Sentences with phrase «older ways of speaking»

Not exact matches

And when I speak on this topic in public I like to remind people that, «when I raised capital there were no easy ways to figure out who were the friends of the VC's (let alone who the VC's were in the first place) but in 2009 you have alll the social networking tools: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or even just plain old Google Search.

He spoke to me through one of my oldest best friends (who by the way is also completely non-religious; it was although God took over his body and voice to speak with me) and delivered so many messages over a period of about 2 hours that my mind feels like it will explode.

«In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; but in these last days He has spoken to us by a Son, whom He appointed the heir of all things, through whom also He created the world» (Hebrews 1:1 - 2).

«In many and various ways God spoke of old... by the prophets; but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son...» (Heb.

(New Testament) Whay did Christ die on the cross anyway, if the old way was good enough??? When Paul speaks of the law he means anything that we should must or ought be doing.

Let's assume you are right, then Jesus is the prophet the old testament speaks of, he is still the messiah that was expected but in a different way then he was expected.

With all of this in mind, and in response to common questions I receive when speaking at mainline churches, I've dusted off and updated this older post from 2013 with seven ways to welcome young people to the mainline:

But now I admit to be speaking in the language of natural philosophy, that old - fashioned way of understanding reality which quickly faded into the intellectual shadows after the arrival of the new knowledge of Galileo and Newton.

Professor Bates helps us see a way in which the New Testament speaks of the Holy Trinity: it recognises the Divine Persons speaking to or about each other in certain Old Testament texts.

Again Scripture says: «In many and various ways God spoke to our fathers by the prophets of old, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.»

Speaking in the situation of an impending catastrophe to his people, he called them out of their life in an old history of the past and pointed the way to the final moment of the Eschaton.

The Christian is being challenged to show that when he uses religious language, and in particular, when he uses the word «God», he is speaking in a meaningful way, and is not simply repeating an archaic form of words which belonged to the old world, and which is no more relevant to the new world than goblins and fairies.

But, I have a little different take on this «new / old» way of being the church you speak of.

I think God speaks clearly in these times because of his silence it means he has had enough of our ways we havent listened we have gone our own way we havent acted on what his prophets have spoken so he distances himself until such time that we will take him seriously.Thats how it was in the old testament he allowed his people to go into captivity or bondage when they refused to obey his word.We see this pattern repeated over and over for example In Egypt when they were in slavery it wasnt until the people acknowledged there sin and cried out to God to save them and he did by sending a savior moses.Because we have Christ we have grace he wont spurn us like he used to because Christ took away our reproach and he is free to love us despite our sinfulness.brentnz

In recent years I have reclaimed a very old and very important Christian way of speaking about God: the doctrine of the Trinity.

The Old as well as the New Testament has the astonishing power to speak of the divine in such a way that the I - thou character of the relation never darkens the transpersonal power and mystery of the divine, and vice versa.29

We can see this from the way in which they paraphrased passages in the Old Testament which sounded anthropomorphic, and from the circumspect terms in which they spoke of the Deity («Heaven,» «The Name,» «The Holy One, blessed be he,» and the like).

In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; but in these last days he has spoken to us by a love....

Such manuals as that of Garrigou - Lagrange typically cite Hebrews 1:1 as a scriptural basis for this understanding: «In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets; but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son...» The notion of God's locutio is easily assimilable to that of propositional truth which in turn best suits the interests of apologetics.

It is clear that Marcion not only provided a completely new Bible but offered a way of reading the old one so as to make it speak in his favor.

«Again, the corrupt and unsound form of speaking in the plural number to a single person, you to one, instead of thou, contrary to the pure, plain, and single language of truth, thou to one, and you to more than one, which had always been used by God to men, and men to God, as well as one to another, from the oldest record of time till corrupt men, for corrupt ends, in later and corrupt times, to flatter, fawn, and work upon the corrupt nature in men, brought in that false and senseless way of speaking you to one, which has since corrupted the modern languages, and hath greatly debased the spirits and depraved the manners of men; — this evil custom I had been as forward in as others, and this I was now called out of and required to cease from.

