Sentences with phrase «like apostles»

George said, «This is a very laudable concept because they are going to be like the apostles that won souls for Christ and I think the more, the better, because this country needs good soldiers at this point.

At the potluck afterwards, they steam, recite the Last Supper like apostles replaying the....

Did you ever hear that there were other books, letters, and documents that were written near the time the books of the Bible were written, claiming to be by authors like the Apostles Andrew, Thomas, Peter, and Paul, but which are not found in our Bible?

* I disagree with you that hermeneutics singularly deskilled people in doing theology like the apostles did.

Are you going to be like these apostles in Luke 8:9 who ask Jesus for an explanation, no matter how much the truth might hurt?

First, like the apostles, you and I are faced with a dilemma.

Like the Apostles in response to Jesus» call to the rich man I think, «Who then can be saved?»

You must always go out in pairs (like the apostles), so one can pray while the other speaks.

I'm trying to help you to understand a really key concept but like the apostle Paul, you're «kicking against the pr!cks.»

We should all be striving to be able to say, like the apostle Paul, imitate me as I imitate Christ.

hm, a hypocrite is someone who says they've done nothing wrong [and judged others]... not someone who is striving to live a right life, realizing they need Christ... like the apostle Paul, I understand my sin and struggles — make no excuse for them, accept God's grace and try to move forward

Like the apostle Paul once said, I myself am also a «chief of sinners» so for me, the well of love runs deep.

who fight, claw and cry... praying for change — just like the apostle paul's thorn in his flesh... just because i feel strongly inclined towwards something doesn't make it right — tell that to my wife if i feel strongly inclined to cheat on her

Every minister is unpaid and supports him / herself from their own work, like the apostle Paul did mostly, as a tent maker.

He was not all - knowing like an apostle.

Like the apostle's own letters, it does not claim to be systematic, complete, or to have discussed matters thoroughly.

This would be like the apostle Paul politically supporting Cesar to receive a pardon and be set free while he was a prisoner in Rome.

Like the apostle Paul teaches us, sin is bondage, and through Christ we are promised healing from those bonds.

Not exact matches

«I am sending you (apostles / priests) out like sheep among wolves.

Like the comet reports, you can write them off, or you can believe them and track them down... like I did... if you bother to believe God, seriously believe him, and don't have any problem with what he wants, the apostles accounts won't be any shock to you eitLike the comet reports, you can write them off, or you can believe them and track them down... like I did... if you bother to believe God, seriously believe him, and don't have any problem with what he wants, the apostles accounts won't be any shock to you eitlike I did... if you bother to believe God, seriously believe him, and don't have any problem with what he wants, the apostles accounts won't be any shock to you either.

And as Jesus told them, his seed, people believing him then, the 12 apostles, that would grow like a mustard seed in to a huge tree... which it did, 33 % of the 7 billion people on the planet believe Jesus was born of the Holy Spirit, performed miracles using the Holy Spirit, and later sent the Holy Spirit to the followers after dying on the cross and raising again on the 3rd day of being in the hands of sinful men.

«Athiests and those who were of like heart were the ones to persecuted and murdered every one of the prophets and apostle»

False Christians arn't persecuted True ones are though they even have been persecuted by the Vatican and other false Christians they are under ban in places like NK and Iran and some other places Jesus apostles where persecuted stephen was stoned John the baptist was decapitated Paul was liked in prison for a while you see only true Christians are persecuted how can the richest orinization on the planet claim to follow God and be the richest on the planet and actually persecute everyone else.

the problem is that ppl read the bible thats been translated, if you realy want to know what was said youll need to study hebrew... every letter has a meaning... every word isnt a perfect fit for english,, theres nuances and cultural differences that youll find,,, its a whole new thing to go back and look at the bible through hebrew eyes,,, they arent required to look like us,,, were supposed to look more like them,,, yashua was a jew,,,, all the apostles were jews, yashua was sent to the lost sheep of the house of israel, not the gentiles, paul took it to the gentiles, and he never stopped being and living as a jew, the laws are very viable today, but they do nt give salvation, thats what yashua did...

