Sentences with phrase «of holy fire»

• Ritual of the sacred Chicha a corn drink • Ritual of the Holy Fire • Sacrifice of the llama (Andean cameloid) and auguries.

No one was more joyous at the sight of the Holy Fire than the old Cypriot women who gathered by the hundreds around the tomb and filled the courtyard leading to the entrance of the church.

The ritual of the Holy Fire lasted about an hour.

This past year I observed an Easter ritual in Jerusalem that will be repeated soon, unchanged, exactly as it has been performed each year for centuries — the Miracle of Holy Fire.

When its time came, the Protestant Reformation rejected as fraudulent many of the relics and miracles so it is no surprise that the miracle of Holy Fire was viewed as yet another vain superstition of the past.

It is thought that between 1099, when the crusaders took Jerusalem, and 1187, when the church was lost to Saladin, the Roman Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem tried but failed to replicate the miracle of Holy Fire.

In his speech he even references the «yearly miracle» of Holy Fire.

Not exact matches

Several workers also told the Guardian that they were fired from the factory just before Ramadan, the Muslim holy month that began at the end of May, and rehired a month later in what they believe was an effort to make them ineligible for a religious holiday bonus that is required by Indonesian law.

«There were holy cremations being performed on timber fires, throngs of people bathing in the river, and clusters of floating candles.»

Since God is infinitely Holy and Sovereign, and since we have rebelled against Him so that we infinitely deserve death, He has created a holding place (Hell) and a place of infinite death (The Lake of Fire).

And The Father Almighty and His Beloved Son, The Lord Jesus Christ and His Holy Southern Queen have struck u and punished the Serpent and its follower in the Lake of Fire has brimstone and sulfur and unquenchable fire that is the Eternal Punishment for those Capital PunishmFire has brimstone and sulfur and unquenchable fire that is the Eternal Punishment for those Capital Punishmfire that is the Eternal Punishment for those Capital Punishment!

When Romulan warbirds fire disruptors and humans can only defend themselves with wooden shield with holy cross markings, you can tell me Romulan conquest of Earth is by intelligent design.

Jesus said; I will show you my faith by my works: Faith without works is dead: (There is no life) = If we have the Faith of Christ (a gift from God) then we will have the works that go with it that is evident of our faith; the works will testify to our faith, then do we produce fruit that will remain: If our heart does not convict us to do what is right according the written word, then we are not in faith: Our hearts are far from the life of Words of our Lord penetrating into our hearts because our hearts are wicked; even Paul who said; follow me as I am of Christ; how was that??? In and by the Holy Spirit, even Spirit of truth as Paul takes us through the Words of the Lord to have us established in the truth: The Word of our Lord is as refined silver, 7 times in the fire: Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith, to them who believe: In the Bible one's «belief» and one's «behavior» are often compared.

When you receive the Holy Spirit, through the baptism of the Holy Spirit, you are baptized with water and fire.

The fire, which happened during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, has been unsettling for mosque members, Fauzia Iqbal told CNN affiliate KYTV.

The prize for the winner of this draw is Holy Discontent: Fueling the Fire that Ignites...

So they wait and they pray, and on the Day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit comes upon them as a roaring, rushing wind, appearing as tongues of fire upon each person.

The concept of once saved always saved takes a bit to get your head around but Gods grace is greater than our sin and greater than our good works it just takes faith in Jesus Christ to recieve Gods grace.In saying that to continue to sin as a christian is like playing with fire you will be burnt.Paul talks of the sexual immorality in corinthian church of the son and father that were sleeping with the same wife they were excommunicated from the church the members were not allowed to even eat with them until they repented.There are consequences for our actions.The other side to this is that if you continue to sin as a christian you are not walking by faith but walking by the flesh and are really backsliding.In the backslidden state you also become powerless and open to attack by satan as long as we walk in the flesh he can influence us to get worse not better.If we are walking in Christ satan may still try to tempt us but we are empowered by the holy spirit and overcome him and our faith increases.Both are saved by grace but one is powerless because of sin versus saved but an overcomer having been set free from sin i think this is what Paul was trying to explain.It is better to be an overcomer than overcome by sin.brentnz

The idea is rather that the desecration and desolation of the holy city were a part of God's judgment on the wicked and a trial of his saints as by fire (cf. Zech 13:8 - 9; Mal 3:1 - 4).

