Sentences with phrase «authority over all living»

No such luck with church leaders at a regional level who had authority over my life.

But its authority over our lives can diminish.

A man of noble birth, representing the power of Rome, endowed with authority over life and death, confronted by a barbarous colonial of no name or estate, a slave of the empire, beaten, robed in purple, crowned with thorns, insanely invoking an otherworldly kingdom and some esoteric truth, unaware of either his absurdity or his judge's eminence.

They believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God, and accept His authority over their lives.

A Church without the literal Divinity of Christ is a Church without guiding authority over the life of man.

They underscored Ellul's contention that nuclear weapons command a religious authority over our lives.

The man who is made in the image of the gods is given power and authority over all living things.

People have become disoriented as traditional cultural forms lose their authority over our lives.

We go to work, socialize, and share public space with many people who reject the moral law's authority over their lives, people who regard abortion as a fundamental right or who think sexual liberation an imperative.

I find Piper's phraseology curious: «when a woman begins over time to assume and authoritative role...» But I claim that you should allow no one to assume authority over your lives.

If we believe in God, then we believe in a greater authority over our lives and as such, we must be willing to accept that we can not always get what we want.

«Buffalo is a better place today because Carl Paladino no longer has any power or authority over the lives of tens of thousands of children of color in the Buffalo Public Schools,» the Buffalo chapter of Showing up for Racial Justice, which has staged a series of anti-Paladino protests, said in a statement.

The Will will have no legal authority over the life insurance proceeds.

Not exact matches

«It turns up being a joke, and that's what the CFPB really has been, in a sick, sad kind of way, because you've got an institution that has tremendous authority over what you all do for a living.»

Although the relevant authorities have made it clear over the past few months that all insurance policies — with the exception of life insurance — are subject to the levy,...

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

Following majority Lutheran tradition, individual congregations retain significant authority over the teaching and parish life in their context.

Man has been given the authority over his own life, but he must have the Lord's direction to succeed.

After all, who wants to grant civil authorities who can not bring themselves to recognize their responsibility for unborn babies power over life and death?

It's about his life, his teachings, his authority as the Messiah, his death, his resurrection, his lordship over all creation, and his anticipated return.

Not because they are «evil»... but because they want and need to have some more authority, power, and safety over their lives, their careers, and their family.

• Epistemology or knowledge: God has revealed, through Scripture and nature, that males are to hold authority over women the whole of their life.

The inevitable battle between capital and labour, an especially important feature in Marxism, is replaced by disputes over the allocation of consumption and authority, disputes firmly set in a shared effort to make life good.

Authority over matters of life and death belongs to God, who has shared this authority with the governing powers (cf. RoAuthority over matters of life and death belongs to God, who has shared this authority with the governing powers (cf. Roauthority with the governing powers (cf. Romans 13).

Its process - the life of technology - is operating merely on the flat plane of what works and it asserts its total authority over the individual; it asks for its price.

Men in posts of great authority were called gods because they held power of Life and death over people, and administered justice.

wow... glad you set us all straight with your reasoned points... guess billions of people over the past two thousand years wished they hadn't wasted their lives... perhaps I should just give up my relationship with God because you are now the walking authority

I approach the Bible in all three connections as the communication of doctrine from God; as the instrument of Jesus Christ's personal authority over Christians (which is part of what I mean in calling it canonical; as the criterion of truth and error regarding God and godliness; as wisdom for the ordering of life and food for spiritual growth; and, thus, as the mystery - that is, the transcendent supernatural reahty - whereby encounter and fellowship with the Father and the Son become realities of experience.

Statism is the worship of the power and authority of government over the lives of men.

Ask yourself, what middle - class parent in America today supposes that her authority over the crucial details of her child's life is nothing more than a revocable delegation from New Mexico or the feds?

«WE HAVE THE VICTORY» For those struggling with thoughts of unforgiveness and attacks on the mind especially deceiving thoughts and doubts these are from satan in the word they are called fiery darts we are to quench those darts by faith so we need to read the word and believe that Gods word is true.We also have the victory over these thoughts because when we accept Jesus the holy spirit dwells within us so satan does nt have authority over us he can not rule what belongs to God he can only deceive.We can not defeat the enemy in our strength we need the holy spirit when we try and overcome him in our strength we struggle especially with our thoughs and in the area of sin.If you are having evil thoughts or doubts commit your way unto the Lord and let him fight your battle.Tell the enemy he has no authority over you that you are under the covering of Jesus Christ and when you have doubts memorise verses on faith ie greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.The holy spirit is just like Jesus talk to him be friends with him he helps us to live like Christ and gives us the power to do it.We are overcomers more than conquerers through Christ who strengthens us.brentnz

Christian patriarchy (a variation of which is called complementarianism) relies on the strange contradiction that God created gender complementarity for His glory and for the good of the world, but that such complementarity must be dispensed of when it comes to the life of the church, where men hold exclusive and total authority over the congregation.

