Sentences with phrase «baptism by»

Talk about baptism by fire!

«To be perfectly honest», says Somple, «those first few years were like baptism by fire.

It prefers the «baptism by fire» route, which means that there's little to no warning before a drastic policy shift.

Your freshman year of college can be a baptism by fire when it comes to finances.

It was for me a baptism by fire.»

The traditional passage from law school graduate to market - ready lawyer usually involves getting hired as an associate and working either in a quasi-mentorship, getting buried under documents without much instruction from above, or some form of baptism by fire.

By Amy Phan Taylor.Not long ago, setting up a solo law practice involved a large degree of baptism by fire.

«We won, but that was a baptism by fire.

BAPTISM BY FIRE, featuring new paintings, sculpture and works on paper by the Atlanta pair, opens at Barbara Archer Gallery with a free artist talk on Thursday, November 29 at 6:30 pm and runs through January 5, 2013.

The beauty of Early Access is that it puts the developers in a direct relationship with the customers, removing this «milestone ransom», and subjects the concept to a baptism by fire.

Karsting: In the last few weeks, I have truly learned what the old adage, «baptism by fire,» means!

Hopefully, then, the first home won't be «baptism by fire.»

The gang over at ifixit have given the Dell Streak its official baptism by taking the gigantic handset right down to the screws.

ST: At times it feels like a baptism by fire.

Stuart's profound weather knowledge and accuracy have given him high status among forecasters, but no physical baptism by storm.

When he goes for a campus visit, he finds himself on the receiving end of a baptism by fire!

After we'd agreed to celebrate our Speedway baptism by depressurizing with some cold beers around the motel swimming pool, a local drugstore clerk gave us the bad news: «Boys, this is Indiana.

Or maybe that should be a baptism by snow, hailstones, rain, and wind.

He brings Motor Trend «s Jonny Lieberman to the U.K. and gives him a British sports car baptism by fire with two of the most extreme examples you can buy.

Brown got his baptism by fire and his opinion changed.

He articulated many of the same challenges that all teachers go through, and reminded me of my challenges when I first started teaching (what I like to call baptism by fire).

Brooks called her on stage, handed over his guitar, and invited her to perform in a «baptism by fire.»

«It was exciting, but it was definitely baptism by fire.»

In this clip, the actor talks about the baptism by fire of working on the film, getting over the daunting sexual content, and the lasting acting advice she got from her director.

Since I knew nothing about the industry and had zero experience... it was baptism by fire!

Our last subject in the race for the 36th Council District seat is the Rev. Conrad Tillard, formerly known as Conrad Muhammad, formerly known as Conrad X. Reverend Tillard first came to public attention as the chief youth minister of the Nation of Islam, and then the minister of Harlem's famed Mosque No. 7, the former seat of Malcolm X. Reverend Tillard made some conventionally controversial remarks against white devils and Jewish slave masters, etc. from that esteemed perch, was later stripped of his ministry under a cloud of suspicion, and then underwent a second Damascene moment when he left the NOI and returned to the faith of his fathers, receiving baptism by the Reverend Calvin Butts.

baptism by fire was the only way to go.

Then this promo proved just how much this guy grew in the business, after years of baptism by fire on the main roster.

Its time for either Chambers or Gabs baptism by fire.

Instead, after Hurricane Irma wiped two games off the Seminoles» September schedule, Blackman was subjected to a baptism by fire, courtesy of Bradley Chubb.

Baptism by fire!

4 We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.

This baptism by the Holy Spirit marked by internal suffering and turmoil is the only way in which God reaches man.

Traditional Catholicism speaks of baptism by blood, by intention, by desire; and some of the great Catholic doctors have even spoken of every soul which loves truth as being somehow part of the Church whose Lord is himself the Truth.

The conditions imposed on any person selected to take the place of Judas were that he had been a disciple and had kept company with Jesus and the eleven from the baptism by John until the ascension.

Genesis and Exodus, for example, are clearly based on earlier Babylonian myths such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Jesus story itself is straight from the stories about Apollonius of Tyana, Horus and Dionysus (including virgin birth, the three wise men, the star in the East, birth at the Winter solstice, a baptism by another prophet, turning water into wine, crucifixion and rising from the dead).

Which water, Peter also note s is a symbol of baptism by which only 8 were saved during the flood of Noah.

That's why we Mormons believe in some component of works (think service, baptism, going to church, etc.) and have a provision for baptism by proxy for those that have passed and did not have the chance during this life.

In the last few paragraphs of this chapter we shall attempt to explain the Eucharist, and the sacrament of baptism by which it is preceded, according to the spirit of process theology.

Genesis and Exodus, for example, are clearly based on earlier Babylonian myths such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Jesus story itself is straight from the stories about Apollonius of Tyana, Ho.rus and Dionysus (including virgin birth, the three wise men, the star in the East, birth at the Winter solstice, a baptism by another prophet, turning water into wine, crucifixion and rising from the dead).

Genesis and Exodus, for example, are clearly based on earlier Babylonian myths such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Jesus story itself is straight from the stories about Apollonius of Tyana, Horus and Dionysus (including the virgin birth, the three wise men, the star in the East, birth at the Winter solstice, a baptism by another prophet, turning water into wine, crucifixion and rising from the dead).

It does not recognize as valid the rite that is called baptism by either the Mormons or the Jehova's Witnesses because neither of these is a christian denomination.

Very few people realize this, and many churches and denominations think there is only one — baptism by water.

If Baptism works in infants in this way, adults are prepared for Baptism by purification of the heart from passions.

Baptism is the rite of admission to the church, practiced by almost all denominations, most of which recognize the validity of baptism by whichever church it is performed.

Actually, Mormon doctrine says the original church and its practices such as baptism by immersion (as Christ did) was lost during the dark ages which made a «restoration» necessary.

Focusing initially on key events in Jesus» ministry — his baptism by another eschatologist, John the Baptist, and his call of 12 disciples, probably symbolizing the restoration of the 12 tribes — he only later turns to the sayings material.

It includes both formation through evangelization and enculturation — the processes by which we are converted and initiated into the church and its tradition and thereby come to acknowledge ourselves as a people in covenant with God — and education, or those processes of actualization that help us to live out our baptism by making the church's faith more vital, conscious and active in our lives; by deepening our relationship to God; and by realizing our vocation in the world so that God's saving activity may be manifested in persons and in the church.

Rejection of churchly traditions in favor of Scripture, «the living oracles,» had quickly established the distinctive features of Disciples worship and polity: weekly communion, believer's baptism by immersion, a prominent role for the laity, and fervent regard for congregational autonomy.

Even Jesus himself showed us by example in His baptism by John what we must do.