Sentences with phrase «authorities and powers at»

But many persons firmly believe that the majority of local congregations, though moribund, are constituted by mission - oriented Baptists; probably the only way to awaken them is to offer them new responsibilities, authorities and powers at the most immediate locus of need.

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In theory, Europe has a spot at the top in which a real leader might sit and wield some gavel of authority, clarity, and resolute power — and that is the high office of President of the European Commission.

The 43 - member Board of Governors is the seat of power at AMPAS, with ultimate authority over corporate management, control and general policies, including Oscar rules and the invitation of new members.

Service Eligibility: (a) are not a direct competitor of The Defense Alliance of Minnesota; (b) do not have more than one Defense Alliance account at any given time; and (e) that you have full power and authority to enter into this Agreement and in doing so will not violate any other agreement to which you are a party.

The power is generated through rooftop solar panels owned and operated by Singapore's Sun Electric, the first solar company given an electricity retail licence, it was announced at an event held by Sun Electric and Singapore's electricity regulator, the Energy Market Authority (EMA).

There are plenty of people who see cryptocurrencies, however flawed, as a step in the right direction because they at least take power away from governing authorities and give individuals more freedom.

This power, in place until at least 2018 under Congressional authorization, allows the President to send trade deals through Congress without amendment while leaving the House of Representatives and Senate the authority to simply vote up or down on the finished result.

But the task of preserving even our moral floor is complicated by the determination of many that «we» should have free and full access to the remissive power of Christian forgiveness without any of the interdictory authority of biblical faith — even if this means that this power can only be «pried from God's clutches» by corrupting it, on at least some important occasions, into nihlistic nonjudgmentalism.

Case in point, it is not logical to suggest there is «good» vs «bad» if there is no ultimate moral authority, no higher power that created everything, including free will and the ability to choose whether to heed that drive to do what is «good» vs doing what you want to do at the expense of «good» and of other people.

In I Corinthians 15, it is clear that it was the fact of Jesus» resurrection that enabled Paul to declare confidently that the risen Lord will, at his coming, complete the victory over every rule and authority and power (I Cor.15: 24).

In Ephesians 1 we read that God «raised him [Jesus] from the dead and made him sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named...; he has put all things under his feet» (Eph.

(John 20:17) The apostle Peter wrote in about 62 C.E that «he is at God's right hand, for he went his way to heaven; and angels and authorities and powers were made subject to him.»

Whenever hierarchy, infighting, traditions of men, power and authority enter the picture, you can be sure that what you are looking at is something other than the Body of Christ.

The resurrected Jesus is Lord of heaven and earth, and sits at the right hand of the Father: his power is limitless and his authority is cosmic.

At some point, you will have to acknowledge the power and authority of God, if you become a one of his.

He did, but what initially upset and offended the religious leaders was the challenge of Jesus to the authority and power structures of Temple Judaism at that time.

But to look at the matter from another angle: who will deny that a refusal on the part of the exploiters and the established powers and authorities to justify violence would be of unimaginable importance?

, at its best, serves as a «showcase for scripture» in which «the authority of God places a direct challenge to the authority of the powers that be,» and in which the reading of scripture together in community is itself an act of worship.

who innocently suffers the consequences of other people's injustices, and who as the creative Word of God has the power and authority to identify with every victim of injustice and, as the one who suffers at our hands, grants us absolution from our evil.

The power that raised Christ from the dead, that seated Christ at the right hand of God, that gave Christ supremacy over all rulers and authorities, over all powers and dominions, over ever title that can be given throughout all eternity, that placed all things under Christ and that appointed Christ as the head over everything,... this power, is for the church.

So, too, Paul reminds the Christians at Ephesus that it is «through the Church» that God's wisdom is «made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places,» and that it is with these rulers and authorities that the Church wrestles primarily, not with powers of «flesh and blood.»

Within that tradition, both in its political and ecclesial expression, authority is a way of ordering power within a community in such a way that, at one and the same time, it supports and augments common beliefs and ways of life and is regularly and harmoniously conjoined with a structure of offices that gives order to the exercise of authority and power within the particular society in question.

Against new knowledge, as men gain new wisdoms from science and new power in the universe, there is no Lordship of Christ over all the ages, unless His voice can speak with as much authority affirming and defining now, and a thousand years from now, as it did in the market towns of Galilee, in the Temple at Jerusalem, and along the shore of the Sea of Tiberias.

(4) The State must use coercive power to enforce its authority; the Christian can accept some forms of coercion as right and necessary, but at others his conscience is bound to rebel.

It is actually sad that he often lets slip a disgust at what he perceives to be the power, influence and wealth exercised by religious authority at the expense of an enslaved and bamboozled faithful.

«which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.

And yes certainly Mary's heart breaking at Jesus challenging authority that claimed he was casting demons out by the power of Belzebub saying anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

The early Church confessed Jesus as Lord, as the highest authority at whose name every knee shall bow, who in the cross and in the resurrection has liberated in this world the power of sacrificial love.

The necessities of war and of defense make political democracy difficult, since the great power that must be mobilized and directed by centralized authority against enemies abroad is easily turned to the suppression of inconvenient freedoms at home.

Jesus» anointing by the holy Spirit, and his consequent power over the demons, over diseases, and even over death; his ministry of compassion and help; his death at Jerusalem, through the «envy» and hatred of the «rulers,» that is, the Jewish authorities who denounced him before Pilate and so procured his death by crucifixion as an insurrectionist and disturber; his resurrection on the third day, when he became Messiah or Son of God and entered into his glory; (Cf. Rom.

