Sentences with phrase «lives of servants»

The lives of their servants and hangers - on are also the subject of much of the show's running time, and the three series to date have taken in the sinking of the Titanic, World War I, Spanish flu and the Marconi scandal.

Not exact matches

Underwood is a clear example of a servant leader practicing conscious capitalism to transform the lives of impoverished women and families.

From Jesus» life, as well as the rest of the New Testament, I see so many examples of tangible servant leadership that I can't help but take them to heart.

As the only surviving child of the late public servant, she gets that money for life as long as she remains single.

The values of servant leadership — putting others first and leading from the heart — need to emerge from every corner of American life, including the business community.

He was a servant leader and literally died saving the lives of others.

Having lived with a servant of the Word for more than fifty years in three Lutheran churches, I have this question: Why is it that the «white, middle - class, traditional, orthodox theologians» being told that their understanding of the church is no longer relevant, are told this by «white, middle - class theologians?»

«My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius, father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my vengeance - in this life or the next.»

Elizabeth Chyrum, Director of Human Rights Concern - Eritrea (HRC - E) said: «It is an insult that the legitimate patriarch of the Orthodox Church is confined to the servants» quarters in the same compound where two junior bishops live in a villa.

Some of those elderly just marry not for the joy but for a helping hand in the house if they are all alone as a servant since religiously single men are not allowed to have female maids work or live in their houses unless they are married to each other..

Three Christian charities - HOPE, LICC and the Bible Society - came together to publish «The Servant Queen, and the King She Serves», which provides rare insights into the Queen's relationship with God and how it's affected the other aspects of her life.

May I offer that pastors may have some trouble seeing (and living) the transition of the leadership of Christ from strong leader to facilitator / servant?

Jesus understood that the Messianic King of Psalm 2 was also the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53 — a sacrificial lamb who would be rejected and cut off from the land of the living.

well done my good and faithful servants - atheist boys and girls, your thoughtless comments and insults make me so proud of you, another day well spent in your life.

On the other hand, such bond servants (NOT their «masters») automatically gained the right to DEMAND full employment FOR LIFE at the end of their term of bonded service.

The overarching interpretive rubric within which to understand the spheres of human life — and, for us here, in particular the family — is Augustine's statement, in Book I of The City of God, that the servants of God «have no reason to regret even this life of time, for in it they are schooled for eternity.»

Rather than treating church polity as secondary, Jesus insists on the reverse: first live as servants of one another and then you will know what to say and do as my disciples.

We must exhort all «sword - bearers,» that is, all agents of the state and public servants, from schoolteachers to the president, to live up to the demands of their vocations.

Living by faith does not absolve you of your responsibility to be a faithful servant and work hard.

The Servant of God Pope John Paul II wrote a letter to the priests of the world, starting with a passage from St. John: «For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.»

It shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave; even as the Son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.»

And if my eyes were more filled with tears than those of a repentant woman, and if each tear were more precious than a pardoned woman's many tears; if I could find a place more humble than the place at his feet, and if I could sit there more humbly than a woman whose heart's sole choice was this one thing needful; if I loved him more sincerely than the most loyal of his servants, eager to shed the last drop of his life - blood in his service; if I had found greater favor in his eyes than the purest among women — nevertheless, if I asked him to alter his purpose, to reveal himself differently, to be more lenient with himself, he would doubtless look at me and say: Man, what have I to do with thee?

When I was growing up in a small town in western Pennsylvania, I saw the idea of the servant leader lived out.

Two quite short lives of Jesus are C. H. Dodd, The Founder of Christianity, (Collins, 1971) and Donald Coggan, The Servant - Son (SPCK, 1995).

It is a summons from Jesus to live in the Christian community as the servants of one another.

In that sense, Francis of Assisi's life as a mendicant embodied in evangelical witness the truth of the Christological hymn in Philippians and its celebration of «Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.

As Clifford Green has pointed out, «From the centre of life, under the lordship of the servant Christ, for the world: this is the manner of the non-religious interpretation.

While some, therefore, among the great prophets turned away from it as too misleading to be useful, others, like Ezekiel, clung to it and, by giving it sublimated meanings, made it a servant of their spiritual lives.

