Sentences with phrase «made by the followers»

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Smart companies have turned Twitter into a money - making machine by making their followers part of the creative process.
This tool makes it faster and easier for small companies to compete for the best new employees by drawing upon their existing networks of online friends and followers.
A new start - up wants to help brands, influencers and even teachers make money by communicating live with their followers.
Doing so enables you stay top of mind with your followers by being visible and making thoughtful contributions on posts from others.
Staples also thrills followers by making fun of office culture and the doldrums of cubicle life.
You can do this by making it easy for your followers to share their customer experiences and continually seeking input from customers.
This makes them trend followers by definition.»
The designation of Christian was a label made - up by the Romans to identify and persecute followers of Christ.
And these followers make a large demographic of political votes in a country that loves to start wars and elect politicians who will be «guided by the hand of god»... excuse me as I am affected by these people... their practices cab affect me
He and his followers at the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, made a name for themselves in the 1990s by protesting at the funerals of gay people who died of AIDS and, more recently, by protesting at the funerals of military officers.
I'm sure a devout follower would gladly give support to his / her church without being asked, but by making it policy that you HAVE to?
That being said, I know that people will ALWAYS do terrible things, but hopefully by getting rid of organized religions we would make it hard for terrible people to geta footing and develop followers to spread the scale of those bad things.
For the followers of the serial podcast produced by Sarah Koenig: I will make my self available for one interview: 1st, to answer the question of the the people who I hope are concerned with the death of Hae Min Lee (the person who's paid the ultimate price for Entertainment).
A few thousand years ago, unnamed desert dwelling goat herders wrote a book, making all sorts of outrageous and outlandish claims, backed up by zero evidence, and they have hundreds of millions of followers.
Last century, L Ron Hubbard wrote a book, as foolish as it is, making all sorts of outrageous and outlandish claims, backed up by zero evidence, and he has millions of followers.
The discovery was first made by a woman follower of his known as Mary of Magdala, either alone or in the company of other women, all of whom had been present at his death.
200 years ago, Joseph Smith wrote a book, as foolish as it is, making all sorts of outrageous and outlandish claims, backed up by zero evidence, and he has tens of millions of followers.
They have been determined not simply by the quality of Jesus or by the representations of him made by his professed followers, although these have entered into the issue, but also by other factors, some of them quite remote from Jesus and his teachings.
I used to think that CNN was just playing into the hands of religious followers by having a belief blog... now, with articles like this one, it seems more likely they are subtly making fun of them by showing the absurd side & how religion evolves to meet the needs of the current religion industry to keep butts in seats.
Ah yes, the cross is totally Christian by the way; made Christian [Christ follower] by «THE» Jewish Rabbi.
Jeremy thanks for your comments alot of this i never really thought about before until you provoked me to seek the truth in the word it is what we all should be doing finding the truth for ourselves God wants to reveal mysterys if we are open to hear.If we have been christians awhile we just take the word of whoevers preaching or whichever clip we see on god tube its knowledge but not revelation.Because the story sounds plausible we tag that on to our belief for example for many years i believed that the rich young rulers problem was money so the way to deal with that problem is to give it away and be a follower of Jesus sounds plausible.Till you realise every believers situation is different so the message has to be universal.So the reason its not about money because it excludes those that do nt have it and does nt make room for those that do have it but do nt worship it.The rich young ruler was not a bad person he lived by a good moral code but he made money his idol he put that before God.The word says we shall not have any idols thats a sin and a wicked one.In fact there wasnt any room in his heart for Jesus that is a tragedy.So when we see the message is about Idolatry we all have areas that we chose not to submit to God thats universal everyone of us whether we are rich or poor.I believe we are unaware that we have these idols what are some of them that was revealed to me our partners our children our work our church our family i can sense some of you are getting fidgetty.
By distinguishing themselves from outsiders, they make sure their followers spend time together, thinking about the right ideas and inculcating faith among the young.
The Southern Bap's make it easy for me to explain to other trans - friends that a number of people are Christian in name only, and not followers of the example given by Jesus.
No Robert your cult allows people to make excuses for their lives by stating it must be god's will, it's why your followers don't take responsibility for their lives or their impact on this planet.
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.
Chan takes lines of Bell's writing out of context and makes things even worse by attributing some statements to Bell that are not made in «Love Wins» («but some of his followers could easily construe these ideas»)
In a study of his earlier pictures, Kolker notes that «Scorsese is interested in the psychological manifestations of individuals who are representative either of a class or of a certain ideological grouping; he is concerned with their relationship to each other or to an antagonistic environment... [and finally] there is no triumph for his characters» (A Cinema of Loneliness [Oxford University Press, 19881, p. 162) The Jesus of the Last Temptation fits this pattern (as do Travis Bickel in Taxi Driver, Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull and Paul Hackett in After Hours) By eschewing any reference to a resurrection — and, in an interesting theological note, allowing Paul to suggest that his preaching of the risen Christ is more important than the Jesus of history — Scorsese presents the crucifixion as the final willful act of a man driven by a God who makes strange demands on his followerBy eschewing any reference to a resurrection — and, in an interesting theological note, allowing Paul to suggest that his preaching of the risen Christ is more important than the Jesus of history — Scorsese presents the crucifixion as the final willful act of a man driven by a God who makes strange demands on his followerby a God who makes strange demands on his followers.
