Sentences with phrase «threatened by»

As Christians, we need not be threatened by alterations to the wording of a political platform because we don't measure Kingdom growth by where we find God's name, but by where we find God's presence.

Yet in our time there is growing concern that our lives may be increasingly threatened by the role of technology (tools, machines, gadgets) and technique (ideas and skills which enable men to control and manipulate both things and people).

Mr. Ettinger simply asks why such a possibility can not be considered as an extension of all previous efforts to save and extend life when threatened by disease.

With their insistence on a pure and spotless clergy, the Donatists have been refuted; there must be room for those who seek repetitive repentance and forgiveness, especially when threatened by torture and death.

It was in the period of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, when England was threatened by the conflagration on the Continent, that such organizations as the London Missionary Society, the Church Missionary Society, and the British and Foreign Bible Society came into being.

Those of us who stay are often so hurt by their leaving, or so threatened by what we think it says about those who stay, that we can't hear what they are telling us.

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

Apart from the charismatic movement, our communities are scarcely threatened by an inundation of power, enthusiasm, or ecstasy.

It was threatened by internal decay and by the still aggressive Ottoman Turks, loyal Moslems, who were more powerful than any single European state and against whom, in spite of the frantic efforts of the Popes, discordant Western Europe would not unite.

The truth is that science has given us the answers to many of the previous needs for a god, and now that the «church» is threatened by rationality of thought and reason of science, they are taking a harder stand against atheism.

Some of us embrace diversity and others feel threatened by it.

Are you threatened by what was said?

In January 1982, Buzz reported that Britain's very survival was being threatened by racial hatred.

The nation is threatened by «moral zealots» who want to dictate all manner of life choices according to their strict neo-Puritan prejudices.

Tragically, the only people in John 10 - 11 who want to kill are the religious people who feel threatened by what Jesus is teaching about God: that God is not a God of death and war, but is a God of life and peace.

Maybe you are only alive when your ego is so threatened by the immense evil of the Destroyer, and you fight to get back up for air, for light, for animal normalcy now grasped as ecstasy ignored.

Such signs are an embodiment of the promise — fragmentary and constantly threatened by the sinful impulses of humanity, but nevertheless the beginning of the dawn of our redemption.

A bishop from Nigeria asked about the proper role of a parish priest when his flock is threatened by gangs of well - armed terrorists who have killed their friends and relatives.

Missions helped to preserve languages that were threatened by a rising linguafranca, extended the influence of the vernacular through careful methodical and systematic investigations in the field, and helped to establish connections within the wider family of languages.

If you feel your livelihood is threatened by a billboard stating the obvious (there is no God), chances are you are peddling a load of garbage...

As a result, the Church is threatened by the revival of denomination - alism, which not only adds to the confusion of many uneducated Christians but also causes division among educated Christians.

He isn't threatened by my intelligence or emasculated by my drive to succeed.

The first Joshua was threatened by those who were different and killed them where they ate and drank; the second Joshua welcomed those who were different and ate and drank with them.

Most of us are not threatened by the Mormon religion.

The Christ child is threatened by power (see v. 16; Exod.

Millions of Christian lives are threatened by followers of radical religious ideologies.»

But he also must have felt himself and his ministry threatened by God's freedom.

What confuses me is how the so many on this strand feel so threatened by the Mormons who live in your communities.

I am not threatened by you or your values, I just want you to keep them to yourselves.

Several other conditions besides mobility seem also to be required, like the presence of a charismatic leader who defines reality for those whose world is threatened by chaos.

And he has noted what any person of common sense has also noted: «The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life.»

The nation's biggest evangelical group said Monday that religious freedom is threatened by American mayors who say Chick - fil - A is not welcome in their cities because of the restaurant leader's opposition to gay marriage.

They did not know where ECT would lead, but they did know, and gratefully so, that «a conversation has been started and that conversation bears the promise of multiplying the power of gospel proclamation to a world increasingly threatened by a culture of decadence and death.»

The meaning of the life of any individual is chiefly threatened by the phenomenon of death.

This is exactly what we see in Matthew 2 when King Herod feels threatened by the birth of a baby boy in Bethlehem, and then uses the claim that he wants to worship the new - born Messiah as an excuse for trying to kill Jesus.

An impartial reading of the Gospels, apart from the conditioning of an excessively juridical and rationalistic theological tradition, makes it unmistakeably clear that it was not God who demanded the death of Jesus; but the Jewish religious leaders and the imperial Roman government whose hierarchial power was threatened by the Gospel Message Jesus was preaching.

Maybe you should direct you ire at God since it His fault you seem to be so threatened by His creations.

People should respect each others for what they believes in and no one should feel threatened by any religious symbols.

The statistical reality, so far as I can tell, is that Judaism in the contemporary world is far more threatened by a simple lack of interest by Jews in Judaism, and hence an inability to pass on (as a religious faith) beliefs that are not broadly held.

Why should you be bothered by that, if Atheists are all of the goods you said they are, then they shouldn't feel threatened by the supernaturals and spirituals and all.

In a similar way, in this Second Axial Period, the religious cultures arising from the First Axial Period feel threatened by the new secular and humanistic culture.

A cosmic interpretation of revelation is important today not only because of our need to address the question of purpose in the universe, but also because our globe is now threatened by an environmental crisis of unprecedented proportions.

I always ask a pacifist if he or she would be willing to live without a police department or whether if their own loved ones were threatened by say a man with a knife at their loved ones throat and they had a gun would they use it?

What is threatened by these extra-religious elements is the lived concrete — the moment «in its unforeseeableness and... irrecoverableness... its undivertible character of happening but once.»

One sign of a place you might want to consider leaving, is if they are threatened by questions, new ideas or dialogue.

It is stated that this direct relation to God must itself be realized in a way that involves an origin from this earth, being threatened by and vulnerable to the deadly menace of the powers of this world.

Once more, the idea that God is to be modeled exclusively after so - called masculine characteristics is readily seen to be the way in which males who are fearful of, or threatened by, more feminine qualities protect themselves.

I doubt you REALLY feel offended at CNN's timing or threatened by Todd Stiefel.

>> whether if their own loved ones were threatened by >> say a man with a knife at their loved ones throat >> and they had a gun would they use it?

And to justify themselves churches and ministers had before them the example of the Great Physician and Reformer who had compassion on every man in natural need and prophesied to an oppressed, divided nation threatened by disaster.