Sentences with phrase «speak to us today as»

In truth, if he could speak to us today as clearly as he did to earlier generations, it would not be in the amiable tones of someone familiar to us but in a distant, almost prophetic voice, full of ironic moral reproach.

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• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

«I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation,» spoke Dr. King as he began his address at the Washington Monument.

«Although there may not be immediate benefit for patients as specific plan sponsors will need to purchase the coverage, this move will make covering medical cannabis simpler than today's exception process and speaks volumes to the broader acceptance and legitimacy of medical cannabis,» he said.

Alberta premier Alison Redford is in Washington, DC today to speak about her province's energy resources and environmental policies as the Obama administration continues to review the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.

David spoke with GrowthCap and reflected on his career to date and what lies ahead, «The future of private equity is probably as bright today as ever.

Speaking to investment analysts and reporters during Dish's fourth - quarter earnings call today, Ergen said Dish had been «dragged into» this brand positioning by competitors such as AT&T's DirecTV Now and Sony PlayStation Vue.

- + * As part of the Digital Currency Council's Continuing Education partnership with Virtual Currency Today, the DCC's Vice President, Sarah Martin, had the opportunity to interview the thought leaders that will be speaking at the Virtual Currency Today Summit on April 29, 2015.

As the world edges closer to the next crisis, today the man who has become legendary for his predictions on QE and historic moves in currencies, spoke with King World News regarding the terrifying truth about the coming global wipeout.

A lot of that seems to have coincided with Venezuelans in Venezuela and also Chinese in China looking to get money out of their countries — you know capital outflows and then from there, it seemed to have critical mass taking off to where it is today slightly over $ 10000 as we speak.

He frequently speaks at conferences and events all over the world and contributes to media publications such as Forbes, the WSJ, USA Today, INC Magazine, CNN, and many others.

I'm speaking about my own faith only: To become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian) goes deeper than just believing.You have to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family sayTo become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian) goes deeper than just believing.You have to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family sayto consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family says.

We have to admit that more than one of today's conservatives who worry about national defense have spoken well of TR and even Woodrow Wilson, as contrasts to BO.

Today, you can feel free to speak of the equality of blacks, but even not so long as a century ago you'd have been kicked out of many churches for even daring to say something like that, and there are most likely still churches that would kick you out.

Today, with much of the discourse on drug addiction controlled by medical bureaucrats, it is common to speak of addiction as an «equal - opportunity disease» that can «strike anyone.»

Christianity itself has become a principality and holds thousands captive, Before anyone comments on me calling todays Christianity a principality, (a demonic stronghold) let me just make a request that those who do answer are those who live as the followers of the way did in biblical times, that is, meeting every day, considering nothing they owned as their own, laying their lives down for the gospel (and not getting paid to do so) and having signs and wonders accompany them when they speak of the Lord.

Of course, my post in some ways claims to speak as I know what I am talking about regarding how God does or doesn't speak today.

Dewey is claimed as intellectual godfather, so to speak, by Richard Rorty, a person of considerable influence in today's academy.

He pointed out that «it isn't always easy today to speak about fatherhood and, not having adequate role models, it even becomes problematic to imagine God as a father.»

But as important as it is to keep the original culture and audience of the epistles in mind, these passages can still speak to us today in powerful, life - changing ways.

However, my Catholic friends would be quick to point out that the Bible as we know it today would not even exist were it not for the Church, so practically speaking, tradition has the final word in interpretation and application.

I won't say much about that today, except to mention that it's worth keeping in mind that these words were spoken in an intimate setting among Jesus» closest disciples, so we should be careful of interpreting them as applicable only to those who believe differently than we do.

Today's definition of tolerance is NOT the same thing as true, agape love; which is not afraid to speak the truth with grace.

And we need to speak about the poverty of what today's culture sells as being rich with meaning and importance.

Christians today should be speaking to these practical issues as examples from Scripture.

This alone merits attention — as there is much talk about the relative dearth of Catholic authors today — but Trower's life and work offer something more, as they speak to questions that are currently circulating within the Church.

Since no evidence exists for any gods all belief in them is unfounded and speaks more to the fear of death which is as alive today as it was at the founding of the belief!

But that we can today speak of «Christian virtues» is due to the fact that one who reads the Gospels seriously is left in no doubt as to the general structure of what a life lived in obedient love would embody.

But the real question to explore today is whether we can equally speak of Christ and koinonia in Christ as transcending all religions and able to take root and form within each religion and to undertake the mission of redeeming it of its idolatries and saving its spiritual treasures and values as vehicles of the gospel and the worship of God through Jesus Christ.

