And over to you to report on the Scotland / Argentina game, Bob... here at the ground the only thing the media are talking about is that
hand of god moment, and back to you in the studio in London, George.
Not exact matches
in the midst
of all this opposition, I still try to bear witness / preach / teach the kingdom
of God with the hope that a believer or a non-believer will have that aha or revelatory
moment and truly realize the kingdom
of heaven is in deed at
hand, and one can actually live the kingdom life even while in this world.
At the very last
moment, Abraham hears the true voice
of God, the voice that says, «Don't send your
hand onto the youth and don't make any blemish.»
The
moment the Christian churches begin Attuning themselves properly to Jesus Christ and Preaching His eternal message
of LOVE for Everyone, Without Conditions, and Teaching about the Afterlife as
God has promised us there is, and Teaching about the laying - on
of hands to heal the sick as Jesus did, and begin truly Sharing their money with the poor as Jesus did, THEN you will find people flocking back into the church.
Viewed this way, the infinite is, so to speak, separated into two parts: on the one
hand, the infinity
of possibility which offers an inexhaustible supply
of the new, bit by bit, and on the other,
God's infinite unification
of experience
moment by
moment.
The Wicked must not think, simply because they are not physically in Hell, that
God (in Whose
hand the Wicked now reside) is not — at this very
moment — as angry with them as He is with those miserable creatures He is now tormenting in hell, and who — at this very
moment — do feel and bear the fierceness
of His wrath.
Only after Sinai did the people
of Israel look back at Egypt and see the
hand of God bringing them out
of captivity and into this
moment of Covenant.
In our darkest hours
of confusion and in our most glorious
moments of clarity, we remain but curious and dependent little children, tugging frantically at
God's outstretched
hands and pleading with every question and every prayer and every tantrum we can muster, «We want to have a conversation with you!»
You'll miss the richest
moments in life — the sacred
moments when we feel
God's grace and presence through the actual faces and
hands of the people we love — if you're too scared or too ashamed to open the door.
On the one
hand was the beauty
of that
moment,
of those mothers praising
God and looking amazing, but it also made me cringe.
My first awkward Sunday School
moment happened in first or second grade when I raised my
hand and asked why, in Noah's flood,
God would drown all
of those innocent animals when it was the humans who were being disobedient.
Instead, faith is for him the power, in particular
moments of life, to take seriously the conviction
of the omnipotence
of God; it is the certainty that in such particular
moments God's activity is really experienced; it is the conviction that the distant
God is really the
God near at
hand, if man will only relinquish his usual attitude and be ready to see the nearness
of God.
On the other
hand, liturgy points to the inward
moment of theology: it reflects from its position in the midst
of the confidence with which minority communities enact their religio - cultural pluralities and perform their distinctive particularities before
God and community.
On the other
hand, if we can find a way to understand and affirm absolute immanence as a contemporary and kenotic realization
of the Kingdom
of God, an expression in our experience
of an original movement
of Christ from transcendence to immanence, then we can give ourselves to the darkest and most chaotic
moments of our world as contemporary ways to the Christ who even now is becoming all in all.
The Copernican revolution has thus led us by steps to the point where
God (presuming for the
moment that we can still use this word in a meaningful way) must be much greater than the pre-Copernicans ever imagined, while on the other
hand man, in spite
of the recent rapid expanse
of his knowledge and technology, appears to have been reduced to an infinitesimal role in space.
God» has told us that even to the «signs told
of last
moments of life» «Resur - rection date», if we had a «date palm trees in our
hands» «we are to plant them and serve them until such date».
Stating that it worked out the way
God intended implies that he had a
hand in the very worst
moment of my life.
Covering a career that saw some
of the greatest
moments in footballing history; the
hand of God, Gazza's tears, England's greatest World Cup abroad, titles in Europe's top leagues, European triumph with Ipswich Town and a Barcelona treble, this heartfelt and personal film is led by the intimate recollections
of Sir Bobby Robson himself.
I could hear them like voices in my own head — why has this boy stopped talking, queer as a winged snake is he, leant against the wall with such a look on his face, would be handsome if he weren't so sullen, what a chest he has, deep as a wrestler's, how does it spring from those twisted haunches to which are pawled legs like hanks
of rope, oh
god, his ribcage is heaving as if at any
moment he may vomit, maybe he is ill, boy what is your problem, alas, my wordless enquiries cause his convulsions to grow worse, I think he may be going to have a fit, what will I do if he dies, oh dear, my further anxious attempts to communicate, with twisting «wherefore»
hand motions and raising
of eyebrows, seem to cause violent shudders, bugger's lips are writhing in some kind
of agony, should a doctor be called, where can one find a doctor in this place, where the hell am I anyway, what the fuck am I doing here?
Doubtless her mother was right - they were all
of them in
God's
hands, but should the Almighty turn away for a
moment, every soul on this ship would shift his faith to the person
of Captain Joseph Gibbs.