Sentences with phrase «bears power in»

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Even the fact that you were born at this time in history, that you were given a brain and a heart that you didn't have to earn, and that you get to benefit from the awesome power of modern technologies like the Internet — none of this was within your control, nor did you create these gifts.

Sure, you may be a born introvert, utterly lacking in the desire to listen to the sound of your own voice, but according to Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, that doesn't mean you can't become an excellent public speaker.

Chalkstone was born out of counter-insurgency tactics used by troops in Afghanistan, but its unique methodology is now being used by miners, which can map - out power structures and counter the potentially crippling risk of strikes and political opposition.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

He is old enough to have owned the original Mac, and still has his Mac Portable in a cupboard as he can't quite bear to part with it, despite the fact that he has no idea where the power supply is.

Like the S&P 500, the near - term balance of power in the NASDAQ 100 and NASDAQ Composite has also shifted to the bears.

The first decade of the 21st century, however, would bear witness to a spectacular turning point in the private launch timeline: the arrival on the scene of disruptive billionaire tech entrepreneurs with some truly ostentatious rocket - powered ambitions.

Nevertheless, recent price action in the stock market has not yet convincingly confirmed the balance of power has shifted back to the bears, so we are a bit cautious about aggressively jumping in the short side of the market just yet.

Evidently, there's not a lot of «buying power» available from converting that tiny pool of remaining bears, but there's a lot of room available in the bearish column in order to populate a more typical divergence of opinion.

The church is not authorized to represent the reign of God, his justice and peace, in any other way than that in which Jesus represented it, namely by being partners with him in challenging the powers of evil and bearing in its own life the cost of the challenge.

These efforts gathered steam in the early years of the last century as the Progressive Movement sought at once to break the power of the old party bosses and to bring the insights of the social sciences to bear on public life.

Her latest novel, The Handmaid's Tale (Houghton Mifflin, 1986), is commanding attention as a considerably more ambitious book, part of a new phase of her work that includes the poems in True Stories and the novel Bodily Harm (both published in 1981) Exposing male / female power games within an alarmingly widened field of vision, Atwood bears prophetic witness to the largest, most subtle and most violent manifestations of power in our time.

Theresa keep what you were doing when you reached out to the homeless lady that was the right thing to do that was motivated by the holy spirit do nt follow what the church does do what the Lord wants you to do and it will bear fruit.Let them do there thing you just keep following the Lord and listen to him in your heart and let him lead you.People do things for different reasons to please others for power to be seen to do the right thing all those are the wrong reasons they are just dead works without the Lord we can do nothing.Dont let others turn you away from what the Lord wants you to do its him we need to please always.Be encouraged that the Lord used you to touch a life that is awesome.And do nt take the rejection personally because its not you they are pushing away it is the Lord the yare not listening to him but doing wha tthey want to do it will bear no fruit.May the Lord bless you and your family in your ministry step out in faith and trust him he will not disappoint you because he is with you.

Christians who live where bombs fall in the streets and warlords bear weapons into the marketplace know the power of prayer more vividly and practically than most of us who know the securities of an affluent culture.

True power and true victory lie in love for your enemies, in self - sacrificial service, in infinite forgiveness, and in bearing sin and shame for the sake of others.

Speaking in abstract terms about blank, amorphous «innocent lives» keeps us from confronting the reality that if most of these children are born at or near the poverty line, then the lives we are saving are more likely to be troubled ones, and if nothing changes, those lives will get caught in vicious cycles powered by poverty and systemic racism.

In the Williams novel, it is a stone of great power, rather than a ring, but it has the same effect on those who bear it: They become its possession, not its possessor.

I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you to serve and bear witness... to whom I send you to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.

All cultural creation in some measure bears the mark of spirit, for it proceeds from the projecting, initiating power of free self - transcendence.

We believe that Mary conceived the child by the Holy Spirit, as is made clear in the Book of Mormon: «And behold, he shall be born of Mary, at Jerusalem which is the land of our forefathers, she being a virgin, a precious and chosen vessel, who shall be overshadowed and conceive by the power of the Holy Ghost, and bring forth a son, yea, even the Son of God» (Alma 7:10).

The love of a man and a woman, lived out in the power of baptismal life, now becomes the sacrament of the love between Christ and his Church, and a witness to the mystery of fidelity and unity from which the «New Eve» is born and by which she lives in her earthly pilgrimage toward the fullness of the eternal wedding.»

Love - making and baby - making can, in fact, be separated, and that means inevitably that the whole superstructure set up in order to keep babies from being born out of marriage no longer possesses the same urgency, and consequently, no longer can undergird sexual practices with the same power.

We believed that one of the clearest ways we could bear witness to the good news about Jesus was to demonstrate that the gospel has power to bring divided peoples together in a common community.

They feed them this bull since they were born, and use islam to keep them poor and dumb, to keep themselves in power.

But power had and still has no ear for truth, so God spoke to Egypt's powerful in the language of power, and the first - born in Egypt died.

It is little wonder that in Galatians, Paul emphasizes that Jesus was born under the law, for Jesus» vulnerability to the law is the sign of the power of the One who was to fulfill the whole purpose of the law.

Yet for some reason, we so easily speak about God's power as if God was being revealed in the building of crosses and not in their bearing.

People get bored of resisting and simply return to business as usual, allowing those in power to act without contradiction.

