Sentences with phrase «gathering of»

To hear the Word that God wishes us to hear in this passage for today, we can surmise that the return of the ransomed of the Lord to Zion could refer to the gathering of the elect into the covenant community of faith.

Jesus speaks of the gathering of the elect from the four winds.

It's a gathering of global proportions!

I suppose, on one level, it is the gathering of people under the name Christian.

As far back as the gathering of the Targum, an interpretive paraphrase of the Old Testament in Aramaic, the Song of Solomon was described as a poetic history of God's redeeming love for his people from the time of the Exodus down through the Exile and restoration.

Recently Archbishop Tutu, who I know is a real hero, was addressing a gathering of my denomination here in Scotland.

«We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion will be built upon this [the American] continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.

Though he choked on the word «ecumenical,» Sanders emphasized the inter-denominational character of Evangelicalism, which he portrayed as a gathering of those who still believe that Jesus rose from the dead, and who found themselves together on the curb after being expelled from liberal churches.

I think that what all these changes add up to is the statement that nothing extraordinary is going on, that what is happening is a gathering of ordinary people enjoying the experience of community.

I write this from a gathering of young people, mainly fresh graduates or final - year students.

We are inviting you to join us for an important gathering of Christians to help encourage one another and find a way forward for churches and Christians.

More specifically a Christian Church is a gathering of those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus sync by calling with all who in every place call on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and ours, 1Cor.

Former president Jimmy Carter challenges a gathering of Christian leaders to follow Paul's example — to be drawn to Christ thus drawn closer to one another, to follow Christ, the Prince of peace, and reach to out to the lost and alleviate the suffering of others.

The church — every gathering of the church, everywhere, under every form — remembers that on a certain night its Founder said and did certain definite things, briefly reported: that on the same night he fell into the hands of his enemies; and that he suffered a violent death (for the broken body and the shed blood can mean nothing else).

At least 21 people were killed and dozens more injured when a suicide bomber from the radical Islamic militant group Boko Haram blew himself up at a gathering of Shia...

The Catholic Church does not exist any more, it is a social gathering of like minded individuals, who like to party.

Earlier this year, the group American Atheists announced plans to sponsor a table at CPAC, the country's largest annual gathering of conservatives.

Francis arrived in Rio on Monday for the start of World Youth Day, which, despite its name, is actually a weeklong gathering of Catholic youth from around the world.

We are attending a gathering of like - minded people on January 19 to learn more about this great need and how we can get involved.

It was the gathering of riches that created poverty (Mic.

During the period when a college simply functioned as a gathering of the church, with its foibles and deficiencies as well as its advantages and virtues, its Christian identity seemed not to require affirmation or reflection.

But as Catholic theology progressed, it was decided that the power of the meal was not in what happened during the meal, or in the gathering of people for the meal, or really in the food itself, but in the bread and the wine after it had been blessed by the priest.

For example, you have written somewhere that the «do not forsake the gathering of yourselves» does not refer to physically meeting, when I think if you closely check the context and as well as the intended audience and reason for the letter, the conclusion is that it DOES refer to physically meeting with other believers.

A statement read: «In a social and political climate such as ours, it often takes a gathering of unlikely individuals to shape the future of our nation on issues of faith and inner city initiatives.

This recognition that the power of ritual is made manifest in material forms illuminates how the bodily practices that underlie the behaviors in the study — premarital sex and cohabitation, deliberation over relationship decisions, and the gathering of supporters and witnesses in the marriage ceremony — shape marital quality.

Here we have a group of men joined simply by the weight of the past and their resolve to defend it; there a gathering of neophytes confident of their truth and strong in their mutual understanding, which they feel to be final and complete.

Damn if ya'll didn't pick up on the idea and run with»em straight to the nearest cafe, hotel, police station, gathering of unlike - minded people all powerful eager to try them out.

So the church is a gathering of people who have a common faith in Christ.

Rather, the Bible is a gathering of traditional materials that gradually emerged among the people of ancient Israel and early Christianity and eventually became their authoritative statements about their God, the nature of their believing community and their terms for living.

The gospel, however, describes the Christian community as a gathering of persons, each one of whom is particularly gifted by the grace of God, and it defines the church as the place where these individual gifts are to be discovered and expressed.

But prayer is an important part of every gathering of believers, so that is why I continue to do it.

Apparently there was a second gathering of virgins from across the land.

The Rortyan vision of heaven on earth, in which people merely tell enlightening tales and abjure the search for truth, sounds like a gathering of tipsy old sea dogs swapping dimly remembered stories of past voyages of discovery.

They resembled «an intellectual orchestra, a gathering of sparkling talents in a common cause, each participant the master of his own chosen field,» but there are, of course, many moments of discord and readjustment.

If the dominant aim of the preacher - liturgist is to keep the whole gospel before every gathering of the congregation, sooner or later the congregation must take into account what makes that gospel interesting and relevant.

He apologised for the «indifference of the world» to their plight and then pronounced the name of their ethnic group to a gathering of Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu and Christian leaders.

«Let me welcome you to this international, interdenominational gathering of Christians,» he says with a smile.

The first gathering of the «Courtyard of the Gentiles» was in various prominent cultural locations in Paris.

Where before in the unconscious level, time was gathered without being consciously grasped, now there is a conscious gathering of time, so that the past is able to coexist with the present reduplicatively.

My mother and my spiritual adviser taught me the truth about these things, and our gathering of spiritual elites has decided you're a heretic.

I would like to see elders perform more of a regional oversight function, than seeing them as absolutely necessary for each individual gathering of believers.

It was filled with empty chairs and Christmas lights, and there in one far corner, a gathering of parents stood smack right in front of the risers filled with children in their Christmas best.

Any gathering of persons requires some sort of boundary to have integrity.

The Beijing Declaration, issued by the largest world gathering of women, made radical recommendations which, if enforced, will transform the status of the neglected gender.

Acts 17:22 - 31 is not formal teaching, but is logical presentation at a gathering of philosophers for the existence of the one, true God, and the resurrection of Jesus from the dead.

(CNN)- An estimated 2.5 million pilgrims have descended on the city of Mecca for the Islamic Hajj, said to be the largest annual gathering of people in the world.

The kingdom's top religious authorities including the Grand Mufti accepted that decision, but the gathering of about 50 clerics outside the Royal Court suggested wider disquiet among conservatives in the world's top oil producer.

(CNN)- The annual pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, is the world's largest gathering of Muslims - the biggest annual gathering of humanity, period.

In an address that is hard not to read as a rebuke of the Roman Curia, Pope Francis delivered a searching reflection on pastoral ministry to a gathering of Italian bishops at St. Peter's Basilica this evening.

Jerry Falwell Jr. surely didn't expect the fallout he received when he introduced Donald Trump to a gathering of evangelical leaders in New York City in late June.