Sentences with phrase «of the outcast of»

Not to mention the intolerance shown to groups of people they don't happen to like, clearly in conflict with Christ's acceptance of the outcasts of society.

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«Ninety - nine percent of the time, we're all outcasts,» says Smith.

How To Win Founders and Influence Everybody (Wired) For years Wennmachers has quietly advanced a narrative that has shaped how the world sees Silicon Valley and how the Valley perceives itself — as a group of brainy outcasts upending the limits of the status quo.

My wife and I made the decision to start our company at the height of the recent startup craze, and I joined a wider community of other aspiring entrepreneurs — and immediately felt like an outcast.

Much of the chatter on jihadi chat boards comes from Europeans and Americans, often social outcasts living vicariously through the online reputation of their handle — including disenfranchised teens or jailhouse Muslim converts turned radicals, Scott said.

That same day, News Corp. finalized the deal that would make official MySpace's dramatic fall from a social media powerhouse — acquired by Rupert Murdoch & Co. for $ 580 million in July 2005 — to an outcast unloaded for the bargain - basement price of $ 35 million.

«It was more like you did it because you found something that spoke to you and you found like - minded people and you were all weirdos, everyone were kind of outcasts.»

A year after gracing the cover of Life magazine, Dennis Hopper was now an outcast in Hollywood.

We believe pirates, the original Pastafarians, were peaceful explorers and it was due to Christian misinformation that they have an image of outcast criminals today We are fond of beer Every Friday is a Religious Holiday We do not take ourselves too seriously We embrace contradictions (though in that we are hardly unique)

On the contrary, he chose to spend most of his time with tax - collectors, prostitutes and outcasts.

According to Jewish history, Jesus was an outcast, no the son of God.

That being a spiritual death or being outcasted from God whereas overcoming that spiritual death and returning to God is the gift of «eternal life» as opposed to immortality.

Marginal, nasty little outcasts one minute and destroyers of worlds the next, you could almost violate our last respectable taboo and call them our Hitlers.

Unbelievers often view Christians as phonies; we preach the love of Jesus, then kick a few outcasts along the way.

Insofar as Jesus accepted all including the outcast I take the reference to Islam as a reference to the forgiveness and acceptance of our Lord.

If you doubt that, just look at the startling speed with which ho.mose.xuality has gone from a crime worthy of committal into a psychiatric ward to being accepted, and now so - called ho.mose.xual marriage is now being legalized, and the outcasts of society are now the ones who still disaprove of this as being sinful.

He found a bunch of sad, lonely outcasts desperately looking for something to believe, and voila!

There is no «we» who magnanimously admit «them»; there is a community of outcasts who together recognize their common need of undeserved grace.

The child of privilege who never lost his taste for the finer things or the man who identified with the marginalized and the outcast?

And it teaches unbelievers that they are the misfits and outcasts of society, completely out of step with what «everyone» else believes in.

There are no outcasts in the Kingdom of God.

The ministry of Jesus to such outcasts was scandalous to many.

One likely «scenario» is that people with mental illness gravitate toward spiritual paths that are less rule driven (not to mention less likely to treat them as outcasts due to the societal stigma of mental illness) in order to feel supported.

Jesus was the first hippie — he wore sandals, walked the earth instead of holding a daytime job, hung around with losers and outcasts, and always favored the poor.

This was the preoccupation, even among Confessing Christians, that ultimately disenchanted Bonhoeffer and led to his visionary anticipation of an outcast church on the margins of society.

The people of Israel can accept the inclusion of others because they know themselves to be outcasts and sinners, welcome in God's house because of who God is and what God has done, not because of their own righteousness.

fear of being chastised and outcast would be all it takes as a young mind is molded to believe.

This shows that in the Kingdom of God, the place of priority is not with the rich and powerful, but with the dishonorable, the outcast, the uneducated, and the poor.

Over a decade ago, in his book The Comfortable Pew (Lippincott, 1965), Pierre Berton chided the church for its tendency to «cast out the outcasts,» with homosexuals at the top of the list.

According to its Indiegogo page, the Satanists have raised more than $ 16,000 toward their goal of $ 20,000 for the monument, which Greaves said would «be a historical marker commemorating the scapegoats, the marginalized, the demonized minority and the unjustly outcast.»

Give me texts of David sinning, Amos raging against the «cows» of Bashan or Jesus again in trouble for loving outcasts.

He would do it, Luke shows, through persistent befriending of the poor, the outcasts, the little people of his day, including those who seemed his enemies.

Sing of the King who was born as an outcast, mother unmarried, his birth far from home, born in a stable in occupied country, toddler in exile for fear of the throne.

Unexpectedly and uncomfortably accepting outcasts by breaking social mores, he created a sense of belonging for them, which frequently conflicted with the moral sensibilities of religious people of his day, angering them.

God started with a small party in a garden, moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert, then moved into a moveable tabernacle (kind of like an Old Testament RV), then reigned in a temple (especially the God - cave of the Holy of Holies, then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years, then came back to the temple, then traveled the highways and byways with anyone who wanted to join the fun and whooped it up with society's outcasts and wedding attenders, then moved on to some public forums, then into some clandestine home groups and a few jail cells, and eventually made his way into traditional church as we now know it.

The reality of acceptance before God actually is in itself the grateful involvement in the enterprise of human culture, and always with particular and peculiar concern for the outcast and the suffering ones in the midst of that enterprise.

Jesus didn't care about tattoos, he hung out with all the outcasts of the day, loved them all, and saved us all.

If getting a tattoo were some sort of societal punishment, then I might get one in order to identify with the outcasts, but they're completely elective, and usually had by people with self - image issues.

But the coming future is announced as a promise of deliverance to the poor, the outcast, the miserable.

The wisemen's recognition of kingship in a powerless infant, the angels» choice of humble shepherds to whom to announce the news, Jesus» birth as an outcast in a stable — all these point to a very different kind of king, to a power and truth that transcend worldly power and the socially acceptable status quo.

They hope that God accepts people regardless of their sexual or political orientation, who sides with the poor and the outcast, who doesn't have favorites, and who wants equality, justice, freedom, and fairness for all.

In Christ's time and in that part of the world, there were many poor and many sick, many outcast and many afflicted.

Furthermore, the story reminds us that people who worshiped the one monotheistic god of Abraham (Christians, Jews and Muslims alike) were all considered societal outcasts in 7th century Arabia.

Some of these traditions help us to rediscover the Biblical regard for the poor, the disabled, the imprisoned, the oppressed, the outcast.

Religious freaks appear in world history FIRST and are the original offenders - and in particular, followers of religions based on the belligerent Jewish «god,» going around telling everyone to «turn or burn,» «If you don't convert we'll torture or kill you,» or you'll be an outcast, etc., etc..

The examples of agapé that make this clearest are those of love to the despised and outcast.

Rather than spending the majority of our income on buildings, salaries, and church programs, so that only what is left over goes to help the poor and needy, maybe churches could reverse this practice, so that a majority of the money that a church receives goes toward feeding the hungry, helping the poor, and serving those who are outcast and rejected in society.

The situation to which these are directed is clearly one of grave offence; any cause less than table - fellowship with the outcasts in the name of the Kingdom of God is scarcely adequate to the result.

Then came Jesus, claiming that they were wrong in their understanding of God and his attitude to these outcasts and so striking a blow at the fundamental convictions which upheld the Jewish people.

But more than that, Jesus welcomed these outcasts into table - fellowship with himself in the name of the Kingdom of God, in the name of the Jews» ultimate hope, and so both prostituted that hope and also shattered the closed ranks of the community against their enemy.