Sentences with phrase «call people and nations»

The Church is sent into the world to call people and nations to repentance, to announce forgiveness of sin and a new beginning in relations with God and with neighbors through Jesus Christ.

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The year - long series, «A Nation Under Our Feet,» will be inspired by Steven Hahn's 2003 book of the same name and «will find the hero dealing with a violent uprising in his country set off by a superhuman terrorist group called the People.»

But would a nation of productive and hard - working people, let's call them ants, normally run trade surpluses?

Indigenous peoples and human rights groups say that a new United Nations report on Canada's human rights record should be a wake - up call for all Canadians.

A person that believes they have been called by an invisible being to lead a nation and that has codes to nuclear weapons is about as scary as it gets in this world.

When someone calls that Imam one of the most evil people on the planet, when someone says he wants to build his center to train terrorists, when someone calls for amending the constitution to exclude Islam, when someone says our founding fathers wanted this to be a Christian nation and that they didn't want Muslims included, when Muslims are afraid to go out because they will be attacked, when Christian pastors are preaching against Muslims (as opposed to the belief in Islam), THAT is hatred.

It's called deconstruction and the GOP is leading the way because, as this nation knows all too well, the religious right of America hates to pay a fair living wage to workers, they prefer to enslave people to serve them.

every man is Jesus if is human a humanitarian who give they life the soldier the real citizen other are person and people we all are a family GOD is the woman we all had a mother think Obama mama is all our mama this nation brain wash because greed and ignorance everyday in deception and manipulation is world order that is why 9/11 call the police the CIA explain all in movie in deception the rich few know all is in the moral, respect and honor the president is correct all in the education but ignorance is bless because we all have greed, they want dome is shipper that is why gay a lot in this nation ignorance..

It is a call for like - minded people of like - faith to UTILIZE the religions freedom established by our forefathers to vote into office a person who... according to our shared beliefs... fits in with our concept of what makes a person «honest, forthright, [and has] a healthy vision for the nations future & its citizens.»

They were called out by God to be His chosen people, and as such, as a people they had to be dramatically different from the surrounding ungodly, pagan nations of the time.

God has called people to Himself, and into His Church, from every nation, tribe and tongue.

and like lnivig stones be yourselves built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Today as i was thinking about Jesus sending the demons into the pigs and i thought God is not punishing but judging and he made a decision.This idea came from your other discussion which i believe is what he does he decides to make a judgement call he is sovereign and it shows his tender heart and mercy that not a single person was afflicted.The pigs unlike men have no soul so have no eternal consequence upon them they live and they die.either way they were going to get killed.We can be assured that Gods judgements are right and just the pork was going to the gentile nations who worshipped other Gods and no doubt would have been offered to idols so there is a consequence when we disobey the Laws of God even even when we do nt know or understand his laws.brentnz

More positively, as fundamentalists have seen the nation become more secular they have felt a responsibility to be «an exemplary, called - out people,» pure in word, deed, thought and appearance.

It has various names, but whatever we call it, it means understanding, friendship, sympathy, and appreciation of other people not those of our race, or our nation, or our economic class, but of all the folk that God has made the world around.

According to the apostolic witness, the call to holiness begins with divine election: God's summons to Israel, and later to the Church, to be a holy nation, a people set apart as God's own treasured possession, called to worship, witness, and good works (see Ephesians 1:4, 1 Peter 2:9).

A holy God will not suffer his plans for a vast, stupendously intricate, marvelous creation and the men designed to be his sons to be flouted and destroyed by self - willed and proud little delinquents, aged 60 as often as 16, called nations or civilizations as often as persons.

That was the dilemma after praying and seeking the Lord he shows me a couple of things one is God calls the shots not satan satans demons bow to Gods authority and must get his permission so they beg Jesus to send the demons into the pigs.Jesus allows it so we can see satans purpose is always to destroy life.God is still the same yesterday today and forever he is the giver of life.We do know that the pigs were owned by the gentile nations and may well have been offered or about to be offered to there gods which would mean they would belong to satan.Like the example Jesus said about taxes should he pay them and he said give to caesar what is caesars.Or the other option was that it showed Gods mercy to the man that had been healed by delivering him of the demons and he was also protecting the people in the area from the influence of the demons.So God is still the same he is unchangeable and definitely not bipolar.I would say if anyone was bipolar in this situation it is David and he like us struggled with the same choice to walk according to the flesh or walk according to the spirit of God.brentnz

It's hard to understand a culture that encourages violence against women, violence against their neighbours, violence and hatred against other nations, suicide bombings, stoning people to death, so called «honor killings», chemical and biological weapons testing on prisoners, and a long list of other «not so nice» practices.

