Sentences with phrase «peacemakers not»

I would argue that creatively living into our vocation as everyday peacemakers not only requires more bravery and bravado, it requires faithfulness and trust in the Good News of Jesus in the most real and tangible ways.

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Call me a peacemaker â $ «but I feel like not everyone needs to sound or be like some proto - typical Christian person â $ «there is room here for variations.

Jesus, as the ultimate peacemaker, shows us that the life and work of peacemaking isn't some fairy tale euphoria, but the gritty, subversive and sacrificial life of faithfulness to a God and kingdom that lives by a different standard than the systems and powers of the world.

When we find ourselves living as peacemakers in the world, this kind of living so easily leads to persecution because we all know the way the world works — it wants us to pick a side, and it's not going to go down so well when we don't pick a side and want to see everyone flourish.

The peacemaker «is God's fellow - worker,» but we make peace not by conciliatory words and humane projects but through making peace «wherever we are destined and summoned to do so: in the active life of our own community and in that aspect of it which can actively help determine its relationship to another community.»

I am not ashamed of the good news that we have it backwards: Privileged are the poor, the peacemakers, the merciful, and the suffering.

Jesus» call to take up His cross won't always be welcomed, of course, but we are called to be peacemakers and the sweet aroma of Christ.

And all I can think of is «Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God» and «do not resist an evil person.

Blessed are the meek, Blessed are the peacemakers, and he wasn't kidding!

Christ said that peacemakers, not war mongers, were to be blessed.

The presence of a visitor from Christian Peacemaker Teams talking about her work in war - torn Colombia shows this is not merely private piety.

To be a peacemaker is not only to walk in the steps of Christ, to be a reconciler where discord reigns, but it is also to direct people to Jesus Christ who alone imparts the peace that passes all understanding (Phil.

To be a peacemaker is a privilege granted by the free mercy of God, not a meritorious work entitling us to special rights in his kingdom.

There is, in the Greek, a term for peacemaker, but Paul did not use it here.

Jesus Christ did not come to bring peace and then to retire to the sidelines as a peacemaker does.

As we undertake that healthy, but not easy, task, may we be the peacemakers this world so desperately needs.

In Matthew's Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says, «Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God» — not «sons of God.»

If the peacemaker of the Sermon on the Mount is truly Lord of all things, then we dare not restrict his sovereignty to the private sphere of family life while we participate via our jobs, our research and our votes in society's blind rush to the brink of nuclear annihilation.

The object of this hyperbole is not the 19th century Colt peacemaker or the Winchester carbine: it is the tommy gun, the same Thompson submachine gun made famous by Eliot Ness and World War II marines.

Although it won't be easy, it is important that we take our lives back from being peacekeepers and instead become peacemakers.

Time and again Jesus reminded the disciples that his kingdom belonged not to the powerful or the violent, but to the gentle, the peacemakers, and the least of these.

As Christians, we are reminded today that our ultimate allegiance belongs not to a political party or even a country, but to the Kingdom of God, where the first is last and the last is first, where the peacemakers and the poor are blessed, where enemies are forgiven and slaves are set free, where our King washes feet, where abundant life grows from a tiny seed into a tree — not by power or might but by the Spirit.

The rest support unnecessary mass - murder and torture for profit based on lies as in the War of Choice in Iraq in direct contradiction to the spirit and literal teachings of Jesus (turn the other cheek, blessed are the peacemakers, love your enemies, repay evil with good, he who lives by the sword will die by the sword, forgive seventy times seven, thou shalt not kill, etc.).

The problem is that Jesus did not teach his followers to conform to the image of masculinity and power presented by the world, but instead explicitly taught the opposite — «Blessed are the meek,» «Blessed are the merciful,» «Blessed are the peacemakers,» «Blessed are those who are persecuted.»

This doesn't negate our call to be peacemakers but amplifies how difficult this task will be.

I don't know of many Christian peacemakers, though.

Christians are also called to be «peacemakers» and not lovers of violence.

Turning from the people directly, the Didascalia urges the bishops for their part to take thought that they «be quiet and meek, and merciful and compassionate, and peacemakers, and without anger, and teachers and correctors and receivers and exhorters; and that you be not wrathful, nor tyrannical; and that you be not insolent, nor haughty, nor boastful.»

Playing peacemaker doesn't fit well with you.

Walcott wasn't interested in backing down and was even ready to get into it with peacemaker Tom Huddlestone who made the fatal mistake of putting his hands on the Arsenal man.

The crazy thing is, when we were kids, this boy was very much the «peacemaker» at school, and he wanted us to all get along, and not fight and argue with each other, because he was mature beyond his years.

As Tucker states: «Kids don't play with PeaceMakers because the game is good for them, they play with PeaceMakers because the game feels good to them.»

Meaning, «full of peace» this child will be surprisingly content and won't give you too much trouble In fact, among her siblings she is the most likely to be the peacemaker!

He doesn't hesitate to head his chapter on the Sierra Leone peace negotiations Peacemaker, although by his own account he was absent from them through illness during the crucial week when agreement was reached.

«Me, Malam Issa, I see both Hitler and Stalin in him [Nana Akufo - Addo] because he is not a peacemaker,» the former failed Adentan parliamentary aspirant, who contested on the ticket of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), told Chief Jerry Forson on Accra100.5 FM's breakfast show Ghana Yensom on Tuesday July 19.

Like the Grippers, the Peacemakers believe that engaging the glutes has the potential to help the average yogi, so they ask, «Isn't there a way to contract the gluteal muscles in backbends without allowing the thighs to fly outward?

I am a: faithful follower of GOD Peacemaker people Responsible abd attentioned father I have two (2) kids under senior age who not live with me here, there are living with my sister and her two (2) children.

«The Peacemaker,» helmed by Mimi Leder, is unquestionably the most heartfelt action picture of the year... admittedly not an arena with a lot of competition.

All this is not to say that Clooney is terrible in «The Peacemaker,» a new thriller that opens today.

«The Peacemaker» is not a considerate, measured look at global terrorism or Eastern European woes.

«The Peacemaker» may not have bowled over the critics, but there are some old - fashioned thrills and pace that on DVD will give your amplifier something to chew.

Not only does «The Peacemaker» contain a vivid 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround track, you can also choose between a French and Spanish language Dolby Surround track.

I won't pretend «The Peacemaker» is an intelligent discussion of global terrorism.

I didn't know he had it in him to carry a film after the travesty Batman and Robin and The Peacemaker were, but he handles his role here with flair.

With little competition in the action arena right now, the solidly made The Peacemaker should keep Clooney's film career afloat (for now, at least) and get DreamWorks Pictures off on a successful start — but the film still can't help but feel like somewhat of a letdown.

A big lesson students pick up from PeaceMaker, says Deckelmann, is that «being a leader isn't easy.»

The green jelly bean person is a peacemaker, does nt like conflict.

(Besides, like W. the peacemaker says, we got J N - G for cover.)

My anxiety was wasted as I can not remember learning more or having a better time than with my friends of ABD and other local peacemakers.

In the meantime, I'm not enjoying being the father - daughter peacemaker.