Sentences with phrase «by bearing witness»

Norman believed that by bearing witness to cruelty and oppression in his paintings, he might move his viewers to consider their own role in systems of power.

Which brings me back to charter schools and their relatives in mainstream school systems that are, by bearing witness, pushing their colleagues in better directions.

People don't go to Sparks movies for subtlety; they go to warm their hearts by bearing witness to true love.

Firstly, by bearing witness, journalists could hold the state accountable, often by publishing the recommendations of the human rights commissions.

The way of Christ does not advance by deceit or hypocrisy but by bearing witness to the truth — even when that truth is ugly.

During the fall of 2016, I attended an artist talk given by Bear Witness, from the music group A Tribe Called Red, while we both engaged in our respective residencies at the Banff Centre.

Not exact matches

Parental consent on many topics (NOT A LAW) 6: Thou shall not kill — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY (long pre-dated it) = > Goes back to the first offspring of humanity or the chosen depending on version 7: Thou shall not commit adultery — huge number of Christians commits adultery by LEGALLY remarrying = > still actionable in various tort and civil cases across America (didn't say it was a law) 8: Thou shall not steal — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY = > many laws on this we are very concerned about our stuff 9: Thou shall not bear false witness — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY = > purgery anyone 10: Thou shalt not covet — NOT A LAW = > stalking laws (Stalking IS a crime.

Parental consent on many topics 6: Thou shall not kill — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY (long pre-dated it) = > Goes back to the first offspring of humanity or the chosen depending on version 7: Thou shall not commit adultery — huge number of Christians commits adultery by LEGALLY remarrying = > still actionable in various tort and civil cases across America 8: Thou shall not steal — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY = > many laws on this we are very concerned about our stuff 9: Thou shall not bear false witness — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY = > purgery anyone 10: Thou shalt not covet — NOT A LAW = > stalking laws

The beautiful and dignified celebration of the liturgy remedies the dulling of Christian and human sensibilities, motivates Christian mission and service, and reminds us that the disciples of the Lord are ambassadors of the King of Glory, who bear witness that the present things are passing away in light of the radical reordering of history and the cosmos by the Paschal Mystery.

Milosz wished to bear witness to the great Christian insight about beauty, so memorably expressed by Dostoevsky: beauty will save the world.

Santorum seems to not be bothered by that rule about not bearing false witness, when he talks about the president and his faith.

He created a world that bears witness to His glory (Psalm 19:1 - 6), and when humanity sinfully rebelled against His purpose, He chose Israel to be instructed by word and deed in the ways of covenant fidelity in order to become a light to all the nations (Genesis 12:1 - 3; Deuteronomy 4:1 - 8).

When I blessed his house on December 16 of last year, I was struck by the decoration bearing witness to his faith and to his passion for history and the gendarmerie.

[27] The Easter chant, «Christ is Risen from the dead, trampling down Death by death, and bestowing life to those in the tombs» also bears witness to this.

As she is borne aloft by four handsome angels, below her are the oceans, abysses, deserts and mountains where she witnessed to the sacred moment of her encounter with the risen Lord.

Because it is God who draws us to Himself, and reveals Himself by His Holy Spirit, who bears witness in our spirit what the Truth is.

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.

Steven thanks for your testimony I agree with your view that homosexuality is not an orientation we are not born that way but its a choice.We can choose to live by what our flesh dictates or we can live by what God reveals through his word and by his holy spirit.If we are serious about following God we chose to follow him so it does nt matter whether gay or straight our choice is to follow God with all our heart.I have never been gay but have battled and was overcome by my fleshly desires not until i turned from them and asked the holy spirit to help me have i been changed for that i will always be grateful to the Lord.So in that sense we are no different our testimonys are important and are powerful.Thank you for your witness and may the Lord continue to use you as his vessel to touch lives and hearts for him.brentnz

They met those problems on the new level of an inter-racial, international fellowship entered by free personal choice, but all subsequent Christian history bears witness to the fact that the adjustment between society and the individual, both within the church and out of it, still remained one of the most crucial problems of mankind.

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.»

Another area where Christians can bear witness in an anxious age is by committing to the work of racial justice.

Thus we come to the new common task shared by all Christian Churches of our time, namely that they all must bear witness to God, his Christ and his grace in a world that does not want to hear their message and that they all have the duty to proclaim it in such a way as not to make it unintelligible or incredible.

And finally, if we do not want the world to be submerged by a pagan secularism without God and without hope, we ought not to compile statistics and make forecasts, but should bear our Christian witness in the market place by word and deed.

