Sentences with phrase «of widows and orphans»

In the 1870s, military officers banded together to found both the Army (AAFMAA) and the Navy Mutual Aid Association (Navy Mutual), inspired by the plight of widows and orphans left stranded in the West after the Battle of the Little Big Horn, and of the families of U.S. sailors who died at sea.

«It is sad thay today, Southern Kaduna is known as a battlefield for bloodshed, an area where the number of widows and orphans is on the increase on a daily basis, an area where people run for their lives without hope of being rescued, an area where the few left dare not make an attempy to go to their farmlands for fear of the unknown.

A member of the Benue Assembly, Mrs Ngohemba Agaigbe, has decried the increasing number of widows and orphans in Nigeria, due to incessant killings across the...

Despite the vast gulfs of experience that lie between ourselves and Jeremiah's contemporaries, it should not be too difficult to see why: a religion of pleasure is not likely to be conducive to the often far - from - pleasurable efforts required by social concern; there is not much voluptuousness in taking care of widows and orphans.

My current ministry is taking care of widows and orphans, ministering to those with drug & alcohol problems — in other words doing what the true God would want; not going after the civil rights of millions of Americans — we need to keep church separated from hate — and stop trying to deny civil rights based on perceived religious doctrine.

God is very sensitive to the needs of widows and orphans and those who CAN NOT do for themselves.

ACT Founder and Director Dr Kunle Onabolu told Premier they «provide education for children of widows and orphans in Africa, but also to empower widows who are poor in rural African community, to provide them with counselling, training and business skills so they generate income sustainably.»

The tithe was to take care of the widows and orphans and the poor and needy fellow Jews - their relatives.

Just saying that maybe if we actually used those hundreds of millions of dollars to meet the needs of widows and orphans to show them the love of Jesus, maybe that would be even more effective.

Actually, yes you can know that what was done there pleased the Lord because he tells us that the religion that He finds to be pleasing is to take care of widows and orphans.

According to the Law of Moses, the spiritual leaders were supposed to be taking care of the widows and orphans in the community, and providing for their needs (Deut 26:12).

Jesus told us to take care of the widows and the orphans, to take care of the sick, to visit those in prison, to treat every person we come in contact with in the same was we ourselves would want to be treated by them.

Oh God of the widow and orphan, the poor and distressed, bring forth your justice, for only you can perfectly judge, recompense and reunite this riven family of humanity.

The Bible itself is lucid on the sin of Sodom: pride, lack of concern for the poor and needy (Ezekiel 16:48 - 49); hatred of strangers and cruelty to guests (Wisdom 19:13); arrogance (Sirach / Ecclesiaticus 16:8); evildoing, injustice, oppression of the widow and orphan (Isaiah 1:17); adultery (in those days, the use of another man's property), and lying (Jeremiah 23:12).

The sin most abhorrent to God is the failure of generosity, the neglect of widow and orphan, the oppression of the poor.

My own sense of the text, based on more than cursory reading, is that the sin most insistently called abhorrent to God is the failure of generosity, the neglect of widow and orphan, the oppression of strangers and the poor, the defrauding of the laborer.

Seek justice, encourage the oppressed, defend the case of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow and orphan.

Not exact matches

The daughter of former slaves, she was orphaned at the age of 7, married at 14, became a mother at 17 and a widow at 20.

While innovation should always be encouraged, Bitcoin isn't yet fit as a place for orphans and widows to shelter their nest eggs — although there are admittedly plenty of gold bugs who would say the same about fiat currencies.

My IRAs are primarily in widow and orphan dividend growth stocks, and I keep about one year's worth of expenses in high - yield preferred ETFs as an emergency fund.

Mining securities are not the thing for widows and orphans or country clergymen, or unworldly people of any kind to own.

He calls those men not just to exercise it on behalf of their own children, but also on behalf of the orphans and widows of the global community.

Chris Christie's attack on Rand Paul - where Christie complained about piddling «esoteric» libertarian concerns voiced by people who were too cowardly to face «the widows and the orphans» of 9/11 - reminded me of something, but I couldn't put my finger on it.

It was Christ who encouraged the fair treatment of women... God who commands us not to neglect the poor and to feed orphans and widows... God who insisted that field owners leave part of the crop behind to be picked up by hungry gleaners... God who said men should not take advantage of one another by charging interest... Christ who attacked the Pharisees for their rigid thinking and superiority complex toward Samaritans... How are my values inconsistent with the teachings and actions of God?

