Sentences with phrase «of lording over»

Actually, I have come to realize that when I give advise without it being asked, it is not received in a spirit of love, but in a spirit of lording over them.
Such sin drags us back to the Upper Room, to dull disciples among whom we now sit, to the grief of our Lord over our tearing apart the seamless robe of unifying love in which he would wrap us.
«The voice of the Lord over the waters» becomes «God's voice thunders / above the massive seas» (29:3).

Not exact matches

Recently when a customer was dropping Lord of the Rings references, the employee on the other end, who had never read the books, tapped a new representative to take over and continue the Tolkien - themed banter.
It raised $ 4.4 billion in funding from SoftBank Group and SoftBank Vision Fund over the course of several months; bought the Lord & Taylor Fifth Avenue building for $ 850 million to serve as its new headquarters; is adding a second headquarters at the new Salesforce Tower in San Francisco; led a $ 32 million funding round in New York startup The Wing; and has bought several other startups, most recently spending $ 200 million on Meetup.
We are starting to get more details on what it was like on the set of «Solo: A Star Wars Story» before original directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were fired by Lucasfilm over creative differences, and Ron Howard took over.
Weta Digital, Peter Jackson's VFX house behind «The Lord of the Rings» movies has over five hundred employees.
It becomes important in adolescence when a flood of hormones changes the reward centers in the brain and causes lording it over others to suddenly become much more pleasurable.
Despite the controversy over the breach, Lord praised the security team at Yahoo, who are known internally as «the Paranoids,» adding he joined the company in 2015 because of their reputation.
But the White House has repeatedly undermined its own legal case, including by intimating that the tariffs would be lorded over Canada and Mexico as some kind of negotiating tool to extract NAFTA concessions.
In fact, according to a refreshing recent Quartz article by Oxford University professor William MacAskill and his partner, PhD philosophy student Amanda MacAskill, lots of common «mistakes» language snobs like to lord over the common man aren't even mistakes at all, including these:
So in late January, in a big vote of confidence, Richard Baker — the Bay's American billionaire owner — added authority over the fusty New York City — based retailer Lord & Taylor to Brooks's portfolio, expecting a similar turnaround there.
Some of these public servants are right in saying, «Let's do it right this time» because, remember, the rush job under Obamacare gave us what we're having to deal with today, which is the devastating system that is again lorded over us,» Palin said.
[1] A ruling class of pigs emerges that lord over the other animals with claims of higher knowledge and importance to the cause.
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.
My point is to say if I somehow possessed the knowledge to create a sentient form of life I would not lord over it.
God is just another God in the line of Mormon Gods... you too can be God over your own planet... most believe that God lords over this Universe... not Mormons... the believe they will be God over their OWN PLANET!
«These two opponents (believers and disbelievers) dispute with each other about their Lord; then as for those who disbelieve, garments of fire will be cut out for them, boiling water will be poured down over their heads.»
And, Lord knows the interpretations of verses and pericopes have warped and woofed over the years.
The LORD is able to reveal Himself and His truth by His Spirit and His Word without the help of «clergy», «scholars» and those who would love to Lord over God's heritLORD is able to reveal Himself and His truth by His Spirit and His Word without the help of «clergy», «scholars» and those who would love to Lord over God's heritLord over God's heritage.
It also warned of the Lord's judgement against the Levites, who were the priest of Judea, and since they no longer honored the covenant with the Lord, the Lord no longer offer his protection over Israel, which allowed the Romans to destroy it and scatter it's people.
We are confident that the Lord is watching over His gospel and over those who have been called by the gospel, and we are sure that the forces of hell will not be able to thwart His divine purpose.
You become saved by repenting of sin and asking Jesus to come into your heart and to be Lord over your life.
As someone born in the early 50s, that read Lord of the Rings in my teens, I found that the Dark Tower series took LOTR place as a series I could read over and over and each time I find some Christian themes but also beautifully written passages that I simply want to stop and re-read again.
The mercy of the Lord laying His life down for us covers all sins if we believe that He is the Son of G - d and was crucified dead and buried and on the 3rd day rose from the grave... this happened over 2,000 years ago He saved then and He save now.
10 Then say to them, «This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I will send for my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will set his throne over these stones I have buried here; he will spread his royal canopy above them.
