Sentences with phrase «standing before»

Good and evil are equal options standing before a freely deciding human psyche.

For we must show the possibility of God's involvement in the emergence of other forms of intelligent life before any claim can be entertained concerning their existential standing before God, and this task invites dialogue with scientific accounts of evolutionary processes.

Although we have only a few clues about the nature of the appearance of Jesus to Paul, we must not assume that it was necessarily a vision of the historical Jesus standing before him.

(41)---- And as for him who dreaded standing before his Lord, and restrained his soul from lust, (40) Verily the Garden!

-- But as for him who feared standing before his Lord, and restrained himself from impure evil desires, and lusts.

And when your standing before God is stripped of being interesting or powerful or obvious or better - than, when your place in the Kingdom of God becomes ordinary and pedestrian, that's when you begin to finally receive the love of Christ as the free and wild and generous gift of abundance that it has been all along and then you begin to see that Love showing up in the craziest and most ordinary of places.

We recall standing before a book store window on Maria - Hilfenstrasse in Viennain July 1939, when the Nazi propaganda was in high gear, and seeing the bloodcurdling display of...

Standing before an audience of about a hundred people, I put a large blanket on the ground.

Faith of this sort is not the response of the believer standing before the gracious word of God in Christ, but itself becomes the ground of certainty and the saving force.

In the moments between Joseph standing before Pharaoh as a prisoner, and Joseph being elevated to second in command to the King of Egypt, the dreamer did more than dream: He problem solved.

Constance Padwick in her book Muslim Devotions quotes one of the prayers that a Muslim pilgrim might say standing before the Tomb of the Prophet at Madina: «I bear witness that you are the apostle of God.

[Another early reference in the Talmud speaks of five of Jesus» disciples and recounts their standing before judges who make individual decisions about each one, deciding that they should be executed.

In John 3:11 - 13 we get the second main point of the discourse: that an answer to the question about Jesus will not be given by scanning the heavens, but by attending to the human words and deeds of the one standing before you, the Son of man - that is, this concrete earthly man.

Though a person's past may add a lot to the dynamics of who they become, the most important factor to consider is who is standing before you today.

On the morning of the following day the priest had all the people, old and young, men, women, and children, gathered together, and standing before them he began to tell them about the revelation he had received, dwelling on the great manifestations of regard and the many acts of kindness they had received day after day from their god.

Worldly power is not the criterion of standing before God.

The final picture that the New Testament offers loses the religious self in «a great multitude which no one can number,... standing before the throne and before the Lamb....

God's law brings light to sin and the Holy Spirit shows man the need for Jesus and Jesus covers all sin and brings man once again into right standing before The Holy God.

Rightly understood, and with the reservations of which I have already spoken, the concept of existence in this sense is not open to any objection: it simply means man standing before God in judgment and grace.

Treat everyone as if you were standing before messiah.

I think atheists will find it uncomfortable standing before God at judgment day after having spent their life calling him and his prophets fairy tales.

Still, twelve years later I found myself standing before the altar of St. Peter's Cathedral in Scranton, Pa., saying: «I believe everything that the Catholic Church believes, teaches, and proclaims to be revealed by God.»

There was a frock - coated and stiff - collared minister standing before a group of starched and uncomfortable boys, he asking questions to which they were to give precise answers — such as, «Who made you?

If you notice they are standing before the Throne.

Standing before a large landscape painting of the American West, the Gipper seemed to personify the heroic image of a winner.

And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened.

a great crowd, which no man was able to number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes; and there were palm branches in their hands.

Imagine standing before Christ, and having him point out a hardened pattern of sin in which you walked for many years, but for which you never repented, never shed a tear.

Now I have a question for those who choose to believe that Jesus had a wife: If he had a wife; why was not Jesus» wife standing before him, and / or kneeling in agony at his feet when he was on the cross.

God, when standing before a court of human sinners who have set themselves up to judge and condemn Him, accepts their sentence.

Pastoral listening can not cheaply reduce the pain of standing before God in the remembrance of these losses.

It is before you, that we will gather as a great multitude no one can count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before your throne and before the Lamb with palm branches in our hands.

These people do not realize that One greater than Solomon is standing before them.

But for him who feareth the standing before his Lord there are two gardens.

I had this picture of a question mark standing before a firing squad.

To call for a reform in the worship of God, however, implies that the churches» standing before God is flawed seriously enough to require a turnabout, the biblical word for which is «repentance.»

They had no longer any standing before Him, as of right.

It's going to be quite interesting to see those same fools trembling in fear as they're standing before God on Judgment Day.

(WWM) «We came to share your pain,» Turkish Christians declared in early April, standing before TV cameras at the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan.

How do you find words when you're standing before a 10 - year - old boy under a rusting tin roof in mud hut in Africa, who's holding an empty jerry - can guitar in one hand and mopping up tears with a handkerchief that he pulled from his pocket with his other hand?

Standing before the church community in July 2013, months before he left for Africa, Brantly said he heard the call in the teachers who urged him to memorize Scripture and the neighbors who funded his first mission trip years ago.

We need to see our true standing before God to realize our need for a Savior.

After all, there are only two ways to explain why this man who looks like Jesus is standing before them.

And I'd like to be a fly on the wall when you're standing before him trying to explain why you worshipped the wrong deity your whole life.

standing before the Almighty and answering to Him as to why he killed thousands including women and children in His name.Rot in hell Osama..

Here the natural world has independent standing before its Maker, its own inherent value, and is to be honored «for its own sake.»

As a former Christian, I find the idea of one man standing before a congregation several times a week, explaining his beliefs (understanding of the bible?)

People should concern one's own standing before God, not of Judas.

(Revelation 7:9 - 17) The apostle John also saw «the dead... standing before the throne» of judgment.

It means that we need to work on our standing before God and let him save the world.