Sentences with phrase «strange tongues»

And as for the church, the miracle of Pentecost was not so much that people could speak in strange tongues as that diverse people of many races and nations could sit down and eat together (Acts 2:42).

It says, «All night lamps were burning, the lamps of the foreigners who talk strange tongues, who watch over precious cargoes near the docks.»

Since that day, I've seen both extremes of Christianity: The side of the pendulum where a room of people start speaking in strange tongues, to a service where I was looking to my friend for cues on when to sit, stand, speak and accept Holy Communion.

The Gospels and Epistles are full of guideposts in a strange tongue that seem to direct us to a realization of a Christ who could include the Christ beyond Christianity and so the sincere believer in God outside the visible church.

So perhaps a visitor to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED offices these days might well wonder what seasonal madness goes on when two men suddenly thrust fingers repeatedly at each other, meanwhile uttering incantations in a strange tongue.

He speaks in strange tongues but wise men aver that the stars testify to his veracity.»

Ha... Yeah I know... I don't care, I know I wasn't the one with the strange tongue tick, or smelt appalling, so that's fine