Sentences with phrase «man named john»

I agree with those who say Canada really became a country in 1862 when John A. MacDonald took part in the legal defence of a man named John Anderson, who was hunted by our American neighbours as a slave.

This science is not new but goes all the way back to the 1950s when a man named John Bowlby began to study the interactions between mother and child.

Recently the blog celebrated the organization's first exoneration, of a man named John Smith; he had been convicted of murder by false testimony.

In 1947, a man named John Simonson traced over the paintings with chalk and said the end result looked like «a weird bird.»

In 1975, in the midst of a series of European retrospectives, Robert Motherwell (1915 — 91) hired a young man named John E. Scofield to be his first full - time studio assistant.

Having cracked his pelvis at Pipe last year, Bede Durbidge needed some time out and was hired by one man named John John Florence as a coach.

Cornwell recalls, «They sat me down with their senior investigator, a man named John Grieve, who also was their resident expert in the Ripper case — as much as anybody was an expert in it because there wasn't much known about it.

This year, while in Florida, she was in constant contact with a man named John Dixon, an old Afghan hand who knew as much about the country as almost anyone and was helping achieve the vision of a person who knew even more than he did: a seventy - nine - year - old woman named Nancy Hatch Dupree, who for decades had divided her time between Kabul and Peshawar.

He then met a man named John von Neumann who was racing club sports in Southern California.

Upon opening the door, Mort is met by a stern man named John Shooter (John Turturro).

Those characters, a former major in the Union army and a man named John Ruth, dominate the first two of the script's five chapters.

One day a massive young black man named John Coffey (Duncan, Armageddon) enters the pen of the damned, after being convicted for the rape and murder of two little white girls, and Paul discovers there's more to him than meets the eye when John miraculously cures an affliction that has been paining him for some time.

According to Birth.Movies.Death., Matt Damon has signed on to star in Charlatan, a movie about a man named John Romulus Brinkley who claimed to be a doctor in the early 1900s and ended up killing a number of people with his fraudulent — yet oddly crowd - pleasing — medical advice.

A young man named John blows all of his money in Vegas trying to get $ 6000 to bury his recently deceased mother.

I was recently in a relationship with a man named John Smith, he later stole my child and destroyed my village...

His first patient is a 21 - year old man named John Ficken with a large inoperable tumor (likely a malignant sarcoma).

A short while after I posted it I received an astonishing letter about it from a man named John MacDougal.

For instance, let's say there is a man named John Smith who is physically located in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.

There came a man named John.

A few months ago, I corresponded with a man named John.

If all that wasn't weird enough, his accomplice was a man named John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

In the fourteenth century, a man named John Wycliffe decided that God's Word should be available to all people, and so he translated the Bible from Latin into English.

And one night I was at a computer club at a library, and I met a man named John Freeman who was an oil engineer and executive.

Big Data While the definitive source of the term big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 2000s.

He scouted out the best plant manager he could find and hired a man named John Polson.

There are more men named John running large companies than there are women.

Sometimes you want to read 450 pages about how Nintendo set up its American offices, or 360 pages on how two men named John introduced the world to Doom.

Not exact matches

In the interim I'd worked for a couple of magazines, but among them I had been the managing editor of the Village Voice, and I had met a man there named John Evans who started out as the classified - ad director, became the publisher.

In 1988, along with Bob Steel and some other future Goldman leaders — former co-presidents John Thornton and John Thain, billionaire investor J. Christopher Flowers, hedge - fund manager Frank Brosens, and Gary Gensler, now head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission — Blankfein was one of thirty - six men (not a single woman) named general partners.

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God» (St. John 1)

On the farm there was a hired man whose name was John Brennan.

Then God raised up a man of sanctity, genius, and deep pastoral experience, a man of the Council who had led an extensive implementation of Vatican II in his own diocese under extremely difficult circumstances, as John XXIII's third successor: Karol Wojtyla of Cracow, who took the name John Paul II, thus honoring John XXIII's first two successors.

