Sentences with phrase «as the letters come»

So Jehu wrote letters, and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of the city, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying, 2 «Now then, as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, fortified cities also, and weapons, 3 select the best and fittest of your master's sons and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.»

The panic only started setting in as the letters came trickling in — it served as a countdown, and that's when everyone started to realise the move was becoming a reality.

Not exact matches

Prior shareholder letters insisted the proposals were misguided or ignored the company's efforts to spell out its position that even a world intent on limiting temperature rises would still need more oil — a position shared by bodies such as the International Energy Agency, which sees oil demand rising for some years to come yet.

Because Cavuto holds the titles of managing editor and senior vice president, his public support for Ailes reportedly raised questions as to whether his letter might be seen as a manager inappropriately attempting to influence employees to support Ailes or discouraging other women from coming forward.

The same day as Kalanick's letter, Uber board member David Bonderman announced his resignation after coming under fire for a sexist joke he made during the all - hands meeting to go over the results of an internal investigation surrounding sexual harassment and discrimination.

The news of Kalanick's official departure as CEO, which was announced Wednesday morning, comes after he penned a letter to staff last week that he would be taking a leave of absence to cope with the death of his mother, Bonnie Kalanick.

The letter comes as Benchmark has entered a high - profile legal battle with Uber's former CEO.

Lew's letter came as Treasury finalized the so - called «customer due diligence» rule dictating how banks should keep records on who owns the companies that use their services.

The vague suggestion that some current employees could find positions with the new entities while, at the same time, asking employees to stay committed and focused comes so far down in the letter as to appear insincere.

Calls to appoint a second special counsel came as early as July, when House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte wrote a letter urging Sessions to consider it.

«In coming weeks, as Congress considers additional aid for hurricane - impacted areas, including Puerto Rico, the official death count will likely shape the scope and direction of federal assistance,» Velázquez and Thompson wrote in the letter.

The key to why the earnings aren't good enough and the stock is falling is this line in the company's shareholder letter: «Revenue came in at the low end of our guidance range because brand marketers did not increase spend as quickly as expected in the first quarter.»

The letter — which was sent to such firms as Morgan Stanley, Raymond James, Charles Schwab & Co., Fidelity, BlackRock and TD Ameritrade — comes on the heels of reports that the incoming Trump administration will seek to delay the rule, Warren said.

The letter comes just as the window to amend Bill C - 49 is closing.

In his 2014 letter to his shareholders, Warren Buffett has come out more explicitly than ever as index investing's richest champion.

John Mauldin writes in his letter: «Camp Kotok, as it has come to be called, was quite special this year.

The letter, organized by the Washington - based National Taxpayers Union, comes as the Trump administration travels to China this week for talks aimed at averting a trade war and weighs whether to permanently exempt allies from steel and aluminum tariffs.

2 Thessalonians 2:1 - 3 — Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.

In a May 30 letter to Catholics across the diocese, Bishop Lori said that the state's announcement came as a «shock» and that the church in Bridgeport had no choice but to act to protect its constitutional rights.

Also, I'm sure you mean it as an insult when you say «Xians» instead of Christians, but actually the «X» in things like «X-mas» comes from the Greek letter «chi» (Which is an X) and stands for Christ.

1Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

1823 letter to John Adams — «And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

In the letter, he came out as gay and encouraged fellow gay Christian students - some of whom had anonymously expressed suicidal plans in a pile of the prayer requests - to contact him if they needed help.

The two letters are brief, for the Elder is coming to them very soon in person; but short as they are they bring us into the very heart of a controversy that was already dividing individual churches and threatening the peace of a whole district.

The series comes to a dramatic end with a fictional letter, written as though from St Petersburg, in which Chesterton's alter ego, «Guy Crawford», describes himself as joining a rebellious mob in which he recognises an obviously Jewish student called Emmanuel, and as springing to his defence, sword in hand, as the Czarist troops attack: but Emmanuel sustains a fatal blow and dies in the street, «a champion of justice, like thousands who have fallen for it in the dark records of this dark land».

The objection was raised that scripture did indeed oppose this Marianprivilege for in the letter to the Romans St. Paul says «Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned.»

Paul heard about this, and so wrote his second letter to the Thessalonians to tell them that although the Lord's return was near and they need to live in light of that, they must also live as if His coming was far off.

Wouldn't it come as a baffling shock if Christians everywhere put down their picket signs, ceased the boycotts, dropped the Christmas lawsuits, and instead, showered politicians, business owners, and ACLU workers that show disdain for Christmas / Christians with thoughtful gifts, invitations to OUR Christmas celebrations, letters of prayers, (not condemning ones), asking nothing in return?

Although he wisely assured them that God would take care of «those who have fallen asleep,» his own picture of the second coming as it appears in both letters shows that his thought regarding it had not progressed much beyond current Jewish apocalyptic ideas.

