Sentences with phrase «as servants for»

With nowhere else to go, they are forced to sell the brilliant turquoise rug the young woman has woven to pay for their journey to Isfahan, where they will work as servants for her uncle, a rich rug designer in the court of the legendary Shah Abbas the Great.

5For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus «sake.

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For a long time, there was a broad, if diffuse, sense that Apple, Google and the like were as much heirs to»60s radicalism as servants to Wall Street capital.

«What I heard was a tendency for users to see support staff as servants, and then to treat them in a fashion that wasn't as partners.

That period would prove important for another reason: the government posted Kuroda for a year as special adviser to the cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi, giving the civil servant sustained exposure to politicians at the highest levels.

As with all servant leaders in high - ranking roles, leadership is an ever - evolving journey for Metayer.

Their sustainable vision for what great leadership looks like is founded on Robert Greenleaf's idea of Servant Leadership, now referred by others as the «Zingerman's model.»

Writer Gillian Terzis explains that, «Humans have long entertained the possibility of communing with the machines, exploring them as servants, or using them for sexual gratification.

As the vision for the connecting tunnel between Folkestone and Calais became more concrete, Ministry of Defence (MoD) civil servants and senior military officers drew up the nuclear plan in order to thwart a possible invasion by the Soviet army from Calais, The Independent has discovered.

We also provide training to be able to continue serving communities as a public servant (firefigher, law enforcement, paramedic, etc.) Thank you for what you are doing for America.

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The chance to create opportunities for staff to learn and grow was a big motivator for Steve in becoming a partner, as he strongly believes in servant leadership.

To the PC party, to his caucus, to all MLAs who have served with him, and for all staff who came into contact with Manmeet during his incredible time as a public servant, we mourn together.»

The main man in this regard was Mr. Paul Boothe, an unassuming, consummate federal civil servant who proved in the heat of battle that he could negotiate with the best of them. If only all our public officials were as determined and skilful in their efforts to pro-actively win real investment and real opportunities for our industries. The St. Catharines announcement is in large part the fruition of the efforts by Boothe (and all the other stakeholders in last year's rescue, including the provincial government and the CAW) to negotiate a package that was much more than a bailout. Rather, it was a recipe for a reaffirmed Canadian presence by these two lynchpin manufacturers (GM and Chrysler).

REVELATION CHAPTER SIX And he open the fifth seal, and I saw under the altar the souls of those who were slain for the word of GOD and for the testimony they held and they cried out with a loud voice, how long O LORD holy and true do you not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth and white robes were given unto them and it was said unto them that they should rest a little season until their fellow servant and their brethren should be slain as they were should be fulfilled.Under racial profiling many BLACK AMERICANS were arrested and were either martyred within the prison system or were deported to AFRICA, where many of them were martyred there and were buried in mass graves in both the SUDAN and in the CONGO.

Some of those elderly just marry not for the joy but for a helping hand in the house if they are all alone as a servant since religiously single men are not allowed to have female maids work or live in their houses unless they are married to each other..

Lev 25:42 «For they [are] My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.

5) Abraham did not want his son to marry a Canaanite, so he sent his servant to Paddan Aram (as the Haran region of north Mesopotamia is called) to secure a bride for Isaac.

Nature, then, has been presented as «the servant of history» or the «stage for history» in much modern writing about biblical theology.

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* Isaiah 45:4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: * John 13:18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: * Romans 9:13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

we are no longer servants but friends, we are no longer exiles but home builders, we are no longer fighting but farming, we are no longer orphans but family, we are no longer meant for the brickyard but for the Promised Land, we are no longer broken but we are mended and healed and whole, we are no longer wanderers but we are the ones who belong, with just as much a right to Love and to grace and to redemption as every one who draws breath from the breath of God.

Finally, when men of God will have been reduced to nothing but the love of and for God, women, who are the image of Christs bride / wife, will be appreciated by us as the Christ like servants they have always been.

But as I waited for John to go get permission to let me in, as I was standing there at the door, the servant girl, who was in charge of the door, was staring at my face.

He decided to return to his home country and ask his father for work as a servant.

It shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave; even as the Son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.»

Some had come over as bonded servants, had served out their time to pay for their passages, and were eager to move on and find a place for themselves.

Obviously, I'm a big advocate for mutual submission in marriage, as that is what I believe those biblical passages ultimately teach and this is what works best in our marriage, but more important than adopting a single household model — either patriarchal or egalitarian — is adopting the posture of Jesus Christ, who emptied himself of power and took the role of servant.

6:11 Each of them was given a long white robe and they were told to rest for a little longer, until the full number was reached of both their fellow servants and their brothers who were going to be killed just as they had been.

