Sentences with phrase «of years in the wilderness»

He is a solid player, but after a couple of years in the wilderness, I don't think he would have fitted into Mick McCarthy's «hard - working, up - and - at - them» style.

I will be fine with a couple of years in the wilderness if Wenger leaves because there will be at least light at the end of the tunnel.

The platform he now has to get his career back on track after a couple of years in the wilderness with Olympiakos surely won't have escaped him either.

Not exact matches

After years in the wilderness, the value of bitcoin — the granddaddy of crypto — is soaring.

After eight years in the wilderness, the Hilton Hotel has reopened Paddy's at the corner of Mill St and St Georges Terrace.

But Grey usually wins that battle, because the media turn him into John the Baptist, a messenger crying in the wilderness, complete with rusting car, shabby suits, files in cardboard boxes and an income of $ 35,000 a year (while Fahrenkopf makes $ 800,000).

They each were pillars for me in a hard wilderness time of life — literally 3 years on the dot.

A harvest festival commemorating the booths in which the Israelites resided during their 40 years in the wilderness, lasting for either 8 or 9 days and beginning on the eve of the 15th of Tishri.

Even after — or maybe because of — my years spent wandering the wilderness, in the midst of my doubts and questions and uncertainties, all of it, I still have stars in my eyes about Jesus.

On Saturday evening, at 6:30 p.m., I'll be sharing about my year of biblical womanhood, and on Sunday morning, at 10:30 a.m., I'll be speaking on «the wilderness» in the morning service.

The same God who created this universe, life, and humans, saved Noah's family and the animals, brought his people out of slavery in Egypt, parted the red sea, fed them for 40 years in the wilderness, gave them the land he promised, and made them a great people.

Over at iMonk last week, Chaplain Mike wrote a lovely post about how, after a period of wandering through the denominational wilderness, he found a home in an ELCA Lutheran church «with a simple liturgy, wonderful music, a healthy and grounded pastor, a hospitable congregation, and an emphasis on Christ, grace, vocation, and other Lutheran essentials that answered questions I had been turning over in my mind for years in my evangelical settings.»

First of all, Dominic was a man of prayer, and the fruitfulness of his mission lay in those years of preparation «in the wilderness», in his intense prayer as his Order spread and took root.

After a few years of wilderness wandering (you should expect that, by the way — look for the manna; look for the water from rock), I found myself in the Episcopal Church, which is no less riddled with conflict and shortcomings than any other Christian tradition, but which introduced me to the sacraments that have managed to sustain my ever - complicated, ever - faltering faith.

and a scholar who lived there for many years suggests that it would be very nice if we could understand the reference to the hills / wilderness as indicating where the shepherd went to look for the lost sheep, assuming that he had left the flock safely in the fold (E.F.F. Bishop, «Parable of the Lost or Wandering Sheep», ATR 44 [1962], 44 - 57.)

Heb 3:8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: Heb 3:9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

And when, after 17 years, Paul had learned this lesson in the wilderness of Arabia and backwaters of Tarsus, God said to Paul, «OK, now you are ready to be used.»

They think the five porches around the pool represent the five books of the Law, that the thirty - eight years the man has been coming to the pool stand for the thirty - eight years the children of Israel were in the wilderness before they essayed to fight their way into the promised land (Deut.

When those Israelites who survived forty years of wilderness wandering had finally settled in the Promised Land, they found it no Garden of Eden.

Following the method of typological interpretation, 11 which saw Old Testament events as prefiguring New Testament ones, the 40 years that the children of Israel spent wandering in the wilderness of Sinai were interpreted as a figure of Christ's 40 days.

Israel passed through the waters and wandered for 40 years in the wilderness, which turned out to be a place of apostasy.

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

A bunch of ex-slaves led by Joshua to the promised land, after 40 years in wilderness, defeat a militarily superior enemy who vastly outnumber them!

36 He led them out of Egypt and performed wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea and for forty years in the wilderness.

It is a portable sanctuary, for they are still a pilgrim people destined to wander for some forty years as nomads in the wilderness, learning, worshiping, preparing for the day when they claim the Land of the Promise and make it their holy land forever.

««Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?

In the familiar story of the twelve spies sent out to survey the Promised Land, the people of Israel believed the ten fearful spies and refused to go up and take the land, and Yahweh condemned them to forty years of wilderness wandering.

