Sentences with phrase «third servant»

The third servant in the Parable of the Talents was so content, he didn't even put his one talent in the bank to collect «interest» (read «usury»).

In my humble opinion the third servant never had faith.

And don't forget that some who view the third servant as the hero of the parable believe that Matthew and Luke villify the third servant, and thus view Matthew and Luke as unreliable.

We are instructed to be like the first servant, or at the bare minimum, like the second, but we should avoid at all costs being like the lazy, unprofitable third servant.

The third servant's passivity was an affront to wake them up.

The third servant received only one talent.

And so rather than more opportunity to serve, this third servant has received a stinging rebuke.

You know, even with one talent, $ 750,000, gaining an interest of only 1 %, this third servant would have been earning $ 7500 every year!

The third servant attempted to play it safe in a world of power politics and master - slave relationships.

The third servant has safeguarded the «pound» he was given but has not followed orders.

The third servant may have hoped that the nobleman would not come back as king.

The third servant buries his talent out of fear of the master, and is verbally castigated as a result.

Unrecognized by the third servant, the master endeavored to form a relationship across rigid social boundaries.

Not exact matches

As we continue to use Dr. Jim Laub «s servant leadership assessment tool that gauges organizational health, the third thing that great leaders do differently is they develop people.

Mental health should be seen as a central concern for the servant church in the last third of the twentieth century.

Third, the church as servant.

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.

In the story, Jesus says that two of the servants wisely invested the money while the third buried it in the ground.

Behind the fifty third chapter of Isaiah, in which the true Israel is personified and the Suffering Servant's willing, uncomplaining assumption of punishment due to others is dramatically described and exalted, lies the ancient concept of corporate personality.

(Isaiah 40:9; 52:7) Only one direct quotation from the fifty - third chapter is ascribed to Jesus — «I say unto you, that this which is written must be fulfilled in me, And he was reckoned with transgressors» (Luke 22:37; Isaiah 53:12)-- but apparent intimations that Jesus had the Suffering Servant in the center of his thought are elsewhere discoverable.

The first of these texts urges forbearance and gentleness; the second declares the necessity for factions in the Church in order that «those who are genuine among you may be recognized»; and the third cites the parable that the servant should suffer the tares to grow along with the wheat until the end of time.

This metaphor is the opposite of the third reward given to the first two servants.

38And should he come in the second or third watch and find them prepared in this way, blessed are those servants.

(Third interview; age 23 years, civil servant, formula feeding.)

When you see civil servants owning one third of the properties in Asokoro, somebody has to speak up and it requires political will and the president has that political will.

Over the period from 1980 to 2010 numbers of civil servants were cut by over a third — ostensibly to cut costs — but the costs of hiring civil servants did not fall at all in constant - price terms, and overall running costs continued to rise.

The Cabinet Office claims a fifth of civil servants - around 90,000 people - are on strike compared with a third in the last big walkout in 2011.

Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude said fewer than 20 % of civil servants were on strike today compared with a third in the last big walkout in 2011.

A private investor, the government and the ten - strong team of civil servants will each own one - third of the company.

Such cases continue to have a negative effect on public trust in the government and the take - up of private or third sector employment by former ministers and public servants is being looked into by the Commons public administration select committee.

Furthermore, to work as an EU civil servant, you need to speak at least two languages, one of them French, German, or English, and to be ready to learn a third one.

He also sought an order of interim injunction restraining the second and third defendants, whether by themselves, servants, agents, privies or howsoever called from forwarding a fresh name or governorship aspirant to the first defendant, when the plaintiff was still alive and had not withdrawn his candidacy for the governorship election of Bayelsa State, pending the determination of the substantive suit.

The Bayelsa State governor wanted an order of interim injunction restraining the first defendant, whether by itself, servant, agents, privies or howsoever called from accepting from the second and third defendants any fresh submission of names of governorship aspirant from Bayelsa State, to change / substitute the name of the plaintiff which had already been submitted to the first defendant after the primary election of January 2011, pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit.

For the third consecutive time, the meeting between Ondo State government and civil servants ended in deadlock.

The third photo shows Ewan McGregor as Carlo Ventresca, the faithful servant to the church during the papal conclave in Vatican City.

That Mr. Market should be your servant and not your master is the third of four bedrock principles of Ben Graham - style value investing.

The third bedrock principle of Ben Graham - style value investing is that is that you must make Mr. Market your servant rather than your master.

This is a third - person shooter set in 2080, a time that has seen technology reach a point where robots are our abiding servants, friends and soldiers capable of fighting wars.

Conflict of interest includes circumstances in which international civil servants, directly or indirectly, would appear to benefit improperly, or allow a third party to benefit improperly, from their association in the management or the holding of a financial interest in an enterprise that engages in any business or transaction with the organization.

(4) Starlight Shipping Co v Allianz Marine & Ors; Brit UW Ltd & Ors v Starlight & Ors; Brit UW & Ors v Imperial Marine & Ors [2014] EWHC 3068 (Comm); [2015] 2 All E.R. (Comm) 747; [2014] 2 Lloyd's Rep. 579; [2014] 2 C.L.C. 503; [2015] Lloyd's Rep. I.R. 54 — relief granted to both insurers and employees and agents of the insurers who were intended to benefit from the settlement of the insurance claim - relief by way of specific performance and injunctions was tailored to the particular circumstances which included the prohibition on anti-suit injunction to restrain the Greek proceedings — assured ordered to execute documents recording the meaning and effect of the settlement agreement (including settlement of claims against the servants and agents who were third parties to the original settlement) so that the same could be placed before the foreign court to assist in the recognition and enforcement of the English judgment in Greece under the Judgments Regulation.

Acceptance of digitized records tends to be less great in jurisdictions where computers are not a ubiquitous part of life (e.g. Third World and developing country bueaucracies and courts), and tends to be less in bureaucracities than in legal proceedings (because low level bureaucrats are often more rigid than the senior civil servants of the judiciary).

The master is responsible to third parties for the servant's actions in the performance of that work.