Sentences with phrase «on bearing witness»

Ted Neill on bearing witness to the violent conflicts that take place as a result of religious belief

They are missing out on bearing witness, and being a part of something incredibly special.

Not exact matches

The exchange went on for ten minutes, as [their personal aides] toed the ground and gazed skyward, looking as if they wanted to be just about anywhere but on the tarmac bearing witness to this unfriendly encounter between their bosses.

Much as we love boom markets and the positive impact they have on our portfolios, we've had to bear witness to the erosion of some core principles that are at the essence of the value creation process.

As thousands of space fans, celebrities, and the press descend on the Eastern coast of Florida to bear witness to the maiden...

The first decade of the 21st century, however, would bear witness to a spectacular turning point in the private launch timeline: the arrival on the scene of disruptive billionaire tech entrepreneurs with some truly ostentatious rocket - powered ambitions.

Parental consent on many topics (NOT A LAW) 6: Thou shall not kill — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY (long pre-dated it) = > Goes back to the first offspring of humanity or the chosen depending on version 7: Thou shall not commit adultery — huge number of Christians commits adultery by LEGALLY remarrying = > still actionable in various tort and civil cases across America (didn't say it was a law) 8: Thou shall not steal — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY = > many laws on this we are very concerned about our stuff 9: Thou shall not bear false witness — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY = > purgery anyone 10: Thou shalt not covet — NOT A LAW = > stalking laws (Stalking IS a crime.

Parental consent on many topics 6: Thou shall not kill — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY (long pre-dated it) = > Goes back to the first offspring of humanity or the chosen depending on version 7: Thou shall not commit adultery — huge number of Christians commits adultery by LEGALLY remarrying = > still actionable in various tort and civil cases across America 8: Thou shall not steal — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY = > many laws on this we are very concerned about our stuff 9: Thou shall not bear false witness — NOT UNIQUE TO CHRISTIANITY = > purgery anyone 10: Thou shalt not covet — NOT A LAW = > stalking laws

When I blessed his house on December 16 of last year, I was struck by the decoration bearing witness to his faith and to his passion for history and the gendarmerie.

The women were commissioned, like Mary at the Tomb of Christ on Easter morning, to go and tell what they had seen, what they heard, what they had experienced through the Holy Spirit, to bear witness to reconciliation together.

«I am carrying soil from elsewhere into Syria in order to bear concrete witness to the presence of the one true God who can not be loved and served on this soil, the soil of Baa!

N.T. Wright challenges us to fight this temptation and focus on living faithfully in the present, bearing witness to God's healing and reconciling work today.

They met those problems on the new level of an inter-racial, international fellowship entered by free personal choice, but all subsequent Christian history bears witness to the fact that the adjustment between society and the individual, both within the church and out of it, still remained one of the most crucial problems of mankind.

You may not like the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, you may not agree with their tenets, you may even feel you are such an expert on what makes someone a Christian and have the right to make the judgement on who is and who isn't, but spouting off inaccurate claims indicates no credibility, and inasmuch as Jesus said «thou shalt not bear false witness» I guess it doesn't leave you looking much like a Christian.

These theories witness to the power of the human intellect, but few would claim that they bear on questions of faith and morals.»

15 They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.

Thou shall not bear false witness against your neighbor... Don't blame something you did on someone else..

Jesus did not teach hate and intolerance he did not reject health care he healed the sick he did not preach for profit and he did not deny anyone there rights he did not look down on others and he did not bear false witness the right wing conservatives have hijacked the word of god to fit their political agenda.

On the other hand, the main evidence of the in filling of the Holy Spirit in Acts is boldness to bear witness — merely focusing on fellowship is probably a cul de sac for life in the SpiriOn the other hand, the main evidence of the in filling of the Holy Spirit in Acts is boldness to bear witness — merely focusing on fellowship is probably a cul de sac for life in the Spirion fellowship is probably a cul de sac for life in the Spirit.

Those responsible for it would do well to consult Luther's Small Catechism on bearing false witness.

Romans 2:14 - 15 14 Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law, 15 since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.

The fact that we are so far removed from that time, and with no ability to speak to those witnesses has no bearing on its truths.

Solzhenitsyn even blesses his prison cell for having purged him of the confusion of his age, for once on the other side of history — free from the petty progressive notions of one's time — one enters history in a new way, as a witness to the inner force that intuitively resists oppression born of the human will to power.

In every project, Scorsese uses his mastery of film to allow viewers to bear witness intimately to the damaged characters on screen.

This, on a deeper level, is nothing less than the bearing of false witness.

