Sentences with phrase «for lordships»

Accordingly, in the absence of new legislation, only the Law Lords can fix independent care homes with obligations under HRA 1998 and, it seems likely that Johnson will proceed to the House of Lords for their Lordships to address this point.

The battle with Unite, and Miliband's proposed reforms to the union relationship, are set to reduce their income by several million quid a year; the Evening Standard reports that the party still owes # 7 million dating back to the «loans for lordships» scandal in 2006; and there is a growing row about the millions of pounds worth of extraordinarily cheap credit Labour obtained from the crisis - stricken Co-Op Bank.

Dying is no longer an expression of the absolute lordship of death, but only one of Death's last contentions for lordship.

Not exact matches

Ordering your life around the Lordship of Christ will increasingly seem an exotic (if salvific) alternative for a select few, rather than a natural step for responsible Americans entering adulthood.

The Lordship controvery, the lack of understanding of the true Gospel and myriad other theological issues, along with a sin busting vs. a grace enhancing view of sanctification (not toleration of sin but a proper motivation for serving Christ).

People sensed his lordship and, because they did, called for his crucifixion.

As Clifford Green has pointed out, «From the centre of life, under the lordship of the servant Christ, for the world: this is the manner of the non-religious interpretation.

For centuries, Jesus» lordship had been foundational to Western political thought.

The biblical message of the kingdom is eschatological in orientation, for it proclaims God's ultimate lordship over creation, which lordship has already broken into history in the appearance of Jesus.

For Luke, the conflict is between the lordship of Caesar and the lordship of Christ.

After attending a Church of Christ for a few years and then a church which has heavy leaning's towards Lordship salvation, I have come to a similar conclusion, which I believe you have obviously come to Mr. Myers.

Politically, the lordship of Christ challenges systems of domination in the name of God's passion for justice.

Paradoxically, the pursuit is necessary because even as we, like helpless sheep, long for God's companionship, we run from God in dread of his lordship.

I wouldn't necessarily say that Lordship salvation is of the devil... that's a little too strong for my taste.

For example, both Zwingli and Calvin, among others, were deceived by the proper idea of God's absolute Lordship and power into formulating doctrines of God's causal efficacy for all that occurs in the worFor example, both Zwingli and Calvin, among others, were deceived by the proper idea of God's absolute Lordship and power into formulating doctrines of God's causal efficacy for all that occurs in the worfor all that occurs in the world.

The criteria given by the Lordship of Christ continues, including concern for the world around us.

Protestants, for their part, never cease arguing over the nature of the Lord's lordship.

As he advances, he exchanges this lordship for rule over the increasingly more beautiful and more extensive realms of each of the paramitas.

For five hundred years we have lived, through all the cultural triumphs and glories of mankind, in an age of the increasing evolution of the Mystery of Iniquity - the military rebellion, so to speak, against the Lordship of Christ.

9, the very purpose of Christ's death and resurrection: «It was for this that Christ died and came to life, that He might exercise lordship over dead and living alike.»

Judgment is for Paul a function of the universal lordship of Christ, which He attained through death and resurrection, and His second advent as Judge is a part of the kerygma — as Judge, but also as Saviour, for in i Thess.

Thus C. F. Evans notes the possibility that «the concept of exaltation to the right hand of God... was prior to the idea of resurrection in establishing belief in Jesus» lordship and messiahship, for it leads directly to it, while resurrection from the dead, as such, does not».36

Lady Williams replied: «I think the House would agree that points about «good Muslims» and «bad Muslims» are really not for this House - I was just wondering if I in that context am a good Catholic or a bad Catholic, but I really don't think that that sort of thing has any place in your Lordships House or indeed in society.

I would insist, however, that the estimate is true even for those who do not recognize its truth; that the acceptance, even if not the acknowledgment, of the Lordship of Christ is implicit in the fact of membership in the Christian community; that Christ actually has for all of us the importance I have indicated, whether we know it or not.

Accordingly, that lifestyle would be engaged in service and ministry to, with, and for all humankind, but always out of the freedom and unobligedness of participating in the lordship of Jesus Christ.

But to whom can we look for a challenge to the Lordship of Wealth?

For the expression in question does not refer to the Lordship over Creation, nor to presiding over the works of God, but is meant to reveal in part the intention of the Incarnation» (sect. 1.1 ff).

5:23 - 33) is the head of the «one flesh» of man and wife, it is only because of the lordship of God over the flesh's vessel of reception unto 1ife for the Incarnation.

Just as the lordship of Christ made demands for public justice on office - holders in the New Testament (Luke 4:15), the same is true for those who rule as citizens.

