Sentences with phrase «earthly power»

If this is the case, they certainly picked the «wrong ones» given the view of earthly power vs. submission and servanthood portrayed in the synoptics and John.

Christ did indeed become poor that we might become rich, and was marginalized that we might not confuse His power with earthly power.

Scripture warns us not to put our hope in earthly powers (Psalm 146:3).

Scriptures even tell of Christ rejecting a chance to have earthly power when tempted by the forces of evil.

The throne of Westeros, just like earthly power, frequently changes hands; the people fight, kill, destroy and are never redeemed.

They laugh because they know earthly power - be it patriarchy or the Persian Empire - is just a big show.

That is how we end up worshipping earthly powers, or ourselves usurping the place of God, even to the point of claiming an unlimited right to trample his creation under foot.»

It lays bare the hollowness of every quest for earthly power, prosperity, and triumph.

In Holy Week we remember that Christ came into Jerusalem as messiah and king, had supper with his friends, was betrayed, denied, falsely accused, tried by earthly powers and crucified and on the third day rose again.

Before they ever reach the stars, Manchester says, Sprites are more likely to first form three - dimensional antennas in deep space to monitor space weather that could threaten Earthly power - grids and orbiting spacecraft.

Weird Sisters offers a glimpse into this supernatural universe, allowing the viewer to connect to glazed and bewildered earthly powers.

God is at work not among the rulers, Luke implies, but out there on the hills, in the grubby manger, far from the center of earthly power.

The third temptation speaks of the earthly powerlessness of Jesus and our perennial desire to secure this precarious situation with earthly power.

If it is just because Limbaugh and the rest of the wealthy right in the U.S. would not like this, then this is not a very good reason since Christianity was started to disturb those who had become too complicit with the earthly powers that be (at the time) and had forgotten about the heavenly ones.

Since Jesus the Christ ministered on behalf of the God of love and not in service to the God of earthly power, we who would follow Jesus must choose the loving God.

Second, even if these predictions were not uttered by Jesus they exemplify quite vividly a basic understanding of his: greatness does not mean comfort and ease and earthly power.

Those close ties were seen by Sir Winston only to the extent of admitting that «there was never a time when the inherent virtue of human beings, the hope of immortality, and the disdain of earthly powers and achievement were more necessary for the safety of the children of men.»

Or, in theological terms, they have, in submitting their reason and conscience to an earthly power, committed the sin of idolatry.

I'll do it knowing that I'm not a democrat or a republican, but a follower of Jesus Christ... whose footsteps lead in a very different direction than those of earthly powers.

The point is the costing nature of membership in a higher kingdom than that of any earthly power.

But more importantly, the opening act with Xerxes and Vashti introduces a recurring theme throughout the book of Esther, one we can still learn from today — that the Emperor has no clothes; earthly power is an illusion.

Other verses announce the triumph of Islam, the permanence of its doctrine, the growth of the empire of young Islam, and the inability of any earthly power to annihilate Islam (XIII, 18; XIV, 24; XXIV, 55; VIII, 36).

Each step distances Christians from an attachment to earthly powers, and each step intensifies their relationship with Christ and the church.

Our gospel is the unlikely tale that begins with an emperor's folly, for in setting out to register «all the world,» Augustus and his governor Quirinius put something into motion that transcends all earthly power.

Christians who affirm the transcendence of God above every human group and earthly power must also affirm their faith in the divine involvement in the history of mankind.

In my opinion, both men just made up these stories, either as a result of hallucinations and delusions or intentionally to gain some kind of «spiritual» or earthly power.

From their point of view, its author was indeed a dangerous man, for he claimed that one could sweep away all of their dogmatism and superstition while still upholding the essence of the Bible's teachings, and mapped out a future in which they would be deprived of their earthly power.

We are not inheriting the earthly power or the worldly wealth, hut when Pentecostal and Catholic show up at city hall to make a plan to build affordable houses for the poor, we catch a glimpse of another, better kingdom.

The important question is whether the religious right has for them that word above all earthly powers, which, no thanks to them, abideth.

No earthly power creates the Church and no earthly power owns the Church.

It would have been easier to have accepted the earthly power of the Arians.

Religion, on the other hand, claims to derive from an authority that transcends all earthly powers.

Like Muhammad he filled the world with blood, in order to increase his earthly power, honour and riches.

Perhaps the speeding «lozenge» was a new type of missile, launched from a submarine as part of some earthly power's clandestine technology test.

It combines the three parts of power, courage, and wisdom to create an earthly power.