Sentences with phrase «at work in»

Theists quite properly see the hand of God at work in major evolutionary changes such as the origin of life, but also in such everyday occurrences as the development of a fertilized egg into a cocker pup, and too in the social turmoil — including very real moral and physical evil — that accompanies economic, technological, and intellectual change.

- This is obviously an oversimplification, but it may start children to thinking about God as at work in the order of things and not as far off in the sky somewhere.

This is a higher proportion of women than would be representative of either Israel or Rome in a comparable group during the first century A.D., and gives evidence that the equalitarian spirit of Jesus was already at work in the Christian community.

One of their dramatists, Aeschylus, saw it at work in Athens and worried about its consequences.

Landry's sermons cultivate an image of Christ at work in corporate structures to make life on earth more truly human.

While such a practice is considered by some practicioners as a homiletical crime, there is an instinct at work in this procedure that is fundamentally sound simply because it more nearly corresponds to normal communication.

We have to go forward to a post-modern humanism that takes the dialectics of the human spirit at work in human creativity and destructivity more seriously.

Barnabas was the same when he went up to Antioch and decided that the Spirit was at work in the Gentiles he met there.

But Shi thinks there is a «psychological malaise» at work in our culture.

Looking back they could see God's hand at work in the events of history.

It's not surprising that when Pentecostal power is at work in communities, it brings disruption, for this is the future reign of God breaking into the present.

In the video trailer above, he says that «the so - called gospel at work in many of our churches today is actually deconstructing the Church into a society of the saved instead of constructing a society that follows Jesus to the cross.»

We must trust that Our Lord is at work in the very mundane occurrences of our daily lives.

When we turn to the book of Acts, we see that the reason the early church was so powerful was certainly because the spirit was at work in them, but at work in them to do what?

And I trust that He is at work in the lives of others just as He is constantly at work in me.

Israel demanded a king like all the other nations (etc.) Since this thread is about «reading between the lines» I suggested the story of A&S because I read Peter's will at work in this instance, not the Holy Spirit.

to have faith to let go of control and know that God is at work in their life, even if they walk away.

This same big - fish - eat - little - fish morality has also been at work in the field of communication.

There is only one true liberty — the liberty of Jesus at work in our conscience enabling us to do what is right.»

Keep your eyes open for the signs of God's presence, he's already at work in your world, revealing his ways to us all.

This is not to suggest that Jesus spelled out, in a philosophical system, the thought of a divine energy at work in the world.

Over the centuries ancient man learned to express his thinking about the world in the form of myths, or stories of the gods, in whom were personified the unseen forces he presumed to be at work in the phenomena he observed.

So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you» (II Corinthains 4:10 - 12).

We can see this process at work in international relations today.

Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 222) Rather»... the subject is at work in the feeling, in order that it may be the subject with that feeling.

God is at work in history.

God is at work in Christ.

Consequently, a civilized society is but one further instantiation, among a myriad of such instances, of the ultimate creativity which underlies the very process of the world — it is the realization in human social experience of the inherent principle of «creativity - one - many» at work in all things.

True — tallulah; Salero21 is one of the jackasses that you can count on as one the great examples of fundie intelligence at work in the world today.

Our ancestors, their priviledged «souls» are hard at work in keeping the human race alive and constantly evolving in this planet.

Was God's love and kindness at work in this story of course it was.

Jesus appears to be saying that the kingdom will come in due course by God's action; his followers may wait in confidence that a power not their own is at work in the process.

The fruit, he said, was an indication of God at work in their life, and so if God was at work, then that person must be ready to receive God's Word.

The clue to ethical reconstruction is this: The living God whose nature and purpose is love calls us to respond in our freedom to the tasks which are set for us by the fact that He is at work in our human history both as Creator and as Redeemer,

A crossbreeding was at work in the 1980s and 1990s.

Enjoy the Lord each day because He loves you with an everlasting love and is at work in your life for good.

We have all seen it at work in the cults, at work in manipulative relationships and at work as peer pressure in schools and society in general.

What evidence for God's hand at work in creating the fabric of the universe is there?

By now it should be clear that unprecedented integrative tendencies are at work in communications technology.

I imagine that when we look back at our life, we will see that it was in the «dark nights» that God was most at work in our lives.

When someone goes through a tragedy, and they experience the comfort of God, they are giving testimony to the great power of God at work in their life.

I find the ONLY thing I can do is to love the guys and be as warm and welcoming as possible and to pray that I will have eyes to see the ones God is at work in and that he will let me to tag along.

But he never asks what social, economic, political and ideological forces were at work in the creation of the modern scientific world view, any more than he looks at the role of those forces in the eighteenth century celebration of it, the romantic reaction against it, or the nineteenth and twentieth century codification of positive science.

In separate essays, Charles Hartshorne77 and Lewis Ford78 point out the serious misunderstandings of Whitehead at work in this critique, and Ford and others explain the Whiteheadian solution to the problem of evil as follows: 79 God does not wholly determine the course of the temporal process.

Not just the miraculous draught of fish, but the divine power at work in Jesus singles Peter out for special service.

It is the power and Life of Christ at work in the Church and in the world.

God is at work in me, but it's taking time.

This concerns the Taoist and Confucian concept of Heaven, the Way and Goodness as pointing to the Holy Trinity: «Chinese religion is aware of transcendent power, T'ien (Heaven), at work in those who seek Jen (goodness) by following the Tao (Way)-- fragmentary glimpses, perhaps, of the heavenly Father whose Spirit elicits and sustains our union with Christ, the Incarnate Way» (p47).

There are many so - called Christian «spirits» now at work in our churches which deny that «Jesus Christ has come in the flesh.»

So, it would seem there are at least two parallel streams at work in the new translation, one literal and one poetic.