Sentences with phrase «by the elders who»

Throughout her narration she was continuously interrupted by the elders who interpreted the story in terms of the prejudices and traditions which their preunderstanding projected without any apparent consciousness of alienating distanciation.

They respect knowledge gained through lived experience monitored by elders who differ profoundly in social class and worldview from the teachers and education encountered in American academic institutions.

Not exact matches

This role is often filled by a coach, mentor, or elder — someone with wisdom and experience who can help with hard decisions.

For months, Morel — an elder (read: over 40) member of Moment who jokes that his white hair makes the LAWA reps feel more at ease — has puzzled over what he calls the logistical nightmare posed by the work site.

«During 2008 to 2010, we were able to more than double our operations worldwide,» says David Frey, says David Frey who, alongside his brother Rene, runs the company which was founded by their eldest brother Kevin and his wife Katarina.

Constantine I, who was the first Christian Roman emperor and who also had his wife, the Empress Fausta, and his eldest son, Crispus, put to death, seized property from pagan temples and by the end of his reign was ordering the pillaging and the tearing down of pagan temples.

Reverse mentoring connects older leaders with younger teachers, opening a path for enhancing the elder's practical relevance while the young draw from the wisdom and integrity of those who have been sustained by principle relevance for many years.

I also had a situation in that church where I was being sexually harassed by somebody who was an elder there for several years as a teenager.

jwt, yeahright, tom tom on the pipe, and others YHWH made this law of life for all the people of this earth, so to say your god is redundant, and at a lost for as He states in Isaiah 56, and in Exodus 33 vs. 16 this is for all nations, and people of this earth those who were mislead, and not taught properly by these priest, popes, false prophets, elders, and shepherds, as YHWH taught us of them all misleading the flocks, in Malachi 2, Jeremiah 23 vs.1 - 8, Ezekiel 20, and Ezekiel 34, yet YHWH will save them all when His day comes, as said in Isaiah 51 vs. 5, that His righteousness is near.

The pastor who vehemently fought for me and other blacks to become members was maligned by his elder board and fired.

What was meant by «castle» was defined in 1763 by the British Prime Minister William Pitt, also known as Pitt the Elder, who said:

* When «The Sympathy Card» gets played, there's a tendency to silence anyone who blurts out, «Hey, whaddyuh mean by this [executive elders / troublesome congregants / spiritual wife / legal wife] stuff?»

The living creatures who have been in the midst of the throne turn and bow to the Lamb with the twenty - four elders, and they are joined by myriads of angels.

By working with their hands, the elders can not only provide for their own needs without depending on the financial support of others, but also help provide for the physical needs of those who are unable to work, people like orphans, widows, and the sick, or even those who minister with them, but who are not able to work.

Now, if we be allowed an imaginative look into the future, such communities might in certain circumstances choose an «elder» (presbyter) from their midst who would then become their priestly president through sacramental ordination by the bishop.

And now the elder went over the many agonies: to suffer hunger and cold, to all but kill oneself through overwork, to be kicked by a cruel driver, to be abused by unskilled persons whom not a single step you take will satisfy, yet who blame and punish the horse for their own blunders, and then at last some winter, when old age has come on, to be driven out into the bare woods.

The unchurched wouldnt even know what an Elder is, except by our heritage standards — that being Native Elders — who I would say lead — hmmmm with a Chief!

1 Peter 1:18 knowing that you were not REDEEMED with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, Revelation 5:9 And they sang a new song, saying: «You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have REDEEMED us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, Revelation 14:3 They sang as it were a new song before the throne, before the four living creatures, and the elders; and no one could learn that song except the hundred and forty - four thousand who were REDEEMED from the earth.

Many younger women who disapprove of abortion nevertheless do not want the legal option to be closed off because they realize that circumstances may conceivably arise in which they might need to exercise the abortion option, but beyond a certain age threshold there is probably diminished empathy with less «analytical» younger women, who should now, their elders conclude, be compelled by the State to carry an accidental pregnancy to term.

That is, how often do older people really want to see themselves represented by the exceptions — those elders who «look younger» or who are «exceptionally active for their age» or who have just won a marathon or a swim meet?

It was written anonymously by someone who called himself «the elder.»

The meaning of this last word is much disputed, and amongst those suggested are that Mark was literally an interpreter who translated Peter's Aramaic into Greek, that Mark was Peter's «dragoman» (cf. Acts 13:5), and that Mark «interpreted» Peter's teaching by handing it on and explaining it (Papias speaks of himself as handing on what he had learnt from the elders «with my interpretations»).

Once again, the parable, we are told, was by way of a defense of what Jesus was doing against the censures of the pious, who are slyly satirized in the figure of the smug elder brother («I never once disobeyed your orders!»).

Jesus is confronted by the chief priests and elders who want to know by what authority he has been doing «these things.»

Tullian Tchividjian Confesses Second Affair Concealed by Two Coral Ridge Elders Tchividjian prays his story will «serve as a warning» on sin, while Florida ministry leaders who tried to help reflect on what they'd do differently.

Everyday Dress Up by Selina Alko — We grabbed this from the library shelf when my eldest was a toddler and all my girls have loved this story of a girl who dresses up as great women in history.

Strengthen our sick and our elders waiting to see your holy face at life's end, that they may be accompanied by true compassion and cherished with the dignity due those who are infirm and fragile.

I have a good friend who was told by a pastor and an elder... who was there as a witness... that she was fat because she doesn't submit to her husband.

