Sentences with phrase «did about their neighbors»

Before long they cared more about their calculations than they did about their neighbors.

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When a home comes on the market, everyone talks about it, you take pictures — «Oh, did you see the neighbor's house?»

Responding to questions about Trump's views on immigration, Thiel said he did not support a religious test for Muslims as Trump has advocated for, and went on to say he did not believe Trump supporters take literally the candidate's repeated calls to build a wall along the Mexican border and make the neighboring country pay for it.

Unlike neighboring Slovakia, which also joined in 2004, it is yet to adopt the euro and appears undecided about doing so.

I gave all my immediate neighbors some Honolulu Cookies this year and they couldn't care less about all the construction I'm doing at my house now.

So when you're scared of Muslim or Islam, just go upto your Muslim neighbor, your Muslim coworker or just walk into a mosque and speak with Americans who speak the same language, drinks the same coffee and watches the same Simpson and tell them «Hey, I'm scared of you / your religion, and I don't want to be, so tell me about your religion and why I should NOT be scared of you just because you're a Muslim.»

Worship, to him, entails obeying the great commandments to love God and your neighbor, something that he thinks any sincere person could do, whatever erroneous views they hold about God's nature.

But don't forget, about all the other other commandments Jesus said to love God and love thy neighbor.

He didn't add any qualifiers like, «except of your neighbor is gay or black or poor or,,» So - called Christ - ians superimpose what Paul (a man, a mortal) said about women, and they add on things that are OT based in order to justify so much hatred and bigotry.

Or... you can put asside your prophecies of doom & gloom, praying and hoping for God to smite all the yellow, black & brown people who don't believe the way you do anyway, and attempt to make peace with your neighbors, not by converting them at swordpoint, but accepting them and learning about their cultures and traditions and give them as much respect as you want them to show you.

My neighbors wife has been cheating on her husband for 3 yrs now and they keep it quiet and their divorce is hush hush living in the same house, my wifes mother is mormon (my wife bolted from the «a womans job is to serve men and have babies» religion at a young age) she has been divorced 3 times and doesn't have a clue about just about any subject.

The stuff I've written on topics like getting to know neighbors and being the church in the community doesn't seem to connect with church people, who usually think church is about sermons, a belief system, music, political causes to be for or against and so on.

That's not to say we should condone negative / sinful traits, but speaking about them in this nasty way just reinforces to them that you don't love your neighbor as much as you're concerned with being self - righteous.

In this way, as we live in the light, honest and real in all our strengths and failings, as weask our neighbor about their kids or their dreams, we do so as people who display animpossible and authentic hope.

I once spoke with my Mormon neighbor about this and she could not wrap her mind around the concept: «Does it mean God has sex with all of us?»

It doesn't seem to me that Jeremy is concerned about their final destination, just so they love their neighbor and not cause division.

But we must do so without self - righteousness, and with compassion for how hard it is for our pro-choice friends and neighbors to change their minds about such a weighty moral question.

Thinking that you are always right and everyone else is wrong will indeed hurt your ability to interact with and love on your neighbors — but don't blame a wrong spirit on theology; there is precious little possibility that you could think and feel like that about yourself when it comes to theology and NOT think and feel like that in pretty much all situations with other folks.

We have done such a poor job of being an authentic community that humbly seeks truth, loves one another, and unselfishly serves our neighbors, that even if people want to learn about Jesus, it's hard for them to get past the gatekeepers of the church.

One can spew hatred all one's life and sermonize about the ideals and yet do nothing when your neighbor needs your help.

Obviously that thing Jesus said about loving God and neighbor was added by some nutcase who didn't have a firm grasp on reality.

It would be insensitive as well as ineffective, for example, for Christians to exhort their Jewish, Muslim, or agnostic neighbors about what Jesus would want us to do.

They call them peddlers of religion, and they do not mean that in a positive way, but rather are referring to people they believe are trying to push their own agenda of a psuedo - religious toxic mix of some sort of religious something, politics, power, control, personal profit (think $ $ $) and efforts to feel good about ones self while at the same time looking down on neighbors (condescension) rather than loving neighbors.

And I hope your neighbor does something about that annoying dog.