Insofar as one partakes of this deepened mode of modern consciousness, one is made aware of depths and nuances in the complexities of man's existence which at once sober one with the limits of man's reason and perceptive powers, and awaken one to the very dimensions of experience to which the themes of the Christian faith bear witness.

What's with this double make - believe that pretends both that we are now waiting for Jesus to be born in Bethlehem and that we really expect the heavens soon to open and reveal the Messiah «coming in clouds with great power and glory»?

America is born of a Christian nation and in less than 200 years we have rose to be one of the worlds greatest powers.

He sees contemporary persons involved in what he describes as a process of oscillation: at those times when people have their bearings, there is a sense of wholeness, power and integration that encourages creativity and expression; at times of anxiety or weakness in the face of difficulties, there is a need to reach beyond the resources available in oneself to regain a sense of well - being and to «get it together.»

The Episcopal church had too much money and power early in the twentieth century and, like the House of Hapsburg manifested in the person of Prince Charles of England (or I could make a bitter allusion to the Bush clan but will refrain), became dull - witted and boring without an infusion of mongrel ideas.

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

You're confused, Demuth.The idea that «everyone is a child of God «has no Biblical basis whatsoever; who told you otherwise?Only those born again in Christ via the regenerative power of the Holy Spirit are children of God in the Bilical sense.If you are going to comment on biblical issues at least get your theology straight; otherwise you sound just as silly as the other God - haters on this blog.

But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.

Solzhenitsyn even blesses his prison cell for having purged him of the confusion of his age, for once on the other side of history — free from the petty progressive notions of one's time — one enters history in a new way, as a witness to the inner force that intuitively resists oppression born of the human will to power.

In both northern California's recent Gasquette - Orleans Road Supreme Court ruling of 1988 and South Dakota's 1983 court ruling on Bear Butte, indigenous peoples lost protection of and access to sacred sites which in their view have for centuries held life - giving power and meaninIn both northern California's recent Gasquette - Orleans Road Supreme Court ruling of 1988 and South Dakota's 1983 court ruling on Bear Butte, indigenous peoples lost protection of and access to sacred sites which in their view have for centuries held life - giving power and meaninin their view have for centuries held life - giving power and meaning.

This is to davidnfran hay David you might have brought this up in a previous post I haven't read, but i did read quit a bit about your previous comments and replies at the beginning of this blog, so I was just wondering in light of what hebrews 6 and 10 say how would you enterprite passages like romans 8 verses 28 thrue 39 what point could paul have been trying to make in saying thoughs amazing things in romans chapter 8 verses 28 thrue 39 in light of hebrews 6 and 10, Pauls says that god foreknew and also predestined thoughs whom he called to be conformed to the image of his son so that he would be the first born among many brothers and then he goes on saying that neither death nor life nor angels nor rulers nor things present nor things to come nor powers nor hight nor death can ever separate us from the love of god in christ jesus so how would i inturprate that in light of that warning in hebrews 6 and 10,

Tom Tom In the beginning the Sprit of God hovered over the deep... let there be light and there was The Holy Spirit hovered above Mary and the Power of the Spirit of God entered in Jesus Jesus said you must be born again not of flesh and blood but of the SpirIn the beginning the Sprit of God hovered over the deep... let there be light and there was The Holy Spirit hovered above Mary and the Power of the Spirit of God entered in Jesus Jesus said you must be born again not of flesh and blood but of the Spirin Jesus Jesus said you must be born again not of flesh and blood but of the Spirit

The same love that neither death nor life nor any power is able to separate us from (Romans 8:38 - 39) remains with all who bear the name of Christ, wherever they may be in the world.

He does this by bearing the power of God («glory» in verse 11), to which all men, like the disciples in the story, should respond in faith.

I was born in Liberia, West Africa, where my father served in the Special Security Service of President Samuel Doe (no relation), who had come to power through a violent military coup ten years earlier.

BROOKE BALDWIN and those whites who have long history of embracing white supremacy have been trick by BILL CLINTON and his fallen BLACK ANTEBELLUM and HIPHOP ANGELS in beliving it will be easy to get rid of ANDRE HIMES not knowing about the power of the holy lamb, who has guarding ANDRE life since the day he was born AT SHAW AIR FORCE on APRIL 30 1965 EZEKIEL CHAPTER 36 Thus the LORD GOD to the house of ISRAEL.

Christianity, throughout its history and especially in the Middle Ages, appears to be an institution bearing the heavy imprint of class power and prestige.

It was not delivery from life's dangers that defined a miracle: it was the coping power, the power present in any life situation, that bore witness to the mighty power and presence of God.

I was born in north central China, far from port cities and displays of Western power, and lived there for 17 years until shortly before Pearl Harbor.

In fact, the problem of sexual differentiation is finally irrelevant to the principle of power conceived in relational imagery, even though sexual differentiation has a bearing on the specific dynamics of relational power involving the two sexeIn fact, the problem of sexual differentiation is finally irrelevant to the principle of power conceived in relational imagery, even though sexual differentiation has a bearing on the specific dynamics of relational power involving the two sexein relational imagery, even though sexual differentiation has a bearing on the specific dynamics of relational power involving the two sexes.

But if a man believes in the omnipotent, omniscient and loving God his life will be destiny in an even deeper sense: for it is wholly borne by the power of God without which nothing, not even man's own free act, can exist; his life as a whole and in all its details is always lived before the omniscient God of love.

He who as soon as born keen - thoughted, foremost, Surpassed the gods, himself, a god, in power; Before whose vehemence the worlds trembled Through his great valour; he, O men, is Indra.