It was part of the Law of Moses which started during the 40 years the Israelites wandered in the wilderness.

Quite apart from controversies connected with the Genesis account of creation, historians have puzzled over the story of 12 brothers who go into Egypt and father 12 tribes, and then under miraculous circumstances flee Egypt, wander for 40 years in the wilderness, invade Canaan, conquer the land and settle down.

A useful survey of what the caves have yielded is found in J. T. Milik, Ten Years of Discovery in the Wilderness of Judaea, John Strugnell, tr.

Their fear of those terrifying creatures resulted in their being relegated to wandering in the wilderness for 38 years.

After years of participating in a comfortable faith tradition, many find themselves in a spiritual wilderness, feeling disillusioned with church, longing for more freedom and less religion in their lives.

Next are the accounts of Israel's 40 years of wandering and being tested in the wilderness (Deut.

He does not old to the JEDP theory, and believes that Moses wrote Exodus during the 40 years of wandering in the Wilderness.

God's tender love in the exodus and the wilderness years is akin to the actions of a nurturing, nursing mother.

So they went out and all of the adults, except for two, died in the wilderness over the next forty years.

The Steamroller approach is seen as Moses led millions of Israelites through forty years of wilderness wanderings, in Steve Jobs of Apple Corporation who has a vision for both excellence and creativity in computing, and in President Obama who pushes through his healthcare bill because he believes it is best for America.

Therefore does God pulls ones out of the world, as He turns our world upside down and then puts us on a path for Him as His Word takes hold and starts to grow in these vessels that have been prepared by Him: 40 years of preparation was had by me, in a wilderness wandering:

In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him came and attacked the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim, and the Horites in their mountain of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is by the wildernesIn the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him came and attacked the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim, and the Horites in their mountain of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is by the wildernesin Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim, and the Horites in their mountain of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is by the wildernesin Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim, and the Horites in their mountain of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is by the wildernesin Shaveh Kiriathaim, and the Horites in their mountain of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is by the wildernesin their mountain of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is by the wilderness.

But the Italian church in the last fifty years has come a long way out of the wilderness.

That's what this season of Advent is for — to heighten our awareness of God's surprises, whether they include the surprise of Elizabeth and Zechariah, who are way too old to be having a baby yet bring forth John, or the surprise years when that same John appears in the wilderness.

For the rest, we can only suggest that thirst must often have been a critical problem in the wilderness years; that names of people and places were subjects of acute interest because the name was deemed to be appropriate in meaning to the object named; that Israel may, therefore, on occasion have renamed a site (or, by a greater or lesser modification in sound, given the old name a new, Hebrew meaning) significant for her own experience there; and that Massah and Meribah represent the merging of two similar stories.

Otherwise your article suggests that whatever we believe is correct and that is dangerous and could lead us astray.Surely truth is absolute otherwise it isnt the truth.Otherwise how do we know if we are walking according to the truth surely its like walking without a compass.That is a clear example of how to navigate the wilderness for 40 years believe that you are walking in the truth.brentnz

Dude was out in the wilderness for 5 of his 6 years with us.

After the Bulldogs got lost in the wilderness for a couple of years, that's a pretty fun thing to say.

It is perhaps unfair to label Manchester City as a club in the wilderness prior to the takeover of Sheikh Mansour in 2008, but the billionaire has definitely changed the fortunes of the Citizens for years to come.

33 year old Martins still has dreams of representing Nigeria at the World Cup despite almost two years in the international wilderness, but present manager Gernot Rohr has left the door open for him to stage a comeback.

And I'm hopeful that this incident — a rarity in NOLS» 40 years and in general — doesn't turn people away from this wonderful organization and the experience of the wilderness.

Their failure to mount the slightest objection was scathingly attacked in an article by Nick Cohen in the Observer newspaper: «I don't think anyone who believed that a Labour government would make life slightly better for the poor could read the record of the meeting without embarrassed disgust... It was left to Damian Green — a Tory man, of all things — to ask them if it was for this that they spent «years in the political wilderness as Labour activists, hoping to become members of Parliament.»

The venue was the scene of Labour's 1997 general election party which saw the party elevated back to power after 18 years in the political wilderness.