Sentences with phrase «local gods of»

«The question of the character and origin of the local gods of Egypt is still obscure; but a paper by Prof. Flinders Petrie does much to clear it up.

Why is it that it is the NPP's Akufo - Addo who is so fixated on God (and the local gods of areas he visits) as the basis for his political electioneering campaigns?

Cheerfully they had represented local gods of vegetation in the sacred marriage rites and cheerfully submitted themselves to the knife when their year was up.

This passage was not said by the historical Jesus but was wishful thinking and an embellishment by John to make Jesus more like the ancient and local gods of first century Palestine.

Nestled deep in the jungle at the base of the Maya Mountains, this Mayan reserve comprises three post classic ruins: Mayflower (Mayflower Camp), Tau Witz (dwelling of a local god of the hill) and Maintzunum (hummingbird).

Not exact matches

I doubt that in a local church in your area this Sunday you'll hear a pastor or a theologian share on the beauty of dancing as a spiritual offering of love to God.

«Nobody should go to God with such darkness,» said a resident in the Acibadem area of Istanbul, where officials and newspapers said Karabekir shot dead a local administrator as he and a group of soldiers tried to seize a building.

Some of the risks of investing in real estate include changing laws, including environmental laws; floods, fires, and other Acts of God, some of which can be uninsurable; changes in national or local economic conditions; changes in government policies, including changes in interest rates established by the Federal Reserve; and international crises.

Why just the atheists... and by the way, why not just go to your local maternity ward in your hospital... all of those babies are atheists... they haven't learned a thing about your god, or any of the other thousands of gods.

The event consisted of music, a testimony from P.O.D's lead singer, Sonny Sandoval, a relevant message from Burden, clips of on the street interviews with local people about their views on God, heaven, etc., and an opportunity for individuals with questions about spirituality to talk after the event.

You are blissfully (or intentionally) blind to the fact, that had you been born in another part of the World, you would be defending the local god (s) and disdaining the incorrectness of Christian beliefs.

RELEVANT sat down with him at a local coffee shop to talk about the core elements of postmodern ministry and how God is impacting the world.

«The distinctively local features of life in Floyd County, GA are God, family, and country.

Instead I hope these conversations of practice return us to the unique image of God our churches were meant to reflect in our local context.

The building of the local hospital, the ambulance that got me there before I died from blood loss, the image of God in the paramedics that made them give their lives to rescuing people they've never met, the wisdom of the surgeon, the intelligence and skill of the thousands of individuals whose discoveries have made operating theatres and anaesthesia possible — all of these are gracious gifts of a loving God, whose mercy enables healings to take place across the world that would, in any other generation, be considered quite miraculous.

We understand the book is a cobbling together of myths, folklore, local legend and possibly some decent home cleaning tips, fraudulently claimed as the word of your god.

Be advised and or reminded that our Tithe belongs to the local church (I thought it belonged to God) and that we should all rush to sign up to partake of our ministry to clean the church or cut the grass.

It will bring lots of blessings of the Word of God for the Pakistani and Indian Urdu and Punjabi and other local languages speaking people.

Because it was my pastoral experience that congregants rarely supplied at least 10 % of their income to God - be that through their local church or to other worthy causes.

ekklēsia) is the universal body of believers that functions under the headship of Jesus Christ and meets regularly in local assemblies to carry out the Great Commission through observing the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper and listening to the preaching of the Word of God, all for the edification of the believer and the evangelism of the world.

Now there are reports of meetings springing up around the country in Runcorn, Leeds and Portsmouth with local churches eager to see God move in a similar...

Beware the man that tells you that all your disposable time, and your assets, should be sacrificed to advance the mission of the church............ a mission defined not by God but by the man who claims to be his representative...... the pastor at your local mega church.

Gods judgment rest upon all the corporate and local churches temples, tabernacles, TV evangelists, ministries and congregations ever for all their false teachings and deeds, and God does not want any of His people to suffer the spiritual plagues which are being brought upon them.

Thinking that God is not involved in the local assembly of churches that gather in an organized way is certainly short sited on your part.

Can we really know God in the details of our lives when we are separated from the goodness of our neighbours, our local communities, our families by our schedules and our platforms?

Serendipitously, two weekends ago when he did that, it was a chapter about how discussions of theology need ordinary people to be involved, how well - educated and well - read and well - travelled scholars also need us low church experiential local folks talking about how we see and experience and know God, about how theologians are hiding in every walk of life.

Third and fourth reads of the text have proven to be useful in understanding the «downfall» of the early church; roots of error and departure from NT expectations for a local assembly that have bloomed into flowers with an unpleasant aroma that must be a stench in the nostrils of God.