Are we talking about running coffee - houses, making sanitary napkins for the third world women, looking after orphans and widows — all of them laudatory efforts?

I am reminded of what Jesus said about the purest form of religion being taking care of the most vulnerable of society with widows and orphans and to keep from being polluted by evil, in this case the love of money over meeting the needs of the poor.

because of this passage: «Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.»

They all shared what they had equally, gave to those who had none, took care of the widows, the orphans and the poor.

17 - 26) present a formidable array of statutes governing economic life: mandatory lending, interest - free loans, sabbatical rest and festivals, jubilee releases and land tenure, gleaning restrictions, tithing, debt remission, slave manumission, and the preferential treatment of widows, orphans and strangers.

My reading of the Gospels shows that status can be obtained by giving and praying in secret; power comes to the quiet servant; and god's approval is upon those that work among the wounded, poor, widows, orphans, hungry, thirsty, sick, prisoners, homeless, and unclothed.

We must take care of the widows, orphans, the fatherless, and the poor and needy.

Christianity is the religion out of which care and concern for orphaned children, the widowed and the sick spread through the Western world.

Because they (attempt to) care for widows, orphans, the homeless, the addicted and spend millions of dollars and travel thousands of miles to find people who do not any type of access to the gospel and translate the Bible into their native language, or build schools and hospitals as well as churches their witness and their faith is nullified because they (wrongfully) dismiss porn stars and the people trying to reach them?

With regard to others, it is our duty to cultivate within ourselves respect for the sacred and to show the face of the revealed God — the God who has compassion for the poor and the weak, for widows and orphans, for the foreigner; the God who is so human that he himself became man, a man who suffered, and who by his suffering with us gave dignity and hope to our pain.

Unfortunately, Jesus» focus is on how we treat «the least of these»; «the poor, the widow, the orphan, and the oppressed»; and «our enemies».

Instead of perpetuating a world of violence, Isaiah proposes a vision that demands a reality that requires peacemaking: doing good, seeking justice, rescuing the oppressed, defending the orphan and pleading for the widow.

Instead of perpetuating a world of violence, Isaiah proposes a vision that demands another reality — a reality that requires peacemaking: doing good, seeking justice, rescuing the oppressed, defending the orphan and pleading for the widow.

James wrote that «pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.»

But the Bible bears witness to another God, a God who hears the cries of the poor and defends the orphans, widows and immigrants.

Within this legendary story hides more than 5,000 others — the story of the skinny orphan, the skeptical tax collector, the despised Samaritan, the curious fisherman, the struggling widow, the disdained prostitute, the wealthy mother, the angry zealot, the ostracized Canaanite, the banished leper, the suffering slave, the repentant sinner... and ultimately, the story of you and me.

Deuteronomy insists that economic life must be organized to ensure the well - being of widows, orphans and immigrants.

By working with their hands, the elders can not only provide for their own needs without depending on the financial support of others, but also help provide for the physical needs of those who are unable to work, people like orphans, widows, and the sick, or even those who minister with them, but who are not able to work.

Adoption — I've always been a big fan of adoption, and considering James» admonition about how true religion in the sight of God is caring for orphans and widow in their distress, I have always felt that as a Christian I am obligated to either adopt myself or strongly support organizations that make adoption possible.

He understood that to truly change culture, we must ensure that the «least of these» among us (the poor, the sick, the widow, the orphan and our «enemies») are treated with dignity, respect and love.

Pro-Life relates to many issues: insurance for those who can not afford, gun control, illegal drug traffic, poverty (homeless, elderly, etc. widows and orphans)... we are becoming pawns used to dominate the politics of losers who can not justify their candidacy by any other means.

On the way to the shelter, the pastor could lay the biblical groundwork for why we take care of orphans and widows, and provide some special tips for dealing with battered women.

The general arch of the bible is for loving, committed, long - term relationships, for protection of the orphan, widow, stranger, for the love of God and neighbor as yourself.

The real religion is taking care of the orphans, widows and keeping yourself from stain from the world.

The money should be used for the kinds of things Jesus talks about — helping the orphans, widows, poor and needy.

The description in James puts it best, and is far from what some online message board posters try to tell me what and why I believe: «Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.»