If that is a fair statement, where does it leave Phaeroh, who not only was chosen from all time to persecute Hebrews but had to have some additional heart - hardening work done by God to stop him caving in after the angelic hitman had plagued his kingdom and slaughtered all the eldest kids?

While many Elder Boards are filled with godly leaders, there are some that are filled with power brokers who like to control the church by constantly holding the threat of termination over the head of any pastor who tries to — against the will of the board.

When the church is consumed and possessed by mortgages, capital campaigns, membership numbers, qualifications for membership or deacon or elder, the variety and format of financial reports, redecorating, ordination policies, the proper delineation of committee responsibilities, the aggregation and strengthening and protection of church hierarchical authority, the preference for political associations and prominence instead of being a voice and influence for justice and compassion, seasonal vestment colors, the abandonment and refusal to acknowledge congregations who dare to be excited by their proclaiming and provoking and living and sharing the Good News, the continual choosing and preoccupation with better organization over better outreach, or what styles of worship are to be offered — then it is time for an earth - shaking, stone - rolling, curtain ripping, hurricane - strength, fiery and noisy transformational revolution that will resurrect the Good News in the body and spirit of communities and individuals.

The gospel may have been written by a disciple of the disciple John; it may have been written by the other John the elder, who was perhaps some kind of follower of the disciple John; or it may have been written by an unknown teacher of Ephesus who himself felt that he possessed a strong apostolic authority.

A group of Presbyterian elders who were also realtors in a Pittsburg community were asked by their pastor to open the way for a cultured Negro family to purchase a home in their neighborhood.

Even in groups such as those, who try to build a tight corral with high fences, it never works — the «sinners» still make it in, as has been aptly illustrated to me in every «church» of which I have been a part, including by the pastors and elders.

This is true of the virtuous woman of Proverbs 31 as well, who though something of a whirling dervish of godly femininity was not, like her husband, by the city gates with the elders (Proverbs 31:23), but working tirelessly to bless her family and manage her home for God's glory.»

I have seen too much: — an arrogant pastor that told me to leave the grounds and slammed the church door behind him; another that told me «all bisexuals are promiscuous» and thought this was not bigotry nor prejudice; — a young well - meaning pastor that was my bodyguard once, and never returned to feed the poor in their tent - villages; — a wonderful older brother that helped feed the poor but was scolded by his church too many times for being corrupted by his friendship with me; — an elder with weight identity issues that had medical intervention who talked down to me since I had gender identity issues and medical intervention (I laughed during the meeting because the hypocrisy was amazing...); — an elder that was like Jesus without condemnation towards me, and amazing... but we had to meet in my home far away from his rejecting church.

It's about the girl who was told by her elder board that she needed to forgive her abuser and not report his crimes to the police because it might «damage the reputation of Christ.»

A God who constantly confused all by favoring the younger son over the elder son... that disrupts everything that we understand about power.

Bishop Robinson had brought to his argument the thinking of two theologians in particular, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a young German pastor executed by the Nazis, and Paul Tillich, an elder statesman of theology who had earlier escaped the Nazi tyranny.

Ray was an elder who showed no evidence of transformation, and the church never seemed disturbed by that fact.

Often they found the way barred by the elders of the village who claimed that the village was too poor or its land too scarce to support the urban refugees.

A possible solution to many of the problems involved is provided by Papias (c. A.D. 120), who appears to distinguish between John the apostle and «the elder John... a disciple of the Lord», the latter of whom was resident in Asia round about A.D. 100.

When you are tired of capital campaigns for more structural imagery; nauseated by controversy over who is fit to be a church member, deacon, or elder; repulsed by the aggregation and protection of authority that defines narrow rigid paths to ordination; grievously hurt by the abandonment and refusal to acknowledge congregations who dare to be excited by their proclaiming and living the Good News; or sick of choosing better organization over better outreach — you are asking for revolution.

I have a case study that we often provide to churches in which a pastor is informed one night by a congregation member that his son has just disclosed being sexually abused by the interim youth volunteer, who happens to be a well - known, respected elder in the church.

Some of them, however, come to life for us: Condanna, the confessor; Sariputta, one of the disciples who is allowed to hear a word similar to that spoken by the Lord to Peter: he compares him to the eldest son of a world ruler, who, following the king, together with him sets in motion the wheel of rulership which this king lets roll over the earth; his friend Maha - Moggallana, the possessor of mysterious miraculous power, whose beautiful account of being called is passed on to us in the Mahavagga.

The group of letters traditionally ascribed to John, the author of the Fourth Gospel, contain no mention of their author, except that II and III John are written by someone who calls himself «the elder».

First, for the authority of the work; secondly, that parents and masters... may when they come home either commend or reprove, either reward or punish; thirdly, that those of the elder sort who are not well grounded may then by an honorable way take occasion to be better instructed.35

And three or four of the «town elders» would camp out for an hour or so on Halloween to give out some little goodies to the few children who's parents would have them stop by on their way to the bigger more happening trick or treat dwellings.

The ancient «Vino Pùcinum,» to which the PVXINVM name pays homage, was first praised by Pliny the Elder in Naturalis Historia in the 1st century AD, who exalted the wine for its medicinal virtues.

He'll be 42 when he next strikes a ball that counts against Dustin Johnson, Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy, and a host of other young players who grew up idolizing Tiger but are unaffected by the aura surrounding their elder in his glory days.