Sentences with phrase «kind of servant»

Not exact matches

«We're kind of like a British civil servant,» he says.

After the first spike and crash, and after what some folks wrote about it - including your humble servant right here - it would seem that people would realize what kind of outfit this is, and that they would try to exit their shares, and be done with it, having learned a lesson about believing corporate gobbledygook instead of doing research.

«But this is the kind of standard that I know Canadians want to be able to expect from their public servants.

The debts that were forgiven were personal debts, agrarian debts, and the idea was to liberate the bond - servants so that they could be available to perform the corvée labor, which was the main kind of taxation in the Bronze Age, and serve in the army.

It's the kind of common - sense, let - the - people - decide argument that would fit well in the mouth of a former public servant with a «higher loyalty» in mind.

«We have a small army of public servants thinking about gender inequality — which is kind of unreal to think about from even five to 10 years ago.»

But frankly, all the pastors ought to be doing in the first place is being a servant and a slave to others — that's what a pastor is anyway, at least what sketchy little bits of «pastor» roles can be made out in the NT, as it's scarcely mentioned — not necessarily standing up there and teaching everyone two or three times a week, running the show, and acting like some kind of CEO.

You see, the Papa needs lots of non-critical thinking servants to procreate lots of baby, Roman Catholic - bots to indoctrinate into the faith, so as adults, they too can flock in kind, to see the greatest fraud ever foisted upon the World.

3 For another kind of survey of prophetic variety, see H. H. Rowley, The Servant of the Lord (London: Lutterworth Press, 1952), pp. 102 if.

God gave us many «names» for His many facets so that all of us could find some kind of positive connotation to which we could cling — cloud, pillar of fire, father, shepherd, teacher, bread, friend, king, creator, provider, mother hen, water, rock, tower of refuge, master, physician, light, servant, prince, vine, and many others.

I know this kinder gentler slavery is the current meme among Christian apologists — «more of a servant really», but it is a claim with no basis in fact.

Here then is a summary of the essential purport of the life and work of Jesus in a kind of symbolic shorthand: he undertook his mission, our informants are saying, as Messiah, as Son of God, as the Servant of the Lord, in the power of the divine Spirit — and this is «God's truth,» affirmed by the divine voice whose echo can be caught by the inward ear.

But the main stress in the sacrament is found not so much in that kind of talk (which may be appropriate enough for an adult) but in the simple words with which the minister of baptism signs the baptized person with the sign of the cross as he or she is «received into the congregation of Christ's flock»: that «hereafter he [or she] shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified, and manfully to fight under his banner, against sin, the world, and the devil, and to continue Christ's faithful soldier and servant unto his [her] life's end.»

Servant ministry demands a kind of spiritual integrity usually found in Christians who know what it means to wrestle with God with support from a trusted friend.

Exodus 31:3 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills — 1 Samuel 10:10 When he and his servant arrived at Gibeah, a procession of prophets met him; the Spirit of God came powerfully upon him, and he joined in their prophesying.

It really was nothing more than a servant that is the kind of slave the bible speaks of, but when it goes past that and the owner starts to treat the servant wrong and control and beat on him..

On the other hand, the essential faith which is enshrined in this story is the forerunner of the faith which in the Gospels so persistently cast Jesus Christ in the role of healer of all kinds of bitterness, the faith which appropriates to the suffering of the Cross the line first spoken of the Servant of the Lord: «with his stripes we are healed» (Isa.

A servant of any kind, free or slave would be punished if they failed in their duties.

Then there is another kind of rationality required of public servants who are to be dedicated to the common good.

It is this kind of mentality by some of our fans that has made them to always yearn for signings at the expense of our own loyal servants whom they prefer to denigrate!

Where Friedan's target was the kind of mothering that saw Mom as servant to house and home, Arlie Hochshield, in «The Second Shift» took aim at the kind that saw Mom as all that, plus a wage earner.

Similarly, reports and parliamentary answers are still full of this kind of nonsensical jargon, suggesting the rhetoric of ministers is not filtering down to the civil servants who draft such publications.

Mayor Bloomberg is the kind of public servant that inspires confidence in our City, State, and Nation.

It seems unlikely that a public servant would know about this theory, unless they were specifically trained in some kind of field involving social philosophy.

«And I tell this to my colleagues, most of whom are completely honorable public servants in the state Legislature: You've got to do something about this... this is the kind of stuff that makes people lose their confidence in government.»

International Trade Secretary Liam Fox reacts to criticism from his former top civil servant that the UK will need a «fairy godmother» to get the kind of Brexit deal it wants.

He added, «Richard is exactly the kind of person we need more of in Congress - a thoughtful public servant who puts his constituents first, shares their values and has earned their respect.

«He's a very serious public servant and he's asking a question we asked ourselves all the time, that our economic development programs get the kind of bang for the buck that we hope they would,» de Blasio said at an unrelated press conference announcing $ 150 million in improvements at five large city parks this afternoon.

The show must go on folks until we replace these kinds of officials and public servants with people possessing integrity and wisdom.

No, I'm not of course asking you to be a slave or a servant; I'm talking of surprises, big gifts, memorable vacations and the kind you know.

The Prawn are literally a servant race, they're violent, kind of gross and unmotivated.

Downstairs, where the visiting servants are addressed by the names of their employers by the butler (Alan Bates), head housekeeper (Helen Mirren), and head cook (Eileen Atkins), a different kind of social order reigns.

And while Altman and Fellowes are setting us up for a murder, a visiting Hollywood producer (Bob Balaban) is plotting his Charlie - Chan - in - London mystery by transcontinental telephone, breathlessly reporting that there's one butler but many valets and maids, that servants actually have tasks to perform, that there's all kinds of things that Hollywood mysteries don't show.

Rose's parents, Dean and Missy — played by Bradley Whitford and Catherine Keener, respectively — are the kind of affluent liberal white people who can't be racist because they consider their black servants to be «like family».

Following an armed standoff against a snarling lieutenant (Bill Tangradi, «Argo»), Newt officially becomes a wanted man, fleeing into the swamps with the help of a kind, sweet plantation servant named Rachel (the ever - appealing Gugu Mbatha - Raw, «Belle») who first caught Newt's eye when she once tended to his sick boy.

Susie Q I agree — I don't care how «smart» he is public servant shouldn't be making the kind of money.

They are found not guilty and the prosecution is widely ridiculed as being out of touch with changing social norms when the chief prosecutor asks if it were the kind of book «you would wish your wife or servants to read».

I'd argue that the majority who ARE confident are probably the beneficiaries of employer - sponsored Defined Benefit pension plans, ideally the kind of inflation - indexed ones that many public servants enjoy.

One of the CIOs said he views Twitter as great tool for cross-pollinating ideas up and down the organization - kind of like «servant leadership,» he said.