And they did to them the same as the world does to us, who speak His Word today!

Today's Christian finds it a bitter pill to swallow to be told that he must learn a lesson from the Communist and his secular hope for society, but long ago a prophet of Israel ventured to speak of the arch-enemy, Assyria, as an instrument in the hand of God, and another dared to name a foreign emperor as the very Messiah sent by YHWH.

For this and other reasons the best Biblical preaching going on in the churches today undertakes to interpret the Word of God as a word spoken to Israel and the Church.

cut a cultural swath that they could not aspire to today, and The Christian Century could speak for the culture as it would be embarrassed to try to do now.

When the day before yesterday the Beatles sang their lyric, «You're nobody till somebody loves you», they were speaking to something which is felt most profoundly by men and women today as everyday.

Father, I thank you for bringing me to speak to these men and women today, and I pray that as I speak to them, many of them would be saved this hour, and I pray also, that you would save me this hour as well.

But all of these call themselves Mahayanist, as even today we speak of Protestantism in general, referring to the sum of those empirical phenomena that call themselves by this name.

In American culture today, we speak of the dichotomy between same - sex relations and opposite - sex relations, as opposed to sex ordered for the purpose of procreation and sex not ordered for the purpose of procreation.

Today, the question is more likely to arise from the wetlands of psychobabble; thus one Midwestern diocesan chancellor recently spoke about a diocesan «needs assessment» that «can give ownership to the people,» presumably of their lives as Catholics.

While Paul's thought is by no means always clear, and perhaps from letter to letter not always exactly the same, it is nevertheless certain that his concept of resurrection can be clearly distinguished from that of the traditional «bodily resurrection».27 Paul does not speak in terms of the «same body» but rather in terms of a new body, whether it be a «spiritual body», 28 «the likeness of the heavenly man», 29 «a house not made by human hands, eternal and in heaven», 30 or, a «new body put on» over the old.31 In using various figures of speech to distinguish between the present body of flesh and blood and the future resurrection body, he seems to be thinking of both bodies as the externals which clothe the spirit and without which we should «find ourselves naked».32 But he freely confesses that the «earthly frame that houses us today ’33 may, like the seed, and man of dust, be destroyed, but the «heavenly habitation», which the believer longs to put on, is already waiting in the heavenly realm, for it is eternal by nature.

What spoke to me through this story, is how much this pastor knew the people in his church (you and I have the same definition of church, however I'm using the word here as it applies to this group of people I feel the problem in many churches today (and why dialogue during sermons wouldn't go over well) is that the pastors do not take the time to invest in the people they are trying to teach.

Regarding Scripture, I think what is vital for us today, as in all prior ages of God's saints — is the need to recognize these truths as «spirit and life» to us — to understand that God has indeed seen fit to speak through «common» things — written scripture, the communion, the «natural» majesty of creation and, ultimately, in the person of His Son — to reveal to us His character and purpose.

Victor Turner speaks of ritual as a commentator on society; today television, to some extent, articulates our culture.

about the eternal life in God; nor does anything point to moral improvement and perfection as an indispensable condition for the achievement of this goal... It is only just to say that every man has an inherent right to favorable conditions for him to enjoy all - round development in his striving for a full - blooded life... However one can not agree with the opinion that where there are no conditions of life worthy of man one can not even speak of salvation today.

Old - fashioned laissez - faire in its pure form has fewer proponents today, but it is still conventional, among experts as well as in common discourse, to speak of «the economy» as an entity as though it were quite separate from government and society.

Today, churches continue to serve as grounds for biblically based activism and advocacy, living up to the prophetic call for speaking up for the rights of the oppressed.

One must «speak of liberty, as the youth of today has placed it in his culture, but liberty must always be in relation to truth, as it is truth that produces liberty... [and] one can not speak of God to young people without knowing the culture of today's young people, which is scientific.

Speaking to Premier as the other party leaders prepared for Wednesday night's TV debate ahead of next week's vote, Theresa May once again outlined the role her Christian faith plays in her life, saying it is the same today as it was growing up in the vicarage where her father served.

This alone merits attention — as there is much talk about the relative dearth of Catholic authors today — but Trower's life and work offer something more, as they speak to questions that are being asked within the Church today.

Such leaders prefer to speak of the present as the post-Constantinian age rather than a post-Christian one, and some claim that Christianity is stronger than ever today.

Today as never before the Church is equipped to address same - sex issues in the first person, to speak of same - sex attraction in terms of «I» rather than «you.»