Sentences with phrase «early believers in»

Jackson Pollock's rise was bolstered by early believers in his work.

They had begun collecting as newlyweds in New York in the mid-1960s, setting aside $ 25 a week to collect art — they were early believers in Basquiat, Richard Prince, Mike Kelley, and Keith Haring — and discovered Murillo two years ago at the Independent Art Fair, where he was showing with a London gallery, Stuart Shave.

The next several chapters of Acts reveal many of the internal and external struggles and issues that these early believers in Jesus faced.

Interestingly, in our postmodern culture, it appears that the best approach is quite similar to that of the early believers in Acts.

Overstock.com's CEO Patrick Byrne was an early believer in the importance of cryptocurrencies, too.

Journalist Sandlin introduces these little - known characters, including James Espy, dubbed the «Storm King» for his popular science lectures in the 1830s and»40s, and John Park Finley, who was among the earliest believers in the possibility of forecasting tornadoes.

Lederman was an early believer in the Common Core.

Overstock.com's CEO Patrick Byrne was an early believer in the importance of cryptocurrencies, too.

Not exact matches

What such early true believers opposed was a society with lords and ladies — so egalitarianism became an article of faith, with «comrade» replacing «Mr» and «sir» in party forums.

As I stated earlier, I am somewhat skeptical of any automatic trading system, but Option Robot has made me a believer in their system.

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I'm not a huge believer in bottom - up valuations for early - stage companies; simply too many exogenous factors at play.

At Madrona we have been early believers and investors in the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence and intelligent applications.

In the early fourth century, when Constantine embraced and sanctioned Christianity, the believers went from suffering servants who were persecuted to those who found themselves living in comfort and securitIn the early fourth century, when Constantine embraced and sanctioned Christianity, the believers went from suffering servants who were persecuted to those who found themselves living in comfort and securitin comfort and security.

We've sat in churches we'd walked by for a decade without ever stepping foot inside, churches that in our earlier, fear - filled days we would have condemned as «liberal», and have found within them sincere believers doing their best to follow Jesus.

What the early Christian believers and writers, for example Mark, tried to do was apply to him the highest conceivable categories, human and divine; but in the end these all proved inadequate, as the later church soon discovered; for Jesus means more, was more, and is more than any of these categories could convey.

As Bishop Rawlinson finely says, echoing Johannes Weiss, «Jesus is, for St. Mark, the Messiah, not in spite of His sufferings — as the earliest believers of all may for a time have been disposed to express it — but precisely because of His sufferings.»

If the early church could hold together communities made up of Jews and Greeks, slaves and free, men and women, circumcised and uncircumcised, tax collectors and zealots, prostitutes and Pharisees, kosher believers and non-kosher believers, those who ate food sacrificed to idols and those who refused, I guess this evolution - accepting, hell - questioning, liberal - leaning feminist can worship Jesus alongside a Tea Party complementarian who thinks the earth is 6,000 years old and that Ghandi and Anne Frank are in hell.

@Kimberly... questioning the «sin» of homosexuality was one of the early things that had me start questioning my faith, back in my more standard believer days.

Some of the early believers wanted to sit in places of honor and privilege (cf. Matt 20:21 - 24; Jas 2:1 - 13), and receive recognition for their leadership role within the church.

I probably wouldn't now give his books to a brand - new believer, seeking to find a starting place in discipleship, for fear the new brother or sister might embrace the whole package — as some of us did with whomever it was that was influential in our early Christian lives, whether C. S. Lewis or J. I. Packer or John Stott or John Piper...

An earlier version of this book was of immense help to me as I learned about the roles of faith and works in the life of the believer, and how to understand most of the tough texts in the Bible on this topic.

Both early Christian apocalyptic and Zealot apocalyptic drew on the openness of this form of world - vision to the new, to make possible a meaningful participation of the believer in the «big story» to which he found that he was contributing as it moved forward to its end.

In some fashion God assured the earliest believers that this Jesus who had been crucified by Jewish and Roman connivance was indeed both Lord and Christ.

