Sentences with word «hireling»

Nana Kwame was trapped in a dark room at the party's headquarters by hirelings of Akufo - Addo, they punched Nana Kwame in the face, knocking him to the ground; bloodied by bludgeoning the side of his head with cutlass and a sledgehammer; leaving him paralysed.

To be led by our shepherd Jesus does not mean we are naive about the reality of wolves and thickets and lazy hirelings who might endanger the sheep.

That was why they acted more like hirelings than shepherds When Jesus Christ came, all of that stopped.

American Catholics, as well as Protestants, may now work for wages; but they have long since ceased being hirelings in a biblical sense

Conversely, employees are not likely to become fully productive, so long as their employer continues to treat them merely as hirelings.

There are many out there without the courage to leave and are just hirelings.

Would you expect that new hireling to drive flawlessly?

His little flock would be frequently assaulted by thieves and misled by hirelings.

The Good Shepherd calls on Christians of all stripes to follow him, not out of fear of bandits or from frustration with hirelings, but out of love.

It reminds us that Jesus is our only shepherd, the one whose voice we must heed, and that we must confess that often we listen to the call of wolves and lazy hirelings.

While the gunplay and the assault on the villains» hideout are certainly tame by Sam Peckinpah standards, the characters» sense that they're mere hirelings with nothing left to believe in definitely anticipates «The Wild Bunch», making this a movie that's perfectly enjoyable on its own terms, but even more fascinating when viewed in the wider context of what was to come.

On the other hand in the counterfeit, the blind guide hireling teaches his sheep to go out and invite the lost to come in and make a decision for a jesus who is then bound to accept them.

Well, much to the amusement of a number of bureaucrats and associated hirelings, Bob was informed that he'd have to begin from the beginning and get a «driver's permit,» much as I had in 1963.

Aside from a few remaining hirelings at The Guardian, most people from the old left recognise (though rarely concede) that their ideology — particularly the ideology of collectivism — was the most catastrophic mirage of the 20th century.

After reading through few examples of Akufo - Addo's inexcusable flirtation with violence, you would understand why his dishonest hireling, Professor Mike Ocquaye was rejected miserably in the party's 2007 flagbearership race.

«They are also prepared to sponsor some political hirelings who would come out openly to claim they have information about the property acquisitions.»

It's hard to go wrong with a vivid real - life event like Rivera's confrontation with American aristocrat Nelson Rockefeller, who was flummoxed when his communist hireling actually painted a communist mural for him; but this episode was more dramatically depicted in Tim Robbins's movie «Cradle Will Rock» three years ago.

It's clear that Coogler is more in charge than most Marvel hirelings when he smash - cuts from this fantastical opening to a basketball court in Oakland, California circa 1992.

In each case, the Americans play the same role: jet - set hirelings, alternately ruthless and naïve, imposing cookie - cutter strategies on campaigns worldwide.

(2) Until not many years ago, the foundational Endowment Ceremony for all faithful Mormon who want to attend their temples, stated that leaders of other churches were «Hirelings of Satan.»

The workers now have so few rights that new hirelings will have no choice but to accept whatever low wages Nestle decides to pay them.

Developing an adequate theology of work today means recognizing that we can no longer regard ourselves or be regarded as mere hirelings.

The Toronto creative firm behind a few Colgate, Kraft and Revlon campaigns you might recall, had a little warped fun patting itself on the back — and the backs of its evidently very hard - working hirelings — in a hilarious video making the rounds this week.

Hirelings are thieves and robbers.

I for one indertand that turning the other cheek is not about excusing the cowardice of Hirelings... Hireling!

«Our church» would go into the red, and we might not be able to pay «the hireling»!

I have hijacked the word «Corporatism» to mean government by an alliance of global corporations, wealthy indi - viduals, and their hirelings.

Recently, however, I was forced to consider the hireling who, when he sees the wolf coming, abandons the...

Thieves and robbers threaten the disciples and the church from the outside; hirelings like Judas flee from within when danger comes.

In John's story of the good shepherd, Jesus is portrayed as the good shepherd because when the wolf comes he does not flee like a hireling, but because the sheep are his own he lays down his life for his sheep.

In addition to having to pantomime Masonic - style ritual slittings of their throats, chests, and abdomens (the «penalty» for revealing the ceremony to outsiders), the endowment ceremony also featured a portrayal of a Protestant minister as a hireling of Satan.

During Romney's business time in Boston, the closest temple was in Washington, so he may not have been a monthly attendee, but suffice it to say that he must have participated dozens of times prior to the April 1990 changes, which eliminated the «penalty» signs and the Protestant minister as a hireling of Satan.

Congregations / boards / elders / deacons see the pastor as a hireling.

These Pharisees were no more than hirelings.

These hirelings were interested in collecting their wages, not in the welfare of the sheep.

12 — But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.

Were we, wage earners and salaried employees, really any different from the hireling?

The reason the hireling is destined for Jesus» kingdom is directly connected to the reason he is likely to abandon the sheep at the first sign of a predator.

But the hireling still has something very basic to teach us.

Recently, however, I was forced to consider the hireling who, when he sees the wolf coming, abandons the sheep and runs away.