During the 1960s, however, professed progressives concluded that the principal threat to individual freedom was not the state, big business, or economic privation, but traditional customs and social mores that claimed authority over people's lives and actions.

It has been created by men who are quite unconscious of the indirect consequences of their intellectual assumptions, and who as individuals would energetically oppose the extension of the authority of national culture over the whole range of life.

When I think about the authorities in my life over the years, not one of those who was successful as a leader, as an authority, ever spoke about the authority they have.

So then, Abraham did not speak, he did not speak to Sarah, nor to Eleazar, nor to Isaac, he passed over three ethical authorities; for the ethical had for Abraham no higher expression than the family life.

When the church is consumed and possessed by mortgages, capital campaigns, membership numbers, qualifications for membership or deacon or elder, the variety and format of financial reports, redecorating, ordination policies, the proper delineation of committee responsibilities, the aggregation and strengthening and protection of church hierarchical authority, the preference for political associations and prominence instead of being a voice and influence for justice and compassion, seasonal vestment colors, the abandonment and refusal to acknowledge congregations who dare to be excited by their proclaiming and provoking and living and sharing the Good News, the continual choosing and preoccupation with better organization over better outreach, or what styles of worship are to be offered — then it is time for an earth - shaking, stone - rolling, curtain ripping, hurricane - strength, fiery and noisy transformational revolution that will resurrect the Good News in the body and spirit of communities and individuals.

I certainly don't doubt God has a purpose for your life, but according to scripture it does not involve teaching or usurping authority over men.

The quest for inclusiveness in moral education can be pursued only by emptying lived morality of its particularity — those «thick» normative meanings whose seriousness and authority are embedded within the social organization of distinct communities and the collective rituals and narratives that give them continuity over time.

Moreover, along with this experience of inwardness in his own religious life went his disillusionment over the external reform imposed by royal authority in the reign of Josiah.

The editors and their collaborators know better; but only in selected instances have some of them managed to transcend such limited conceptions in behalf of the central purpose of the volume as a whole: to demonstrate how the literary dimensions of these texts do, indeed, make credible the power and authority they have exhibited for more than two millennia in shaping decisively the lives and minds of thoughtful people the world over.

Thus in the long struggle through Israel's life in the land, Yahweh attained victory over Baal by various processes; in part, it was by the use of force and authority — a summary statement which cloaks the political strife that continued until the Yahwists were able to overwhelm their opponents.

When you are tired of capital campaigns for more structural imagery; nauseated by controversy over who is fit to be a church member, deacon, or elder; repulsed by the aggregation and protection of authority that defines narrow rigid paths to ordination; grievously hurt by the abandonment and refusal to acknowledge congregations who dare to be excited by their proclaiming and living the Good News; or sick of choosing better organization over better outreach — you are asking for revolution.

Mussolini's infamous quote captures the remarkable hubris of fascism, its frightening impulse to rule over every dimension of life (the word is from the Latin fasces, the bundle of rods sporting an axe «head that symbolized the unchallenged state authority of Rome).

He wrote in his tract On the power of a Christian congregation over its preachers: 5 «We conclude then, that a Christian congregation that has the gospel, possesses not only the right and power but also owes it to the salvation of souls according to the baptismal bond it has entered into, to shun, avoid, depose and withdraw from the authority which the present bishops... exercise; for it is publicly manifest that they live and govern in opposition to God and his Word.»

It may have less to do with the actual food than a need to test the limits of your authority and assert some control over his life.

Over the last 12 months Labour has increased the number of local authorities with living wage employer status from two to eight, while also adding Birmingham, Oxford and Preston.

Now that word has leaked that convicted former lobbyist Richard Lipsky is cooperating with federal authorities in hopes of reducing his jail sentence, «no - good» elected officials wringing their hands, looking over their shoulders, and treating their cellphones like «live» grenades.

I remain scarred for life over the Transit Authority's (and MTA Inspector General's Office) corrupt, dishonest and unfair labor practices.

Meanwhile, the Port Authority's eponymous bus terminal, the nation's busiest, is over capacity and nearing the end of its life span.