Sentences with phrase «facing death from»
Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite delivers an authentic account of service in the Iraq War, as she and Mara depict the day - to - day grind of soldiers facing death from any direction.
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That's because they're likely facing a crisis that involves one of life's biggest stressors, ranging from birth and death, to marriage and divorce, to a new house or job or no house or job.
Facing death, he didn't shy from explicit partisanship.
While holding the interim position in 2007, Ms. Godkin faced a challenge from outgoing PC Youth President David McColl, who published an op - ed in the Calgary Herald predicting that «PC Alberta will continue its slow death march, to the beat of a rural drum and tired, stale policies.»
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.
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.
We all knew that dad was going and in the last few days, he was going throught the process of death and didn't speak, move or recognize us, for the exeption of sitting up in bed calling my sister by her name and removing her face from his view as if he was perfectly healthy again.
As seems Mr.Stephen Hawking had suffered a lot from early age and from age of 21 to 69 tied to a chair facing death every day, had no chance to live a natural loving life... towards which he had been in the state of denial towards God existence for not having his pleadings answered...?
For someone who is young and, hopefully, a long way from your the time of your own death, you have captured the essence of the needs of a person facing their own impending death.
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.
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.
A new report from Christian Solidarity Worldwide — a charity that promotes religious freedom out of the UK — has found that Christians in North Korea could face rape, torture, enslavement and death for being openly Christian.
Ceremonials play an important part in helping people of all ages face death and face away from it.
The last he accepted as a result of his involvement in the terrors of the second world war (described in The Plague and The Rebel) and the other two when he had to face the possibility of death from tuberculosis (discussed in his earliest writings).
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.»
Yet he gives a perfect example of what prayer can accomplish in this field when facing death he writes from a Roman dungeon,
@WASP Ok first off I am not scared of death If I died right now I would be happy to die and go meet GOD face to face and if you do nt believe in GOD thats fine you will burn in hell but i will pray for you that you will come into the light ad see that HE is real and that you can be saved from an eternal fire that is absolutely real
He has also protected Iraqi immigrants that could possibly face persecution, torture or death if the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported them by extending the order nationwide, following a request from lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union and other immigrant rights advocates.
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.
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.
A possible real connection with the animal kingdom is itself of relatively little theological importance, for anything in it that would be important for the theological interpretation of human life in the present, can also be known without it, that is to say, the vulnerability of man in face of the powers of this earth, man's temptation to see himself from the point of view of his animality, his liability to death, man's dynamic orientation and task of developing to his perfection from below upwards, beyond his beginnings.
Here are three typical answers: «He is as much a necessity to my spiritual existence as the elements of pure air are to my physical system»; «If I were convinced that there is no God, I fear a sense of loneliness would become intolerable»; «As for any repose, or ability to face life and death with composure, any incentive to be perfect in things hidden from outsiders, any exhilaration in living and trying to do my best — I can not conceive it without the idea of God.»
There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.
Both men spoke not as private persons but instead quoted from our deepest public memories, which are eloquent in the face of death when we, as solitary individuals encased in our personal experiences of loss, so often are wordless with grief.
This strange freedom that comes to those who, in the face of death, say «Here I stand» is the freedom to live free from fear.
Rev Kuwa Shamal Abazmam Kurri who faced the death penalty or life imprisonment was acquitted of all charges in January, while Christian aid worker Jasek from the Czech Republic received a presidential pardon and left Sudan in February.
Yes, and one of the reasons it has is because its most committed believers, while refusing to conform to the world's ways, have just as strongly refused to run away from evangelizing it» and this, even when faced with persecution or death, and when the odds seemed overwhelmingly against them.
The death - of - God myth symbolically articulates, from within the Christian perspective which is my religious framework, my own inability any longer to affirm anything more in the way of grace and love than the human faces and voices and bodies around me, those persons with whom I enter into relationships of various kinds and intensities and patterns of communion and brokenness.
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.
They will not commit the suicide of the Jewish soul by succumbing to the despair that follows when the Holocaust becomes our central point of reference rather than something the Torah teaches that God Himself will conquer, when he «will destroy death forever, and will wipe away tears from every face» (Isaiah 25:8).