We are to be a holy nation, a people of God's own choosing, called to proclaim the excellencies of Him who called us out of darkness and into His marvelous light.

Last year, my wife, Bobbie, led a movement on social media called #middaybabymidday — mobilizing hundreds of thousands of people to set their alarms for midday and pray for the nations, to warfare against darkness and take a stand against the enemy that his plans shall not prosper.

In short, the classical contexts of Christian theologies and theoria historically witnessed the recurrent betrayals of the Cross by the sword, Christianity by Christendom, as colonizations brought new peoples and lands into the orbit of the dehumanizing power games of Europe's so - called Christian cultures and nations.

Dr. Elders said she wanted to educate the American people, and it appears she succeeded with a few, an inordinate number of whom are children of the counterculture working at what used to be called the nation's newspaper of record.

This nation is so broken... the core values of being a republican has become the so called moral majority which apparently means that all good people and american's have to be christians.

They would be rightly called part of the «evangelical right wing»; they believe abortion is the great evil of our generation, that the US is a Christian nation, and that «no one who is a Christian can vote for this (policy / party / person).»

For some reason, I feel like calling myself «blessed» sends the message that I have somehow earned God's special favor, that God is rewarding me for good behavior, and that the millions of people who suffer from war, famine, poverty, and sickness because they weren't lucky (or blessed or fortunate) enough to be born in the wealthiest nation in the world are simply not as loved by God.

Isa 42:5 Thus says God the LORD, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread out the earth and its offspring, Who gives breath to the people on it And spirit to those who walk in it, Isa 42:6 «I am the LORD, I have called You in righteousness, I will also hold You by the hand and watch over You, And I will appoint You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the nations, Isa 42:7 To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the dungeon And those who dwell in darkness from the prisand stretched them out, Who spread out the earth and its offspring, Who gives breath to the people on it And spirit to those who walk in it, Isa 42:6 «I am the LORD, I have called You in righteousness, I will also hold You by the hand and watch over You, And I will appoint You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the nations, Isa 42:7 To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the dungeon And those who dwell in darkness from the prisand its offspring, Who gives breath to the people on it And spirit to those who walk in it, Isa 42:6 «I am the LORD, I have called You in righteousness, I will also hold You by the hand and watch over You, And I will appoint You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the nations, Isa 42:7 To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the dungeon And those who dwell in darkness from the prisAnd spirit to those who walk in it, Isa 42:6 «I am the LORD, I have called You in righteousness, I will also hold You by the hand and watch over You, And I will appoint You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the nations, Isa 42:7 To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the dungeon And those who dwell in darkness from the prisand watch over You, And I will appoint You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the nations, Isa 42:7 To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the dungeon And those who dwell in darkness from the prisAnd I will appoint You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the nations, Isa 42:7 To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the dungeon And those who dwell in darkness from the prisAnd those who dwell in darkness from the prison.

Your JESUS followers - after destroying a rich and prosperous nation called Iraq to find weapons of mass destructions (which never found till today) sent 1.2 million innocent people 40 % of them are children to heaven..

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

How to catch the full significance of what - it - is to be a person, an individual inside various contexts and conventions (family, work, community, nation) with all the appropriate constraints and protocols and self - preserving staus quo conserving impact — and still maybe coming to terms with one's own calling and vision?

It got it from religion, first during the Great Awakening of the l740s, when religious revivalism inspired the sense of national community which made possible the formation of a new nation, and later in what Bellah calls «public theology,» with its theme that Americans are the «chosen people.»

The Conference called the churches to bear courageous and unflinching witness to the nations that the base purposes of people, whether individuals or of groups, can not prevail against the will of the holy and compassionate God.

It's not judging, it's called seeing the lies that are destroying our nation and families and children and not being afraid to stand for the TRUE GOD AND JESUS CHRIST and not turning my head like all the others while people suffer and die and the name of my Lord and Savior is profanand families and children and not being afraid to stand for the TRUE GOD AND JESUS CHRIST and not turning my head like all the others while people suffer and die and the name of my Lord and Savior is profanand children and not being afraid to stand for the TRUE GOD AND JESUS CHRIST and not turning my head like all the others while people suffer and die and the name of my Lord and Savior is profanand not being afraid to stand for the TRUE GOD AND JESUS CHRIST and not turning my head like all the others while people suffer and die and the name of my Lord and Savior is profanAND JESUS CHRIST and not turning my head like all the others while people suffer and die and the name of my Lord and Savior is profanand not turning my head like all the others while people suffer and die and the name of my Lord and Savior is profanand die and the name of my Lord and Savior is profanand the name of my Lord and Savior is profanand Savior is profaned!

