Those places and things which for us are associated with the Christ function share in the sacredness of this role.
Not exact matches
Case in point: Birch Coffee's «ignition initiative» in
which customers can take a sign from the wall of the store (samples include: «Ask Me What I Ate for Lunch Today»
and «Ask Me About the Most Embarrassing
Thing in My iTunes Library»),
and place it in front of their table if they'd like to encourage random conversations with strangers.
WHO: Joan P. Neuscheler, principal at Tullis - Dickerson & Co., a venture - capital firm in Greenwich, Conn.,
and board member of AmericasDoctor,
which (among other
things) offers a health - information Web site for consumers RATING: 4 «I think they have strong management
and a good board of directors —
and that's usually the first
place I look for flaws.
«It made me realise how the media often distorts
things and we can't look at the people in that
place through that lens of the media,
which can make it feel that extreme,
and then that encourages that fear of people in a foreign
place,» she told Business Insider.
In Foursquare, for example, people can be noteworthy
and attain badges within the system for doing such
things as being the biggest regular at a certain
place (What Norm
and Cliff from «Cheers» would do with this...)
and going to a venue in
which a lot of Foursquare members of the opposite sex are present.
Inflation protection could be a sixth factor, but I've already got the Return metric in
place,
which can
and does incorporate inflation
and other
thing that affect return.
One
thing I've been
placing a greater
and greater emphasis on recently has been debt reduction,
which I don't see directly addressed in your post.
One of the
things that we have been seeing is that with more urban development,
which leaves less space for water to go,
and when water falls on concrete
and streets it has [fewer]
places to go rather than it falling on a wetland.
They are all going toward the same
place,
and going to do the same
thing,
which classify them as one dragon.
But I am still wanting to put a live band together,
and we're just waiting for some
things to fall into
place here in the U.K. with Nettwerk America to maybe get into some of the dance festivals, in
which case I'll look into putting a live P.A. together for the show.
I know even some believers are offended by some of the
things I write, but to them I'll simply say this: the Word of God is the most powerful
thing that exists - both the written word
and the Living word;
and it's time to start believing God
and to take hold of the ident.ity that He has given you
and live
and use that ident.ity Lance Wallnau calls it the «believers edge»
which unfortunately only 8 % of the body of Christ ever gets into - that rare realm that individuals mature to the
place where they have the power to co-create with God
and bring the future into the present.
But until we come to the end of ourselves then we are going to do
and say what we want, even as it was with me: It's one
thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on God
and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick
and tired of being sick
and tired of our own lives
and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given
place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on God
and His ways
which has been established in the Word of Truth,
which then causes us to stand
and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even as Christ wars against the man of sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man of sin: Many who have come out of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen)
and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other,
and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man of sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within;
and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria
Mat 24:15 When therefore ye see the abomination of desolation,
which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy
place (let him that readeth understand), Mat 24:16 then let them that are in Judaea flee unto the mountains: Mat 24:17 let him that is on the housetop not go down to take out
things that are in his house: Mat 24:18
and let him that is in the field not return back to take his cloak.
Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough
and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it
and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales
and stories... There is another type of possessions
and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments
and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such
things and specially if passing haunted
places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets
and market
places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by
which you have killed a dear one to them
and for that they have possessed you
and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark
place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night
which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true
thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings
which could look like mental illness that comes
and goes as pleased...
In other words, a properly ordered will (one that leads toward good
things in good measure) following closely on the heels of right reason (one that perceives
and presents to the will goods really perfective of the human person) goes a long way to putting the passions in their
place (
which is not, emphatically, squashed way down into a virtual black hole).
I do admit that McCain is a very good man though
and I would have trusted him to at least do the right
things on most accounts except he tends to be a Neo-con
which I think Amnerica has no
place pushing Democracy (or anything for that matter) by military force.
However, I do wish the curators had done the right
thing and chosen not to include the cross,
which could easily have been
placed outside one of the countless Christian churches in that neighborhood.
Also, it is a «sin'to not take in account the context of each book, the people
and time to
which certain
things were directed, the reasons why such
things which seem unreasonable
and some times unfair, were in the first
place commanded;
and so on.
The first
thing his forty days in the wilderness teach us is that absence of the food we crave can become a
place in
which the grace of God shapes
and forms us.
Furthermore, the more science can explain the less we rely on religion to explain
things,
and this undermines a fundamental reason religions spring up in the first
place,
which is to explain the unexplainable.
So many
things have to be in
place to conquer fear,
which comes as a side effect of the process of taking up our crosses
and conforming to the image of Christ.
At every moment the vast
and horrible
Thing breaks in upon us through the crevices
and invades our precarious dwelling -
place, that
Thing we try so hard to forget but
which is always there, separated from us only by thin dividing walls: fire, pestilence, earthquake, storm, the unleashing of dark moral forces, all these sweep away ruthlessly, in an instant, what we had laboured with mind
and heart to build up
and make beautiful.
Lord Jesus, you are the centre towards
which all
things are moving: if it be possible, make a
place for us all in the company of those elect
and holy ones whom your loving care has liberated one by one from the chaos of our present existence
and who now are being slowly incorporated into you in the unity of the new earth.
That you in explicitly know
things about
and things to say
which leads the conversation to a
place where seeds can be planted.
Early stories such as the encounter with Yahweh at the burning bush, where Moses was warned to put off his shoes because the spot was «holy ground,» (Exodus 3:5; cf. Joshua 5:15) reveal the way in
which this dread of holy
things and places and this need of insulations against their dangerous potency issued in sacred rites
and customs.
