Sentences with phrase «convicting people of»

For many years ministers had preached with the primary object of convicting people of their sin and of showing the forgiving love of God in Jesus Christ.

I have given up trying to do the job of the Holy Spirit which is convicting people of sin.

of convicting people of their sin, and forming them to look more like Jesus Christ.

Unless you are the Holy Spirit, it's best to let Him convict people of sin while we simply love.

This is because it is the Holy Spirit's job to convict people of their sin (John 16:8).

I also want you to know that I never try to convict people of anything, that's the job of the holy spirit.

The argument is whether hell is ever a legitimate way to convict people of their need for Christ.

You said, «He sends his Holy Spirit to convict people of their sins, but some resist His Spirit and wish to remain in their darkness.

In John 16, Jesus shares that the Holy Spirit will convict people of what is sin and what is right in Gods eyes.

We need to embrace the power behind the gospel and understand that it's the only thing available to convict people of the truth.

When growing up and attending classes on how to witness one of the principles was to convict people of their sin otherwise they would not realize their need for Jesus.

What you're basically claiming is that science can't really tell us anything that we can't see personally happening for ourselves which is utterly ridiculous considering that we convict people of murder often on the confidence we have in forensic science.

• The Holy Spirit will convict people of sin.

Our team of criminal lawyers includes former prosecutors who understand how prosecutors think and what tactics they use to try to convict people of criminal offenses.

R, looked at from the perspective that Apprendi is about two things and two things only — what is a crime, and who convicts people of crime - Justice Scalia's position is perfectly coherent and, to me, principled.

But, evidence obtained before arrest or detention may still be enough to convict a person of impaired driving.

The Supreme Court of Canada today upheld the Alberta Court of Appeal, which had convicted a person of Internet luring of an underage person — though the person in question was a police officer posing as a 13 - year - old: R. v. Levigne 2010 SCC 25

A court, on convicting any person of an offence against this section, may order to be destroyed any matter or thing made, possessed or used for the purpose of that offence.

(3) If, before the commencement of this Part, a court purported to convict a person of an offence against an enforcement law on the basis that an ineffective order was a valid order, nothing in this section is to be taken to validate or confirm that conviction.

Not exact matches

Thanks to Defy Ventures, people convicted of crimes are fighting to earn a new label: Entrepreneur.

She particularly focused on drug laws impacts on people of color, who have for decades been convicted under aggressive drug laws at disproportionately high rates relative to whites.

Krajisnik, convicted of crimes against humanity including the deportation and persecution of non-Serbs, discussed with the president «the protection of Serb people's rights in the region,» according to a statement from Nikolic's office.

She was convicted of drug conspiracy and money laundering charges — her first offenses — and has been in federal person since 1996.

But thus far, they've charged only 42 people, of whom only 10 have been convicted.

The most explosive point in the discussion came when Ramos would not embrace legislation to toughen penalties on people who cross into the US illegally after being convicted of an aggravated felony.

The report estimates that out of the 630,000 people held in jail, only 187,000 have been convicted of a crime, which is most often a misdemeanor that does not warrant time in prison.

The trial closed in May 2015 when eight people, including trusted friends and financial advisers, were convicted of exploiting the heiress.

And earlier this week, in a self - penned essay for Time, he wrote, «On any given day over 400,000 people, convicted of no crime, are held in jail because they can not afford to buy their freedom.

The phone records may help convict a guilty party, but they also likely call police attention to the phone numbers, identities and habits of people who may not have anything to do with the crime being investigated.

People who are underage (under 18 for rifles and shotguns, and under 21 for other guns), someone convicted or indicted for a crime punishable by imprisonment of more than one year, fugitives from justice, the severely mentally ill, unlawful users of controlled substances, those convicted of domestic violence, and undocumented immigrants are among some of the categories of people barred from buying a firearm by federaPeople who are underage (under 18 for rifles and shotguns, and under 21 for other guns), someone convicted or indicted for a crime punishable by imprisonment of more than one year, fugitives from justice, the severely mentally ill, unlawful users of controlled substances, those convicted of domestic violence, and undocumented immigrants are among some of the categories of people barred from buying a firearm by federapeople barred from buying a firearm by federal law.

None of the Reporting Persons nor any manager or executive officer of the Reporting Persons, has, during the past five years, (a) been convicted in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar misdemeanors), or (b) been a party to a civil proceeding of a judicial or administrative body of competent jurisdiction and as a result of such proceeding was or is subject to a judgment, decree or final order enjoining future violations of, or prohibiting, or mandating activities subject to, Federal or State securities laws or a finding of any violation with respect to such laws.

To make sure we had a sufficient track record to evaluate, we excluded people who had been in the job for less than two years; we also excluded any executive who had been arrested or convicted of a crime.

In a letter to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Democratic and Republican leaders of the state House and Senate Wednesday, Schneiderman asked state lawmakers to pass legislation that would allow for prosecuting people on the state level for the exact crimes they were convicted of — and pardoned for — on the federal level.

In 1968, after a decade that saw the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Junior and Bobby Kennedy, Congress passed the Gun Control Act, which, in part, grew the list of those people who could not purchase guns, to most convicted felons and mentally ill people.

But it also proposes an amnesty for people previously convicted of simple possession — a sure sign that the goal of the original proposal was to increase freedom, not further limit it.

In 2011, President Obama announced that «for the first time ever the Department of Homeland Security has prioritized the removal of people who have been convicted of crimes in the United States.»

Ideally, this cartoon convicts the type of people who seem to have treated you so badly in the past.

So when Fishon see's a convicted pedophile, a convicted rapist, a convicted murderer... he also see's them as equals to a gay person... at least this is the crux of his debate (all sin is equal to him).

The world can not know the unsurpassable worth of human life without a people who consistently work to protect it - in the fetus, in the convict, in the immigrant, in the soldier, and in the enemy.

Dr Antony McRoy's been speaking to Premier after Mr Choudhary was convicted of terror offences, having encouraged people to join Islamic State - a banned organisation which has waged war on Britain.

A jury's convicted three men of using a church in Luton to encourage people to join Islamic State.

There was bad things done on both sides, but the Leader of the Mountain Medow was convicted, the people known to have killed people at Haun's Mill were never prosicuted.

The same person who started Mormonism as a convicted fraud who told a story about using a black hat and a magic rock to translate the Book of Mormon, the world's most perfect book that has had 3000 corrects had two 14 year old wives.

As one of his followers explained, he came to hear Millers lecture with a «determination to not believe, and to expose him and his folly to the people who should be present,» but he left «convicted, confounded and converted.»

The study, by the National Registry of Exonerations, reviewed cases that happened over the last 30 years throughout the country and found that in addition to black people being wrongfully convicted, it took significantly longer for them to be exonerated than it did any other group, with black people having to wait an average of three years longer.

Tom Hanks, the only actor in the movie that I recognized, and supposedly the star of the movie, filled the role of God who believed in the innocence of the the convicted prisoner, but could do little about it, because of the choice of the evil unbelieving people.

The review found that that played a role in 79 percent of wrongfully convicted sexual assault cases against black people versus only 51 percent of cases against white people.

As one who sat on a jury in a murder case in a state that is not shy about executions, I am aware of how important it is to make sure the right person is convicted.

«And given we've had a dozen people arrested or convicted of terrorist acts who've come from similar organizations, we have an obligation to do so.»

«He is a man of convicted compassion and courteous candor who — as a function of his own deeply held Christian beliefs — will work tirelessly for people of all faiths and none,» said Chris Seiple, president emeritus at the Institute for Global Engagement.