Try this also: This is what John the Baptist said about Jesus... RSV John 1: 32And John bore witness, «I saw the Spirit descend as a dove from heaven and remain on him.

15 They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.)

At a time when Israel is isolated and anti-Semitism is again on the march, and when so many other communities are under threat, Sir Martin's life is a reminder that defeat is not inevitable, that evil need not triumph, and that hope can still bear witness to what's sacred in this life — even as we await for God's perfect love and justice in the next.

The Anglican — Roman Catholic Consultation in the U.S. has just published a statement on «Ecclesiology and Moral Discernment» that urges Episcopalians and Roman Catholics to enter «into each other's struggles, accepting them as our own, that we may bear witness to our unity in Christ.»

Countless similar stories bear witness to the fact that man's life is built, like a Gothic cathedral, on the principle of balanced thrusts.

It struck me most forcefully when I saw one well - known polemic pastor bear false witness against some friends of mine, be confronted on it, admit he was wrong, and then not publicly address, retract, or apologize for what he said.

Romney, on the other hand, changes positions daily and does not appear to know that it is a sin to bear «false witness.»

These are the same «Christians» who have no problem with bearing false witness in their quest for coveted oil, or eye - for - an - eye revenge (depending on the version of history offered), and who are willing to murder to innocents to accomplish those goals?

There the whole discussion is connected with the question of the relation of the familiar to the transcendent on which it depends and to which it bears witness.)

Hartshorne's writings on this subject, as exacting to comprehend as they are, may have a purifying effect on the minds and emotions of some readers, as this one can bear witness.

The reality of the Easter event is not established by academic scholarship performing autopsies on those Gospel narratives that bear witness to the Easter event but rather by engaging in those activities prescribed by them, that is, identifying with the hungry and the poor, obeying the teaching of Jesus, and devoting oneself to liturgy.

«For when Gentiles [nonbelievers] who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written on their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them, on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus.»

The central message of Christianity, that Jesus bore witness to God's redemptive work and to its sovereignty in the world, provides the basis for the new theological proposal, both materially and in regard to the way tradition is handled and handed on.

It does not, however, infer otherworldliness, but on the contrary bears witness to a new and grace - given affirmation of this world in all of its concreteness and physicality.

Perhaps the papacy bears witness to this reality better than other instruments of unity (to trade on an Anglican term).

Walter Brueggemann's perspective on Israel's core testimony is «that it is Yahweh's sovereign power and covenantal solidarity that mark the God to whom Israel bears witness....

Now I am convinced that, however much some of these leaders may be criticized on particular counts, their churches have in important instances preserved independent Christian vitality, and they remain the major organized force bearing witness to the ultimate criticisms of what intends to be a Marxist culture.

Cross Vision, teaches believers how to interpret the Old Testament's violent portraits of God through the lens of the cross and to thereby see how these portraits bear witness to the self - sacrificial, non-violent, enemy - embracing love of God revealed on Calvary.

We celebrate her appropriately on St. Elephus Day by wearing wrinkly grey boots and an elephant mask while prancing through the streets showering those gathered to bear witness to her godliness with pink and brown confetti.

If you can't stay on topic leave it alone flint you are caught bearing false witness to your personal prejudice.

They begin impressionistically with some symptoms of popular change: the growing acceptability among Catholics of the iconic Baptist evangelist Billy Graham, the adoption by Catholics of the Alpha courses initiated at Holy Trinity Brompton, the inclusion of hymns by Protestant authors in Catholic hymnals, the welcome afforded by many evangelicals to the witness and writings of Pope John Paul II, a favorable review by the star evangelical intellectual J.I. Packer of a book titled The Born - Again Catholic (1983), and so on.

This relatively wide, though sparse, diffusion extended up to Kashmir where near Tenkse, on the eastern side of Leh, rock inscriptions still bear witness today to a settlement of Syrian Christians, which existed there around AD.

The laws about sacred seasons, Sabbath observance, details of sacrifice, clean and unclean foods, bulk much larger than legislation on ethics, and this lack of perspective and proportion, this inveterate idea that Yahweh was appeased by ceremonial behavior, obtained so firm a grip that even the prophets who contended against it never broke its hold, as orthodox Judaism today bears witness.

«Thou shalt not bear false witness», rings hollow on U.S. church pulpits.

(9) Finally, it focuses on the praxis of mission; for we are sent into the world to bear a life - witness to God's redemptive concern for all people everywhere in the face of issues which affect their daily lives.Dubose, God Who Sends, pp159 - 160