Sentences with phrase «times as a follower»

In the New Testamen, Paul refers to himself several times as a follower of the «way», while he never once refers to himself as a Christian and appears to deliberately avoid using the name when asked by a Roman ruler in Acts if he is a Christian.

The transfer window, known to the significant majority as a time where new faces join a new club in quick but shocking succession, but as an Arsenal fan the transfer season is one of the most stressful times as a follower of the sport.

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and his nearly 16,000 followers poured out excellent suggestions for those just finding their feet as first - time leaders.

The New York Times recently reported how many companies, brand ambassadors, celebrities, and even journalists purchased «fake» Twitter followers as a means to inflate their social media numbers.

Even as singer Justin Timberlake completed his 20/20 Experience World Tour in the final weeks of 2014, he still found time to regularly tweet about his tequila brand to his nearly 40 million Twitter followers.

For many years individuals, businesses and brands wasted huge amount of money and time paying for adverts, gain more followers or spent a lot of cash on midle companies such as SEO service providers, leads generators or social media management softwares.

After Apple refused to help the FBI, Trump tweeted to his followers to «Boycott all Apple products until such time as Apple gives cellphone info to authorities regarding radical Islamic terrorist couple from Cal.»

Over time, you'll recruit more and more followers, all of whom can converse with each other as much as they converse with you, and your community will start to take shape.

For instance, one of my followers recently commented that she missed my Periscope live streams so I'm using that as a data to tell me that it may be time to come up with a live stream strategy.

There Matthias reigned for a brief time as absolute dictator, controlling also the sexual pairings of his handful of followers.

also the antichrist put a specific picture for every human god to be easier for him to persuade the followers that he is the same god they were waiting for as he will appear for every one of thos at the same time in different places with the same picture and with the same mirecles they belive in.

It is far past the time that modernists such as yourself exit the doors and go find a good protestant Church to hang out with your girlfriends at, and leave the pious and devout followers of the faith to represent it.

At one time the Catholic natural law philosophy of Thomas Aquinas and his followers dominated European thinking, but its metaphysical foundations were undermined as science replaced Aristotelian teleology and Catholic theology with a materialist worldview that considers only efficient causes.

While the statement made about government welfare during the time of Christ has some merit, I believe that Republicans should take a good look at themselves and ask are they doing anything to stop poverty around the world, as I believe Christ would want his followers to do.

belief follower «As indicated multiple times in the past, God didn't «come» from anything.

The drive toward coherence, I believe, forced him (and later his followers) to reject that notion and to admit that God, as everything else, must be in time, and changeable.

Typically this process leads to a characterization of God as a being so advanced, powerful, immortal, and not subject to the laws of time, matter, and space that his followers can make up any excuse they choose to address questions, since nothing about their god (or gods) can be subjected to any kind of objective verification or scrutiny, just like everything else in the religion.

And I also have a hard time recognizing Calvinists as brothers, because I believe I was spiritually abused both by Calvin's ideas, and by his followers.

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.

But they had all built loyal ranks of followers well beyond their social networks — they were evangelical Christian leaders whose inspirational messages of God's love perform about 30 times as well as Twitter messages from pop culture powerhouses like Lady Gaga.

The death and resurrection of Jesus are not only central to Scripture and the Gospel, but are also central to learning (maybe for the first time) what God is like, and how we are supposed to live our lives as followers of Jesus.

But isn't it time, I say, isn't it time for the everyday followers of Jesus, the ones who are wrestling, the ones who are living it out in our neighbourhoods and communities, isn't it time for us to be heard, too, imperfect as we may be?

At the same time he maintained that he was still a follower of the Prophet of Islam and a non-lawgiving prophet, and since he brought no new law and adhered to the law of Islam as interpreted and codified by the jurists, he claimed to be a good Muslim.

The figure of Beatrice was probably derived indirectly from the life of St. Francis, who was thought to have offered his followers as close an approximation of an experience of the nearness of Jesus as anyone since apostolic times had ever felt.

If Jesus refused to acknowledge and fight for Israel as God's favored nation — even though it was the one nation in history that actually held this status at one time — how much more must his followers refuse to acknowledge and fight for America as God's favored nation?

Phelps is himself the Anti-Christ living among us in our own time, fomenting dissent through the false use of religion, leading his followers to do evil in the name of God, as though Phelps is anointed — he is anointed all right, by the Devil himself, to do evil in a way that only the Devil can do so well.

At some point will you describe for us what a group of gathered Jesus followers looks like (if they have a person who they call «pastor», what that looks like), what they do when they meet, and how they live out their lives as the church the rest of the time.

