In spite of the Ten Commandment's ban on «graven images» (and the worship of them), many Christians have become so used to visual representations of Christ that we often don't give them a second thought, nor consider what they say about our mental
picture of the Son of God.
Not exact matches
Though Estime still has big -
picture dreams
of opening her own physiotherapy clinic, or working as a consultant, she recently reached one
of her short - term goals: paying for her
son's hockey lessons.
For example, on @fuckjerry's Instagram account, there is a
picture of a baby's fine - haired head next to a kiwi, with the caption «don't talk to me or my
son ever again,» implying that the kiwi is the baby's
son.
Case in point: influential photographer Jeff Mindell shared a
picture of his infant
son rocking a Mini Mioche cap with his 60,000 Instagram followers (with the caption, «New hat, who dis?»)
The father - and -
son forensic accounting duo, who co-founded Accountability Research Corp. in Toronto, lay out an alarming
picture of the Canadian investing landscape in a new book, Easy Prey Investors: Why Broken Safety Nets Threaten Your Wealth.
«I came clean to the staff about the story I told my
son and asked if they would mind taking a
picture of Joshie on a lounge chair by the pool to substantiate my fabricated story.»
I was leading a retreat at the weekend on the «return
of the prodigal
son @ — henri Nouwens book based on the bible story and rembrandts
picture.
this is not the
picture of the Father that Jesus paints in the Prodigal
Son parable, it never entered his head to smash in the boy's face
The
picture is obviously a reflection
of Daniel 7, where, after four beasts representing successive world empires have come out
of the sea (vv 3 - 8, 17), a human figure («one like a
son of man»), representing «the saints
of the Most High,» comes «with the clouds
of heaven» and receives universal, everlasting dominion (vv 13 - 14, 18, 27).
She notes that «the family
pictured in the black and white photos have a
son who is fighting neuroblastoma and there is a video feature
of them on this website, just in case that is
of interest, because let's be honest, that mama is a woman
of valor also, fighting for her
son's life and raising awareness about his disease!»
She recalls her visits to the doctor being like a visit to the grim reaper; she couldn't look at the ultra-sound as she knew it was a
picture of her
son slowly dying.
Luke so badly wants us to see the
pictures of undeserved grace and unexpected joy in the prodigal
son that he leaves the negatives lying around as clues.
He sends us His
Son as the ultimate
picture of a missionary: encroaching foreign territory, becoming like us, and making the way for us back to the Father.
An idle, aging king in the heady, evening air
of a Jerusalem springtime; the beautiful Bathsheba and her incorruptible husband Uriah; the king's prompt, efficient, confident steps to cover the results
of his lustful intoxication; Uriah's integrity as soldier and his unwitting and ultimately fatal frustration
of David's self - protective scheme merely by the virtue
of his extreme loyalty to his compatriots still in the field; David's unhesitating but premeditated resort to murder; the complicity
of Joab, always intensely, blindly loyal to David; and continuing this
picture of the king's total moral collapse in steps
of progressive deterioration, David's calloused words
of reassurance to Joab, «Do not let this matter trouble you...»; and at last the consummation
of the whole sorry episode when Bathsheba is added to David's harem and another
son added to his progeny.
All this is no more than is implied in the phrase
of the kerygma which describes Him as «going about doing good, because God was with Him,» and it affords a necessary and valuable supplement to the Marcan
picture of the strong
Son of God, and the Matthaean
picture of the royal Lawgiver.
This dad is an Imgur user widely known as DomZombie, who for the past three years has been uploading
pictures of the custom lunch bags he hand paints for his
son to take to school every single day.
All
of this stands in direct contradiction with the
picture God has given for how He intends the bride
of his
Son to operate.
In attempting to interpret this
picture and the claim
of our text we will consider three questions: 1) Who, according to Matthew, is this
Son of Man?
Here he paints a word
picture of judgment day, when the
son of man will come in his glory to judge the nations and shall separate them «as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats».
Jesus» own
picture was
of God as the Father welcoming home the prodigal
son.
If her training eventually pulls her back into her professional role so that she is able to study her reactions, she may notice that she has been led to
picture the story
of humankind as being played out solely by males: inventing language, passing it on to the next generation
of sons, inventing pottery for use as containers, fashioning needles in order to make better clothing.
