Sentences with phrase «city on a hill»

We can go the darkest holes and worst places, and shine like cities on a hill.

I am praying that the church would prove to be uniquely different, a true city on a hill, in the coming days.

Boston - area charter networks City on a Hill Charter Public School and Phoenix Academy implemented tutors corps of their own.

I still say they can win in November, I hope to God not, if they pull that Reaganesque Shining City on a Hill crap.

She received her B.A in Communication and Media Studies from Fisher College, and is also an alumna of City on a Hill Charter School in Boston, MA.

93, left the classroom as an ESL teacher in Chelsea, Mass., to serve as the director of operations at City on a Hill Charter School during its startup and first few years of operation.

Former Crossing Jordan star Jill Hennessy, along with Kevin Chapman (Person of Interest), Jere Shea (Passion) and Lauren E. Banks (Instinct) have been cast opposite Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge in City on a Hill, Showtime's drama pilot executive produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.

While in Boston earning his MEd at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, he also served as a resident principal of the award - winning City On A Hill High School.

On behalf of the BTU, we send a warm welcome to the staff and teachers of the third charter school to our union: City on a Hill New Bedford!

The film challenges the conceit of Wakanda as an affluent city on a hill, and when you see it surrounded by a world in preventable peril, it feels uncomfortable.

The Puritan city on the hill, the Declaration's natural law, and the Federalist's «new science of politics,» make one's own foundations as one of innovation, and such innovation needs the latest of data driven information.

City On A Hill also stars Jonathan Tucker (Kingdom), Mark O'Brien (Halt and Catch Fire), Jill Hennessy (Crossing Jordan), Lauren E. Banks (Instinct), Amanda Clayton (Tyler Perry's If Loving You Is Wrong), Kevin Chapman (Brotherhood) and Jere Shea (Passion), with Kevin Dunn (Veep) recurring.

Jan. 19: The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association approves City on a Hill's application to participate in interscholastic sports competition, one of two charters in the state accepted so far.

Jan. 19: City on a Hill mourns the death of former U.S. Rep. Barbara Jordan, the first black elected to the House from Texas since Reconstruction.

On April 23, the teachers and staff there voted to join their colleagues at the two City on a Hill Roxbury schools, Circuit Street and Dudley,... Read Moreabout Teachers and Staff at Third Charter School Vote to Join BTU

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Over a couple of days we wandered up into the old city on the hill, through the smart shopping areas and past the gracious 19th century buildings and alongside the lake itself.

They hold an entire American decade intact with their images of factories, docks, gas pumps and turbines, of new skyscrapers heroically silhouetted against midwestern skies, and cities on hills radiant with limelight.

The U.S. sees itself as a humanitarian City on a Hill, fit to judge other nations while giving itself an «exceptionalist» free pass on violations.

Sir Winston Churchill didn't just ask his countrymen to battle the Germans, he exhorted them to «fight them on the beaches... [and] fight them on the landing grounds...» Ronald Reagan was a master of this tactic too from his «Shining City on a Hill» to the Berlin Wall.

Erica Brown, executive director of City on a Hill Charter Public School, said the school was thrilled to expand.

After completing her service year with Match High School's Match Corps III, Ms. Johnson knew she had found her calling and shortly thereafter became the English Teaching Fellow at City on a Hill Charter Public High School in Roxbury, MA.

As Augustine argued in the City of God, the fall of the eternal city, or any city on a hill, does not mean the failure of history's purpose and humanity's flourishing.

Yet the rhetoric of the American story, the rhetoric invoked by Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of the «beloved community» and Ronald Reagan's vision of the «city on a hill,» at once offers possibilities for hope and the temptation to confuse America with the Church.

We Americans can not live up to our self - image as a «city on a hill,» a beacon of freedom and hope for all the world, if we fail this test.

Those who made this argument pointed to God's call to be a city on the hill and a blessing to the nations.

This systemic usurpation of Jesus complete headship and right to His people, by a worldwide cabal of homo lupus is the backbone of the culture that hides the light under the bushel and shrouds the city on the hill, so that the world remains in darkness.

We want to be a beacon, a city on a hill, an outpost for the Kingdom of God.

We're going public with this, as public as a city on a hill.

One might even suggest that world - view thinking on the Evangelical side, especially its wedding of politics with divine law to create a city on a hill, reveals a hand tilted toward the creational mandate.

We are, more than ever, a city on a hill.

A city on a hill can not be hidden.

The passage about the city on the hill talks specifically about our works of charity not professions of faith.

It seems that we are still building that «city on a hill» to which John Winthrop referred nearly 400 years ago; we are still functioning as «God's almost - chosen people,» as Abraham Lincoln put it; we are still asking God for blessing and guidance during moments of national transition (like presidential inaugurals) and times of crisis (9 - 11).

Reagan, it must be conceded, flirted with it in his biblically informed vision of America as a «city on a hill» providentially established by God as example to the nations.

But increasing numbers of evangelical as well as liberal Christians realize that the price required to build Reconstructionism's «city on a hill» is too high: it would mean the scrapping of their own hard - won religious and civil freedoms.

Reconstructionists leave little doubt that they are consciously imitating the Puritans of the early 17th century in establishing «a city on a hill» and calling on the New Testament (e.g., Matt.

What if Christians became a true «city on a hill» amid the earthly cities where we increasingly hold the minority view?

I don't know about you, but this is the kind of «city on a hill» I want to live in.

Building up the waste places of the wilderness and creating a city on a hill were definitely seen as part of God's commandment to the Massachusetts Bay colonists.

And the people of God are salt, and light, a city on a hill.

-- Richard M. Gamble is director of the honors program at Hillsdale College and author of In Search of the City on a Hill.

Being a healer, a bridge builder, a truth - teller, a peace maker, a joyful subversive, a celebration disciple, an expectant prophet who dares to show up as a light on a lamp stand, a city on a hill of this world.

Do we stand a «city on a hill»?