Things not to do if you're a Sunday school teacher, get drunk, get a tattoo, marry
a rock god in Vegas.
It's Tom Cruise as a muscular
rock god in the upcoming ROCK OF AGES, a film based on the Broadway musical of the same...
Tom, surpringly, has the voice and aura becoming of
a rock god in this movie.
Not exact matches
You become a swaggering
rock god, when
in real life you might be a meek bureaucrat.
* * * Built on the
Rock the Church shall stand, though earthly temples be closing silenced are voices of evil men, but
God's voice still is calling... Calling the young and old to rest, calling the souls
in darkness to Himself, calling to life everlasting!
Psalm 18:2 The LORD is my
rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My
God, my strength,
in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
Do the arithmatic, 400 billion stars, probably many with multiple planets,
in our little galaxy, with bilions of galaxies
in our universe and
god picked our little
rock to create man, what a privillege.
The upshot of Vivian's overwrought explication is that «
in the end [the speaker] finds
God's forgiveness hard to believe, so he crawls under a
rock to hide... to disappear.
God can talk through anyone or anything for that matter (remember the donkey who spoke
in the OT and even Jesus said the
rocks would cry out if the children didn't).
Early
in Lent, we hear the Gospel accounts of Jesus fasting for forty days
in the wilderness: the Devil's first temptation to the Incarnate
God was to turn
rock into bread.
well it had been a bad week Monday I got up sinus pressure, went out & tripped on a
rock, then spilled a drink on my dress at lunch, Tuesday got my hand caught
in a machine at work, a pickpocket took my wallet, a neighbor called me an idiot, & more stuff, so yea I yelled at
god I was a bad atheist
It applies not only to the
god of the underworld, but also to the underworld itself, and
in Greek mythology the souls of those who defied the
gods were tortured there, doing things like rolling
rocks uphill forever.
The great trick that humans developed at some point
in the last few hundred thousand years is the ability to circle around a tree,
rock, ancestor, flag, book or
god, and then treat that thing as sacred.
In One Thousand Risks, Johnson shares the story of hanging out at Barista Parlor, one of Nashville's trendiest coffee shops, when he felt a nudge from
God to walk over and pray for an «indie -
rock looking dude.»
I never went on campus anymore, we never went out for beer and appys to talk theology together, we
rocked babies, I found
God in mothering, you collapsed into bed every night like you were home from a war.
But there's much more
in this collection, including a memorable dramatic monologue («The Ghost Seer») taken from his verse play On the
Rocks, some religious verse («A Vigil»), and his special mix of unforced sentiment and unassuming humor» best shown, perhaps,
in «A Dog's Life»: Accept the things you can not change: / The bleating clock, / The nightly go /» dog leash
in tow» / around the block... / Forgive the things you can not have: / the supple bod, / taut undergrads, / a nicer pad, / long chats with
God.
A man at the end of his rope decides to hope against all the odds, to remember the
Rock when he feels himself to have been left
in the dust: «For I shall again praise him, my help and my
God.»
It is a form of meditation to help us think differently about the world, to enable us to work together with
God to save our beleaguered planet, our beautiful, vulnerable earth, our blue and green marble
in a universe of silent
rock and fire.
By exploring the early
Rock scene
in Memphis, the home of the Church of
God in Christ, one can see how people like Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis brought those cultural forms together.
And I have eleventy - billion of these moments a day too, seemingly small, times when my breath catches and I have no camera or pen nearby so I'm going to have to rely on my something
in my soul remembering it forever because it's a step up a mountain, a roll of the
rock of my own stubbornness, and I don't have any
gods at the top, pushing me back to the bottom, laughing at my futile efforts.
How comforting it is to know that the
rock has room for the presence of another human being who can offer
God's hope and care
in the face of despair and confusion.
I am Gay, my
God therefore is also gay, we will put into extinction on earth all females.we are scientist expert
in cloning, we will propagate only our own specie, thereby cleansing the earth of the animals called cow like smelly animals by the late
Rock Hudson
do you have a desire to KNOW, the truth about
God in a world that supresses your soul, like life under a
rock?
Here's the «CliffsNotes» summary: The «Watchers» helped mankind with technology; humans abused it for evil;
God cursed the angels for this and turned them into
rock giants; these fallen angels help Noah build and defend the ark; when they die
in the battle against the bad guys, the mysterious beings go up to heaven.