We go forward with confidence, because this call of history has come to the right country... Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation.

Rather it would point to Christ as One who has underwritten the promise of God to renew all life... Such a view certainly leaves the possibility open for a person who had been witnessed to, to want to name the Name and become part of the historic community, the church, which is called to be faithful to the Gospel message among the nations.

They control the majority of the World's wealth and arguably are one of the most powerful blocks in the world, hardly a quality one would associate with a «minority» Perhaps the millions of non Christians who lost land or culture (not to mention millions of lives) as a result of Christian nations colonizing the World justifiably would call this headline atrocious as it simply is historically untrue if one looks at the World over the past 300 or so years and it ignores the reality of suffering brought forth by a particular religion that seeks to change all people to any one particular religion.

A contingent from Buffalo boarded buses at the LaSalle Metro Rail Park and Ride at 4:30 a.m. today for Albany as part of the New York Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival — one of more than 30 such rallies being held across the nation.

The United Nations on Tuesday Match 20, 2018, called on Turkey to end its 18 - month - old state of emergency, saying that the routine extension of emergency powers has resulted in «profound» human rights violations against hundreds of thousands of people and may have lasting impact on the country's socio - economic fabric.

The People's Democratic Party (PDP) has called on Nigerians — youth and adults — to embrace the renewed effort toward rebuilding the nation in order to tackle the menace of insecurity, economic hardship and other challenges Nigerians are experiencing under the present All Progressives Congress (APC) government.

Calling on the international community, especially the United Nations and the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the heinous crime being committed by the military against Nigerians in the Southeast, Governor Fayose said there was no law in Nigeria empowering the military to declare any organization as terrorists and to kill unarmed people.

A federal prosecutor, Howard S. Master, in a summation, cited what he called the «core principle» that «this nation shall be governed by the people and for the people.»

HRC Front Desk: [phone] TTY: [phone] Toll - Free: [phone] HRC Web site comment page General membership email at HRC: [email protected] Back live today after the holiday break and today kicking off a campaign on the show, along with many LGBT bloggers and opinionmakers in a blog swarm, urging people to call the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay group, and tell the group to pressure President Obama on getting «don't ask, don't tell» repealed this year.

In which police regulation are aggrieved personnel's asked to direct their grievances to the president of the nation, bypassing all authorities in his line of command including the Vice president who is Chair to the Police Council, yet this lad has done this and no person within the service has called him to order.

By calling on politicians to ensure politics is relevant, young people can finally be encouraged to have a say in the nation's future and halt this downward spiral of non voting.

They would need someone to lift the nation's spirits, someone to make Britain feel proud about itself, someone who could bring a bit of light to the gloom and do the patriotic, flag - waving — albeit a newly drawn up flag — and chest - beating turn that people up and down the land would be calling out for.

The 2017 budget was to ensure confidence in the economy — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:52 The cedi remains relatively stable against he major currencies — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:51 Interest rate in 2017 continue to decline — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:50 Inflation continue to decline in 2017 — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:48 We have returned to a robust growth after 2016 recorded the worst growth in three decades — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:47 The call to relieve our country and people from a wretched existence is urgent — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:45 The should not simply be a statement to share the national cake between different groups but it should capture how a nation comes together to meet the challenges of our time — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:45 We plan on providing opportunities as many Ghanaians as possible.

When Governor Cuomo introduced what he calls the Justice Center for Protection of People with Special Needs, he said it would establish the «strongest standards and practices in nation».

«We call on all our Niger Delta peoples, for the sake of our future,» it read in part, «to look to our nearest neighbours, the Igbos, for immediate and strong alliance to enable the Niger Delta nations and the Igbo nation to face the obvious change that will come to Nigeria, in strength, justice, brotherhood and truth.»

The People's Democratic Party (PDP) has called on Nigerians — youth and adults — to embrace the renewed effort toward rebuilding the nation in order to tackle the menace...

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Dr Dakuku Peterside, has called on the people of the state, especially supporters of the APC to remain calm, maintain the peace and have confidence in the nation's security agencies.