Sentences with phrase «face death on»

No one can take upon themselves the suffering that God faced when a part of his very being faced death on the cross.

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Night owls face a ten percent higher risk of early death than larks, the biologists behind the study reported on The Conversation recently.

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Countless stories shared on World AIDS Day by survivors and patient family members describe Americans who, ignored by the political class and facing a dearth of treatment options, simply accepted HIV and AIDS as a death sentence just three decades ago.

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Stephen Lewis, UN envoy to the AIDS ravaged continent, reflects on Canada's role in the face of «constant, pervasive death.»

The percentage of the death benefit you can receive is generally less than 50 %, what qualifies as a terminal illness varies depending on your policy, and the payout you receive may be deducted with interest from the face value of your policy.

can I pray that if all else fails that I face death and the end of my time on this Earth with the dignity that I may have done all I need to do and that I will see his or her face and hear that I did go?

But that's nothing compared to the millions of children in Africa and Asia I starve to death each year, flies crawling on their faces, because they are too weak to swat them away.

God the Father turned His face away from His Son when He suffered on the cross (which was the worst type of death, reserved for the worst sinners in those days), when Jesus carried the curse of all of mankinds sins (past, present and future) and wrath of God because of those sins.

I suffered a terrible car accident... during 3 weeks I almost died «many times»... Now I can read a beautiful article like this one and agree with it... Believe me... no matter your faith, your fortune or whatever you may be involved with... on the face of death if you are human you will only care about your loved ones... you will remember about the moments you were happy together and dream they happen again... you will remember your childhood like you were 7 again... you will ask forgiveness and try to show your love, no matter how hard you are... In the face of death we realize that nothing more then our family matters... For the professor, once his life of arrogance reaches an end, he will then understand what is the meaning of family...

A Christian advocacy charity has said two South Sudanese facing the death penalty in Sudan will receive a judge's verdict on August 5th.

Groups of young friends who go to see some of the more death - focused horror films in vogue of late will routinely take bets on which stock character will face a grisly end soonest, as when viewing the Final Destination series» a film series that is, essentially, the apex of the set - piece disaster horror movie as orchestrated by MacGyver.

Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.

God has redeemed the crucifixion so that we now sing songs about it and listen to sermons about the horrible death of an innocent victim with smiles on our faces.

On Friday, the al Qaeda splinter group issued an ultimatum to Iraqi Christians living in Mosul - by Saturday they must convert to Islam, pay a fine or face «death by the sword.»

Director Niki Caro keeps the camera pointed away from both Jewish and Christian faith, besides a brief scene of two Rabbis praying as they face certain death on the business end of a Nazi flamethrower.

Flannery O'Connor's novel The Violent Bear It Away does suggest a more satisfactory relation for human beings between the ordinary and the transcendent though it is, on the face of it, a very strange one indeed.19 Her novel is about a fourteen - year - old boy, Francis Tarwater, who, after the death of his great - uncle, a self - proclaimed prophet, goes to his uncle Rayber in order to fulfill the Lord's «call» that he, Tarwater, baptize Rayber's young idiot son.

At first, in the face of persecution, torture and death, Christians of the first three centuries continually relied on their faith and their communities to endure with the result being a rapid growth of Christianity throughout the empire.

After various struggles with the unromantic face of persecution and martyrdom, Garrpe dies trying to save apostate Christians from death, and Rodrigues chooses to apostatize to save others from torture and death, urged on by the apostate Ferreira to this «greatest act of love.»

When the thief on the cross says, «Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom» (Luke 23:42), the moment is a decisive break with the values of the other thief, and a definitive statement of faith in the face of death — not just his own, but Jesus» too.

Though on face bin Laden's death is not a religion story, it created conversation on a number of faith topics, the RNA said.

the god you are drawn to and will call on in the face of death.

I was struck yesterday while I was preparing my cartoon on the death of Brennan Manning that he called Jesus «the human face of God».

But it is clear that the shouldering of the accident of his destiny in the facing of death is really the same radical self - assertion on man's part.

A people who lack courage in the face of death, whether on neighborhood streets or in the hospital bed, will be hard pressed to resist the temptation to abandon the neighbor or to discard the just war discipline, say, by engaging in preventative strikes against an uncertain threat.

On another day, also about noon, Jesus will face death and again confess his thirst.

By the way, who is ready to face death one on one.