The document criticizes «doctrinal or disciplinary security,» «an obsession with the law,» «punctilious concern for... doctrine,» «dogmatism,» «hiding behind rules and regulations,» and «a rigid resistance to change,» while reprimanding those who «give excessive importance to certain rules,» overemphasize «ecclesial rules,» believe that «doctrine... is a closed system,» «feel superior to others because they observe certain rules,» have «an answer for every question,» wish to «exercise a strict supervision over others» lives,» «long for a monolithic body of doctrine guarded by all and leaving no room for nuance,» believe that «we give glory to God... simply by following certain ethical norms,» and «look down on others like heartless judges, lording it over them and always trying to teach them lessons.»
Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul; 2Sa 12:8 And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.»
Then a lot of other things come to mind (like references to «that which is Caesar's» versus «that which is God's» and admonishment to «not lord it over one another» and then there's the whole deliverance from Egyptian slavery thing...)
And instead of feeling guilty over passing thoughts, I'm going to remember the cleansing blood and go back to talking to my Creator and Lord.
«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»
(103) «Now have come to you from your Lord, proofs (to open your eyes): if any will see, it, will be for (the good of) his own soul; if any will be blind it will be to his own (harm): I am not (here) to watch over your doings.»
In I Corinthians 15, it is clear that it was the fact of Jesus» resurrection that enabled Paul to declare confidently that the risen Lord will, at his coming, complete the victory over every rule and authority and power (I Cor.15: 24).
Thus says the LORD God of Israel: «I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.»
He rose to show he indeed is Lord over life and death, other wise he would have just been another crazy man making crazy claims and dying and that being the end of him.
Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.
That coupled with what I observed in a lot of Christian believers, being ordinary people, sinners like I am, yet having faith in God and His redemptive Grace, I accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and personal Savior in a moment of clarity over a prayer.
I often wonder if churches attract bullies or if people who get into a position of power in churches find it's easy to use their position to lord it over others and even bully them.
Those who held it as an article of faith that on the «Day of the Lord» Israel, being God's people, would triumph over all their enemies, were living in a fool's paradise.
I'm confused it says they will be gossips conceited unholy haters of good without love self love people in the end times to stay away not even to receive them not even pray for them is that blasphemy then it says they hold firm to a godliness but deny its power but I thought blasphemy they don't hold firm to any godliness but are not drawn by the spirit at all to wan na ask forgiveness even it says god is just and will forgive why I wish he would forgive all things his children suffer over that can't change need to also it says if u can say Jesus is lord the holy spirit is with u right or u couldn't even say those words please someone help I've been suffering
``... Borders soft with refugees Streets a» swimming with amputees It's a Bible or a bullet they put over your heart It's getting harder and harder to tell them apart Days are nights and the nights are long Beating hearts blossom into walking bombs And those still looking in the clear blue sky for a sign Get missiles from so high they might as well be divine Now the wolves are howling at our door Singing bout vengeance like it's the joy of the Lord Bringing justice to the enemies not the other way round They're guilty when killed and they're killed where they're found If what's loosed on earth will be loosed up on high It's a Hell of a Heaven we must go to when we die...»
The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob's descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.»
By ignoring the Sunday morning wake - up call for church and turning over in bed, we are turning our back on Our Lord Jesus Christ, and His gift to us of His Body and Blood.
They should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord.
Joey Jesus came to set us free and wants us to live an abundant life if you are struggling with sin and feel tempted to sin just tell God you are weak our biggest stumbling block mine included was my pride i did nt want to admit i couldnt do it in my own strength and yet that is where the victory is knowing that we cant and knowing that in him we can.When we know that we then become overcomers in Christ thats who we are.We do nt have to fight the sin we just accept that Christ has overcome our sins on our behalf thats how i dealt with my sin and when i am tempted i say Lord you know i am weak but i am trusting in your strength to help through your holy spirit and he does.This is one of my favoriote verses may you be set free in Jesus name.Sin shall not have dominion over you brentnz
I know the skulls around your neck and the blood dripping from your mouth frighten a lot of people, but somebody has to lord over the cremation grounds, and I'm happy to have it be you (really).
* 1 Peter 5:1 - 4 — «Be shepherds of God's flock that is under your care, watching over them — not because you must... not pursuing dishonest gain... not lording it over those entrusted to you.»
And the Lord said unto them, «Go and divide thyselves into groups that art mutually antagonistic and based on race, and then vainly compete with one another over which of your groups is the most righteous in my sight.»
They should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord» (James 5:13,14).
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