Sentences with phrase «servant of»

«Demon Deluded Servant of Satan!»

His self - image of a servant of the gospel has been slowly clarified, carefully matured, informed, and sensitized during years of preparation.

The focus on ministry as spiritual direction requires the pastor to become the servant of all, the person who enables the ministry of every other member of the congregation.

Of the pope, Frieling said, «My dream is of a servant of unity who, perhaps as president of a council, recognizes a reconciled diversity of the churches, who promotes dialogue and reconciliation rather than giving audiences and reaching final decisions.

What bothers me is that he's gotten rich off this church, and to me being a humble servant of God and being rich are mutually exclusive.

Paul, as a servant of God, was sent by God to preach to the Gentiles in Antioch.

It was common practice in Jesus» time for a servant of the host to wash the feet of the guests as they arrived at the master's house.

The Book of Joshua makes it clear that the Israelites get to the murderous work of genocide and become quite efficient at it: And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded.

He does not understand himself as a maverick but as a faithful servant of the Church attending to its task of thinking.

If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

«Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion... Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings... If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.»

The quotation is from the description of the suffering servant of the Lord in the fifty - third chapter of Isaiah (v 4), where more than anywhere else in the Old Testament the early church saw a portrait of Jesus.

It has often been pointed out that this description is partly modelled on Isaiah liii, which describes the sufferings of the Servant of the Lord; but I venture to think that the wrong inference has often been drawn from this fact.

Whatever the prophet meant by his description of the suffering servant of the Lord, what seemed obvious to Jesus» disciples may very well have been equally so for him.

Technological reason serves us best when it becomes the servant of creative thinking and is directed toward life - fulfilling goals.

The disciples were sent out in pairs: the servant of the Kingdom can not work in isolation.

That is what Jesus did, it's really simple, there is no pro-gun Christian as they are not Christian, just another servant of the devil and on a highway to hell.

Nebuchadnezzar, the instrument of Yahweh's antagonistic warfare, the punisher of Judah's sins, had been called the servant of the LORD (Jer.

«4 The «reverse fighter» is the servant of the LORD.

It is generally agreed among biblical scholars that in these servant passages, the prophet was not referring to a particular individual but was calling his people to become the suffering servant of all mankind.

We have seen hints that during his ministry Jesus identified with the Servant of the Lord in Isaiah 40 - 55.

Given that the Bible describes a god character that does, in fact, order the murder of children, on what basis could you possibly determine whether this man is a good and genuine servant of that god, or just a murderer?

«There in the land of Moab Moses the servant of the Loan died... He was buried in a valley in Moab... but to this day no one knows his burial - place.»

He loves both the servant of God and the man who denies God, both Alyosha and Ivan....

«And, hence, he will not be free to do right, until, being freed from sin, he shall begin to be the servant of righteousness.

«He who is the servant of sin is free to sin,» he said.

The early Christians evidently believed that there were Scripture passages, which, when rightly interpreted, made it clear why a servant of God, of the caliber they had recognized in Jesus of Nazareth, should have ended his life in a criminal's death.

In this faith he can work with courage and hope as the servant of God for the conquest of evil.

The «biography» of Job is like the «biography» of the Servant of Second Isaiah: both are created and conditioned out of Israel's anguished existence through destruction and exile.

Nonetheless, the king was only the servant of the Lord appointed to shepherd his people Israel.

Modern economics is thc science of self - interest, of how to best accommodate individual behavior by means of markets and the commodification of human relations... In this economic world view, the traditional human faculty of reason gets short - changed and degraded to act as the servant of sensory desires.

The interests of scientists and the theoretical and technological consequences of scientific research have been such that, on the whole, science has become a major contributor to and servant of the traditional conception of power.

He was a good and faithful servant of the Church.

If Christians spoke with conviction they would at least get greater respect — witness the Servant of God, John Paul II..

But God also works persuasively; and His supreme resource is not coercive force, but the compelling power of His revelation in the Suffering Servant of all.

Prometheus» challenging answer to Hermes, the servant of gods, is applied to the actual political situation at the time of writing the dissertation, i.e., March 1841.

Above all, Francis Bourne always sought to be a loyal servant of Christ and his Church.

Adapt yourself to everyone and don't try to adapt others to yourself; for God has created us all different, and you are the servant of all, like Our Lord Jesus Christ».

It may be that during Jesus» ministry his disciples did not fully or consciously think of him as divine, as Son or Servant of God, as Son of Man, or as Messiah: it may also be that Jesus did not explicitly see himself in any of these terms.

Devotion to Mary may well land its practitioners in idolatry, leading them to worship one who is not God, and who called herself merely a humble «servant of the Lord» (Luke 1:38).

Contrary to the impression given by the CTS pamphlet (and it's unusual for a publication from that organisation to be misleading in this way), the servant of God Pope John Paul II was clearly, as ever, combining orthodoxy with sensitive insight.

To the Corinthian Christ - followers Paul showed himself to be a servant of God: in troubles, hardships and distresses; in beatings, imprisonment and riots.

Better to be the servant of this rock Than to be faithful boy to Father Zeus.5

Once intransigent on God's behalf, Paul knows himself to be a servant of Jesus Christ and writes of the obedience of faith.

He calls them together and tells them: «Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all» (v35).

If however we conclude that Jesus saw his mission adumbrated in the ideal figure of the Servant of the Lord, we encounter a certain difficulty.

Such language is employed in the prophetic description of the Servant of the Lord who died for others; and similarly the Jewish martyrs who suffered in the time of the Maccabees were said to have offered themselves as a sacrifice for the nation.

The fusion of the two ideal figures of Messiah and Servant of the Lord in the historical person of Jesus is dramatically represented in the scene which in all gospels prefaces the story of his public career.

He is not self assertive but rather the humble servant of the composer and the score.»

Jehu does not merely want to be a loyal servant of God.