Sentences with phrase «of earthly power»

God is at work not among the rulers, Luke implies, but out there on the hills, in the grubby manger, far from the center of earthly power.

Since Jesus the Christ ministered on behalf of the God of love and not in service to the God of earthly power, we who would follow Jesus must choose the loving God.

Those close ties were seen by Sir Winston only to the extent of admitting that «there was never a time when the inherent virtue of human beings, the hope of immortality, and the disdain of earthly powers and achievement were more necessary for the safety of the children of men.»

If this is the case, they certainly picked the «wrong ones» given the view of earthly power vs. submission and servanthood portrayed in the synoptics and John.

Other verses announce the triumph of Islam, the permanence of its doctrine, the growth of the empire of young Islam, and the inability of any earthly power to annihilate Islam (XIII, 18; XIV, 24; XXIV, 55; VIII, 36).

From their point of view, its author was indeed a dangerous man, for he claimed that one could sweep away all of their dogmatism and superstition while still upholding the essence of the Bible's teachings, and mapped out a future in which they would be deprived of their earthly power.

Perhaps the speeding «lozenge» was a new type of missile, launched from a submarine as part of some earthly power's clandestine technology test.

I'll do it knowing that I'm not a democrat or a republican, but a follower of Jesus Christ... whose footsteps lead in a very different direction than those of earthly powers.

The point is the costing nature of membership in a higher kingdom than that of any earthly power.