Oh yeah, early Christians and apostles like Paul fabricated the stories to fit the ancient prophecies so that they can be persecuted and killed.

One of Christ's 12 apostles, Judas Iscariot, turned traitor like Ahithophel.

another gnostic gospel... not even close to the true Gospel found in matthew, mark, luke, and john gospels that line up with Paul, and the other apostles teachings of Jesus, those four gospels have hundreds of manuscrips not like these puny 1 time fragments dated way after apostles

The Church of Jesus Christ today has a prophet like Moses, 12 apostles who represent the 12 tribes, and 70 men who also serve the people, just as in the Old and New Testament.

Hi, with all do respect, do nt you believe that a formal apology to the black race for the many years of stone cold bigotry should come from the apostles all white, or the milocvich 70, next in line, all white also, yea I said milocvih, Its like some big comunist white cult of 82

Mormon belief is very much like the teachings of the earlier Christians — before the creeds — and also matches the teachings of Christ and the Apostles.

Assumed, the apostles had been liars or impostors, it had emerged within weeks, because people from Palestine had accused them to be liars (note that the ancient world was as international like our modern world, because of trade).

WE should have a problem with saying «shit», Paul, an apostle, used the Greek word skubalon several times, like «I consider all things shit, compared to Christ.

Because, like [the apostle] Paul, I realized that if this can be falsified then the whole faith falls apart.

He wrote it completely unbiased, and stated the facts as they are, and when things couldn't be proven, like john taylor creating a secret society of apostles, he STATED that it was the polygamists beliefs, not fact.

And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been placed in the Bible first or known thus far to have been placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via deity who at the beginning of human history on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those of other ancient beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.

Funny thing about your shallow American Christianity, whether here on this blog or out on the streets of the US... you look nothing like Jesus or the 1st C apostles (who all claimed that you should be like them and that you would do «greater things» than they did).

I thought the Biblical perspective was that elders are to have a good repuration with outsiders and to be above reproach... and to not even have the appearance of evil... Sorry, on issues like this I'll take the apostle Paul over a magazine editor anyday.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

Even as Jesus foretold Peter's actual betrayal he confirmed his choice of Peter as the only one who could confirm his brothers (his fellow apostles) in the faith whenever they became confused about the truth and how to govern the Church - the phrase Jesus used was that they would be «sifted like wheat» (Luke 22:32).

Perhaps after shuddering with relief upon remembering what he almost did, Judas might have gone on to become one who, like Paul, was «unworthy to be called an apostle» but nonetheless proved to be a great apostle.

What a farce is all this unctuous adulation of Marx, or of Lenin... They are men like any other men, and they have not attained to their present position as apostles of the communist State by the sheer force of their mild, pacific, self - abnegating temperaments.

Infatuated with himself, he usurped the prerogatives of the Apostles by presuming to preach the Gospel in the streets, where he made many disciples, and involving them, both men and women, in a like presumption by sending them out, in turn, to preach.

... The Jews (just like the church now) got flippant concerning divorce... I feel Jesus didn't have to mention homosexuality because the Law was clear to any Jew at that time... Paul had to mention it because he was an apostle to the Gentiles who I think were more prone to homosexuality behavior... I'm though not as learned as you... just my thought after 15 years of thinking about this issue... The church has a sacred duty to all... even gays... we need a unified loving answer to give them... but it must be the truth... because only the truth can set us free...

Angels, as we mentioned previously, are the messengers of Allah to His prophets and apostles, but Jinn, like mankind, receive the revelations through His apostles.

The apostle Paul writing to the church in Ephesus encouraged them «with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self... and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.»

Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and other like - minded apostles of social change, and their followers, have been effective in challenging the prevailing power structure because they did not merely appeal to reason and high purposes.

For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men.

For the next saying, concerning faith like a grain of mustard seed (Lk 17:5 - 6; Mt 17:20), Luke provides an occasion: «The apostles said to the Lord.

It's like when the apostles told the Gentiles that they didn't have to follow all the rules that the Jews did.

Like the word itself and the apostle who proclaims it, so the Church where the preaching of the word is continued and where the believers or «saints» (i.e., those who have been transferred to eschatological existence) are gathered is part of the eschatological event.