God replied, «You can not see my face, for no one may see me and live,» but
God placed Moses
in a cleft of the
rock and covered him with his hand and allowed Moses to see only his back (Exod.
Jews pray to
God in the direction of the most holy place
in Judaism, the site of which has been built over and is occupied by the Dome of the
Rock.
Our
God is
in the business of bringing dead things back to life, so if we want
in on
God's business, we better prepare to follow
God to all the
rock - bottom, scorched - earth, dead - on - arrival corners of this world — including those
in our own hearts — because that's where
God works, that's where
God gardens.
Episcopal liturgist and well - known blogger Sarah Dylan Breuer devised the U2charist
in 2004 to pair the Irish
rock band's passion for
God and social justice with the sacrament of Christian worship.
God is the seed that sows itself
in every kind of human soil, along the path, upon
rock, upon thorns, and on good soil.
Put simply, the ideas are: (1) that the world of «
rocks and trees, hills and rivers» — to use a Zen phrase — is immanent within, though not exhausted by, each and every human self, and (2) that this world, and indeed the universe
in its entirety, is also immanent within, though not exhausted by,
God.
Bible — you were born
in the image of
God therefore you have capacity to think, create, reason, feel compassion, sense of morality etc. — vs — evolution where you can attribute all those fine attributes to a
rock (single celled organism) billions of years ago.
-- And now religious folk are stuck between a
rock and a hard place: Either concede that you have been wrong all along (
God did not do it), or insist on your flawed version of the truth, even
in the face of compelling evidence to the contrary.
The instrument of the first murder ever noted
in the Bible was a
rock, and
God punished the weilder of the
rock he did not curse the
rock.
But even this is rooted
in the many Old Testament references to
God as being the
rock of our salvation and evokes memories of the words in that old Gospel hymn: «On Christ the solid Rock I stand, all other ground is shifting sand...&ra
rock of our salvation and evokes memories of the words
in that old Gospel hymn: «On Christ the solid
Rock I stand, all other ground is shifting sand...&ra
Rock I stand, all other ground is shifting sand...»
It's possible that
God could have created the earth
in situ with Lucy, dinosaur fossils and
rocks which date over 4 billion years old.
Gods aren't
in every tree and
rock.
The manna
in the wilderness and the water from the
rock were extraordinary signs that
God is the Giver of all nourishment (Exod.
On
God my salvation and my glory rest; The
rock of my strength, my refuge is
in God.
If one were the type to be depressed at the thought that the sun will run out of energy some day and our planet become an empty chunk of
rock, then I should think one would derive cold comfort
in the thought that even at that time
God will prehend the present as objectified
in his consequent nature!
When
god said that he'd post his latest signs
in the heavens (
in Genesis 1:14), you got ta wonder why just one bible chapter later, he had the ten commandments instead written on a coupla chunks of handy
rock,
in just one language, and they got lost...
He was placed
in a cleft
in the
rock, and the hand of
God covered the eyes of Moses so that he saw only the back of
God.
They have made their faces harder than
rock; they have refused to repent... They have spoken falsely of Yahweh, and have said, «He will do nothing»... 13 Therefore says Yahweh, the
God of hosts: «Because they have spoken this word, behold, I am making my words
in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and the fire shall devour them...» (Jer.
God in His mercy gave the heavens as a clock to sailors he would save.Driven by wind and wave, I steer for Peter's
rock and moor within his nave, seeking the faith to brave my first mate
in a smock and sawbones looking grave.
If
God created the first organism, then how do we know he didn't do the same thing to produce all those animal groups that appear so suddenly
in the Cambrian
rocks?
Can't you see Unknown, sitting and
rocking repet itively, with his fingers
in his ears, chanting, «The burden of proof is on you to show
God doesn't exist», as if that will make it true.
(Sadly, Moses could not enter the promised land, though, because he tapped a
rock to make water come out of it instead of yelling at it because
God is super strict
in his commands and Moses probably got confused due to a previous incident of a similar nature.)
Prometheus stole fire from the
gods and gave it to man: for this he was chained to a
rock in the Caucasus while an eagle ate incessantly at his living liver.
A clergyman holding this belief
in verbal inspiration suggested that «
God put misleading fossils
in the
rocks to test the faith of man.»
How easy it is to believe that
God needs us, that we are justified
in acting like spoiled
rock stars if we believe that our performances advance the cause of Christ.
Maybe the best answer was something like, «
God was right there, drowning
in the waves, being smashed against
rocks and trees, and clinging to rooftops.