We must face the Anti-Christ (whomever he may be) and undergo the persecution, then at God's appointed time, Christ will take His people up (the Rapture) to be with Him, but the Anti-Christ will remain on earth, and those «left behind» will have an opportunity to accept Christ as Savior, but will face death for doing so.

Don't think his followers would have been willing to face torture and death as Jesus did, if they hadn't seen him, knew he indeed had been brought back from the grave, as all who believe on him will be.

Islam was driven into expansions outer boarder came after the death of the Messenger of God and only went to outer the Arabian Penisular towards the Arabic countries boarders now because of the wars launched on their boarders by the Roman Empire before changing face when a new Religion was imposed that combined all Beliefs that was within it into one state religion based on which The Roman Armies became to be known there after as the Crusaders whom launched attacks by land or by sea on Islamic countries through many generations up to date

Early on in the crisis, IS militants in Northern Iraq daubed the letter on the houses of Christians («N» standing for «Nazarene») who were ordered to convert, flee or face death.

If refusal to face squarely the fact of death is found so widely in these days, so also is loss of belief in a continuation of human existence, beyond death, in what used to be called the «after - life» It is indeed true that among conventionally - minded church - people and many others there is a vague feeling that when the body dies the «soul» goes on.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

His death on the cross has often been gravely transvestied by well - meaning Christians when they imagined that he faced the cross with the secret knowledge that less than thirty - six hours later he would be alive again and ready to ascend into heaven.

He too has undergone that journey: enduring temptation in the wilderness, facing betrayal in Judas, and taking on the supreme ordeal, of death, literally journeying to the darkest cave, before emerging resurrected.

If that is the case, I suggest you allow SMHMore to instruct and guide you through life, and I suggest that you rely on SMHMore, as you face the inevitability of death and the grave.

The Sermon on the Mount is a long way from the Qur» an, but the Christian soldiers of the sixteenth century knew well enough that weakness in the face of the Ottoman galleys sweeping the Italian coast meant death or conversion.

You used to run into people in the bake shop, the butchers, the candle - stick maker, the church narthex and the women's relief society... So there were plenty of opportunities to discuss all manner of things and to share life, seasons, festivals, deaths... Modern life, suburbia, commuting, everyone working at all hours... has killed much of this face to face life and contact in so many spheres, depending on where you live.

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...

If you ask how religion thus falls on the thorns and faces death, and in the very act annuls annihilation, I can not explain the matter, for it is religion's secret, and to understand it you must yourself have been a religious man of the extremer type.

To quote Paul again: «Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stone tablets, came in glory so that the people of Israel could not gaze at Moses» face because of the glory of his face, a glory now set aside, how much more will the ministry of the Spirit come in glory?

Yes Americans died at the hands of these extremists but it is only a fraction of the deaths that moderate Muslims face on a daily basis.

In Luke 12:50 it is completely impossible to explain away the «distress» in the face of death, and also in view of the fact that Jesus is abandoned by God on the Cross [Mark 15:34], it is not possible to explain the Gethsemane scene except through this distress at the prospect of being abandoned by God, an abandonment which will be the work of Death, God's great endeath, and also in view of the fact that Jesus is abandoned by God on the Cross [Mark 15:34], it is not possible to explain the Gethsemane scene except through this distress at the prospect of being abandoned by God, an abandonment which will be the work of Death, God's great enDeath, God's great enemy.)

Especially the theme of God's word and promise, but also those of exodus, redemption, covenant, justice, wisdom, of the Logos made flesh, of the Spirit poured out on the face of creation, of the compassion, paternity and maternity of God, and especially the Trinitarian character of God — all of the indispensable elements in a Christian theology — communicate their depth only when they are united with the theme of divine self - abnegation which, at least to Christian faith, comes to its most explicit expression in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus?

It slips up on a self - aware human being whenever he becomes conscious of his fragile position in the face of sickness, nature, fate and, ultimately, death.

His cartoon characters are mortal beings who need truth in the face of death and eternity, not just affirmation and self - actualization on their way to their «best life now.»

Right on the heels of the final release of Youcef Nadarkhani, a Church of Iran pastor who was imprisoned for three years, another Iranian - born pastor could face the death penalty for converting to Christianity from Islam.

«On the one hand, we have somebody who - if he isn't redeemed - faces death or danger or captivity, versus a theoretical possibility that someone could be harmed if these people go back to terror,» he said.

Get used to dying on that death bed and telling your kids that they will be the ones who will be facing the «second coming».