The following day, another neighbor, with whom we had become better acquainted while talking with him about the block party, saw us walking and invited us to see what he had done with his house.

A neighboring Church of God in Christ pastor said this about his denomination: «When you look at a broader level, national and international, it's a very exciting organization, doing some very innovating and exciting things.

Many young people in Latin America, who were motivated by the Gospel to love their neighbor and be concerned for justice and freedom in their society, have often become Marxists simply because their churches did not provide biblical instruction about Christian discipleship, or because they [their churches] were blind to clear demands from the Bible and opportunities and challenges provided by new social situations.80

If we don't talk to our neighbor about Christ, someone else will and it will be their reward in heaven and not ours.

The difference here would be in Christendom, it is about Love thy neighbor Give unto Ceasar Oh wait... may be our forefathers did follow the holy book and hence created the civil law that exists today.

What we must understand about the orders is that they are what they are because we do not love God and our neighbor as we ought.

The serial killer next door is often described as a regular guy, going about his business, doing a great job at work, and chatting with the neighbors.

Yes, this is a difficult concept to grasp, but loving neighbor, as Jesus commanded, most definitely does not preclude telling people about the Father.

I know many churchgoers who never, EVER volunteer or practice the well - preached «take care of thy neighbor» community - minded sermons given at their local churches (oh, the rich ones can write a check in about 15 seconds, but do they donate?

Sam Riviera is doing an excellent guest post series on my blog about getting to know our neighbors.

From clueless bosses to wacky neighbors, One Day at a Time hits refresh on your usual sitcom character tropes by bringing a distinctive familiarity as the cast uses their synergy to deliver their scripts and convince audiences that they do in fact care about one another and the journey they're all on together.

They clearly don't care about offending a lot of their neighbors.

I do understand the concept of the trinity, but let's be realistic... who made that up??? There is a lot of ignorance in this world, but if you can read the ten commandments — and they are very simple and straightforward — and know what they mean and convey then 1) the concept of the trinity goes out the window and 2) this entire debate about the building of the mosque goes oput the window as well because God instructed us «Love thy neighbor».

You might have noticed that I did not mention anything about sharing the gospel with your neighbors, inviting them to church, or asking them what they think of Jesus.

This question may be asked in several senses — either about what is required to be done in the church service, or in the service of the Church, or in the service of God and one's neighbor under the impulsion of the Church.

If I had to choose between a Bible expert who could recite large chunks of Scripture from the Greek and Hebrew yet who did not show love toward his neighbor, and someone who barely knew anything about Scripture but who did show love to his neighbor, I will choose the second person every day of the week.

Most of them know at least enough about Jesus and the Bible to know those types of behavior don't look like Jesus» command to love our neighbors.

How do you demonstrate that environmentalism is central to loving human neighbors when many dismiss it as being about whales and trees?

The murderer might have told the grocer, doctor, and cabdriver what he was going to do; he might have been videotaped doing it by a newsman, a passerby, and an automatic security camera; he might have boasted about it afterward to a coworker, bartender, and next - door neighbor; and he might have confessed, in the presence of his lawyer, to the arresting officer, the investigating officers, and the court.

He wanted to date this girl but the girl's father was a bit uneasy about this (and, in defense of the father, I don't really blame him for this, my neighbor was a bit scrappy back then).

It's more likely we'll all be asked why we didn't spend more time concerned about our neighbors in Darfur or fighting the global AIDS pandemic.

I would bet that the gay neighbor in the 1999 film American Beauty, who, it is implied, loves guns, collects Nazi trinkets, and turns to murder all because he represses his own urges, formed more people's views about how to regard homosexuals than did the entire decade's research into psychosexuality by the whole scientific community.

«You have been speaking a lot about the neighbor, and what we can do for him,» he says, a bit testily.

Needs a repost — I had neighbors right next door that would do ritual beatings of their children, 2,4,6 years old every Sunday, I called the police serveral times over the screams from those poor young children and the cops said they could not do anything about it.

A Christian can do just about anything he wants, to his neighbor or to his neighbor's wife, but the Christian is always forgiven, while the unbelieving neighbor and his unbelieving will go to Hell.

Pew updates its comprehensive survey of what US Muslims believe and do, and how their neighbors feel about them.