The worldly look at the church as a divided wet noodle with no power or authority and we ask them to choose our faith from the smorgasboard of different religions and philosophies and wonder why they laugh at us for believing this «myth».

If religion can not move with power and authority to bring about the changes necessary, it can at least whisper subversion and at the same time hold the vision high for those able to see it.

Indeed, to invoke the separation between religion and politics in order to uphold this sort of Platonic dualism is to suggest that human beings somehow belong to the powers that be, that is, they are at the mercy of political authorities who can do what they please with them without any fear of rebuke from God through the prophetic ministry of the Church.

God has made Him the one Lord and the Messiah.12 He will abolish every kind of domination, authority and power and He is destined to reign until God has put all enemies under His feet.13 He is enthroned at God's right hand in the heavenly realms, «far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come».14 Kasemann went on:

I actually have it on good authority that these guys are a good bet to make a run in the Volleyball Tourney and if that's the case, even more teams will be looking up at them in the Power Rankings next week!

Like many football coaches, Wade respected the structure, authority and power of the military, and he routinely hosted servicemen at Duke practices and games.

Panel members proposed review power over petitions — the same authority bestowed on a zoning board or plan commission — after the Crystal Lake Park District decided to put in a sand and gravel filter at Lippold Park.

At the heart of the life of the church is not power, or structure, or authority, but the person of Jesus Christ, present by His Spirit, whose plans for good, whose love for the lost is our calling and our urging.

And the $ 16.7 million pales next to the $ 495 million from the New York Power Authority — funds literally generated upstate at the Niagara and Fitzpatrick Power projects — that was supposed to go to reduce electricity costs for the few remaining industries upstate, figuratively and literally turning out the lights for thousands of upstate workers and their familiAnd the $ 16.7 million pales next to the $ 495 million from the New York Power Authority — funds literally generated upstate at the Niagara and Fitzpatrick Power projects — that was supposed to go to reduce electricity costs for the few remaining industries upstate, figuratively and literally turning out the lights for thousands of upstate workers and their familiand Fitzpatrick Power projects — that was supposed to go to reduce electricity costs for the few remaining industries upstate, figuratively and literally turning out the lights for thousands of upstate workers and their familiand literally turning out the lights for thousands of upstate workers and their familiand their families.

The Business Council members attending or being represented at Tourism Action Day included: Albany County Convention & Visitors Bureau, American Express, BBL Hospitality, Destiny USA, Inns of Aurora, LLC, The Desmond Hotel & Conference Center, Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway, Empire Resorts, Inc., Fox Run Vineyards, Inc., Fulton Montgomery Regional Chamber of Commerce, Gideon Putnam Resort and Spa, IN New York & Where magazines, The Lodge at Welch Allyn, New York Power Authority, Niagara Honeymoon Sweets, New York Wine & Culinary Center, New York Wine & Grape Foundation, Palace Theatre, Plattsburgh Chamber of Commerce, The Sagamore, Saratoga Casino & Raceway, Saratoga Convention & Tourism Bureau, Tri-City Valley Cats, VisitRochester, and the Wyoming County Chamber & Tourism.

At 5:15 p.m., labor, business and environmental leaders hold a news conference ahead of New York state Energy Research and Development Authority's public information meetings on offshore wind power for New York, Queens Public Library, 92 - 25 Rockaway Beach Blvd., Queens.

Technical aspects and proximity to the Long Island Power Authority's substation on Cove Hollow Road in East Hampton make Beach Lane in Wainscott an excellent potential landing site for the transmission cable that would run from the proposed offshore South Fork Wind Farm, officials of Deepwater Wind told members of the Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee's environmental subcommittee on Monday morning at Town Hall.

By 8:36 am, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Metropolitan Transportation Authority was advising customers, on Twitter, that B train service was suspended, D trains were rerouted onto other lines, N, R and Q trains were running with delays, all thanks to a «loss of power affecting signals at DeKalb Av.»

«Chief Edwin Clark lacks the moral authority to lead a discussion on the so - called «re-structuring» of the Nigerian federation, at this critical point in the country's history; given the fact that, throughout the six years his «son», former President Goodluck Jonathan, was in power the elder statesman kept mute and actively participated in the economic dismemberment of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

«The previous shutdown had some effect because even though gas was available from TEN, Ghana Gas was going through maintenance and that compelled the Volta River Authority to use other means which included buying more crude oil to be able to address the power short fall at that time.

It seeks information on interactions between Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former senior aide, Joseph Percoco, Department of Public Service chief of staff Tom Congdon, New York Power Authority president and CEO Gil Quiniones and Len Walker, who has worked as a director of special projects at NYPA.

Advocates have maintained contact with the project partners at the New York Power Authority (NYPA) and the NYS Office of General Services (OGS) through regular correspondence and public meetings since the project announcement, becoming increasingly frustrated with what they feel is a lack of data provided by the project managers.

In the wake of chancellor George Osborne's announcement this week of a ground - breaking set of devolved powers for Greater Manchester, LGC interviewed political leaders at half of the 10 councils that make up the city region's combined authority about the negotiations leading up to the deal and its implications for local government.

Currently, the Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) prepares the most comprehensive view of state and local economic development efforts statewide; however, the usefulness of this presentation is limited because it is based mostly on available data published for past years.1 A UEDB should be part of the Executive and Enacted budgets and should include prospective information showing the costs of all economic development programs for the coming fiscal year.2 To capture the full scope of economic development costs, a UEDB should bring together tax expenditures and spending at state agencies and authorities, as well as the value of discounted power offered by the New York Power Authopower offered by the New York Power AuthoPower Authority.

The governor pointed his finger at the Long Island Power Authority and electric companies after Hurricane Sandy, deflecting criticism for the region's slow recovery.