Surely, however, the basic affirmation of Christian theism, founded (once we have got behind the images in
which often it was phrased) on the biblical witness to the faithfulness
and consistency of God
and to his unfailing maintenance of the creation in being, is that all
things at all times
and in all
places are present to God, that he is always at work in them, that he constantly energizes through them, that he never ceases to move in the creation towards the accomplishment of his holy will
and the revelation of his holy purpose.
It is true of Aristotle too: the dialectic of act
and potency that, for sublunary beings, is inseparable from decay
and death, or the scale of essences by
which all
things — especially various classes of persons — are assigned their
places in the natural
and social order.
Of what he thought
and felt on the three - day journey is left to our imagination; from the text's point of view the important
thing is what he did: He went,
and went steadily, to the
place of
which God had spoken.
It corrupts our character, it distracts us, it ties us to
places and things; ultimately it makes us less dependent on Him,
which is the real sin.
Unlike the work of bulldozers,
which Berry calls «a powerful generalizer» that works against the impulse «to take care of
things, to pay attention to the details,» «good work is always modestly scaled, for it can not ignore either the nature of individual
places or the differences between
places,
and it always involves a sort of religious humility, for not everything is known.
Unless they are actively working to change
things from within,
which most are not, it is out of laziness
and narrow self - interest (nice
place for a wedding, pretty communion dresses for the kids) over caring about vital international aid issues
and healthcare or gender equality.
Sometimes the distinction between the reconciliation
which, according to Christian teaching, has already occurred
and the redemption of all
things yet to, take
place becomes obscured in Christian witness.
it is in
place to do one or two
things which are to comfort the living
and lift someone up.
Poor self - esteem, masochism, all the many ways in
which the religion has burned these unhealthy
things into their heads, otherwise they would not have gone to the organization to become a nun in the first
place, I would guess... but each one is an individual first
and foremost.
They have moved beyond religious frontiers to the frontier —
which no thinker, however, brilliant can ever cross — to the meeting
place of the human with the Divine where we find ourselves like Job speaking of
things we do not understand, of
things too wonderful for us to know
and where, in God's mercy, we may experience the reality of the One God whose glory passes our understanding.
In the extreme case of blood vengeance,
which takes
place between families or clans or villages in many «backward» parts of the world still today, we all agree that such a
thing can only harm both sides
and hence is to be gotten rid of by any means possible.
man's special
place in the cosmos, his connexion with destiny, his relation to the world of
things, his understanding of his fellowmen, his existence as a being that knows it must die, his attitude in the ordinary
and extraordinary encounters with the mystery with
which his life is shot through.
The first
thing they did whenever they wished to stop at a particular
place, was to erect a tabernacle or temple to their false god for the duration of the time they expected to stay there,
and they built this temple in the middle of the site on
which they had established themselves, the ark being
placed upon an altar such as is used in a church, for the idol wished to imitate our religion in many ways, as we shall afterwards show.10
It is this
which gives Jesus his central
place and role,
and it is from this centrality, or particular «importance,» in our understanding
and in our living, that the evaluation of Jesus himself, his significance in the total scheme of
things, his continuing impact on successive generations of men
and women, takes its rise.
These two definitions indicate, as they should, the same
thing, because closed - upness is precisely the mute,
and when it is to express itself, this must take
place against its will, as the freedom
which is the ground underlying unfreedom revolts upon entering into communication with the freedom without; it now betrays unfreedom,
and the individual betrays himself against his will in anxiety....
I kind of think I knew that, but I think it muddies the waters (anyway)
and places things in question
which ought not be re-thought, such as the existence of God.
The pessimistic attitude of the Semitic mind toward the world as a fleeting shadow, the notion that it has value only as a
place in
which man prepares himself for a more permanent life, led to the conception that God is the absolute sovereign power
which rules all
things, including man
and his actions.
For us as Christians the role of Jesus the Christ makes him the epitome of the sacred, but we also have other
places and people whose sacredness is derivative from his
and additional sacred
things which are auxiliary to him.
It seems that each entity in space has a center of identity
which holds together («prehends» in Whitehead's vocabulary) its aspects or perspectives that spread out into the
places of other persons
and other
things.
The only
places in
which a general account of the coming to be of the human being is implicit are in pp. 290 - 296,
and 528 - 531, extending my remarks to other living
things, none of
which do I believe to be intelligible either in their nature
and behaviour or in their origin in purely physicalistic terms.
Here are ten
things you might hear in a Sunday service
which will clue you in that your church leadership fails to grasp our mission to enter the dark
and dangerous
places of this world with the Gospel of the Kingdom or the fact the church is something we are, not something we attend.
In framing the relationship between nature
and mind in this way we can, claims Hegel, arrive at an understanding of the
place of nature in the general scheme of
things,
which at the same time leaves nature as it is.
Not good, why neglect
things which are edifying to the christian life, that would be an unhealthy focus on evangelism in the
place of discipleship, just do both I say What if, instead of starting Christian Coffee Houses, Christian Work - Out Centers,
and Christian Bridge Clubs, we started just going to these
places that were already in our community
and meeting the people who go there?
Remember that we all came from the same
place, we are here now sharing this Earth,
and we will go back to where we came from very soon... So lets spend our time wisely... We must use the gift given to us
and choose to think for ourselves, by not allowing the past or others to dictate how we should live our lives... lets practice recognizing ourselves in each other... It may not always be easy... but each new day we can choose it...
and that choice has an intrinsic value, upon
which great
things will be borne...
In this case it is the more naturalistic conditions of finitude, contingency, chance,
and decay
which take center stage in the general scheme of
things, with mind being
placed in the more subordinate, passive role of the «conditioned.»