Sentences with phrase «people called»

What message does it send if Christians — people called to serve the poor — spend obsessive amounts of money on designer items and expensive non-essential goods when there are so many needs in the world?

The kind of ethic promoted here by Paul is one which stresses liberation from the law — from those rules which prevent the maintenance of a loving community and for a freedom which accommodates differences between a people called to share in faith and life.

It involved emancipation from self - centered preoccupation of all kinds, freedom from the tyranny of legalistic and pharisaical religion and morality, forgiveness, a new relation of sonship towards God, consecration to membership of a people called to serve his purposes for the world.

People called me a heretic and bid me farewell.

IN the New Testament the «church» was never a place, or a building — it meant «the people called out».

But towards the end of the list, the pharaoh makes reference to a people called «Israel» being laid waste and destroyed.

Bush after 9/11 bowed down in worship with the Muslim and people called him a man Of God?

Even «Christian» itself is not safe in the world of commerce: the Christian Dior fashion - design firm has a patent on its name and may think that the 1.8 billion people called Christian are intruding into the domain where money is to be made.

The people called into service are good hearted folks who rarely receive fair compensation for their contribution.

John is the only Gospel to portray Jesus as different in nature from the prophets, as more than the culminating high point of the succession of people called by God and commissioned with special tasks.

How many people called for Rob Bell's resignation when he published his his book on hell?

That there was a people called Israel in what is now modern day Israel.

Her work has distinct and troubling limitations, to be sure: one would never learn from Nussbaum that there are people called Jews and Christians who have had a thing or two to say about what constitutes human flourishing.

I am so grateful for the many people called to online ministries.

Even when His people called for a warrior for a Messiah, Jesus did not resort to violence.

I do know the word «church» means a people called out, but also the Bible does say to not neglect going to church as some do.

Your comment sounds like the ones made by people called Yahoodies.

of his entire antiquities, there are two passages that mention Jesus, 1 merely says his brother was James, and people called him christ (which says nothing about works, resurrection, miracles, teachings), and the other is recognized as most likely a forgery, even by biblical scholars.

So if the majority declared that people called Sam should lose their rights, freedom, etc. that would be OK?

To be able to offer grown children a place to visit that is a happy refuge populated by people called grandparents is one of life's deepest dimensions.

And I don't think that Jesus would exactly REWARD people he called HYPOCRITES.

Holiness is also participation in the life of the Church, which is the holy people called into being by God's saving work in Christ.

Many today sentimentalize victimhood and locate goodness in the class of people called victims.

They know about the anti-Jewish polemics of certain church fathers; about the forced baptisms, especially of children; about the church council decree that sanctioned the removal of such children from their parents; about a papal edict encouraging raids on Jewish synagogues by the faithful; about the expulsion of all Jews from a country like Spain; about Luther's hate language directed against Jews when they did not convert according to his timetable; about the prohibition against Jews living in Calvin's Geneva; and about all the cruelties Christians have felt justified in perpetrating against the people they called «Christ - killers.»

Lyra is helped by a talking armored bear, boat people called Gyptians, a Texan aeronaut balloonist and several wise witches.

Some people called us later and asked for each other's phone numbers.

We should talk more about the gifted people called evangelists.

The elite section of the society found this a great opportunity to save the money in their pockets, and at the same time could get rid of this alien and hateful group of people called «Christians».

Another element of continuity, conscious or not, is the idea that they are a remnant, a people called out of the larger doomed society to herald a new age.

The video claims belief in angels; the article doesn't even touch on the existence of real angels, just people called angels.

The second thing is that, from what I understand of the man, he would likely be amused that there are people called Lewis scholars.

The White people called the Blacks — as «Niggers» «black cows» «black apes» etc..

He knew that the wretchedness of Judah had reached such desperate proportions that a holy God must act, that the very depth of the lowliness of his people called into question God's honor.

The meal made it clear that the church was not simply another social agency doing a little good, but a people called to witness to God's presence in the world.

For example, in the 1st century C.E., a group of people called the Gnostics (from the Greek word gno ′ sis, meaning «knowledge») claimed superior knowledge through secret revelation and boasted that they were the «correctors of the apostles.»

(whom people called «dot» or «dottie», which of course are contractions of dorothy) as s / he spouted about others being «dorothy».

By «its bad luck» I refer to already infamous «iron ceiling» as some people called it.

And while 54 % of low - income people and 49 % of middle - income people called the rich - poor gap a «very big» problem, only 36 % of high - income people did so.

It was the place to go for young, ambitious chemists; it offered salary and benefits so generous that some people called it «Uncle Dupey.»

Even more people called the hotline to report suicidal thoughts (as opposed to those who attempted suicide).

Two people called it «F - you money.»

-- Mathew Honan, Wired magazine contributor, says people called him an asshole for wearing his.

And people called me because they needed refills of their products, and that led to me selling out of my apartment.

Although the ads generated a lot of interest and many people called in to ask questions, they rarely made any purchases.

I'm so proud of the people I called; no one turned me down,» Schultz said.

And Michael Seibel says there are these people called angels, and they'll give you money.

But Smith applies that same faith to what other people call work - life balance and what he calls «hacking the integration.»

At the core of every SEO campaign is at least one person calling the shots.

Many small - business owners fall below what some people call the «security poverty line.»

The whole point is that if your star is rising to the point that these names come out, then let other people call you these nice things.