Sentences with word «bearers»

We were created to be image - bearers of the Almighty God together, so there is no room for that language or practice without some serious hermeneutical gymnastics and soul damage.

I believe that part of God's Kingdom includes the wholeness of restored image - bearers of God, working and living and loving in beautiful communion together.

The vision in the creation narrative in Genesis is that of women and men created to work together as image bearers of God and coworkers tasked with caring for the earth.

In the ancient Near Eastern world, kings were considered divine image - bearers, appointed representatives of God on earth.

In previous works — all, with the exception of El Sexto, set in the highlands — the bearers of highland culture were often vanquished by costales or their minions, but their culture with its values and spirit prevailed.

As bearers of God's presence they become «rooms» in «the Father's house,» rooms that Jesus prepared by going away into death and resurrection.

And even more fundamentally, if we are bearers of inviolable dignity and a basic right to life in virtue of our humanity, and not in virtue of accidental qualities such as age, or size, or stage of development or condition of dependency --- if, in other words, we believe in the fundamental equality of human beings --- how can a right to abortion (where «abortion» means performing an act whose purpose is to cause fetal death) be defended at all?

As in this world we're but way - farers, Kind Heaven has made us wallet - bearers.

There you have it: the elders offering final counsel to the successor generation, the beneficiaries of the greatest educational system in the world, the bearers of civilization's legacy across new frontiers of human aspiration and achievement.

The Greeks, like the Hebrews, valued women primarily as the bearers of their children.

The prodigal son, the friend at midnight, and the unmerciful servant are allegories, she believes, but they are no less authentic bearers of the mystery of the Kingdom than other figurative modes of expression.

Said he to them, «Two Imperial [armour] bearers guarded me all night.»

Men, acting like men, know that women are made in the image of God and deserving of dignity and respect — they are image bearers.

It is on the basis of being image bearers of God that we are different from all other living creatures.

By addressing a fundamental need for aesthetically pleasing, story - driven, yet functional design, Tinker Hatfield promotes a vision of life driven by service and joy, equipping image - bearers to perform the way God Himself designed them to be.

The coffin bearers cursed each other, the onlooking street urchins guffawed, until at last the cracked casket was picked up again and the procession, with renewed profanity and singing, went on its way.

A band played melancholy ragtime jazz music before six pall bearers carried the coffin inside the cathedral with hundreds inside preparing to pay a final farewell.

Technically speaking, the hope is that I'd arrive at that conclusion because of having been trained in the school of thought that sees them as gifts from God, image - bearers, and that dying for another is to demonstrate and glorify the cross.

Local passports, valid for ten years, allowed their bearers an unlimited number of entrances into the United States, provided that they remained within 25 miles of the border and stayed for no more than 72 hours at a time.

Nor is the special status that most people ascribe to humanity explained by the Judeo - Christian belief in humans as image - bearers of God.

The old socialism considered the industrial working class as the bearers of the new society.

Both can become either the bearers of emancipation or the avatars of misery, or some of each.

Known as the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church, the congregation's concentration on a musician may seem to some as borderline idol worship, no different than groupies following the Grateful Dead or their jam band torch bearers Phish.

Christians are to be bearers of that light — the world should be different and brighter because we are in it.

It was there that Islam began and it was the Arabs who were the bearers of triumphant Islam for its first five hundred years.

While in Siberia he was converted to a sort of mystical populist faith which ultimately came to be directed toward the Russian people as bearers of God, a nation - church.

It is written in the book of Dawkins 2:28 - 34 «Then shall the bearers of false witness claiming supernatural phenomenon and worshipers of deitys fall upon the righteous with their knives and swords, tearing my people apart who did nothing but point out that their God's did not exist.

The oldline churches of the National Council are in important respects the institutional bearers of the moral legacy of the Puritan and constitutional founders of the American experiment.

Elsewhere I have outlined a typology of the bearers of religious authority continuing the studies of Max Weber, Max Scheler, Rudolf Otto, F. Znaniecki, and others: founder, reformer, prophet, seer, magician, diviner, saint, priest, and religiosus.

In the Kingdom of God, we don't have to choose between lifting up men or lifting up women, it's not one or the other: it's both together, it's the sacred union, the created purpose as co-image bearers of God.

We were, after all, created as God's image bearers, yet we've lost some of that image through our rebellion.

«Reassertion» is a decisive term here, for fundamentalism seems to rise when the authoritative bearers of a religious tradition are perceived as falling into intellectual drift — when those responsible for cultivating and propagating the vision do not, can not or will not defend the fundamentals that give the vision articulate form, or when they begin to advocate changing the definition of what is fundamental.

God's case for marriage has remained unchanged since Eden because bent and broken image bearers can be redeemed and transformed.

In the words of Carl Henry: «Evangelicals are to be known in the world as the bearers of good news in message and life — the good news that God offers new life on the ground of Christ's death and resurrection in the context of a biblically controlled message.

All through the 19th century these European nations had been extending their empires by colonising the world, chauvinistically regarding themselves as the bearers of light to a world in pagan darkness.

why the special treatment for cross bearers?

They are bearers and interpreters of a common tradition built upon a concrete revelation: God became human...

To me the most moving moment in the worship of the midshipmen came when, at the close of the service, the color - bearers entered the chancel to get the flags — the flag of the corps and the flag of the nation — and then turned in solemn silence toward the altar and dipped the colors before the cross, as though to say that above all earthly devotions there is in this universe One to whom our supreme loyalty belongs, and that the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.

«This person takes shape in many likenesses and life - ways, the bearers of which are identical in their innermost essence.»

Human beings have a duty to respect words as bearers of life, and hence to use only words that symbolize what is true and right.

We are, rather, the bearers of the call of God to break every barrier, to expand every creed, every synthesis of yesterday, and to walk by faith into tomorrow, always searching and exploring and expecting a new revelation.

All animals eat and drink to satisfy hunger and thirst, but in man these activities may be transformed into bearers of meaning.

«In order to be and to remain truly present to the child he must have gathered the child's presence into his own store as one of the bearers of his communion with the world, one of the focuses of his responsibilities for the world.»

Words are the most powerful bearers of life and thought.

The act of speaking itself suggested to me certain examples that were found helpful by my bearers, and although the examples could be transposed into the key of the act of writing, it seems to me that they are more vivid as they stand.

U2 were the most prominent Generation X bearers of the counter-culture's anti-war torch, and they were all the more compelling for connecting this to their (3/4 of the band) Christian faith.

I long for a world where God helps us to do that and restores our place as his image bearers.

They are motivated instead by nothing more than the desire to see a particular political agenda prevail, but they pretend to be the bearers of some mighty revelation, vouchsafed to them alone, leading one and all to a bright new world of greater inclusiveness and sensitivity.

(55) We send not the messengers save as bearers of good news and warners.

In the present field of discussion the only points of certainty seem to be these: (a) both creation and redemption establish the equality of men and women before God, as both image bearers and children of God through Christ (Gen. 1:26 - 27; Gal.