Sentences with phrase «became apostle»

Though Paul became an apostle through his encounter with the risen Christ, we might well reach into the future and drag him back to stand with John the Baptist under the cross, for his own preaching is no less Christologically ordered than that of John.

Saul, who later became apostle Paul, persecuted christians, but God still chose him and used him to write over two - thirds of the New Testament.

Instead, all Eatsa dishes are centered on quinoa, the high - protein seed for which Friedberg has become an apostle of sorts.

He is double - minded, he that with his enthusiasm could apparently become an apostle, but can quite as readily become a Judas, who treacherously wishes to hasten the victory of the Good.

The final element in becoming an apostle of Jesus is that a person must also have received a direct appointment to the office of apostle by Jesus Christ Himself (Luke 6:13 - 16; 1 Cor.

His own life was turned upside down, and he found himself commissioned to become an apostle of the death and Resurrection of Jesus.

You can not go back and become apostles of the dead past, driveling after ceremonies, and letting the world do the thinking and studying.

Who the book is addressed to, the ascension of Christ, and when and how the eleven disciples became apostles are addressed.

The eleven disciples and Matthias became apostles during this assembly.

After his ascension, the disciples who remained loyal to Jesus would become apostles, the nucleus of the church, its supreme pastors and shepherds, its constituted leadership.

Not exact matches

Indeed, Antonetti's customers have become such apostles for SoapWorks, it's as if she's mixed a marketing ingredient into her formula.

Judas was not to become a martyr because of the way the apostles wrote about him in the Gospel - they saw through the eyes of men, and Judas was unable to redeem himself before he died a natural death, dying instead loathed, hated & driven to suicide for his deed against the Son of God, Jesus, whom he had Loved so much.

Before that, the Apostles thought that you needed to become Jewish under the Law before you became Christian!

This testimony about Jesus as only a son of David (2 Samuel 7:12 - 14 NIV) who was punished by God with the floggings of men for claiming to be god thus becoming the «bright morning star» (Isa.14: 9 - 20) was revealed through the Bible by Maestro Evangelista in http://www.thename.ph which proves he is the «angel» or messenger sent by Jesus to deliver his testimony or HIS ADMISSION that he is not a son of God and as the «bright morning star «to all churches (or believers of Jesus) thus nullifying the «antichrist» lie made by the apostle John.

Many of the writings of the prophets and apostles were collected together and compiled into the Holy Bible, and by the efforts and great sacrifice of the early european reformers, these scriptures became available to the masses.

The apostle Paul wrote that «to the Jew I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those under law I became as under law... that I might gain those under law.

I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

Even as Jesus foretold Peter's actual betrayal he confirmed his choice of Peter as the only one who could confirm his brothers (his fellow apostles) in the faith whenever they became confused about the truth and how to govern the Church - the phrase Jesus used was that they would be «sifted like wheat» (Luke 22:32).

Perhaps after shuddering with relief upon remembering what he almost did, Judas might have gone on to become one who, like Paul, was «unworthy to be called an apostle» but nonetheless proved to be a great apostle.

For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men.

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Paul always referred to himself as Paul, an apostle of... Titles have become an in - thing today.One minister I spoke to was very adamant about titles, because in his view it created protocol.

But if the news of Sunday is true, they must become «apostles,» those sent to Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the ends of the earth.

When Paul uses the term he most probably meant the apostles Peter and James, or their allies, who were going to his churches and preaching that his Christians needed to convert to Judaism before they would become actual followers of Christ.

They are little â $ œaâ $ and little â $ œpâ $ apostles and prophets, nobodies who have become somebody to God through Christ.

As often as I recall the help I received in my study of the apostle Paul, from the most able New Testament instructor I ever had, I become somewhat frightened; frightened enough to seek yet another touch, frightened enough to look yet more intently.

First, with the passage of time the apostolic tradition, which had been the sum and substance of (the Apostles») teaching on the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, became broadened to include extra-biblical, oral teaching which was supposed to have come from the Apostles.

To be an apostle is to become expendable, low status, and exposed to ridicule and insecurity in this life: â $ œFor it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like men condemned to die in the arena.

The understanding of leadership in the New Testament that should frame our understanding of apostles is the foot - washing, low - status slave (John 13), and the â $ œrace to the bottomâ $ to become a â $ œslave of allâ $ (Matthew 20:20 ff; 1 Corinthians 9:19).

These twelve became known as His apostles.

IE «willful» I will not go into deep explanation but simply stated, this passage is not speaking to people who commit sins on purpose but to people who practice sin as an accepted way of life.not people like you and I and the apostle Paul who says in Phillipians 312Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.

-------- Oh love is good, but how about::::::::::::::::::::: It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, 12to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

But other than that, they've become a den of sin — even their priests molest children, and they fell away from the teaching of Jesus and his apostles long ago, worshiping saints and images instead of the One to be worshiped and adored.

To explain how, he turned to the second chapter of Paul's Letter to the Philippians where the apostle speaks of the self - emptying or kenosis of God: «Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant... [and] humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross.»

My 4 year old asked me about a sermon regarding the gospel story about the apostles in the boat become afraid when the storm appears and Christ walks on water to the boat.

The problem of authority was bound in any event to arise in a period when the Jerusalem Church had ceased to be an effective force and the apostles had passed away; the development of a stable form of church government had become a matter of urgency, and in settled churches where the first enthusiasm had often become lukewarm (Revel.

Jose Vasconcelos was appointed minister of education in 1920 and became the «apostle of the new secular religion.

According to an early legend, Mary Magdalene, apostola apostolorum, apostle to the apostles, became a traveler preaching to kings and emperors about the resurrection.

Even though the Church of Rome acquired particular respect because of its association with the apostles Peter and Paul and eventually became the point of reference for the whole Church, the relationship among the local churches and with Rome was not understood in the sense of jurisdictional superiority or subordination.

But for those who want to long for the good old AMC - portrayed America before liberals messed everything up, when men were men, women women, and everyone dressed so proper, it does not really compute that Grant became an acid - apostle.

If there is one thing more than anything else which could be referred to as the catalyst which enabled the Easter faith to become a reality, it would be the experiences of those apostles, beginning with Peter, which made them convinced that Jesus had appeared to them.

Church culture in America has become a place of theological discourse, yet, in the early days, the apostles were adding to their numbers, by sharing whatever was needed.

For Luke, more than the other three Evangelists, the resurrection of Jesus had virtually become the resuscitation of the physical body, an historical event of which ample proof had been provided for the apostles by Jesus himself.

For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, as though sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to mortals.

Irenaeus: «We are not made gods from the first, but first men, then gods» Polycarp, himself a disciple of the apostle St. John... man is a creature who has received a command to become God.

The church had become confused based on some things the apostle had taught earlier.

This becomes particularly important to us, in our present immediate context, when we consider the practice of the apostle Paul.

It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and int he knowledge of the son of God and become mature attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

Fairly soon he asked the high priest for authority to become an «apostle» to the synagogues at Damascus, in order to continue his inquisitorial work there.

My thoughts were that — as I read 3 -14 in its entirety, as was the original Greek, it seemed to me to say that perhaps Paul was saying that He and the other apostles and early followers were predestined, but that the Ephesians (and all others from then to now) became saved upon believing.