ADF said if he is sent back to his home country he could face severe social and formal persecution, with punishments ranging from lengthy imprisonment to death.
According to background information from LifeNews, Gosnell could face the death penalty, which prosecutors are pursuing when a second jury is impaneled «to determine sentencing under the penalty phase of the trial.»
The death of Jesus is portrayed in Christian faith and hope as an act of life, as an affirmation of life in the face of death, and the cross of Jesus are symbols not of death, but of an unquenchable and invincible life that this world can neither give nor take away from us.
I suspect that such sentiment accounts for much of the theologically naive approval of Dr. Benke's participation within LCMS circles, but it distracts us from the real issues, from the life or death question which we must finally face: How does a Christian presence distinguish itself from the false gods at such an event?
The difference is you choose to hide from that fear with the promise of an after life while non-believers face that fear knowing death is all there is.
It is the free person, God's creature, facing the ultimate issues of life and death, but facing them in their final dimensions, and making decisions which arise from the creative courage of one who has faced and accepted the conditions of real life.
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.
Mr. M. was not shielded from the reality of his wife's intention to leave unless he changed, nor from facing the fact that he responded inappropriately to the death in the family.
They tell us what separates us from him and from happiness is, first, self - seeking in all its forms; and, secondly, sensuality in all its forms; that these are the ways of darkness and death, which hide from us the face of God; while the path of the just is like a shining light, which shineth more and more unto the perfect day.»)
So in the Book of Daniel we find this conviction stated: «Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt,» (Daniel 12:2) and in two late Isaian passages a similar expectation is expressed: «He hath swallowed up death for ever; and the Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Yahweh hath spoken it»; (Isaiah 25:8) «Thy dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise.
Satan attacks me in my thoughts day and night and he makesit so i can barely eat i pray to the lord and he consoles me god is REAL i used to e a drug dealer the most violent and disruptive of men and one night i came under attack from satan and felt like satan was makeing me into someone im not putting thoughts in my head of death suicide and sexual immorality then i read the wqordof god and everything felt better when i read the Book «The Advocate» spiritual warfare is real and god can save you from satans tourment do nt let Satan claim the rights to your soul i had trouble believing in god for years my mind worked in science and fact but the fact is that God is real and living and when you leave this earth you Will face Judgement
He discussed reports from the city of Mosul that ISIS fighters had issued an ultimatum to convert to Islam, pay a tax or face death.
Jesus was not a coward like you atheists are, he never ran away from the roman when they came for him, he face his own death.
It animated the vibrant pontificate of Pope St. John Paul II, from his anticommunist writings on human freedom in its relationship to truth, to assertions of universal human dignity in the face of the culture of death, as well as in his approaches to ecumenism and interreligious dialogue.
In this sermon on Esther 5, we look at the task that Esther faced to rescue and deliver her people, the Jews, from certain death and annihilation.
The author believes that the church's greatest contribution to marital stability and growth will come from living a conviction that flies in the face of American individualism — namely (in the words of the Heidelberg Catechism) «that we are not our own, but belong body and soul, in life and death to our faithful Savior Jesus Christ.»
Death, which looked out at me from the crags and caverns of her face, went forever unmentioned by her, as if it could be made to take offense and go away.
I turned intentionally to a life of crime at age twelve and found myself facing the death penalty at age twenty for offenses including conspiracies to commit bank robberies, hijackings, and homicide, and then, after a merciful and undeserved reprieve from God, spent ten years in America's worst prison trying to figure out, among other things, the nature of punishment — and «Saving Punishment» by Stephen Webb is certainly the best meditation I've come across on the subject.
In the end, I suspect that the church's greatest contribution to marital stability and growth will come from living a conviction that flies in the face of American individualism — namely (in the words of the Heidelberg Catechism) «that we are not our own, but belong body and soul, in life and death to our faithful Savior Jesus Christ.»
One of the major research tasks now facing the radical theologians is a thorough - going systematic interpretation of the meaning of the death of God in nineteenth - century European and American thought and literature, from, say, the French Revolution to Freud.