Sentences with phrase «of old missions»

And will we eventually find ourselves indigenized into quaintly cultivated preserves» the contemporary equivalents of the old mission compound» while the new syncretic but dynamic global culture leaves us far behind?

For a glimpse of the city's Spanish - influenced history, be sure to visit the beautifully - preserved Carmel Mission, which is one of the oldest missions in California.

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The theory is that Cersei sent Qyburn on a mission to investigate an «old rumor» that there are hidden stashes of wildfire all over King's Landing that could be used to burn down the city.

NASA themselves wants to send humans to Mars in the 2030s; for Musk to outdo them with an earlier mission (a date of 2025 was touted) would be a significant coup for the decade - old company.

But Pettis, a 38 - year - old former Seattle art teacher, is a man on a mission to put his company's manufacturing kits on every desktop so users can build their own 3 - D printers to create colorful plastic models of objects that they design or download from the web.

We're sitting in the company's headquarters in San Francisco's Mission District, discussing the philosophy of Asana's culture, which they conceived around the time they were trying to recruit old friends and colleagues.

As SpaceX brings about a new variation of the Falcon 9 booster, known as «Block 5,» older models are being discarded through expendable missions.

As one of the oldest Boston private wealth management firms, Woodstock has a clear and simple mission: to create and preserve wealth for our clients.

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Such is the mission of eight - year - old Startup

Such is the mission of eight - year - old Startup Genome, composed of a group of researchers and entrepreneurs who, every year, interview thousands of founders and investors around the world to get a better handle on what's changing in the regions where they operate, and what remains stubbornly the same.

By ignoring the chief of defence staff's «appraisal of the insurgency as a complex and challenging entity» and seizing on his «rosy assessment» of the mission's progress, the Ottawa press gallery almost seemed to still be «mourning the departure of the last chief of defence staff and venting that emotion on poor old Natynczyk,» Taylor suggests.

This week, a lot of people read this profile of 25 - year - old Cody Wilson in Forbes magazine and learned about his mission to distribute the plans for the world's first 3D - printed gun online.

Very much alive, and very much committed to his mission, this brave man explains that he faces what he faces today on behalf of his eleven - year - old son.

Sasha Grey is the adult industry's reigning princess of porn, a rock & roll 21 - year - old with an actual mission statement — «Most of the XXX I see is boring, and does not arouse me physically or visually.

They do not regard missions — understood as reaching the unreached — as «old style» but as the unchanged central element in the mission of the church.

After these young Churches demonstrate that they can stand on their own spiritually, organizationally, and financially, they cease being «mission territory» and relate to the Roman Curia as do the older local Churches; the bishops of these newly «graduated» local Churches are thus chosen in consultation with the Congregation for Bishops.

Mainline leaders see the overseas - mission - oriented evangelicals as unwilling or unable to accept a radically changed situation, as clinging to an «old style» of mission activity, closely associated with a now discredited imperialism.

Young local Churches begin as «mission territory,» and their bishops are chosen in consultation with what's now called the «Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples» (but which everyone in Rome still refers to by its old name, «Propaganda,» or simply «Prop»).

Abdella is on one of her charity missions - part of her work as a devoted member of the Muslim Sisterhood, the female division of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's oldest and largest opposition group.

In the Old Testament we see the change of the name of a person taking place in keeping with a change in that person's work and mission.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

We accept LGBTQ people as equal, and accept that a significant percentage of people will leave, especially older and more dedicated donors, which will have results in closing seminaries, stopping mission to needy people, spending millions on lawyers, etc., etc..

In the A cycle, which we are using this liturgical year, the Old Testament reading is from one of the Servant Songs in Isaiah, establishing the link between the baptism of Jesus and the mission of the Servant of the Lord: «Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him, he will bring forth justice to the nations...»

Among his writings are the following: Christian Apologetics in a World Community (InterVarsity Press 1983); Let the Earth Rejoice: A Biblical Theology of Holistic Mission (Crossway 1983); Christian Art in Asia, (Rodop Amsterdam 1979, distributed by Humanities Press); Themes in Old Testament Theology, (InterVarsity Press 1979); Daniel in the Television Den: A Christian Approach to American Culture (Western Baptist Press 1975; and Rouault: A Vision of Suffering and Salvation (Eerdmans 1971).

[18] The old practice of identifying the «non-Christian worlds» as «mission fields» was done away with.

