So Haman took the robe and the horse, arrayed Mordecai and led him on horseback through the city square, and proclaimed before him, «Thus shall it be
done to the man whom the king delights to honor!»
Not exact matches
«I would also like
to counter societyvsâ $ ™ comments about businessâ $ ¦ what
do you
do with the
men to whom the Master gave out the talents expecting them
to grow his wealth while he was away?
I would also like
to counter societyvs» comments about business... what
do you
do with the
men to whom the Master gave out the talents expecting them
to grow his wealth while he was away?
Ive taught our two sons
to see their mother and two older sisters, and all women, as weaker vessels (vases) that need protection, but in
whom the treasure of Christ dwells as wonderfully as He
does in us
men.
Matthew says there were five thousand
men in addition
to the women and children,
whom he
does not number.
He is the one of
whom the apostle Paul wrote, «Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God,
did not count equality with God a thing
to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of
men.
If one wants
to create a people as numerous as the sand or the stars, one
does not begin with Sarah, a barren woman well past child - bearing age, and Abraham, an old
man whom God had commanded
to scar his genitalia.
«Never will a work of
man have a good issue if we
do not think of the souls
whom it is given us
to help, and of the life between soul and soul, and of our life with them and of their lives with each other.
This lovingkindness will also ultimately come
to include the feeling of love, for if a person really loves God, he loves every
man whom God loves as he becomes aware that God
does love him.
She runs
to those
whom she had been avoiding only a short time before and declares: «Come see a
man who told me everything I have ever
done.
It doesn't get us anywhere merely
to sneer: the young
man who denounced the ageing and muddled ladies of a rather sentimental group -
whom he had never met - as «feminiNazis» had hoped
to raise bellows of raucous laughter from his young hearers but was greeted with silence.
Gregory's approach
to pastoral care of the rich has exceptional subtlety, hinging importantly upon the biblical paradigms of Nathan before David and of David's care for Saul.34 When pastors come before the wealthy as spiritual guides, they
do well
to remember what Nathan
did in the case of the poor
man whom the rich
man had abused.
But yet, the fact remains that in
man's «common» experience, in those very human and historical — and sinful — limitations we know so well, we have the right
to find in parabolic fashion creaturely representations of that which God is, and that which God has
done, and that which God purposes
to bring
to pass in and for and through and with and
to this his world and the
men and women
whom he has placed in it.
When I go out in the morning and see these
men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil if I felt no pity for them, if I
did not, as
did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by
whom to - day this poor people is plundered and exploited.»
For this will is the eternal order that governs all things, that brings you into union with the dead, and with the
men whom you never see, with foreign people whose language and customs you
do not know, with all
men upon the whole earth, who are related
to each other by blood and eternally related
to the Divine by eternity's task of willing only one thing.
To establish their autonomy as men, they must do so over against the person to whom they are most attache
To establish their autonomy as
men, they must
do so over against the person
to whom they are most attache
to whom they are most attached.
Jesus frequently talks in terms that should frighten the wealthy: the Parable of the Rich
Man and Lazarus (Luke 16) or the story of the Parable of the Rich Fool (Luke 12),
to whom he said: «life
does not consist in an abundance of possessions» (Luke 12:15).
He responded by relating the parable of the Good Samaritan, one of my personal favorites... bear traps are hidden, and often unseen till bear or human are caught in them... the traps are deliberately placed, they don't just suddenly appear... the answer
to the question was the
man who had compassion on the
man taken by robbers... he was a social and spiritual outcast who had compassion on someone who in normal circumstances would have hated his guts... because his doctrine and «lifestyle» were not acceptable
to the religious establishment... I have had life experiences that bear this out, experiencing love and compassion from people
whom today's religious establishment demonizes and looks down upon... any reading of the Good Samaritan story should be followed up by a reading of 1 Corinthians 13....
