Sentences with phrase «lost sheep»

Some of these are hidden in plain sight, while others require you to embark on mini-quests such as finding lost sheep or collecting magical notes.

A variety of writing sheets with pictures for children to write captions and retell some of the stories from Jesus's life - palm sunday, feeding the five thousand, angels, lost coin, prodigal son, good samaritan, lost sheep, Jesus walking on the water and a colour sequencing sheet of the Zaccheus story.

Robert Mitchum gives a fire and brimstone performance as a demonic con man in preacher man's robes who stalks two children in search of treasure, and Lillian Gish is a tough but tender shepherd of lost sheep orphans.

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Little Bo Peep may have lost her sheep, but she sure didn't lose sleep over choosing a hair stylist.

Like I was a lost sheep blindly following wherever the diet gurus and their fancy plans drove me — even though time and time again I ended up right back where I started.

Build your house on the rock Sowing seed Mustard seed Treasure in the field Widow's mite crafts Lost sheep Prodigal Son Craft Wedding banquet

He was like a lost sheep on the first goal, worse than a bag of potatoes on the corner on 2 - 2 (really should've marked Carroll better) and for 3 - 2 he was the direct reason Ospina didn't save it, AND he didn't mark Carroll, being such an obvious goal threat in those situations.

His parables reveal a close and sympathetic observation of everyday life: the farmer's sowing and reaping, the shepherd and his flock, the house built on the rock, the leaven in the dough, the lost coin and the lost sheep, the father's joy in the return of a wayward son and the elder brother's peevish jealousy, the mother forgetting her agony for joy that a man has been born into the world, the workers standing idle in the marketplace because no one has hired them, and many other instances.

This chapter contains the three parables of the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the lost son.

Pope Francis reminds us to forsake the ninety - nine, in pursuit of even one lost sheep.

For example: He answered, «I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.»

In Luke 15, Jesus shares three famous stories of a lost sheep, a lost coin and a lost son — and in each, lost doesn't mean «idiot,» «fool» or «outsider.»

Similarly, when we turn our backs on God and chase after the things of this world, we are like that lost sheep, or that lost coin, or that lost son.

Also one must consider the lost sheep — was it lost, or merely running away?

They constituted the «lost sheep of the house of Israel» (Matt.

Remember Jesus is the good shepherd who goes out into the desert for one lost sheep and leaves the 99 to do so.

[15] The same theme is taken up in the reading for the Liturgy of the Hours taken from an early Christian homily, «He has gone to search for Adam, our first father, as for a lost sheep.

If I understand you correctly, it's like He's going after the lost sheep.

There always has been a remnant of believers... «Mat 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.»

The experienced nearness of God's reigning power justifies Jesus» anticipatory actions: his table - fellowship with the lost sheep of Israel looking forward to the messianic banquet; the gift of God's forgiveness, reserved for messianic times (Mark 2:5); his preaching of a new, eschatological Torah designed for this new coming age.

Christ came to gather the lost sheep (tribes carried off because of their fornication).

and Jesus» mission is limited to «the lost sheep of the house of Israel.»

Moreover, not even the Gospels set on the lips of the earthly Jesus any hint of a mission to men outside Jewry, but they record him as saying that he came to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

If it is true that there is more heavenly rejoicing over the lost sheep that is found than over the sheep that have not strayed, God's embrace shows one important sense in which the history that began with the eating of forbidden fruit in the Garden and that will end in the heavenly city is a good one.

Less significant, but rather striking, is his repetition of «formulas» such as «from then he began» (4:17, 16:21), «do not suppose that I came» (5:17, 10:34), «sons of the kingdom» (8:12, 13:38), «to outer darkness» (8:12, 22:13, 25:30), «the lost sheep of the house of Israel» (10:6, 15:24).

It is all a part of the pathos of people who got scared and lost their way, and of the high drama of a God who searches to find his lost sheep.

Whoever breaks one of the least of the commandments will be called least in the kingdom of heaven (5:19; Matthew substitutes «heaven» for «God»); what is holy must not be given to dogs, i.e. outsiders (7:6); the disciples» mission is not to gentiles or Samaritans but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel (10:5 - 6; cf. 15:24).

When the Pharisees and the Scribes murmured saying, «This man receives sinners and eats with them», Jesus in reply told the parable of the lost sheep, the lost coin and the lost son.

His body swelled and his thigh wasted away (his thigh supported Him on the cross in order for Him to breathe) With Christ resurrection, God was now able to RE-NEW His covenant with Israel and gather the lost sheep.

Jesus came to save the lost — lost sheep, lost coins, lost brothers, lost prostitutes, lost loan sharks, lost jack - asses, lost weaklings.

Jesus tries to ignore her; his disciples urge him to send her away; and when the itinerant rabbi finally speaks his mind — in response to them more than to her — it is with a bit of received wisdom that no one would hold against him: «I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.»

Apparently, at the beginning of his ministry he conceived his mission as to the «lost sheep of the house of Israel.»

It was in Galilee that Jesus undertook to gather together the outcasts of Israel, the lost sheep, and reunite the nation once more under its true King, as the «eschatological community.»

There are plenty of lost sheep from his own fold to attend to — let the Canaanites deal with the Canaanites.

For the rigidity of the law it substituted the life of the spirit; it scorned the cautious wisdom of the sage to bless the trusting faith of a child; from the beauty of the flesh it turned to the beauty of holiness; it regarded man as a prodigal son and a lost sheep, lost but for the grace of the Divine Shepherd.»

The Emancipation Proclamation moves in the same direction as the healing universality of the parable of the lost sheep.

What happens when the lost sheep gets found is that the joy is contagious.

He came to find the lost sheep of the 12 Tribes of Israel (Jacob).

Each is apt to measure results not by statistical outcomes, but by one lost sheep at a time.

Very clever spin on «lost sheep.»

So, Jesus points out to them that when they rescue their lost sheep — referencing a literal animal, not allegorically referring to a believer, the religious people rejoice and tell everyone of their success in retrieving their misguided animal (sheep).

The most common view on these parables in Luke 15 it that the lost sheep, lost coin, and lost son all refers to unbelievers, and Jesus goes out and finds them, and brings them back to Himself.

For example, if these three parables are talking about how Jesus goes out to find unsaved people, and the lost sheep, coins, and sons therefore represent all the people of the world, what is keeping us from a universalist interpretation of this passage, since Jesus doesn't stop searching until he has gathered all 100 back into his fold?

The point Jesus is making is that the Pharisees and Scribes cared far more about literally lost sheep — literal lost animals, than they cared about human souls that were lost.

Certainly, not everyone who holds the view that the lost in these parables in Luke 15 refer to unbelievers are universalists, but this man did arrive at a universalist position partly as a result of viewing the lost sheep, the coins, and the sons as unbelievers.

When Jesus told his stories about a lost sheep and a lost coin he left the details to our imagination.

Lost sheep and coins are parts of a whole, the search is a quest for restoration and wholeness.

The lost sheep and the lost coin are more than the prized possessions of their owners; they are also parts of a whole.

Following such self - searching, a great prayer such as the «General Confession» of the Anglican service, can be a deeply moving experience: «We have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep....