Sentences with phrase «miraculous act of»

Turning Water Into... An Oak Tree: Michael Craig - Martin Discusses Performing a Miraculous Act of Conceptual Art

In contrast to modernist interpretation, the Christian experience of God is said to depend upon the recognition of a unique and miraculous act of the transcendent God.

Verses 17 - 18 mention that the crowd's enthusiasm is based on Jesus» miraculous act of raising Lazarus.

A sign story consists of a miraculous act of Jesus usually surrounded or followed by a theological discussion of its meaning.

Are there signs and wonders and miraculous acts of God?

Not exact matches

But there is so little of the miraculous that happens at all in North America, that to tear down people (whatever they look / sound / act like) who seem them seems risky to me.

To believe dripping sewage water is an act of faith I think is rather ridiculous... people are probably angry and defensive because they feel foolish over such an non miraculous stunt.

The act of breathing is an amazing and miraculous process.

«Supernaturalism,» in the sense of God's making known the divine only by divine intrusions from outside in occasional miraculous acts, is rejected; a picture of deity as remote and inaccessible is refuted; and the condemnation of secular activities as a blasphemous denial of the divine prerogative is entirely ruled out.

For the record, contrary to kermit's claim of a single witness to the miraculous plates delivery, the first 3 of the 11 witnesses to Smith's plates claimed they also saw the plates delivered by an angel while hearing the voice of God affirming that Smith's translation was indeed an act of divine revelation.

The great act of God had already passed through the stages of the sending of the Messiah, His miraculous works and authoritative teaching, His death (according to the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God), His resurrection, and His exaltation to the right hand of God.

He argues that God is not supernatural but supertechnological, and is capable of producing by technical - mechanical means all acts hitherto attributed to his miraculous powers.

14).57 In contrast to the Corinthian fascination with the unusual and miraculous, Paul ranked prophetic speaking highest among the charismata while including administration, acts of mercy, and the offering of funds.58 This proves that the mark of the Spirit's presence in the church through member participation is not attested by supernatural in contrast to natural activity.

In this and in the following account of a miraculous feeding in Mark, people do not grasp, hoard, resent, or act selfishly; they watch as the juices of heaven multiply the bread of earth.

The fact that many apocryphal stories of Jesus doing miraculous acts as a boy were rejected by the church shows that for early Christians it was perhaps more important...

They appear as further and more impressive examples of our Lord's miraculous power and therefore take their place alongside his other mighty acts.

Your last sentence undermines everything else you are talking about, even though you act as though the fact of the healthy baby and mom were a miraculous accident.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

Judi Dench, meanwhile, was justly nominated for her work in «Mrs. Henderson Presents,» as was Felicity Huffman for her miraculous performance in «Transamerica,» one of the most daring pieces of acting I had seen in a long, long time.

Naturalism be damned, Hugh makes a miraculous recovery, leaping from death's door to action hero in a matter of days (if not hours) and DiCaprio goes on an acting binge, grunting and panting his way to bloody vengeance.

Looking back (at this nearly miraculous, best - case scenario), I couldn't be more proud of how they acted and their willingness to embrace a newness many adults shy away from.

Gal Weinstein's creation of an Israeli «landscape» that fills the pavilion takes its title, «Sun Stand Still,» from a miraculous act performed by ancient Israelite leader Joshua Bin - Nun, who was engaged in a battle with the Canaanites that he needed to win before darkness.

Taken from Raphael Rubinstein's book The Miraculous (Paper Monument, 2014), short stories — from one sentence to several paragraphs, recounting acts from the past fifty years of avant - garde and contemporary art — are documented at unexpected spots and in unexpected ways.