There are four types of evil of which the modern age is particularly aware: the loneliness of modern
man before an unfriendly universe and before
men whom he associates with but
does not meet; the increasing tendency for scientific instruments and techniques
to outrun
man's ability
to integrate those techniques into his life in some meaningful and constructive way; the inner duality of which modern
man has become aware through the writings of Dostoievsky and Freud and the development of psychoanalysis; and the deliberate and large - scale degradation of human life within the totalitarian state.
YHWH was Israel's name for the one reality with
whom all
men have
to do, and this one reality can never be mastered by
man like the gods of the nations.
To go out to the meeting with the Eternal Thou, a man must have become a whole being, one who does not intervene in the world and one in whom no separate and partial action stir
To go out
to the meeting with the Eternal Thou, a man must have become a whole being, one who does not intervene in the world and one in whom no separate and partial action stir
to the meeting with the Eternal Thou, a
man must have become a whole being, one who
does not intervene in the world and one in
whom no separate and partial action stirs.
And further «The most necessary
man is he with
whom you are and the most important thing is
to do him good, because for that purpose alone was
man sent into this life».
For so far as the child is concerned, one
does not talk about despair but only about ill - temper, because one has only a right
to assume that the eternal is present in the child, and has never a right
to demand it of the child, as one has a right
to demand it of the grown
man,
to whom it applies that he shall have it.
Even if at this point God in heaven and all his angels were
to offer
to help him out of it — no, now he doesn't want it, now it is too late, he once would have given everything
to be rid of this torment but was made
to wait, now that's all past, now he would rather rage against everything, he, the one
man in the whole of existence who is the most unjustly treated,
to whom it is especially important
to have his torment at hand, important that no one should take it from him — for thus he can convince himself that he is in the right.
There is nothing more painful than the helpless attempt at the interpretation of religious documents or monuments by one who
does not know what «awe» is or
to whom these testimonies
to man's search for communion with ultimate reality are just the dead records of the experience of «sick - minded» or backward people.
Thank you for your tender handling of his death over these past months, and thank you for a fitting memorial
to a
man whom so many admired and loved, even if some of us had
to do so from a distance.
And Psalm 146:3, 4, says: «
Do not put your trust in nobles, nor in the son of earthling
man,
to whom no salvation belongs.
And I beg you
to do this, I plead with you, teach those
whom you disciple — whether it is other
men in church, or your wife or your children, how
to pick a church.
Injured freedom must accept this help freely, yet it can not
do even this on its own initiative but needs the «prevenient grace» of God's unfathomable counsel, who «has mercy upon whomever he wills, and (who) hardens the heart of whomever he wills» (Rom 9:18) but of
whom we must also believe that he «desires all
men to be saved» (I Tim 2:4).
RD.. How path - et - ic
to see your hate and fear driving you
to death...!?!
Man pull your self together and have the courage
to face the returns of your deeds... Wars were always there in life whether were religious or not so stop
doing it on your self... Beside learn
to wish people well whether you agree or disagree with might you succeed in life rather than being a loser... by being a cowered... My posts were meant for the friendly people I had known for some time,
whom I found they were full of compassion and not for black hearted one's like you who hate all God creations...
When Joseph's brothers came a second time
to Egypt for grain, Joseph inquired about their shalom and said, «
Does your father have shalom, the old
man of
whom you spoke?
about
whom holy
men have written and spoken - He is our Father, and our God, and the only God with
whom we have
to do.
Anthony Esolen, writing in the Foreword, states the nature of the problem: «We
do not know what or how
to teach children because we
do not know what a child is, and we
do not know what a child is because we
do not know what
man is - and Him from
whom and for
whom man is.»
He
to whom Jesus is only a
man — were he ever so exalted, pious, noble, wise, the greatest of all religious founders and saints —
does not have this God.
In case that rich young
man whom Christ encountered on the road had sold all his goods and given
to the poor, we should extol him, as we
do all that is great, though without labor we would not understand him — and yet he would not have become an Abraham, in spite of the fact that he offered his best.
«Sell all that thou hast, and give
to the poor» was surely said for the spiritual benefit of the rich young
man, with an eye
to what he might learn by
doing it, rather than for the benefit of the poor (for
whom it would have been a drop in the ocean).