Along with John's baptism and new believer's baptism (Acts 2:41; 8:36; 10:47 - 48; 18:8), there is baptism into Moses (1 Cor 10:2), baptism of the cup and crucifixion (Matt 20:22; Mark 10:38; Luke 12:50), baptism by the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:4 - 5; 11:16; Rom 6:3 - 4; 1 Cor 12:13; Gal 3:26 - 28; Eph 4:5), and baptism with the fire of judgment (Matt 3:11; 13:25; Luke 3:16).

Leviticus 23: 27Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

John and Carol Arnott are joined by many others leaders (including Bill Johnson of Bethel Church, California who «caught the fire» from Toronto) who seek to facilitate the river of the Holy Spirit to flow in every church.

Comparatively speaking, burning copies of their holy book will be like pouring a cup of alcohol on a raging forest fire... I think.

Perhaps the reason that God makes prayer so hard for us and so often withholds his Spirit from us is precisely because true prayer entails the fire of the Holy Spirit, a fire that consumes great masses of dross in its purifying flame.

True community is described in Acts 2, when the holy wind blew through our dry desert and God called us together, not by means of a new communications technology but by tongues of fire.

This prepares the way for the one who will baptize them with the Holy Spirit and with fire — a baptism no longer in water, but in the wells of grace (the Holy Spirit) and in the fire that changes, transforms and purifies all.

She glows with the wine of holy love which she has drunk; but she is not yet all on fire, for she has tempered the potency of that wine with milk.

The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

Believing in a system that was created by stone age men sitting around a fire telling fairy tales to scare kids and keep people in line, that was propagated by men who learned to write, and that was based on making a class of «preists» and holy men that could get money for doing nothing and that could dictate how olthers should live and molest boys and girls is stupid.

He replied: «In this ceremony we are offering created fire and from it comes uncreated light, by the grace of the Holy Spirit... before the ceremony begins, a kantila — a little oil lamp — is placed, already lit, on the tomb.

Thus says the Holy One of Israel, «Because you despise this word, and trust (sic) in oppression and perverseness... This iniquity shall be to you like a break in a high wall... which is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a sherd is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip water out of the cistern!»

For many Protestants not only is the Holy Fire fraudulent but the location of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre itself is wrong.

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A decree of the Council of Florence (1438 - 45) said that «The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and proclaims that none of those who are outside the Catholic church — not only pagans, but Jews also, heretics and schismatics — can have part in eternal life, but will go into eternal fire.»

The ancient prophet Elijah made a pilgrimage to the holy mountain of God and looked for God in the tornado, the earthquake and the fire.

It was here, on the eve of Pentecost 1544, that a famous miracle took place — Philip saw the Holy Spirit enter him in the form of a ball of fire, and come to rest in his heart (after his death, an autopsy showed that the heart had actually been enlarged by this event, and the ribs forced outward).

Image gave way to reality, and Luke is concerned to make a clear distinction between John's baptism of water and that of John's divine cousin, Jesus, with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Would those parts, as yet unperfected, need to melt away first in the awesome fire of his holy love?

Some took balls of white cotton and scorched them with Holy Fire to rub on arthritic limbs or the foreheads of newborn babies.

Did he know that one of the hymns formerly sung during the Holy Fire contrasted it with the Jews» «feast of devils»?

The original Constantinian building was severely damaged in the Persian invasion of 614 and completely destroyed in 1009 by the mad Egyptian Caliph al - Hakim, who, it is said, was angered by the fraudulent Holy Fire ceremony of the Christians.

But, the point is, all 3 Persons of the Trinity, The Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit, all agreed that the Sacrifice of Jesus's blood was the only way for sin to be forgiven, and for the debt to be paid for, so we didn't have to face the judgment that our sins deserve, an eternity in a lake of fire.

On this day the patriarch's Cadillac limousine was waiting to take the Holy Fire to Bethlehem, where Arab Christians awaited it in the Church of the Nativity.

Give me a genuine man with fire for living life fully, and let the cold fish be as heavenly minded as they wish, without expecting a living breathing woman to endure the chill holy wind of frigid «devotion».

Isn't it written that when The Lord will Baptize with water symbolic of The HOLY SPIRIT) and with Fire?

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Oh yes, that old antiquated law of holiday observance that must be obeyed or we shall receive 50 lashes, be subject to fines and imprisonment, brought before a firing squad, burned at the stake, and worst of all, face excommunication from the Church, as decreed by the Holy Roman Empire!

When they read about the baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire, they didn't think about speaking in tongues or getting slain the Spirit.

It has organized a Salvation Army to carry the blood of Christ and the fire of the Holy Ghost into every corner...

The central paradox of Christian liturgy is that it uses ordinary things (bread, wine, books, cloth, fire, and water) to speak of the Holy.