However, what if all our symbols and myths, our ceremonies and dogmas were unexpectedly and suddenly exploded, and to our awful surprise, we could see beyond these human inventions to discover not the Abyss but the real, actual
presence of the living God?
Tradition is alive because it is the permanent
presence of the living Christ in the communion of the saints who have been united to Christ through the Spirit.
The indigenous people of Africa, for example, felt the presence of what they called modimo, the source and
presence of life which penetrated through plants, humans and other animals, dark caverns and tall mountains.
To the extent that we attempt to cling to a transcendent realm, a realm that has become ever darker and emptier in the actuality of our experience, we must be closed to the
actual presence of the living Christ, and alienated from the contemporary movement of the divine process.
They were sporadic, elusive, evanescent, yet leaving in the minds of those to whom they happened an unshakable conviction that they had indeed, for a short space of time, been in the
direct presence of their living Lord.
Because Jesus is risen, he has become not only our judge in
whose presence all of our life is an open book, but also the source of our forgiveness, our healing and our wholeness.
By contrast, if we allow for a good achievable through coordination, it is possible to exalt not just self - offering, but even a joyful attention to the
infinite presence of a living, visible other above the social whole.
Despite morning sickness, leg cramps, and all the times where one prefers to remain seated because getting up from the sofa seems a task too daunting, one simply can not overlook the
miraculous presence of another life within.
Exoplanet research has gone beyond the point of finding planets — more than 3000 exoplanets are now known — to looking for chemical markers that might indicate the
potential presence of life.
Now, however, two researchers at mit argue that at least some stromatolites can be formed by purely physical processes and thus can not always be relied on as definitive evidence for the
past presence of life.
Richer has the famous Belmont whip (If you're wondering, Maria smacks her enemies with what appears to be a dove) and the tunes are pleasing as always, whilst the game itself is one part fighting game and one part platformer, but is much more difficult than say Symphony of The Night, with some boss encounters in particular causing frustration, also the old
fashioned presence of lives rather than simple save points does little to help matters.
David Kipping, an astronomer at Columbia University who was not involved with the research, told the New Scientist that there «is a legitimate case to be made that this system could host life, and we may be able to infer
the presence of that life in the next decade.»
There is not one shred of truth from science to account for
the presence of life upon the earth by any means other than a special creation by the great original first Cause - God - Who is life and the fountain source of all life!
But how about
the presence of life?
Amid all the noise that permeates our homes, giving evidence to
the presence of life therein, the beautiful noise we should most long to hear, regardless of our age, is the sound of families singing the gospel together.
Resurrection invites us into the mystery of creation and into
the presence of the living God.
Or, He may just bathe our soul in a salve of encouragement and healing, restoring
the presence of His life - giving Spirit.
This community will remind you constantly that you are not alone and that you are a member of a communion, a company of both the living and the dead all of whom are in
the presence of a living God.
As demonstrated, it is a fearful thing to approach
the presence of the Living God.
Worship is not an indifferently or casually performed activity such as going to a movie or concert; the worshiper attends a service in expectation of being in
the presence of the Living God.
Until Western musicologists like Ernest Newlandsmith brought Western musical notation to Egypt (and of course, the advent of modern recording equipment), every tune's survival depended entirely on
the presence of living cantors who remembered it.
You Said to @jf» When a person comes into
the presence of the living God, that leaves an impression that lasts lifetime.»
Without DNA
the presence of life could not be.
When a person comes into
the presence of the living God, that leaves an impression that lasts lifetime.
Yet, as with the resurrection appearances, such nonperceptual experiences of the living Christ also depend upon an interpretive framework, one which permits
the presence of the living Christ to be a real possibility for the believer.
Without
the presence of living Christian communities, the testimony of the holy land can only be equivocal.
True, when we are in
the presence of the living God and experience the power of the age to come, we don't «have» the divine reality, as if it were something that we can grasp and handle.
Thus a Christian wager upon the death of God is a wager upon
the presence of the living Christ, a bet that Christ is now at least potentially present in a new and total form.
But by identifying the Church's Christ as a reversal of the incarnate Christ, a reversal effected by a backward movement to the now emptied preincarnate epiphanies of God, the radical Christian points the way to
the presence of the living Christ in the actuality and fullness of history.
For example, we may infer
the presence of living societies in cells when we find that certain chemical reactions occur there but not elsewhere.
Can the contradictions be forgotten in
the presence of the living Lord?
In the New Testament, however, we find that the term «Holy Spirit» refers not only to the Spirit of God but also to
the presence of the living Christ.
Jesus gives them two ways that they can continue to experience
the presence of the living Lord in their lives.
It is in doing this will of God that we may enjoy the intervention of the Holy Spirit as
the presence of the living God so long as our accomplishment does not finally put God's will in our possession.
Although no evidence of contamination has ever been documented,
the presence of live viruses and bacteria in the feces can live in landfills for years and could potentially contaminate drinking water.
In new work she will be presenting at the CNS meeting today, Henry used the LIVELab at McMaster University to test how
the presence of live performers and an audience changes the experience of concert - goers at a neural level, Specifically, she and colleagues looked at brain rhythm synchronization.
I asked Vick - Majors how long it might be before she and her colleagues could establish
the presence of any life beneath the ice?
That could make it harder for us to detect whether certain molecules in the water are hints of
the presence of living organisms, or just the by - products of geological processes.