As the conversation turns to the state of our nation's political discourse, let's remember that as followers of Jesus, we should make this a time of reflection and repentance rather than finger - pointing, for Christ's definition of violent rhetoric holds us to the highest possible standardAs the conversation turns to the state of our nation's political discourse, let's remember that as followers of Jesus, we should make this a time of reflection and repentance rather than finger - pointing, for Christ's definition of violent rhetoric holds us to the highest possible standardas followers of Jesus, we should make this a time of reflection and repentance rather than finger - pointing, for Christ's definition of violent rhetoric holds us to the highest possible standards:

By reshaping the Shema Jesus gave to his followers a creed to recite daily (and lam in the habit of reciting it many times throughout the day — as I rise, walk, work, drive, retire).

From what I've read about those earliest times, it seems more likely that Paul and Peter were at odds, Paul won and (his followers) got to write the history as they saw fit.

The followers of Joey Smith, a man who was married to over 57 women at the same time, some as young as 14 years of age, and some a mother - daughter combo is your Mormon prophet.

The thing of it is, if you really, really investigate what Yeshua said, and not just what's in the latest translation of the white man's western Bible, You'd be forced to conclude that his followers perverted his teachings, and the whole thing was now being run as a confidence scam of the first order, to bilk billions out of the unsuspecting and influence social and political order at the same time.

The real Pope has 1000 times as many followers (1.5 billion vs 15 million), and, unlike you, was voted into his position.

The idea, therefore, of a covenant as the foundation charter (so to speak) of the people of God was very much alive at the time, and there can be no doubt what Jesus had in mind when he invited his followers to drink of the cup of the covenant: he was formally installing them as foundation members of the new people of God.

Jesus followers who are unchurched talk about spiritual matters half as much as most practicing Christians, and four times less than evangelicals.

Bloggers such as Hatmaker and Ann Voskamp — with books popular enough to land on TheNew York Times bestseller lists — have triple as many Facebook followers as the biggest congregations in the biggest denomination in the country.

It can also mean (as it is used at times in the New Testament) anyone who is a faithful follower of God.

We can all agree that he did not live up to the standards of a follower of Jesus, but as you people are so fond of telling us, «we're all sinners, all the time» anyway.

Then around the same time as I wrote that post above, I was talking about Trungpa with a friend, she informed me that he was very abusive, promiscuous, and even violent with his followers.

Its seems to me that one of the most effective ways to live counter-culturally as followers of Jesus Christ is to give freely of our time, money, talents, and resources... with no strings attached and no expectation of return.

In the Qur» an it is made clear that from most ancient times the word Islam has been used by all divine messengers and their followers as the name for their religion.

As a reference point I was a religious studies minor (and would classify myself as a follower of Christ) and have read Atlas Shrugged several times — and yes I do believe there is more similar than differenAs a reference point I was a religious studies minor (and would classify myself as a follower of Christ) and have read Atlas Shrugged several times — and yes I do believe there is more similar than differenas a follower of Christ) and have read Atlas Shrugged several times — and yes I do believe there is more similar than different.

Running throughout all these variants is the question of whether Christ's followers as the servants of God have a responsibility for bringing it to pass — «building the kingdom» is the phrase formerly often heard — or whether God in his wisdom and power will usher in the kingdom in his own good time.

The hardest task, the more courageous task, the task to which Jesus calls all His followers, is to seek alternative methods to dealing with violence that both affirm our inherent dignity as humans, while at the same time, refusing to resort to violence.

At the same time, however, we may be permitted to entertain reservations about some interpretations of revelation, such as that of Karl Barth and his followers, which make revelation so absolutely interruptive and «different» that it casts all of our natural aspirations in a suspicious light.

One who had given himself for their redemption, had been crucified, dead and buried, and had risen again to be with his followers as living Spirit through time and eternity.

15:40 - 41) women are expressly mentioned for the first time in Mark as followers of Jesus; on the other hand, however, their relationship to Jesus is circumscribed with the key word diekonoun («served»; NRSV: «provided for»).

It is part of my philosophy as a follower of Jesus (given Jesus spent time with the Samaritans, who were both hated and feared by the Jews of his time).

In Jesus time when he fled Herod with his parents, the largest group of Jews where he possibly fled to, were located in Alexandria, a place where 300 years earlier Alexander, who conquered as far as India and tried to have his subjects learn about and understand each other... had followers that built the great library of Alexandria, holding much of the knowledge of the ancient world.

The word «eschaton» means «end times» or «last things,» but it has never simply involved concern for a far - off future, because, as Jesus and his followers realized, what we believe about the future dramatically affects how we live in the present.