The passage has been misused both by Marxists some of whom have made atheism part of their doctrine and by followers of religion who want to show that Marxism is a rejection of rejection of religion.
They can not understand that their own religious followers betrayed them by making it a religion of terror.
Many twelve - step program followers (who abide by the twelve steps used in AA and other «Anonymous» groups) today make a distinction between spiritual and religious, as if religion were automatically a bad thing.
I do feel commissioned by our Lord to make disciples (of Him mind you, rather than a follower of a certain man or denomination).
But your English Bibles were translated by Followers of the Devil who blasphemed against Holy Spirit Yahweh, and mistranslated that as» I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these.»
There has as yet been no collection of these revelations, other than scattered selections published by a follower, Walter C. Lanyon, in England.7 But, here is a scripture in the making.
In the Qur» an it is made clear that from most ancient times the word Islam has been used by all divine messengers and their followers as the name for their religion.
As a result, Prof. Cole makes Yoder's pacifism appear to be constituted by individual pacifists in enclaves of the similarly minded, rather than the presence of a global community of followers of Jesus opposed to the use of force on behalf of, or in opposition to, particular nations precisely because it is transnational.
The incident with the man carrying the bedroll is the exact opposite to the woman caught in adultery her issue was sin the paralysed mans issue is something completely different.The incident of the man carrying the bedroll gives it away jesus highlights it because it is rediculous they have turned Gods laws in to petty man made laws.so the danger for him is self righteousness to become like they were followers of the law but not followers of God that is the danger that we all face either to come to terms with the sin in our lives and or come to terms with our pride and self righteousness the answer to both is the same deny the flesh and walk by the spirit and go and sin no more.That way we evade these traps of the flesh.
The highly unusual application made by Sant Baba Jeet Singh Ji Maharaj and his followers would force the courts to intervene in an international religious dispute over the ownership of three gurdwaras, or temples, in Bradford, Birmingham and High Wycombe.
By making a Faustian compact with commercial television, these Christians attempting to «reach out» through the media have merely gained a small, highly motivated group of followers who will pay the bills, while they have lost the gospel that they originally set out to proclaim.
* The Burden of Debt & Being Overpowered by Men: * *************************************************************** There's nothing more enslaving than the burden of debt, and that's why there's a number of dua that Prophet Muhammad taught his followers to removesuch social slavery from his people, including one of my duas: «O Allaah, make what is lawful enough for me, as opposed to what is unlawful, and spare me by Your grace, of need of others.»
All I know is that my faith has been both challenged and enriched by change, but the degree to which it has made me a more faithful follower of Jesus remains to be seen.
I do not believe it serves Christianity well to give credence to someone who distorts the gospels, even by making fun of him in a cartoon, it just gives him credibility with a certain niche group and encourages his followers to believe in his distorted view.
I'm assuming that by «a higher authority» you meant the made up kind so loosely defined that it can be interpreted as supporting anything it's «followers» choose.
The second looks back to the sources of that living tradition in the personal faith of Jesus himself as this is mirrored by the New Testament, and in the belief of his first followers that through Jesus God had made known to them his presence and power as «the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ».
But in very substantial degree, the dismantling of the social - welfare system undertaken by the Reagan administration with the blessing of fundamentalist preachers and their followers reflects the atrophy of the ethical conscience and the growth of self - centeredness, the hubris of the successful and their scorn for those less adept at «making it.»
The followers of Christ, called by God... have been made sons of God in the baptism of faith and partakers in the divine nature, and so are truly sanctified.
What I was making attempts toward elaborating upon is the ways in which socialisms are being held in check by televised séances of a conjuring manner wherein many noted hierarchies of socialist dissertations might just inflame their followers toward mass riots... this said, I can submit and admit that socialized justifications for warranted civilities become immorally the bargaining assets of the cultured races hiring ways... Maybe I am but a fruitcake...
If you choose to not trust in God, atleast don't make it worse by persecuting His followers.
Isn't that odd, with all of the miraculous claims made about him by his followers?
Jesus did not preach against possessions; his wandering life was made possible, to some extent, by the help of those among his followers who were property owners.
Now I am pleased as all get out that every single time, you make your own recipe that it turns out perfect and fabulous, and by the comments here I can tell that most of your followers are fortunate enough to have perfect loaves like yours....
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