Sentences with phrase «early followers for»

My maternal grandparents had been early followers for Rudolf Steiner's teaching, and worked for Waldorf schools when Hitler assumed power and banned the anthrophosophical movement.

Dr. Südhof's grandparents had been early followers for Rudolf Steiner's teaching, and worked for Waldorf schools before Hitler assumed power and banned the anthrophosophical movement.

It is an insult to Jesus Christ and to the very real persecution of his earliest followers for Christians in America to suggest that the health care decision calls for a violent, revolutionary - war - style response to the policies of the Obama administration.

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Earlier this year, for example, it launched a program in which more than 420 of its most active and influential community members sell products to their friends and followers; in turn, they receive a cut of the profits, as well as rewards that include sneak previews of products and trips to New York to visit Glossier and have dinner with Weiss.

But earlier this summer, shortly after Gingrich announced his candidacy on Twitter, a report surfaced that Gingrinch's camp paid for non-active (i.e. fake) Twitter followers.

It was not in Mark's gospel, which was the earliest, so was not included in the gospel writings for many decades of early followers.

Jesus» early followers became new men suddenly and seemingly without psychic preparation: «And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.

Instead, if we understand the culture in which John wrote, the issues that the early church was facing under the Roman Empire, and all of the hundreds of allusions to Old Testament themes and prophetic expectations, the Book of Revelation can have a significant message for followers of Jesus today, who also deal with similar cultural issues as we try to live like Jesus in a world dominated by powers and authority that live in rebellion to the Kingdom of God.

Wesley and his early followers similarly sought to reform the Anglican Church from within through eucharistic practice, the pursuit of holiness within disciplined small groups, and ministry for and with the poor and dispossessed.

The discoveries and scientific creations of recent years in the field of nuclear energy, transforming our period into a new power age, are directly traceable to the discoveries of radioactive elements by Becquerel and the Curies, inaugurating the new physics.9 A new depth of relations and energy revealed in both earlier and more recent experiments has routed the world - view of mechanism which Newton and his followers through the nineteenth century had come to take for granted.

A Clackamas County judge turned down a petition Monday for early release while the conviction of Shannon Mae Hickman, a member of the Followers of Christ church, is reviewed by the Oregon Court of Appeals.

The early followers care for the poor, heal the sick, suffer for preaching the gospel, care for outsiders and sort out their theological differences in civilised council (sometimes, anyway).

In a study of his earlier pictures, Kolker notes that «Scorsese is interested in the psychological manifestations of individuals who are representative either of a class or of a certain ideological grouping; he is concerned with their relationship to each other or to an antagonistic environment... [and finally] there is no triumph for his characters» (A Cinema of Loneliness [Oxford University Press, 19881, p. 162) The Jesus of the Last Temptation fits this pattern (as do Travis Bickel in Taxi Driver, Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull and Paul Hackett in After Hours) By eschewing any reference to a resurrection — and, in an interesting theological note, allowing Paul to suggest that his preaching of the risen Christ is more important than the Jesus of history — Scorsese presents the crucifixion as the final willful act of a man driven by a God who makes strange demands on his followers.

Over two billion christians in the world doesn't sound like something that is dying, my friend... as someone noted earlier, people have been trying to destroy true followers of God for thousands of years but He has promised to always protect His elect

Is it possible and after reading about it i kept on thinking «i will sell to my soul for 20 carats get out shut up i will never ever sell my soul to you oh god please help me and this is continuing for a few days i am afraid that i have sold my sold to the devil have i please help and still i think god's way of allowing others to hate him us much worse even you know and can easily think think about much better punishments like rebirth after being punished for all the sins in life and i am feeling put on the sin of those who committed the unforgiviable sin (the early 0th century priests) imagine them burning in hell fire till now for 2000 years hopelessly screaming to god for help i can't belive the mercy of god are they forgiven even though commiting this sin keans going to hell for entinity thank you and congralutions i think the 7 year tribulation periodvis over in 18th century the great commect shooting and in 19th century the sun became dark for a day and moon was not visible on the earth but now satun has the domination over me those who don't belive in jesus crist i used to belive in him but now after knowing a lot in science it is getting harharder to belive in him even though i know that he exsists and i only belived in him not that he died for me in the cross and also not for eternal life and i still sin as much as i used to before but only a little reduced and i didn't accept satan as my master but what can i do because those who knowingly sin a lot and don't belive in jesus christ has to accept satan as their master because he only teaches us that even though he is evil he gives us complete freedom but thr followers of jesus and god only have freedom because they can sin only with in a limit and no more but recive their reward after their life in heaven but the followers of satun have to go to hell butbi don't want to go to hell and be ruled by the cruel tryant but still why didn't god destroy satun long way before and i think it was also Adam and eve's fault also they could have blamed satan and could have also get their punishment reduced but they didn't and today we are seeing the result

Directly across the street from the mission compound, to the east, crowds were gathering in the early evening for the satsang — religious services not unlike Christian services — of the Radhasoami sect, a new religion based in the Punjab which, like the new religions of Japan, was gaining followers rapidly in Europe and the U.S..