Surely we Catholics do not yet collaborate with all other Christians as much as we might to bear witness to the gospel by sacrifice and love.

[The Holy Spirit] intimated that great law of God's governance, to which all who study that governance will bear witness, that sin is ever followed by punishment.

By claiming someone else is a sinner, you violate one of the things that YOUR belief would dictate is a sin, by bearing false witnesBy claiming someone else is a sinner, you violate one of the things that YOUR belief would dictate is a sin, by bearing false witnesby bearing false witness.

The fact that both the event and the community have, from the very beginning, been called by His name bears witness to this same centrality.

This didacticism is redeemed from arid or smug judgmentalism by empathy, even for the destructive crusaders: «the historian as he gazes back across the centuries at their gallant story must find his admiration overcast by sorrow at the witness that it bears to the limitations of human nature.»

Romans 2:14 - 15 14 Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law, 15 since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.

Gideon's Torch By Charles Colson Word, 553 pages, $ 21.99 Charles Colson is a great Christian witness, minister to the imprisoned, champion of unity, and defender of the helpless, born and unborn.

Second, Korean Christian faith, unlike the «ghetto faiths» of many other Asians, bears witness to the ways in which Korean Christians, moved by their deep faith in Jesus Christ as the Suffering Messiah, joined other Koreans to resist historical forces of injustice that were denying Korean people of life, justice and dignity.

They accept His grace and mercy; they seek to follow His example by being baptized (see Matthew 3:13 - 17), praying in His holy name (see Matthew 6:9 - 13), partaking of the sacrament (communion)(see Luke 22:19 - 20), doing good to others (see Acts 10:38) and bearing witness of Him through both word and deed (see James 2:26).

The Ten Commandments: 1: Have no other gods — NOT A LAW 2: Make no graven image — NOT A LAW 3: Don't take the name in vain — NOT A LAW 4: Honor the Sabbath — NOT A LAW 5: Honor thy father and mother — NOT A LAW 6: Thou shalt not kill — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY (long pre-dated it) 7: Thou shalt not commit adultery — huge number of Christians commit adultery by LEGALLY remarrying 8: Thou shalt not steal — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY 9: Thou shalt not bear false witness — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY 10: Thou shalt not covet — NOT A LAW

Hence, if we situate the call of Abraham, as well as other special revelatory moments of the history of religion, within the wider context of cosmic evolution, this may help soften the «scandal of particularity» associated with any unique or distinctive summoning by God of a particular people to bear witness in a novel way to the divine promise and mystery that come to expression first in the very creation of the world.

Note that his chief work is not teaching or healing but the calling of a distinctive community to bear witness to God by making known His «name.»

The Church's distinctiveness within this tradition lies simply in the fact that it bears witness to the eternal promise especially (but certainly not exclusively) by reference to the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.

The opening verse of I Peter bears witness to the establishment within this period by unknown missionaries of Christian churches in many parts of Asia Minor that Paul had left untouched (Chap.

In recent years, however, there has been a wealth of literature, disseminated all the more effectively by means of the internet, which bears witness to the rediscovery of Church teaching concerning contraception by many young couples.

Therefore the Christian can and may and must live in this world and, by doing so, bear witness God in this world.40

The fact that he was surprised by his loss of religious employment bears witness to how out of touch with reality his years as a pastor have made him.

Founded in 1994 by Chuck Colson, the great evangelist and preacher, and Richard John Neuhaus, the Lutheran pastor who later became a Catholic priest, ECT continues today to bear good fruit in its witness to Jesus Christ and the gospel.

The church for too long as beared a false witness, essentially lied about the true nature of God, by committing itself to everything else, BUT LOVE!

What are the concrete ways that we can bear witness to the unity of Christ's body by working together for the flourishing of our neighborhood?

It is for this reason that I have a strong sympathy for the first act of reform by Ulrich Zwingli in 1522, when he bore witness as priest to the eating of sausages during Lent.

In the same letter, we read that the Gospel message «was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard, while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to His will» (Hebrews 2:3 - 4).

By means of this displacement of meaning, we are presented with a nearly complete internalization of testimony: «If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; for this is the testimony of God that he has borne witness to his Son.

John bears witness that the Logos of God, by which he created the world, became flesh and dwelt among us.

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The worth of the person one marries can not be measured, and the institution of marriage bears witness to this fact by the absolute commitment it asks each spouse to make to the other.

We thank them and pray that, they may treasure their vocation, as the baptismal rite puts it, «to be the best of teachers, bearing witness to the faith by what they say and do, in Christ Jesus our Lord.