fiery direct sunlight, while (as we shall see) a significant fraction of the nocturnal «fire» is provided by cloud.

A century - old pillar of the school system is under fire as schools look to modernize student assessment.