John does, after all, preaching that the old way is dead, and the promised Messiah is coming who will usher in a new era of peace for the entire world, and that those who want to participate in this new era must show it by going through the waters of baptism, much as the followers of Ea would have done 3000 years earlier.

For a Christian audience he does not need to add that Jesus's earliest followers were simple folk and that Christianity subsequently put no emphasis on knowledge.

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.

People have been tortured and died for causes they believed in that either failed or were actually nonexistent, just because the early christ followers did this does not mean the idea of jesus being the messiah holds any more weight than Simon Bar Kokhba, who still has followers in Israel and has never been found, which most take to mean that he ascended to heaven and he never died.

If these early followers had been content to withdraw from and forget their relationship to the rest of society, Newbigin says, they would have posed no threat to the Emperor and his power:» [the first century church] would have enjoyed the protection of the law — the same protection which churches enjoy in our modern culture, available for exactly the same reason — namely, that they pose no threat to the ideology which controls public life.»

Here lies a reason to return to Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 19671), Freud's early follower and most famous apostate, especially for those of religious conviction.

Confiding in us, she looks back on her life's many dramatic events while arguing over their crucial details — principally, «what happened on the hill and the days before and the days that followed» — with the scribes trying to capture and recount these for Christ's earliest followers.

With the other monks he slept in the large upstairs dormitory, ate in the refectory, listening to suitable reading at the same time; and had his stall in the church for the services which were patterned across the day and some of the night These services were centred on the recitation of the sacred poetry of the Jews, the 150 Psalms, which the early Jewish Christians had continued to recite when they became followers of Jesus, and which had become the staple Christian prayer.

I realize this may not be clear or meaninful to some readers and I can't take the space here to go into it other than to say that a good segment of biblical scholarship for a couple decades at least, has properly broadened its pursuits in an interdisciplinary manner, into probing for better understandings of the nature and formative, growth processes of the earliest groups of Jesus followers and how they ultimately became Jewish Christian groups, or started as mixed Jewish / Gentile groups (as via Paul, et al.).

Passages that were originally written for groups of people, and intended to be read and applied in a community setting (the nation of Israel, the various early churches, the first followers of Jesus), have been manipulated to communicate a personal, individual message... thus leading the reader away from the original corporate intent of the passage to a reaffirmation of the individualistic, me - centered, and consumerist tendencies of American religious culture.

Please be aware that those several thousand new followers will be the ladies and gentlemen of the Press Gallery, who are just itching for you to get drunk and post something fruity in the early hours after a prolonged session in the Strangers» Bar.

For a glimpse at what he was talking about, check out the «Diren Gezi Parki» Facebook page, which popped up early in the protests and picked up hundreds of thousands of followers within days.

Parlaying his early love for sports into bodybuilding and then modeling, this young man showcases for his followers like a veteran.

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A: I think that Loris Malaguzzi, the principal architect of the Reggio approach during the early years, found my general approach to children sympathetic (I am very interested in the visual arts, for example, and I am a follower of John Dewey and democratic education) and thought that my idea of» multiple intelligences might connect to his «hundred languages of children.»

Earlier this year, Nissan asked its Twitter and Facebook followers for their input in creating an off - road ready - Titan, and the truck is now complete in time for its Alaskan adventure.

Sway by Zachary Lazar This loosely plotted novel that chronicles of some of the biggest events in the 1960s (the early days of the Rolling Stones; the life of avant - garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger; and the community of Charles Manson and his followers) would certainly be a different sort of pick for Oprah.

The publication earlier this month of The Red Book, Carl Jung's famous, near - mythic journal that has, until now, been seen by only a few dozen people, is a publishing coup, an incredibly valuable revelation for Jung's followers and a hugely important addition to the history of modern psychology and psychoanalysis.

If it weren't for the boom in the early part of this decade, most AustEcon followers blindly betting on commodities would have been absolutely decimated — far worse than comon stock or corporate bond or government bond investors.

Earlier this week, the shelter announced that Eddy was healthy enough to be made available for adoption... one day later, the best news possible was shared with followers of the Howard County Animal Control and Adoption Center Facebook followers:

Bungie are taking a bit of a kicking from their Destiny followers as of late due to the blatant lack of support for early adopters of the game.

In a video uploaded to Bandai Namco's Youtube channel at present, Hiroki thanked followers for supporting Dragon Ball FighterZ (to the tune of a number of million offered already) earlier than asserting that she herself might be coming into the event.

A tweet from the official Origin Twitter account told followers of a 20 per cent off promotion for Battlefield 4 Premium, before mentioning you could use that to play Dragon's Teeth early on 15th July.

Earlier, Antonopoulos's Youtube channel was fraught with advertisements for Bitconnect, which caused him to plead with his Youtube subscribers and followers on social media to help him untangle himself from Bitconnect's brand.

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