Nor is there any reason to doubt that the interpretive artistry of tradition has at certain areas in the portrait coincided with what would be the photograph, as, for example, when Samuel says to Saul: «Tell the servant to pass on before us, and when he has passed on stop here yourself for a while, that I may make known to you the Word of God [debar «elohim, not Yahweh].»

But as I've been thinking about what it means to participate in a holy, set - apart kingdom, a kingdom in which even the greatest are called to be servants, I've come to appreciate the fact that the only way for such a kingdom to remain distinct in this culture is for love to transcend mere civility.

As Clifford Green has pointed out, «From the centre of life, under the lordship of the servant Christ, for the world: this is the manner of the non-religious interpretation.

I also pray that if any pastor who is facing any job problem, I pray that God will prepare the job for this servant of God and provide everything to them as soon as possible.Thank you and May God bless you.

As Christians, we should pray for those whose lives have been enriched by the availability of insurance, and be ready to take up the mantle of servants and serve those who find themselves in need.

The God has thus made his appearance as Teacher (for we now resume our story), and has assumed the form of a servant.

It may be, especially as the Greek word pais can mean both «son» and «servant», that the title was a way of interpreting Jesus» ministry in the light of passages in Isaiah which speak of a Suffering Servant, who was called to be a «covenant for the people and a light for the gentiles»servant», that the title was a way of interpreting Jesus» ministry in the light of passages in Isaiah which speak of a Suffering Servant, who was called to be a «covenant for the people and a light for the gentiles»Servant, who was called to be a «covenant for the people and a light for the gentiles» (Isa.

Again and again the faithful servant's life ends, and it seemed, at his death, as if he had accomplished nothing for the Good.

For they are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.

Inasmuch as we hear these cries, we may realize that the omni - adaptive God, while not a servant to our wants, is a complement to our needs, particularly our need for full community with those whom we have heretofore victimized.

[43:59] He was no more than a servant whom we blessed, and we sent him as an example for the Children of Israel.

Mental health should be seen as a central concern for the servant church in the last third of the twentieth century.

To Paul, Peter was doing the same as the false brothers tried to do in Jerusalem (the word for compel is used in both 2.14 and 2.3).34 Therefore, if the Galatians choose circumcision, they will no longer be servants of Christ; they will be servants of a human authority, namely those who require circumcision.

For instance, it speaks of the earth and heaven, Lord - men, Hell and heaven, 3 good deeds and by implication its opposite the bad deeds, righteous soul and by implication the unrighteous soul, at the judgment day4; Light - darkness, believers - unbelievers; 5 God - creation; 6 servant - master; 7 Good - evil.8 There also the repetitive emphasis on the otherness of God as in the notions of «the Lord of the Throne of Glory Supreme», 9 «Lord of the Throne of Honor; «10 emphasis on His power «Lord of Power; «11 His reach «The Lord of the two Easts and Two Wests, «12 and so on.

Onesimus, a runaway slave with whom Paul had become acquainted at Rome, is here commended to his master Philemon with the hope expressed «for love's sake» that Philemon will receive him «no longer as a servant, but more than a servant, a brother beloved... both in the flesh and in the Lord.»

The Bible sees Matthew Snyder as «God's servant» for our good, and his death in that just cause demonstrated his great love for the country he served.

I challenge all readers to read the chapters preceding Isaiah 53 (chapters 41 thru 52) and you will see for yourself that the author of Isaiah is referring to the nation of Israel as the «suffering servant», not to the future messiah, and therefore, not to Jesus.

Interestingly, many left - wing fans, who would hate everything the central family stands for if their lifestyle was preserved today, are quite happy to embrace the sight of Elizabeth McGovern as the wealthy Countess of Grantham, who drifts through life, barely able to dress without the help of a servant.

At a time when their colleagues who spoke for the church were conspicuously incapable of giving the faith a good account in the eyes of the learned, the Vanderbilt academics preferred to dissociate themselves from their religious leaders rather than take up their cause as allies and persuade them that sound scholarship was God's good servant too.

Creation from nothing, the origin of death among humans, the murder of Abel by Cain, a cataclysmic flood of judgement, the righteous judgement of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Mosaic origin of the Torah, manna from heaven, the reliability of Deuteronomy, the driving out of the Canaanites, Isaiah's authorship of the servant songs, and so on — it's almost as if Jesus and his followers went out of their way to validate all of the most awkward apologetic curveballs in the Old Testament just to make life difficult for post-Enlightenment Western interpreters.

But what critics who point to these reasons for the loss of certainty seem too often to forget is that the Church is never only a function of a culture nor ever only a supercultural community; that the problem of its ministers is always how to remain faithful servants of the Church in the midst of cultural change and yet to change culturally so as to be true to the Church's purpose in new situations.