McKnight describes it as «the ongoing reworking of the biblical Story by new authors so they can speak the old story in new ways for their day... The Bible contains an ongoing series of midrashes, or interpretive telling, of the one Story God wants us to know and hear... None of the wiki - stories is final; none of them is comprehensive; none of them is absolute; none of them is exhaustive.»

Having grown up believing the earth is roughly 6,000 years old and that ICR and Answers in Genesis were beacons for the light of biblical truth, I can't help but draw parallels between the way Harold Camping's organization Family Radio speaks of the present and how Ken Ham's organization Answers in Genesis speaks of the past.

It seems to me, however, that these old stories speak to us in a surprisingly timely way, once we penetrate to their inner content through the enveloping layers of culturally alien materials.

We are told that «in many and various ways God spoke of old... by the prophets, but in these last days He has spoken to us by a Son, Whom He appointed the heir of all things, through Whom also He created the world.

It matters to God; hence it is meaningful to speak of the way in which, once we have come to the end of our life in this world, something abides — and that something is of enormous importance and gives dignity to our humanity, both for you and me as particular persons and also for human society in its total reality — a society of which each of us is a member, by virtue of our belonging together in what an Old Testament text beautifully calls «a bundle of life».

Hahahaha now someone is calling Petr Cech a double agent.I thought peeps were like Szczesny is shit he is this and that yes i would admit Szczesny costs us a lot but i was shocked no one felt sorry for a 19 year old keeper being thrown into such a shaky defense even petr cech must be saying in his mind that he is shocked.Let me tell you some go for Buffon or any other legendary keeper and put him in this current arsenal defense and he will still concede mad goals.But Szczesny and Cech both tied at highest clean sheets some seasons ago.Despite Cech having a defense which was light years ahead of this one and to me that speaks volumes about his potential.I love you very much Szczesny i refuse to be ignorant and call you shit what if you were 19 years at Chelsea and started playing i will bet you would have been catching for them.I love you come back stronger for me ok the pitiful thing is that you will meet the same defense again.By the way Cech will come good and stop comparing Ospina to him.

Koscielny has spoken about his unwanted record, as reported by ESPN, and the way the 29 - year old Gunner responded to the news was fairly tongue in cheek, mentioning the Guinness Book of Records and suggesting that his unfortunate habit only matters in a close game.

«You know, I think the one that speaks about it in a specific way has to be Jurgen,» said Mourinho ahead of Southampton's trip to Old Trafford on Saturday.

if we had a 27 yr old player when arsene started these promises hed hav been sold, retired or left because of the lack of siverware....4 years is a massive amount of time in a players lifespan but you seem to be ok and wan na wait for another 4 yrs, and its not that we havnt won anything, its how far away from winning things wev been... cesc will leave in the summer and arsha was voicing his discontent last summer about needing to bulk up the squad, that was after being here 5 mths!now he too has been begging the manager to make some moves, but who do we get linked with???? more «prospects» nonny do you think i like speaking of utd in that way??? their a shower of c $ nts but you cant but envy the way they took apart west ham after wot we did there and the personel they used in the process.....

[7] It was the way that compensatory seats were allocated that made their report the origin of the additional member system, the term which the report also invented, which was then applied along with the much older «mixed system» by English - speaking writers on voting systems to West Germany's system and similar models until mixed member proportional (MMP) was invented for the adoption of the German system proposed for New Zealand in a royal commission report in 1986, which would explain why AMS and MMP have been used as synonyms.

«So I think I speak for people who have birthed their children, adopted their children, had kids in every different kind of way you can have kids, family members who are taking care of other family members, older moms, younger moms... This movie is about the love of caregivers, the love of somebody who gives a sh — about the safety and sanctity of a child.»

The thing that struck me most from speaking to people who want sugar relationships, is that it seems at once both a very modern and old fashioned way of dating.