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As I said earlier, I am not bashing Muslims in any way, but I rather be respected as who I am, a believer and a follower of Christ Jesus, the Son of God, Savior of the world and Redeemer of all sinners.

It's easy for those lovers in so many of those songs to be a believer in their love, such as in the one, clearly modeled on early Beatles songs, where the Monkees» singer knows without a trace of doubt in my mind, and all because he saw her face.

However, an alternative concept of Purgatory had also been influential from early on, and was especially promoted by the Church father Origen in the third century: Purgatory as a form of purification to make believers fit for heaven.

For me, when I realized that there was a spirituality that was developed by the early church — by the same community that wrote the New Testament and would naturally understand it best — and that this spirituality had been practiced unchanged by believers in every culture and time, I had to be there.

If you look earlier in the 1 Corinthians you will see that all believers will stand at the judgment seat of Christ.

As explained by my brother apologists in earlier comments here, it is a mistake to apply the passage in Mark to believers who are not direct witnesses to the risen Christ and not present at the time of Pentecost.

One scholar believes that the reading of 1 Thessalonians was an «event which contributed to the formation of the Christian church at Thessalonica.118 First Thessalonians is an example in early church history where an act of public reading «allowed the believers at Thessalonica to come into existence as the church of God.

However, leaders in the early church would often combine practices of believers from various backgrounds (early Christians were a mixture of former Jews and pagans).

I believe that there are principles in the entire Bible (including Acts) that followers of Jesus are to exemplify, and Acts shows how some early Jewish and Gentile believers lived out these principles in first century Greco - Roman culture.

3 This nonperceptual yet real experience of Christ's directing activity in and through their lives assured the early believers that he was alive.

One of the striking things about the Easter and post-Easter narratives in the New Testament is that they are largely about incomprehension: which is to say that, in the canonical Gospels, the early Church admitted that it took some time for the first Christian believers to understand what had happened in the Resurrection, and how what had happened changed everything.

Yet something happened in the early years of the church so that by the time Paul writes 1 Corinthians, it appears that the believers in Corinth are regularly gathering to observe something called «the Lord's Supper» (1 Cor 11:20).

Jesus was called «Christ» not primarily because of what the early believers still hoped for from him but because of what they had actually found in him.

These earliest believers solved the problem of the relation of the human and divine in Jesus in precisely the way one would expect — by resort to a view which, in a later form, came to be known as «adoptionism.»

Believers, according to the conviction of the first Christians, should no longer die: this was certainly their expectation in the earliest days.

(65) Or, in the formulation cited earlier: «The tradition of faith received from the Apostles and lived out in the community of believers gathered around the Bishop, their legitimate Pastor.»

Based on the rate that the early church grew, I suspect most believers were disciple makers, and in some sense a leaders / teachers.

Just my observation, but I think nakedpastor would not have been comfortable in a gathering of believers in the early first century church unless he found it fully in compliance with HIS expectations of what it should be.

Both of these points, that early statements were based primarily on the narrative of Scripture and the behavior of believers, will become critical later in this chapter for understanding how we as twenty - first century followers of Jesus can stand up for the truth without the damaging and destructive statements of doctrine that have divided Christianity for so long.

The gathering celebrated its 20th year last October at the Excel Arena in London with thousands of believers joyfully worshipping God in an overnight celebration from Friday evening through to the early hours of Saturday morning.

A believer then is left with the problem of trying to claim that all other gods are myths, except the one they were indoctrinated into believing in from early childhood.

After all, they were prevalent enough among many pagans in earliest Christian times and it was natural for Christian thinkers as well as simple Christian believers to be influenced by them.

-- Jesus In the times of the early church, believers were referred...

Here we have a phenomenon not without parallel in the history of other religions, as Lohmeyer notes — for example in Islam and in Mormonism — namely a shift from a first center to a second within the first generation of believers; and it is all the more striking that the evidence is preserved in Acts, whose whole interest and orientation centers in Jerusalem, not in Galilee, and whose earliest traditions are almost exclusively those of the capital city.

In that book I also tried to suggest how Jesus» teaching, combined with the experience of the earliest community of believers, led to the emergence of the Christian structure.