Certainly, there are many things I appreciate about John Calvin, Jacobus Arminius, Martin Luther, and the other Reformers, but I have too many differences with the main theological arguments of each man to be comfortable identifying myself with the theological systems that bear their names.

All I can say here is that such a hypothesis regarding the New Testament, which makes such nonsense of its soteriology (a man who merely reveals God can not save us in the way the text says he can and does) and which goes against the prima facie sense of such texts as Philippians 2:6 - 9 and John 20:28, can not long succeed whatever luminaries put their names to it.

In the third chapter of John's Gospel we read of a man named Nicodemus, a Pharisee and a ruler of the Jews, who came to Jesus by night with a searching and uneasy sense that Jesus could give him something that he needed greatly.

Remember, Elizabeth was six months pregnant with John the Baptist — in the sixth month) the angel Gabriel (this is the same angel, the same messenger who appeared to Zacharias) was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

6There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John.

This man, named John the Baptist, spoke the Word of the Lord.

(Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1997); E. W. Kenyon, In His Presence: The Secret of Prayer (Kenyon Publishing Society, 1999); E. W. Kenyon, Jesus the Healer (Kenyon Gospel Publishing Society, 2000); E. W. Kenyon, The Hidden Man (WA: Kenyon Publishing Society, 1998); E. W. Kenyon, The Wonderful Name of Jesus (Kenyon's Gospel Publishing Society, 1998); John Baker, Celebrate Recovery (CA: Celebrate Recovery Books, 1994); Bob and Pauline Bartosch, Overcomers Outreach: A Bridge to Recovery (La Habra, CA: Overcomers Outreach, 1994); Cathy Burns, Alcoholics Anonymous Unmasked (PA: Sharing, 1991); Cal Chambers, Two Tracks - One Goal (British Columbia: Credo Publishing Corporation, 1992); Martin M. Davis, The Gospel and the Twelve Steps (San Diego, CA: RPI Publishing Inc., 1993); Len C. Freeland, author of Chapter 28, «The Salvation Army» in (Alcoholism: The Total Treatment Approach, edited by Ronald J. Catanzaro IL: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, 1968); Mark H. Graeser, John A. Lynn, John W. Schoenheit, Don't Blame God: A Biblical Answer to the Problem of Evil, Sin and Suffering.

See John 20:30; Mark 16:17 - 20; John 2:11; Acts 2:22: («Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know»); Acts 2:43: -LRB-»... and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles»); Acts 4:29 - 30: «And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy hold child Jesus»); Hebrews 2:3 - 4: («How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him: God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will»); Romans 15:17 - 19: («I have therefor whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.

Not just any man, we are told, but one «sent from God, whose name was John.»

John Goodman, a man with an ironic name and the spirit of a true Christian, sent me an email shortly after I arrived home from church.

Yes, I believe that «there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved» (Acts 4:12), and that Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and no one comes to the Father except through Him (John 14:6), but I also think that sometimes people are on the Jesus train and they don't know it.

Now, I started reflecting on this because my kids were in the back seat of the car singing that song about Peter and John and the lame man — «Silver and Gold have I none / but such as I have give I thee / in the name of Je - e-sus Chri - i - ist / of Nazareth rise up and walk!

Several years after John Calvin died in 1564 (click here to see a brief history of John Calvin), a man named Jacobus Arminius traveled to Geneva to study under Theodore Beza, who was Calvin's successor.

According to Mark and Luke, what Jesus said about those who received him led John, the son of Zebedee, to tell of a man the disciples had found exorcizing demons in the name of Jesus (Mk 9:38 - 40; Lk 9:49 - 50).

Men like A.W. Pink, Charles Spurgeon, R.A. Torrey, John Owen, Jonathan Edwards, John Calvin, Martin Luther, Paris Reidhead, John Bunyan, and Stephen Charnock just to name a few.

Not long after I had discovered First Things, I found myself meeting Richard John Neuhaus as he came to campus... then going to dinner at his apartment... then meeting a man improbably named Rusty Reno.

Also the rapture is a man - made concept; the Rapture seems to have been invented by a British religious figure named John Nelson Darby (1800 - 1882).