It is not only the developed religions which have felt this compulsion; all
men everywhere, insofar as they are at all religious, are driven
to acts of worship, even if for sophisticated thought, the god or gods
whom they worship
do not seem adequate
to man's need.
These «Fathers» spoke of the specific activity of God in Jesus Christ as being indeed the fulfillment, completion, and adequate expression, vis - à - vis
men, of the Eternal Word of God, but they
did not regard salvation as available only through Jesus; even in the Fourth Gospel, it would seem
to be the writer's intention
to have the Word speak, rather than the historical Jesus in isolation from that Word «who was in the beginning with God», «by
whom all things were made», «who was the light of every
man», and who in Jesus Christ was decisively «made flesh and dwelt among us».
That Word or Spirit most certainly is not dead; and Altizer's «gospel» is precisely the reality in human experience and in the world - order of that Word or Spirit with
whom men must reckon whether they wish
to do so or not.
There are many reasons why this has happened; this is no place
to discuss them, but among others we may mention scientific constructions, psychological discoveries, awareness of sociological conditions, and all that Bonhoeffer summed up in saying that
man has «come of age» (by which he
did not mean that
man is an entirely mature and adult creature who now can take the place of God, in a fashion not unlike the claim made by the Provost of King's in his recent utterances; but he
did mean that we now know our own responsibility and that God treats us, not like slaves nor like little children, but like sons
to whom He entrusts such responsibility).
For it
does not intend
to address itself
to anyone with
whom it would not be able
to deal seriously, for the reason that such a
man has cut himself off from any earnest consideration of the occasion of the address.
Erik Erikson (who coined the term generativity) sees the development of generativity as the central life task and challenge in these years: «In this stage, a
man and a woman must have defined for themselves what and
whom they come
to care for, what they can
do well, and how they plan
to take care of what they have started and created.»
Shadowflash, I don't recall your response
to any of my posts... I usually
do recall them... But I
do agree with one thing you said... «human mind hates being wrong» But I see it differently then you
do... I see human mind and human understanding being the stumbling block and point of pride, which prevents
man from seeing the reality of his real condition, and the need
to humble himself in order
to be able
to see himself as he is, and seek the help of His Creator without
whom he is a living, moving shell, yet, without the vital part of him being alive, which would make him complete.
Thus the preacher need have no hesitation in
doing what he or she was exhorted
to do at ordination: apply himself or herself
to the study of Scripture, so that the deepest reality of the abiding gospel may be grasped and conveyed through proclamation
to the
men and women
to whom that proclamation is addressed.
This is in the account of God not
man,
whom I will give the last report as
to what I have
done with what He entrusted me with.
16If a false witness rise up against any
man to testify against him that which is wrong; 17Then both the
men, between
whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; 18And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother; 19Then shall ye
do unto him, as he had thought
to have
done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
However, in these passages, while Jesus reiterates (but
does not require) the traditional marriage, he also provides an exception for eunuchs (castrated
men — or otherwise impotent
men, in today's terms), and allowed them
to be married, saying that this law is given
to those
to whom it applies.
By the way Peter never identified himself as the rock... Explain
to me these passages, Acts 4:8 - 11» then, Peter, filled with holy spirit, said
to them: «Rulers of the people and older
men, 9 if we are this day being examined, on the basis of a good deed
to an ailing
man, as
to by
whom this
man has been made well, 10 let it be known
to all of YOU and
to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Naz · a · rene»,
whom YOU impaled but
whom God raised up from the dead, by this one
does this
man stand here sound in front of YOU.
Tattered
Man records the story of Loney's visits and the friendships that developed, a primary purpose being
to lead the reader «
to a deeper understanding of those we have consigned
to death» — the vast majority of
whom do not fit the Timothy McVeigh profile.
I have seen what female abuse can
do to men first - hand, it is emotionally devastating and can create one of two psychological consequences in
men — one is a combination of anger and difficulty connecting
to others and the other is a never - ending desire
to please a woman for
whom he is never good enough.