Sentences with phrase «biblical characters»

Besides him, there are other biblical characters to choose from, and they have their own pros and cons.

I love it when artists and actors try to imagine conversations between biblical characters as well.

For books that specifically focus attention on the history of the church, paintings depicting biblical characters or events are commonly used as cover artwork.

It is not saying anything about a gay relationship between biblical characters.

The longing for comfort is natural and normal, but we must resist thinking that a comfortable lifestyle or life is what God desires of us, as there are many Biblical characters who lived and died in extremely uncomfortable lives.

Prominent biblical characters like Abraham, Jacob (the wandering Aramean), Joseph, Ruth, David and many others all have epic migration stories.

Lost might have ruined that one for us... which just goes to show... just because Paul or other biblical characters used a certain phrase, doesn't necessarily mean we have to use the same exact terminology, especially if the term has developed negative overtones in our own culture.

Of course, Eve is also the name of the popular Biblical character from the story of Adam and Eve.

Add in the fact that evidence for Jesus (and most biblical characters and events) is non existent in the historic record.

Once Noah and company are on the ark and the waters rise, the screenplay leans heavily on invention, throttling the narrative with melodrama and mistaking Noah for biblical characters not named Noah.

We named her after Woman Wisdom partly because She's a pretty kickass biblical character, and partly because our lives were such a mess at the time of Sophia's birth.

He describes his work simply as that of making pictures for Christians, and he gives the impression that he works in the spirit of those early medieval artisans who carved biblical characters on capitals and reredos to remind worshipers of well - known stories.

But the day - to - day reality of biblical characters holds the same challenges that face us, and our filmic counterparts.

Perhaps equally sincere but no more worthy of the popularity they enjoy are the exegetical methods common today: selection, elimination, reduction to general truths, modernizing Biblical characters through popular jargon, or archaizing the present by calling upon congregations to «go back to old Jericho for a few minutes this morning».

And countless biblical characters prove this — as well, of course, as Jesus» sacrifice of Himself.

Esther is not a flawless character (few biblical characters are), but to question her basic morality like this without any support from the text or from traditional interpretations of it seems from my perspective to reveal a troubling agenda.

The pals encounter biblical characters such as Cain (David Cross) and Abel, Abraham (Hank Azaria), and others, and wind up in Sodom.

The following are the words of David Waddell; author of «Characters of the Bible: Finding My Stories in Their Stories,» and «Holiday Biblical Characters: Finding My Stories in the Stories of Christmas and Easter.»

Jonah The Musical is not the first musical based on Biblical characters.

All Biblical characters we read about are to some extent abstractions from the real person who lived in time and space.

I just finished re-reading «Prince Caspian» in antisipation to seeing the movie; and was reminded that the kids are protrayed as «kids» and not some «biblical character» which I find, most often, are rendered as shallow and devoid of foibles that make us all human.

Noah, the film, may be inspired by the biblical character and events — but it is not a straightforward retelling of that story.

While the Big Bang and the rest of science is compatible with a Creator, it is not compatible with the biblical characters Yahweh or Jesus.

What makes a sermon «dramatic» is not whether a preacher decides to portray a biblical character.

By acknowledging the situation of the biblical characters, he created the possibility for listeners to identify their own confusion and skepticism in the wake of a violent act.

Biblical characters have left their fingerprints all over the land!

D.C. and you'll find symbols and scriptures and Biblical characters on the archetecture of gov» t buildings.

Fishon raises a good point of the pilfering treasurer (sounds similar to a biblical character who hung himself) and what should be done.

Here is a list of some biblical characters who met God and yet chose to disobey him: Adam and Eve Abraham Jacob moses David The Israelites who saw his glory

They are not to slip into the clothing of biblical characters.

Let's just say it drove me crazy to see the biblical character Vashti criticized for not submitting to her husband (by refusing to parade around naked in front of his drunken friends!?)

When we read all the statistics on how little people in the pew know about the actual words of Scripture, why can't we find a pastor who preaches through a book of the Bible or through a series of biblical characters... in the era of story, why do we continue to preach topics and tips?

It is however surprising that a minister misinterpreted the love between two biblical characters.

Like the best of biblical characters, the folks who inherit Fisher & Sons, like the folks who inherited Lynch & Sons, often find themselves playing in the deep end of the pool, among the verities and uncertainties that are our human lot.

You can choose to name your baby after a biblical character who inspires you most or who holds many of the values you most respect, or you can choose a biblical name with another meaning.

But it stands for Methuselah, the biblical character whose name is synonymous with longevity.

The biblical characters of Adam, Noah and Methuselah all enjoyed life spans of more than 900 years.

After being typecast as a gangster he gradually expanded the scope of his roles, and, in the»40s, gave memorable «good guy» performances as in a number of psychological dramas; he played federal agents, scientists, Biblical characters, business men, bank clerks, among other characters.

Through a book Horatio owns called The Gospel of Man you can read whispers of who this biblical character, «Man», was and what was so great about him.

Infants are like monkeys, babies like cavemen, toddlers like Biblical characters, and so on.

This animated Power Point presents the story about how Leonardo came to paint the Biblical characters of Jesus and Judas in his famous painting of The Last Supper.

Verdict We aren't experts in theology, but Wikipedia tells us that Cain, the Biblical character, did not have a very pleasant life and was generally not the sort of person anyone would want to name anything after.