Rose McGowan grew up in the Italian countryside, where her parent were members of the local branch of the Children of God.

It was like God kissing the simplicity of musicians that love God and love writing worship songs for the local Church.

So while the «church» as it is today did not begin until Acts 2, we can say that throughout the history of God's people, there have been local gatherings of believers to accomplish God's will in their lives and communities.

«I have the grace of God, my parents and two courageous and faithful local parish priests to thank for that.

Without God, we are torn in two directions: universities praise diversity, but students still form cliques; politicians promise a bright future, but our news programmes are distressing; people are obsessed with scientific explanations of everything, and equally obsessed with the sentimental love expressed in pop songs; sexual abuse with a minor is the most shameful of all crimes, but everyone has a right to complete sexual liberation once they reach the age of consent; we relocate all over the world, preferring to live anywhere but home, yet we still agonise over our local sports club; we own many things, and still feel we don't have enough; we believe in discipline at school or at work, but we all have a right to «let ourselves go» at the weekend; we tolerate everything, except people that don't agree with us.

All we know is that Namaan descends into the waters seven times, sees his leprous skin «restored like the flesh of a young boy,» acknowledges the full authority of Israel's God and, to ensure that he can render proper thanks to the Lord when he returns to Damascus, gets permission from Elisha to bring back two mule loads of local soil — a piece of Israel upon which to give thanks to the one who washed him clean.

Of course, which «god» you pick is irrelevant, but a strong local church can be a good thing.

«It was God kissing the simplicity of musicians that love God and love writing for the local Church» - @LIFEWorshipUK

But that is absolutely no reason not to find a local Body of Christ and use the gifts and talents God gave for the growth of the kingdom.

Rather, the setting of my story and the congregation's portrays my own body and that of the local church essentially in human terms, but my factual portrait of the world is darkly shaded by the tragic inevitability of God's inexorable plan.

You apply for a job in my community by running a campaign for a paid office that my local tax dollars pay for and you get elected then show up to your first scheduled meeting and decide to spend the first 5 minutes — eating donuts instead of working, speaking to the audience about your personal problems with your wife, telling the audience about an upcoming play your kid will be in, telling the captive audience about the benefits of being gay, speaking to them about God or praying aloud to your God regardless of which God the rest of the audience believes in.

The Pharisees, at the time of Jesus, identified their supposed goodness with an absoluteness that made them see themselves as local gods.

Homosexual behaviors, and same - sex marriage may be a «sin», it may be «evil», it may be «unjust» [by man's definition or even by God's definition]... but, without tangible victims beyond any reasonable doubt, I must therefore default to the teachings of Jesus, and ensure that their marriage receives all the Federal, State, and local «blessings» that every marriage receives.

Browsing the new arrivals shelf at your local theological library, you're now as likely to find titles by the Catholic dogmatician Matthew Levering, the Orthodox historical theologian Paul Gavrilyuk, and the Reformed theologian Kevin Vanhoozer on why we need to continue to speak, with the early Church, of God's inability to suffer — and of God's voluntary assumption of our human nature, in Jesus Christ, in order to share, and thereby overcome, our suffering — as you are to find another volume on God's suffering in the divine nature itself.

This is a striking picture of God's design for the local church - His own spiritual house in which disciples are born and raised and trained to fight against the enemy for His purpose in the earth.

The liturgy is being re-established little by little, in the minds of God's people as the corporate worship not just of the local but of the whole Body of Christ, the universal Church, reaching across time and space and into heaven itself:

Just admit that the flood is a story probably written a while after a severe local flood, and that the theological point is to credit God for the saving of life as well as the promise not to destroy again.

The promise of God's grace made manifest through the symbol of baptism is that we will always belong to the body and no matter of works (which, in my mind, includes the work of attending a local congregation) can change that.

I didn't know what I believed about any of it — God, the Church, the local church, scripture, any of it.

The formation of the home leads quite naturally to the local parish, Tabernacle of God with men, around which the local family of God gathers for the common life in Christ of the Eucharist, Sacrifice and Sacrament of the world.

The animistic habit of ascribing to a god a local dwelling - place and of going to the sacred spot if one wished to deal with the god persisted in manifold forms long after animism itself had been left behind.

Stories grew up around the local holy places, as at Bethel, where a typical legend records the way in which the patriarch Jacob discovered Bethel to be the «house of God.»

ecclēsia) is the universal body of believers that functions under the headship of Jesus Christ and meets regularly in local assemblies to carry out the Great Commission through observing the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper and listening to the preaching of the Word of God, all for the edification of the believer and the evangelism of the world.