Sentences with phrase «little flock»

I also dream of raising our own little flock of chickens right now, even if it's not feasible at the moment!

From styling our new shelves to adding that cute little flocked tree in the corner, I had a blast designing this space.

Or again he said, «Fear not little flock, it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom».

Eventually, under the mentorship of people like Eugene Peterson, Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, and Wendell Berry, I decided I would simply focus on my own little flock wherever I was and forget about the system.

I got my first little flocked tree and love it.

God almighty has placed Jesus as his king in that government along with the «little flock of chosen ones» taken from earth.

«Fear not little flock, for it is the Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom».

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

Among his reported sayings are some in which the Kingdom of God is at the same time the kingdom of the faithful, who are comforted: «Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father» s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.»

Although we are told, «Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom» (Luke 12:32), it will not do to forget that the verse before this one says «seek his kingdom» and the one after it enjoins selling all that one has for treasure in heaven.

Luke too has in this context a verse (12:32) not found elsewhere: «Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.»

It seems to us a humiliation that we are made to reconsider our destiny as «little flocks»: salt, yeast, light.

It is a picture of what happened to the «little flock» in which the new people of God was embodied.

Christ calls His disciples His «little flock», a term of endearment.

But it is something more: something immediate and poignant in the embattled «little flocks» of the first century, known again in our day by millions in shattered and cut - off lives in cells, rubble, behind wire, and behind curtains.

«Fear not, little flock,» he says to his disciples.

«Fear not, little flock.

«To the little flock» (a quotation from the New Testament) he wrote explaining his absence, his position which had led to so much criticism from authority, and outlined for their benefit all that had happened, copying at one point a style used by St Paul when rebutting his critics.

The little flock looked apprehensively at the preacher, but he was mute and indecisive, never having had a sermon disrupted by interplanetary invasion.

To those who will rule with him, Jesus said: «Have no fear, little flock, because your Father has approved of giving you the kingdom.»

(Luke 12:32) That «little flock» will finally number 144,000.

We are still in touch through fb and sincerely believe in my heart that they will at some point awaken, as we are being awakened and he and her, will be, with all in their little flock, in the future, they will be a very loving and strong voice in teaching the true name (nurture and nature of God and not the angry, vengeful blood requiring god of Moses, Abraham and Isaac.

O'Malley's simplified «creed,» if, by Confirmation time, just one of my little flock understood the meaning of those four theological propositions (never mind believing them with «a reasonable degree of certainty»), I would join Fr.

««Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom!

Will, Mike, Sam, and your little flock that follows your errors, as I can see the comments here with perhaps some others (that don't comment but look on) that enjoy someone else's disputes, because that's what TV and programs are made of in this warped world.

I am not a part of brother Jeremy's «little flock».

Last evening before sunset, Mr. B and I pulled our deck chairs out onto the lawn for an hour and watched our little flock of young chickens glory in the green grass outside their coop.