Then there is this argument: «Eternal life is free, but before you can receive it, you have to fix up your life, seek after God, repent of your sin, submit to the Lordship of Jesus Christ, prepare your heart for faith, and pray the sinner's prayer.»

To my mind, the insistence on the almightiness of God and creation ex nihilo are indispensable for an adequate understanding of the Bible's witness, both to God's lordship and to his capacity to save what he has created.

Baptism is for the repentance of sins and Lordship of your life to Jesus as the Christ.

It was along a line of thought such as this (though I realize that I am grossly over-simplifying a complex and subtle process of reflection on the part of the Christian community) that the dominant problem for theology in the early centuries came to be how to assert that Jesus is our Lord, and hence, since Lordship implies worship and it is idolatry to worship man, how to assert his deity.

By the members of the Synod embracing their role as a band of joyful missionary disciples, we here in Southeast Michigan will be strengthened for our vocation «to be all in» with the New Evangelization, to have full confidence in the power of the Holy Spirit to heal and transform, to put uncompromising trust in the Lordship of Jesus over every time and place.

Such a community — or communion — is a human institution; but it is more than that, for it was established by the will and purpose of God, is sustained by the Holy Spirit, and seeks to exalt Christ «as the incarnate Word of God to the lordship of all human life.»

Wherever there is mere conventional attendance at or deference to the church; wherever there is self - seeking and clamor for prestige and power among either laity or clergy; wherever our service is becoming ingrown rather than outwardlooking; wherever, in short, there is conformity to the world instead of the proclamation and daily witness to the gospel that transforms the world, there Christ is dishonored and his lordship flouted.

For the resurrection was the moment when not only the spiritual lordship of Jesus began but when also the whole earthly life was «transfigured» before his disciples — the moment when the event they had witnessed and were still witnessing was realized to be one whole and to be in its wholeness an act of God.

They were women who clearly took their roles as mothers and wives seriously, but they also kept those roles in the proper perspective, under God's lordship and direction for their lives.

Explicit confession of the Lordship of Jesus is not necessary for salvation, at least under certain circumstances» very wide circumstances, it turns out» says Rob Bell in his Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived.

Daniel Van Allmen of Switzerland in his paper, «The Kingdom of God and Human Struggles» asked the question: If we believe in the Lordship of God, and if we hope for the coming of His kingdom, what are we to think of the struggles and conflicts in our world?

To proclaim the criteria by which the Coming King will judge persons and nations, to exemplify those standards in the church as the new society, and to work for their recognition by the world — these are irreducible aspects of the Christian summons to the forgiveness of sins and new life, and to the lordship of the risen and returning King.

In the image that C. Kavin Rowe uses for the title of his brilliant explication of Acts, the public confession of the lordship of the risen Christ creates what the world thinks of as a «world upside down,» but what Christians understand to be the world seen truly.

Read Lee Strobel's The Case for Christ to review the opinion of some actual experts regarding the reliability of the Bible, origins of Christianity and Lordship of Christ!

Though it grieves God to do so, God is willing, out of the profound love he has for people, to withdraw his protective hand and allow them to sink to ever - increasing depths of pain in order to eventually hope - fully come to the point where they finally realize it is in their own best interest to turn from their sin and submit to God's loving lordship.

It is a brief treatise of exhortation, contending for «the faith once for all delivered to the saints» against those who «defile the flesh, reject the Lordship [of Christ], and blaspheme the Majesty [of God]».

«In the light of the pending case including our client's motion for interlocutory injunction, Your Lordship is under clear duty to stay action on the activities of your commission until the pending case is determined.

By yet again pulling consideration of this bill because of the amendment being proposed to it by distinguished members from all sides of your Lordships» House, the Conservative party, for party political reasons, is seeking to subvert the role and practice — the constitutional role and practice — of this House.»

He demanded to know from the NPP if they promised the current Chief Justice, Her Lordship Justice Georgina Wood, her position for presided excellently over the committee that looked into the saga of the missing 77 parcels of cocaine when President Kufuor was in power.

And, d'you know, the silly bugger seems to forget I've beentrying to get his boss's Mugabe account for months, nods sagely, and 20 minuteslater, with moisturiser glistening on his puffy cheeks, he's waving a handimperiously in front of the sweaty - armpits and saying that his ghastlies enjoythe highest standards of probity because «his lordship wouldn't allow anythingless».

The party raised concerns over the inclusion of Dr Nii Narku Quaynor, a renowned computer scientist, Chairman of the National Information Technology Agency (NITA) Board of Directors, who's a known member of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and His Lordship Justice VCRAC Crabbe, a former Justice of the Supreme Court who had earlier publicly stated that there was no need for a new voters register to be compiled.