So this warning passage in Hebrews 10, like the others in this letter, should be read as an invitation and encouragement for the Hebrew Christians to stick with Jesus Christ through thick and thin, come what may.

After the news of his death came, she wrote to his chaplain, who later as a student of mine gave me the letter.

This came from the letter T — the initial letter of Tammuz (Eze 8:14), but better known in classical writings and even today as Bacchus.

Quite predictably, CAIR seized upon his letter as the occasion for another press release trumpeting that the bishops of the United States had repudiated my review of Bat Ye'or, which no doubt came as a surprise to the bishops.

This is particularly evident in the Letter to the Romans, in which he writes: «They are Israelites; it was they who were adopted as children... and out of them... came Christ who is above all, God, blessed forever.

Matthew knew what John knew — John did not have a higher evolution of understanding of who Jesus claimed to be than the other apostles — it is just in the wisdom of God as He used each writer to convey understanding to the folks who received the letters and for our benefit in the ages to come that Matthew focuses on different things than John.

Jennie Chinembiri, Africa and Caribbean secretary of the world mission council of the Church of Scotland, said: «It is wonderful that all these important letters, certificates and photographs have come to light after so many years as they hold such an historic importance for both Scotland and Kenya.»

As for Rwanda, its government and churches, I remember twenty years ago the frantic letters published in the Washington Post from Tutsi trapped in Rwanda, warning of genocide to come and begging for help.

The denouement of the book comes through a series of letters, which completely unveil the Crawfords as the unthinking individualists that they are.

I believe, on the contrary, that Paul's remarks are best understood in the light of a particular problem in the Corinthian church of this time, namely, women glossolalists who were causing disturbances in suggests, it may well be that, as Paul was trying to bring to a close this particular portion of his letter, new reports came to him of further commotion caused by overzealous charismatics who happened to be mainly women.

I won't waste time posting Jefferson / Madison quotes, but simply refer to the Establishment Clause, Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists and Reynolds v U.S. (1878) which referencing the Jefferson letter's «separation» language in interpretation of the Establishment / Free Exercise clauses states: «Coming as this does from an acknowledged leader of the advocates of the measure, it may be accepted almost as an authoritative declaration of the scope and effect of the amendment thus secured.»

The issue here is really the same as the one which existed in Jesus» day — we can have plenty of religion (the dos and do nt's of the Pharisees) but what is really needed to be made evident is the life that comes from God through His living word (and that is something much deeper than just the «letter of the law»).

These letters try to guide people to paths of good conduct by discussing such topics as knowing God and knowing one's self, understanding one's situation in this world and in the life to come, seeking knowledge devoutly, and behaving devoutly.

[22] For Ignatius, who harboured no illusions about the fact that at the end of his journey his end would come at the teeth of beasts in the amphitheatre of Rome, [23] the letters, with their plea to the recipients that their hope to retain their unity lay in their regarding «a bishop as the Lord himself,» [24] the letters also offer a vehicle to counter the Gnostic / Docetic heresy.

Jesus appears most often in Paul's letters as a mighty personal reality known in his own present experience, whose meaning he seeks to interpret; and for that reason Paul will come in for more thorough discussion in the last three lectures in this series.

I suggest that a reading of scripture gives us the clues, that John was in fact the last Levitical priest whose task was to inaugurate the» handing over» of the priesthood to the new High Priest, in the new order of Melchizedek (as the writer of the Letter to Hebrews explains it) So Jesus came to John the Levite, John gave Jesus the ritual bath of the High Priest, then Jesus emerged from the bath not to be anointed with oil as the old Levites, but to be anointed with the Holy Spirit and then Jesus» distinction was announced to the people by the voice of God Himself.

When it seems to me as if the future would be awfully tiresome with all these moments coming back again and again, then I put it in small letters, and think of it existentially, to show my anguish (Angst).

The historian of non-violence, William Robert Miller, says that the first explicit reference to non-violence in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott came from a white librarian, Juliette Morgan, who compared the boycott to Gandhi's salt march in a letter to the Montgomery Advertiser on December 12, 1955.35 The development of non-violent strategies in the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 60's arose partly from belief in pacifism as an expression of love in the Fellowship of Reconciliation and Society of Friends from whom many leaders of the movement for racial justice came.

Some readers might find it difficult to engage with the chatty, informal tone of the letters which can occasionally come over as slightly forced.

Asked for a letter of explanation, Cairns himself went so far as to write, «I have come to see the poem as a mistake,» adding that it was intended for a secular audience and that he had underestimated its effect on conservative Christians.

But when the letter came, I felt totally unequipped to make such a huge decision — it felt as though the choice I had to make might stifle my relationship with Christ rather than going somewhere that would nurture it.