Sentences with phrase «rather than a slave»

But I think part of it is Jesus chosing to make them friends (rather than slaves), because He says that He chooses to share His plans with them.

Come spring and summer, the abundance of in - season - for - a-limited-time-only fruit, combined with beautiful days that ought to be spent outdoors rather than slaving away over a hot oven, curtails my cream pie - making.

Try this delicious make - ahead brunch entrée that lets you enjoy time with your guests rather than slaving away in the kitchen.

If you're a Microsoft fan rather than a slave to Sony, give this Xbox 360 theme for Sony Ericsson W705 a download

If you're usually eating out rather than slaving over a hot stove at home, make a point of using a rewards credit card every time you pick up the tab and save up some serious cash.

Rather than slave away for God knows how long, I thought it far better to start with the first dozen stocks, post them, hopefully get some dialogue / feedback going and then post regular file updates in the next few -LRB-?)

Mills The bunnies were buzzing when they found out that they could get their degrees by Email rather than slaving in Rabett Labs.

Not exact matches

But also, more importantly, because the whole point of thinking about seasonal rhythms is to nudge you to pay more attention to what is natural for you and to respect those tendencies rather than being a slave to a fixed routine.

Rather than giving up, I continued to slave away at writing cover letter upon cover letter and seeking new postings.

The black mans hatred for the whites for their evil but the shame of it is the shame and self hatred of allowing Someon to enslave them rather than fight.The Pharaoh had thousands of slaves, anyone they contoured ended up in the slave pits, anyone, white back and everything in Beeton.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

Jesus clearly put the emphasis on seeking the welfare of others rather than upon the lowly social status of the slave.

If we succeed in changing the hierarchies we have imposed on people according to their race and color and sex, then we can have a world of persons, of horizontal relationship rather than hierarchy, a world of expression rather than oppression, where «there are no more distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and free, male and female,» where we are all «one in Christ Jesus.»

Woolman made few accommodations with life; he walked great distances rather than ride «on animals groomed by slaves or in commercial coaches whose teamsters drove the horses too hard.»

The self can go on sinning and still rue his role as slave rather than master.

I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».

These laws would have made the trans - Atlantic slave trade unsustainable and integrated the slaves into white society as equals sooner rather than later!

As the social structure became more complicated, with increasing power in the hands of a few and increasing uncertainty in the status of the many, economic inequality became more, rather than less, pronounced and the slave system was alike more firmly established and more ethically troublesome.

Wealthy men preferred to remain single and surround themselves with innumerable slave women rather than subject themselves to the inconveniences of marriage.

He does a spectacular job of teaching people to use money as a tool... rather than being a slave to consumerism.

But it is our responsibility to help them find it, rather than take advantage of them and treat them as slaves, or give them low wages.

I wanted to created something that could be whipped up in a matter of minutes rather than having to slave away in the kitchen, waiting all day to eat my sweetly spiced treat.

Did the Russians let us, rather than the Czechs, in on their secret weapon so they would not look bad at home by comparison with their slaves?

If you want to work out in the park, or go trail running rather than be a slave to the treadmill in the gym, these thermal running pants are an excellent choice.

It is far better to live with optimized health by resolving diseases at their core rather than being a slave to the symptoms they produce.

When some retailers put out new clothes every few weeks, and others copy runway styles much, much faster than ever before, it feels even more like you should find your own style, rather than be a slave to trends and replace your entire wardrobe every season.

I would much rather spend more $ on better quality and have fewer pieces that I love, than to spend less $ on crap garments that drape terrible and are made by slave labor.

A couple of abolitionists (Morgan Freeman and Stellan Skarsgård) believing the slaves are entitled to their freedom team up with Roger S. Baldwin (Matthew McConaughey), an unrefined young attorney approaching the case from a legal rather than moral standpoint.

Rather than going out during intermissions, Taylor and I were content to stand near our seats speaking with our neighboring seatmates including Samuel Jackson, Sony Pictures Classics studio co-president, Michael Barker (whom Cate Blanchett thanked when she won), director Steve McQueen and screenwriter John Ridley, who won for adapting the screenplay for «12 Years a Slave,» producer Megan Ellison who financed «Her», all of the people associated with the movie «Nebraska,» including producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa (whom you once famously mistook for David Lynch), and on and on.

The character's decency seems to have been self - constructed rather than inherited; that makes Marge's final condemnation of Peter Stormare's murderous felon less a moral - of - the - story monologue than a vindication of bourgeois values that modern Hollywood treats as slave chains.

A young Nigerian girl - a child, really - who had been brought illegally into Spain, fatally mutilated herself rather than become a sex slave.

The Hebrews, who were slaves of the Egyptians, began to believe in only one god, rather than many, and no goddesses were followed.

Rather than mom slaving over a hot oven this fall, why not rent a staffed luxury villa and let a gourmet chef cook up Thanksgiving dinner for you?

Telltale seem to be at their best adding their own flair to a license rather than being a slave to it.

The big difference between these two titles and Conan Exiles is, that rather than setting the slaves free, you are the one capturing them.

Painters could now accord a growing middle class its art, rather than just kings, sultans, and Turkish slaves.

Rather than liberating us from our roles as «cogs» in a consumerist machine, the necessity of survival in Ecotopia would likely make us slaves — both materially, and politically.

I bet you're still sore at the loss of slavery which meant that goods became more expensive because they had to pay their workers a living wage rather than keep slaves...

Most African slaves and their descendants were more interesting in fighting against European powers, rather than fighting for them.

something else I missed, obviously), the Inauguration today and hearing Oscar Peterson's Hymn to Freedom (to be played at the Inauguration), it was tempting to add my musings to the millions of words written and spoken about how these are all interconnected, why it took someone with Obama's background rather than the descendant of slaves to get things this far, or about the significance of transitions in democratic... [more]

something else I missed, obviously), the Inauguration today and hearing Oscar Peterson's Hymn to Freedom (to be played at the Inauguration), it was tempting to add my musings to the millions of words written and spoken about how these are all interconnected, why it took someone with Obama's background rather than the descendant of slaves to get things this far, or about the significance of transitions in democratic systems and why sometimes ritual matters (the personifications of the old and new regimes riding in a car together to the Inauguration not being the least important of these).