It
pictures the relationship
of christ and his church or sometimes father and
son.
A God who at first glance is comparable to the
picture of the Oriental ruler, who governs his people with complete arbitrariness, bound by no rational law; but a God who is conceived as wholly different from an Oriental ruler, since all physical traits are lacking, all tyrannical desires alien; a God who desires justice and righteousness and punishes sin, a God who loves His people as a father his first - born
son, a God to whom the religious man ills as to his father, and in whose help he trusts in all situations
of life.
Foxx met the father
of the young man, who sustained head and neck injuries and is expected to be hospitalized for some time, and shared a
picture of the moment on Instagram, writing «a man, a
son, a brother's life was spared last night.
He is
pictured as himself a story - teller in whose stories there is equally vivid harmonizing
of contrasts: a father embracing a prodigal
son, a tax collector praying for forgiveness; a heretic showing a compassion far surpassing that
of the orthodox, an employer rewarding laggards with the same wages as those who have worked a full day.
A stratified society, with wealthy landowners at the top and slaves at the bottom and, in between, a mass
of poor folk skirting precariously the edge
of servitude for debt and in times
of depression forced into it or compelled to sell
sons or daughters to redeem the family's fortunes — such a
picture is revealed by a careful reading
of the records.
The idea
of the
Son of Man coming on the clouds
of heaven is not just
picture language, any more than the doctrine
of Christ's pre-existence.
«
Son of man, have you seen what the elders
of the house
of Israel are doing in the dark, every man in his chambers
of imagery (RSV, room
of pictures)?
Trameka Brown - Berry posted a
picture of the assignment after seeing her nine - year - old
son struggling to answer the question.
We shall see, as we proceed with our narrative, that the way the Scriptures
picture God as dealing with man characterizes the history
of Christianity, not only in the preparation for the coming
of His
Son in the flesh and in the reception
of His
Son, but as well in the subsequent record
of the religion named after the traditional designation
of His
Son.
«Moreover, an atonement theology that says God sacrifices his own
son in place
of humans who needed to be punished for their sins might make some Christians love Jesus, but it is an obscene
picture of God.
It is the name the
picture of which is drawn in the parable
of the prodigal
son (Luke 15:11 - 32), which would be far better called the parable
of the loving Father.
My 4 - year old
son got ahold
of a cup as I was shooting
pictures.
My
son texted me a
picture of his pumpkin cinnamon roll pancakes.
The
picture of your
son's birthday party really takes me back.
Third from the right and just to my left, Rick was the husband
of one
of my closest friends (Sandy — on his left — who married my
son and his wife in 2002), and the instigator
of the wine group
pictured above.
And I love the
picture of you with your husband and
son....
I even got a
picture of my husband and both my
sons «cleaning» up the pan... basically fighting over the last piece!!!
thanks so much for the
picture of my
son in the video..
I would love to have
pictures of my
son printed for my parents as a christmas gift!
Our three year old
son helped make the
pictured bowl
of soup.
Here's a
picture of our new dog, Momo («Peach» in Japanese), and our
son Oliver doing his best Glamour Shots impression.
Snoop Dogg posted the above
picture of himself and his
son, Cordell Broadus, to his Instagram.
Chris Bosh posted this
picture of his
son Jackson «chillin» on vacation.
Jennifer Coney, the mother
of Rashan Gary, shared the following
picture of her
son showing off the muscles while donning the Maize and Blue:
Much
of the discussion on radio call - in shows here has concerned your choice
of cover shot and other
pictures of Pat Summitt (above, with
son Tyler and father Richard).
The showbiz
son of Manchester United and England legend David Beckham took to Instagram on Monday night to share a
picture of his Hollywood girlfriend Chloe Moretz, who he is missing terribly.
Take a look at the
picture Jennifer Coney, Rashan Gary's mom, shared
of her
son with Tom Brady and his famous speech to the team.
He looked at his 3 - year - old
son and said to him he wanted a
picture of them celebrating in victory lane.
The ClaretandHugh blogger and one
of the club's most favourite
sons officially launched out «Farewell to the Boleyn'today which will see ClaretandHugh bringing
pictures, recollections from top players and videos through the season.