Before SXSW kicked off, I spoke with writer / director Noah Baumbach, who shared writing credits with his wife Jennifer Jason Leigh for his latest film, GREENBERG; a coming of age story about a guy (Ben Stiller) who's way too old to be coming of age.

I can?t say I was very impressed by her, her signature way of speaking got old as hell pretty quick.

I obviously speak of Jacki Weaver who has more problems to worry about in regards to getting a nomination and now has to content with a 20 - year - old in a big box office hit who's been shoved in the supporting category because they see easier dividends that way and they know they can get away with it because the critics follow them like sheep.

All join in praising Tandy in the way we tend to speak kindly of old people.

Along the way Kwan introduces a fascinating array of relatively unknown figures (I'm especially intrigued by Maxu Weibang, a «uniquely perverse» horror specialist who worked in the Shanghai studios in the 30s) and also provides absorbing commentary by and about, among others, Hong Kong action director Chang Cheh and his disciple John Woo; Hong Kong directors Wong Kar - wai and Allen Fong; Taiwanese directors Hou Hsiao - hsien, Edward Yang, Ang Lee, and Tsai Ming - liang (most of them speaking about their fathers or children and how these relationships inflect their films); older mainland directors such as Xie Jin; and actor Leslie Cheung (critiquing some of his own pictures).

And speaking of age, my personal favorite in this category would be 88 - year - old Christopher Plummer, who not only took on the role of J. Paul Getty in Ridley Scott's «All the Money In the World» on ridiculously short notice but used his impeccable craft to make this impossible miser come completely alive in unexpected ways.

«We can no longer proceed with teacher policies that speak of student and teacher ratio in the old way of assuming there will be one teacher per 40 students,» she urged.

Policymakers representing the public have spoken clearly though legislation that education is not going back to its old ways of rating teachers, where 98 percent are deemed to perform satisfactorily.

The research, which appears in the November - December issue of the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, examined differences in the way mothers and fathers spoke to their 24 - month - old children.

We agree that self - publishing (1) can be a means of getting your words in print, (2) it will let you can control your tome's contents and design, (3) if you can market well, by self - publishing you can sidestep the big - house foot - dragging, (4) when your book is complementary to your greater purpose of displaying your expertise (as, for example, using your book to secure related speaking engagements), or (5) when self - publishing is the best (and perhaps only) way to get your words and ideas past the older, established houses so potential readers and buyers have a chance to see and decide about the merits of your independent offering.

Valerie Torrey, the former star of a cult sci - fi television series, sets off across America with Alex, her precocious 9 - year - old son, stopping to speak to the oddball attendees of various comic conventions along the way.

Australian writer Murray creates a true original in a 13 - year - old girl who has her own way of «overhauling the ordinary state of things» as she speaks in a unique voice about her eccentric friends and tries to separate the rumors about her family from the truth.

And her comment, to the people who busted on her dialogue of a 5 year old as not being perfect and teaching young readers the proper way to speak was (and I paraphrase here)-- The people who don't get the difference between a story and an English textbook, I don't have time for that conversation.

Occasionally we found a button that simply refused to register a press (especially along the very bottom of the display) and required scrolling to and clicking in the old fashioned way, but generally speaking the combination works well.

Speaking of the Old Ones awakening their various abilities do help mix things up, some spawning Shoggoths (don't worry, I'll get to them) and others hindering in various other ways.

Sure, the game insists on having its unique bunch of characters speaking by taking a few similar sounds and mashing them together into a grating mess just like the used to do back in the good old days, but Yooka and Laylee themselves are wonderfully animated, from the way Yooka covers his ears before a sonic attack or how Laylee runs on top of Yooka while Yooka rolls.

It's how Angry Joe and Boogie2988 get around their issues with how Nintendo handles YouTube (in their opinion «we love Nintendo's games and feel that as a game maker they're pretty unmatched in quite a few ways, but their corporate side over in Japan is pretty damn old fashioned when it comes to embracing certain new forms of media» [Joe's contacted NoA for help but the people he's spoken to have told him the issue is more with the Japan corporate side of things and they can't override what the head office tells them to do]-RRB-.