But is the «ministry» that goes along with them still «evangelistic» in the old missionary sense, i.e., actually uneducated in a pastoral sense and not properly connected with the other dimensions of mission?

In his lengthy piece, Stetzer offers a forensic examination of Patterson's record detailing his intolerance of criticism along with a series indiscretions, including crude public comments about a 16 - year - old girl, scheming against the appointment of David Platt as new president of SBC's International Mission Board and his connection with Paul Pressler, who is now facing a lawsuit for sexual abuse allegations.

With a sense of joy at the end of the old and the birth of the new, the Taiwanese theologian, C. S. Song, said in 1975 that we celebrate the end of foreign missions and the growing confidence of the church in the Third World which makes demands for «entirely new relations with the church in the West»:

The old era of mission was said to be passing away and a new era dawning.

It was the old London Missionary Society transformed to tackle the tasks of World Mission today.

through His death on the cross, then as we read Jesus back into the Old Testament, and as we seek to understand the violence of God in the Old Testament, we must keep the mission of Christ to destroy the devil's work first and foremost in our minds, and especially the critical aspect of Christ's work upon the cross.

Jesus presumably means that his mission in fact involves a destruction of the old way of worship, and a new way of approach to God, and in that sense, a new «temple» is indeed present (see 4:21 - 24).

The largely Asian congregation, part of a small denomination, the Cumberland Presbyterians, began as an offspring of a 100 - year - old congregation in San Francisco's Mission District.

In order to carry out my mission to increase and multiply the lab animal population of the armed forces of the United States, I was placed under the direction of an eccentric old man (also named George), a civilian employee who....

And the two people who stay at the forefront of my mind to keep me going in the work of redemption are: 1) Adeke Loy — a mama in Uganda who faces horrific abuse and is slowly seeing beauty and redemption & 2) Reeshma, a 12 year old girl who I met while on investigation with Indian Rescue Mission.

This frequent use of the term in the Old Testament and especially in Ezekiel, who does not hesitate to regard himself as a prophet, throws light on Jesus» frequent use of the term when he refers to himself in connection with his mission.

Mar. 21, 2013 — The Planck space mission has released the most accurate and detailed map ever made of the oldest light in the universe, revealing new information about its age, contents and origins.

At the time of the research, Cone's book was used to teach the first - year courses in both «Mission and Ministry» and «Introduction to the Old Testament.»

Today the 36 - year - old was announced as the next president of one America's largest missions agencies: the International Mission Board (IMB) of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).

When the 36 - year - old pastor and Radical book author became president of the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board (IMB) in 2014, the agency had about 5,000 missionaries.

There is a burning relevance today in describing the mission of God, in which we participate, as the gift of a new creation which is a radical renewal of the old and the invitation to men to grow up into their full humanity in the new man, Jesus Christ.24

The most drastic example of the application of this principle is to he seen in the view of religion which underlies the recently published report of the Laymen's Appraisal Commission on Missions.4 In agreement with the opinions of a minority group among the missionaries, it implies the abandonment of the old methods leading to conversion, which are based upon the conviction of Christianity's possession of absolute religious truth.

To begin, Jesus made the Old Testament the foundation of his mission.

The 92 - year old minister was admitted to the Mission Hospital early on Wednesday and returned to his home in the nearby town of Montreat, North Carolina, Sunday afternoon.

The tension between dominant older paradigms and the increasingly impatient voices of those who had been marginalised for generations were experienced, and listened to, at the eleventh ecumenical conference on world mission and evangelism, which took place in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil in late 1996.

This Antiochene source, which leads on to what follows the Jerusalem council, is called by Jeremias «the only source of Acts which can be reconstructed with some probability» and «the oldest mission history of the Christian Church — the kernel of Acts».

Some of us «old timers» surely have an obligation to make an appraisal of new trends in mission in terms of our mission experience and the theological and philosophical perspective of the mission board that first sent us to the field.

This attitude, however, did not go unrebuked, and two books in the late Old Testament specifically represent the larger view: the Book of Ruth, written to encourage a more generous interracial policy, and the Book of Jonah, written to enforce the worldwide mission of Israel.

In order to carry out my mission to increase and multiply the lab animal population of the armed forces of the United States, I was placed under the direction of an eccentric old man (also named George), a civilian employee who had spent over a decade helping monkeys reproduce in that laboratory colony.