He humbled himself and took upon him the form of a servant, but he did not come to spend his life as a servant in some private employment, attending to his tasks without in any manner making himself known, either to his master or to his fellow servants — such a measure of wrath we dare not ascribe to the God.

As Christians, we should pray for those whose lives have been enriched by the availability of insurance, and be ready to take up the mantle of servants and serve those who find themselves in need.

Hello, hope for every long - suffering, imperfect, demon - fighting, disability - challenged, stage - frightened, anxiety - ridden, on - the - verge - of - a-pity-party servant of the gospel who ever lived.

I would have to say that the people here with a corner on the market of «hate speech, legalism, and self - righteousness» would have to be the secular groups here: the politicians (any flavour), local environmental groups, the local anti-religious groups, public servants who want to squeeze Christians out of community life, and the local media.

In pouring himself out in the form of a servant, and in living his humanity as an offering up of everything to God in love, the shape of the eternal Son's life was already sacrificial in this special sense; and it was this absolute giving, as God and man, that was made complete on Golgotha.

I really like the way the New Living Translation renders this: «Who is a faithful, sensible servant, to whom the master can give the responsibility of managing his household and feeding his family?»

We have a minister (servant), a youth pastor (shepherd), and an assistant pastor (that's me — I particularly like the «assistant» bit — I'm there to assist everyone, not just the minister) and a team of about a dozen elders (most of whom are far from elderly) who are responsible for different aspects of the life of the church and meet monthly.

i do nt hate any of you are your point of views i just know that believing in GOD and being a faithful servant has made me a better person in general, i was really doing alot of wrong in my lifetime before accepting JESUS into my life, GOD blees you all.

But before Jesus talks about that, He first wants to talk about how these servants of his degenerated into wickedness and rebellious living.

Without this center there will not be much life in the rest of the church, however much integrity we ascribe to ourselves against the servants of success.

Nye believes his book On the Origin of Species written by a man Charles Darwin in 1859 AD I believe my book Genesis written by Moses servant to the living GOD around 1400 BC Moses defeated Pharaoh and the Egyptians in probably the highest civilization at that time.

«She also brings strong experience of parish and cathedral life, and sees her vocational experience as nurse, civil servant, priest and bishop as a totality.»

How about Prophesy ««Thus says the Lord GOD, «When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and will manifest My holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they will live in their land which I gave to My servant Jacob.»

Near the end of Jesus» life, he did for them what only the lowest servant in a house would do, and only then because they were ordered to.

Interestingly, many left - wing fans, who would hate everything the central family stands for if their lifestyle was preserved today, are quite happy to embrace the sight of Elizabeth McGovern as the wealthy Countess of Grantham, who drifts through life, barely able to dress without the help of a servant.

God has and continues to speak through the undeniable presence and existence of his creation; he speaks through our consciences; he speaks through the various events of our lives (birth, growth, health / illness, prosperity / want, relationships and death); he speaks through the events of history; and to those who would listen, he has spoken through his servants (Hebrews 1).

And the followers of Christ have to live as God's servants of reconciliation and healing.

O Dayspring from on high, who raised up your servant John Newton to enlighten your people with the message of amazing grace; grant us the courage to work for the freedom of all who live in unjust captivity and slavery and to scatter the darkness of those who live in self - condemnation and fear by the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ our Lord.

To the other 99 % of the world Reverend Graham is recognized everywhere as a devoted and effective servant of the living God.

The great motive was love of neighbor and this was found to be in a certain tension with the love of God, since the latter prompted a servant of the Lord to shun worldly duties as well as distractions and to give his life to adoration and contemplation in monastic seclusion.

Creation from nothing, the origin of death among humans, the murder of Abel by Cain, a cataclysmic flood of judgement, the righteous judgement of Sodom and Gomorrah, the Mosaic origin of the Torah, manna from heaven, the reliability of Deuteronomy, the driving out of the Canaanites, Isaiah's authorship of the servant songs, and so on — it's almost as if Jesus and his followers went out of their way to validate all of the most awkward apologetic curveballs in the Old Testament just to make life difficult for post-Enlightenment Western interpreters.

«The life - history of Jesus can not be understood, in my opinion,» writes Buber, «if one does not recognize that he... stood in the shadow of the Deutero - Isaianic servant of the Lord.»