Sentences with phrase «chosen nation when»

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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).

Yes religion msut be taken into account when choosing people to lead a nation.

When they say, «We have Abraham as our father,» they are making a claim to being the elect nation of God, the chosen nation.

Because of his love for Israel he chose them when they were few and were the smallest nation of the earth — they possessed no merit, they had no claim upon God: of his free will he bestowed upon them his love and chose them as his own people (Dent.

When God chose Abraham to be the birth of the Nation of Israel, God dealt with Abraham one - on - one.

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 «full, conscious, and active participation in liturgical celebrations... to which the Christian people, «a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a redeemed people» [1 Peter 2.9, 4 - 5], have a right and obligation by reason of their baptism» (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, 14), is not advanced when those Christian people are treated as if they were dimwits, or five - year - olds with short attention spans.

To make matters worse, Britain is not a nation but a collection of nations, and when international sides are chosen Britain fields four teams: England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

I explained it on Friday when I chose Bradley Chubb over Barkley in the SB Nation writer's mock draft.

They should hold their nerve and wait for the UKIP bubble to collapse in 2015, when it struggles to compete under a first - past - the - post system in an election to choose the nation's government.

Former Utah governor and 2012 presidential candidate Jon Huntsman Jr. has been chosen by Trump to be the U.S. ambassador to Russia — a high - profile post at a time when relations between the two nations have become even more complicated and political than usual.

Although Ghana remains a very divided nation when it comes to choosing a president, it has proved that democracy can work, BBC correspondent Will Ross in Accra says.

Critics of rBST ask why so many U.S. dairies choose to inject their livestock with the engineered hormone when the nation is already experiencing a milk glut.

If you ask single parents around the nation which dating site they chose to join, they may tell you that no other site can compare to Maturedating.com when it comes to meeting the needs of single parents.

When Christa McAuliffe was chosen as our teacher in space, it was shortly after A Nation at Risk had been published, and education wasn't faring too well in the public eye.

When James and superintendents across the nation embraced online credit recovery, they were responding, justifiably, to a daunting demand to boost graduation rates — one that their chosen solution has since helped meet.

Programs serving the nation's economically disadvantaged students and those with disabilities are receiving massive funding boosts through the federal stimulus package — $ 13 billion for Title I aid and $ 11.3 billion for special education — but how school districts choose to use the money may set them up for problems when it dries up.

When you choose the nation's largest auto glass company, you get the reliability of the Safelite AdvantageTM:

He makes this assertion to justify the power structure of a monarchist commonwealth, and he bases this conclusion on a contract he believes arises when a nation chooses to be governed instead of remaining in a state of anarchy he calls the state of nature.

At the hour he'd always choose when the shadows were long and the ancient road was shaped before him in the rose and canted light like a dream of the past where the painted ponies and the riders of that lost nation came down out of the north with their faces chalked and their long hair plaited and each armed for war which was their life and the women and children and women with children at their breasts all of them pledged in blood and redeemable in blood only.

When sculptor and art patron Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney chose to leave her Fifth Avenue mansion to work in a former 19th - century stable in 1907, much of the nation's high society guffawed; the Topeka Daily Capital even wrote, «Daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt Will Live in Dingy New York Alley.»

As the cost of living continues to rise all over the nation, Milwaukee renters are still able to walk away with a steal when choosing a renters insurance policy.

Call them the chains gang: They're the top big box tenants in the nation and when it comes to where they choose to locate, whom they will accept as co-tenants and what they will pay, these powerful players call the shots.

In 1936, Edward VIII - the Queen's uncle - scandalised the nation when he chose love over duty, abdicating from the throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.