Sentences with phrase «of the servant kings»

Among the books he had us read were two that really challenged my thinking and helped me see certain key texts in a new light: They are The Epistle of James by Zane Hodges and The Reign of the Servant Kings by Joseph Dillow (a revised and updated edition of the book is now titled Final Destiny).

Joseph Dillow, the author of the excellent book The Reign of the Servant Kings gives one possible solution in the prelude.

Some are churches, like Church of the Servant King and Church of the Sojourners.

Something of a different animal from Reba is the Church of the Servant King in Eugene, Oregon.

I will say this... Hodges» book, The Gospel Under Siege was at one time in my life hugely influential as was The Reign of the Servant Kings.

Among them are liberal and conservative Roman Catholics, some Southern Baptists, some evangelicals, some Presbyterians, some Mennonites, some Calvinists, some Episcopalians, some Lutherans (not many), some from the Church of the Servant King (Gardenia, California), some liberal Protestants, some feminists and some liberationists.

For the Davidic kingship was permitted in the form of Servant King to Yaheweh, not in the image of the despotic and imperial powers, which were by definition rebellious against the Rule of Yahweh.

The Church of the Servant King in Eugene, Oregon, has a rule that no one in its membership will be in need.

Not exact matches

King James 2000 Bible (© 2003) Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

American King James Version Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ;

Three Christian charities - HOPE, LICC and the Bible Society - came together to publish «The Servant Queen, and the King She Serves», which provides rare insights into the Queen's relationship with God and how it's affected the other aspects of her life.

(St. Matthew 25:34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:) * Acts 16:17 The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.

As a willing Servant of God, a Grandchild of him, a disiciple of him and with the knowing I can trust in the good graciousness of our King himself and in our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ I stand straight and militant with our Family.

Jesus understood that the Messianic King of Psalm 2 was also the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53 — a sacrificial lamb who would be rejected and cut off from the land of the living.

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.

For a long time the Temple in Jerusalem was actually a sacred place, it even was the most sacred place on earth, because the God of Israel had promised, to be present at the Temple (1 Kings 8, 29: That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, [even] toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.).

Yes, he has leprosy, but he is, after all, the esteemed warlord of the king of Aram, who deserves a personal audience with the prophet and not just a secondhand, servant - delivered prescription.

Servants appear in the stead of their masters; riffraff are admitted to the royal banquet table; the nobodies stand up and are counted; peasants are crowned king for a day; and the meek inherit the earth.

Sing of the King, now raised from the dark tomb, in heaven still bearing the scars of his love, reigning, yet still the servant and lover, raising our frailty to glory above.

For instance, it is used in the parable of the unforgiving servant, who won't forgive his fellow slave a debt, and therefore the king won't forgive his debt and hands him over to be tortured until it's paid.

The backstairs conversations between servant and mistress, the official missive from one king to another, the Syrian «dissing» of the River Jordan.

At the core of many people's thinking is a misunderstanding of leadership: «the greatest among you will be your servant, and the slave of all» (Jesus), but we want to be kings.

We are told only that Elisha «ran after Elijah,» kissed his parents, sacrificed to the Lord his yoke of oxen — talk about burning bridges — and «set out and followed Elijah, and became his servant» (1 Kings 19:21).

At this point Jesus tells the story of the king who went over the accounts of his servants.

Such an image calls to mind such modern servants of humanity as Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Sister Teresa, Kagawa, Dorothy Day, Jean Vanier.

But this servant - form is no mere outer garment, like the king's beggar - cloak, which therefore flutters loosely about him and betrays the king; it is not like the filmy summer - cloak of Socrates, which though woven of nothing yet both conceals and reveals.

The other servants who knew that the king had relieved this highly placed person of his debt reported to the king what had happened.

We often resemble the man in the parable of the unmerciful servant, who owed a king a great debt, was forgiven it, and then did not extend the same grace to those beneath him.

6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, «When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you Naaman my servant, that you may cure him of his leprosy.»

The friends of the poorer servant go to the king on his behalf in an exquisite show of Christian concern for the brother.

The parable tells us about three of these servants, what they did with their money, and how the master rewarded them when he returned as king.

God gave us many «names» for His many facets so that all of us could find some kind of positive connotation to which we could cling — cloud, pillar of fire, father, shepherd, teacher, bread, friend, king, creator, provider, mother hen, water, rock, tower of refuge, master, physician, light, servant, prince, vine, and many others.

Then the king's servants who attended him said: «Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king; 3and let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather all the beautiful young virgins to Shushan the citadel, into the women's quarters, under the custody of Hegai the king's eunuch, custodian of the women.

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Jesus said in Luke 22:25 that the kings of the earth lord power over the people and yet call themselves the peoples helpers, then He said «It shall not be so with you, for the one who is greatest among you, shall be servant of all.»

Perhaps, in order to persist in thinking of himself as a good and decent man, an upright king and an honorable servant of God, he told himself that as king he had special privileges regarding affairs of the heart.

Mark Greene is the executive director of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity and co-author of The Servant Queen and the King She Serves, produced in collaboration with Bible Society and HOPE

Lord Grantham looks up only to the king, and then to God; they are at the top of a hierarchy that sees the servants acknowledging and accepting their place at the bottom.

the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying, 9 «Take some large stones in your [a] hands and hide them in the mortar in the [b] brick terrace which is at the entrance of Pharaoh's [c] palace in Tahpanhes, in the sight of [d] some of the Jews; 10 and say to them, «Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, «Behold, I am going to send and get Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and I am going to set his throne right over these stones that I have hidden; and he will spread his canopy over them.

As the failure of the judge leads to the king and the failure of the king to the prophet, so the failure of the prophet in his opposition to the king leads to the conception of two new types of leader who will set the dialogue aright — the Messiah of YHVH and the «suffering servant of the Lord.»

This prophet and those associated with him saw that the call of God to Israel was not to recover the glory of kings David and Solomon but to be a Suffering Servant among the nations.

An ancient Talmudic story tells of a king who sent two of his servants out with very interesting instructions.

1 Kings 18:12: «It will come about when I leave you that THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD WILL CARRY YOU WHERE I DO NOT KNOW; so when I come and tell Ahab and he can not find you, he will kill me, although I your servant have feared the LORD from my youth.»

Behold, O Lord, and raise up their king, the son of David, at the time thou hast appointed, O God, to reign over Israel thy servant.

Reba's participation in a network of similar Anabaptist fellowships in the Shalom Mission Communities also stands in contrast to Servant King's independent status.

«You are my Son» was addressed to the king of Israel, prototype of the Messiah.14 «My beloved on whom my favor rests» is the Servant of the Lord in the prophecy of Isaiah.15 There the Servant is equipped for his task by the gift of the Spirit, which is here symbolized by the open heavens and the descent of the dove.

Servant King started as an evangelical effort to live out scripture's vision of the church.

Members have worked hard to avoid any sense of competition over righteousness, both as individuals and in comparing Servant King to the wider church.

Servant King is not opposed to extravagance as such, but wants to see it in the service of building the kingdom of God rather than in private consumption.

Whenever we identify him with the lordly and powerful of this world, whenever we think of him as king, we cloud our understanding of the man from Galilee whose greatness lay in his giving of himself and his being a servant to others.