Sentences with phrase «today as»

I have a deep appreciation for Reformed Theology, a theological movement that began with Martin Luther and John Calvin, was further developed by such theologians as Barth and Brunner, and was followed by such theologians today as Torrance and Pannenburg.

To be oriented towards the coming kingdom means that we live today as if we were already in the kingdom of God.

Morte D'Urban reads as fresh today as it did when first published.

He has been missing for four days, and Wendy found him perched 30 feet up in the air on a telephone pole, and... well, take all the events I described above and fit them together into some sort of story (any crazy story will do) and you pretty much have what happened today as she tried to rescue Christmas.

This structure itself is simply inconsistent with democratic concepts spreading around the world today as well as enlightened management practices, to say nothing of the role and responsibilities of the lay membership as the «priesthood of all believers.»

Even in what is referred to today as the «old covenant» there was provision only for sins of ignorance.

Your everyday life problems are the same today as they were 150 years ago.

But it is a language that is, like all language, more than language; and it is a language that is as foreign to us today as it would have been to the disciples of Jesus themselves.

After what I wrote yesterday, I think I'll take your post today as confirmation that thinking for myself minus the fear has me on the right track.

In my opinion all religious figures whom we worship today as God / Son of God / Holy messenger / Incarnation etc were just very wise, maverick and rebels of their age who challenged the entrenched corrupt social practices of their time.

The gravitational pull toward living like a warehouse, hoarding and stockpiling my manna is just as strong today as it was all those years ago in the desert.

thinking of your family today as you grieve & celebrate his life.

I know some argue that most or all of the people the New Testament calls demonized were actually suffering from what we recognize today as medical ailments, but then you have to explain why some demonized people had super powers and you have to explain the suicidal pigs.

The text means the same today as 2,000 years ago.

Only the child, the fool, and the holy man live today as if tomorrow will take care of itself.

While Leon Otis, in his report on Stanford University research into TM, warns that «up - tight» people may find that the only thing «liberated» in their meditations is their problems, Herbert Benson has suggested that deep mental relaxation may be as essential to our survival today as were quick wits and reflexes in primitive times.

Today as i was thinking about Jesus sending the demons into the pigs and i thought God is not punishing but judging and he made a decision.This idea came from your other discussion which i believe is what he does he decides to make a judgement call he is sovereign and it shows his tender heart and mercy that not a single person was afflicted.The pigs unlike men have no soul so have no eternal consequence upon them they live and they die.either way they were going to get killed.We can be assured that Gods judgements are right and just the pork was going to the gentile nations who worshipped other Gods and no doubt would have been offered to idols so there is a consequence when we disobey the Laws of God even even when we do nt know or understand his laws.brentnz

Aristotle's memorable sentence1 seems as true today as when it was written.

Confronting sin is as important today as it ever was, and we have seen some terrible consequences of not dealing with it.

This valley is crucial to control of the center of this country, today as in Joshua's time, for it is a wide span of fertile farmland nestled between mountain ranges reaching west to the sea and east to Jerusalem and the cities of Ramallah and Nablus.

Jesus» words to him on that occasion are as challenging today as they were in the first century: «Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born anew, he can not see the kingdom of God.»

Well theory tells us the universe was contracting to a point the mass was so great it exploded, and started to expand into what we know today as the universe.

Perhaps this is why Protestant - Catholic - Jew resonates today as a harbinger of multiculturalism.

He evidently believes that at least a part, if not all, of it was preserved in what is known today as the Kiujiki.

The concept of logos is accepted today as having affinity primarily with the world of the sciences, all of which, it is believed, give us a handle on ultimate reality and the meaning of human existence.

Jesus Christ is just as sufficient today as he as always been without any help from mankind.

Since no evidence exists for any gods all belief in them is unfounded and speaks more to the fear of death which is as alive today as it was at the founding of the belief!

The attempt to have it both ways strikes many people today as inconsistent and possibly unnecessary.

For better and worse, «authentic» and «orthodox» religion is as vital» and problematic» today as ever.

Stillman is alive to the orgiastic possibilities of the disco — in one scene that «your body, my body, everybody» song is playing, and it's clear that not a few of the Club's patrons gay and straight would regard the more intense dance clubs of today as an improvement, but his own Club makes the more social pleasures available alongside the more primal ones.

More so, the cover ups continue today as the catholic church lobby's to stop laws that would expose the abusers.

Interestingly, even secular non-believing historians have debunked the «never existed» myth... Jesus is still under attack today as He was two thousand years ago... Efforts to rid human history of His existence, and reason for coming here have failed, and continue to fail.

God's love, righteousness, grace, mercy, and wrath are the same today as in eternity past, and will be the same in eternity forward.

Whatever exactly happened to Jonah is a delightful mystery, but that Book has many instructive lessons for us today as well.

Yes, maybe it would have been better to leave it alone... But then, if they had, probably the word «ekklesia» would have just as much baggage today as does the word «church.»

That if that's their calling of the Lord than should be on salary but a moderate salary not a salary that makes them rich but of a modest lifestyle sure if they have a family living in a home that meets their needs and these millionaire status like cars where your above the people Jesus lived a very conservative life for a reason so that he was not a distraction too his assignment of preach the Gospel being a good example and staying away from any appearance of filthy lucre as we see displayed today as he he who preaches the Gospel if they have no other charge from the Lord than they should live of the Gospel

God and His plan are the same today as they were in Eden, at the time of Noah, during the reigns of Kings David and Solomon, during the times of Hebrew captivity and exile, and when Jesus walked the earth; only the audiences were different, and each audience has a responsibility to acknowledge what has been revealed in their time.

I am at least as indignant today as ever and no less hesitant to say so.

God's calling to us today to overcome the broken is the same today as it has been.

The Christian indeed has always recognised the immediate primacy of secondary causes in the bringing about of natural phenomena, but as serial causes have been traced further back, and their astonishing inter-dependence demonstrated, the scientist has tended to proclaim either a mathematical universe in which theses secondary causes may be identified with some primary basic formula, or equation, synonymous in definition with a physical ultimate, a universe inwhich God has no place; or else he has preferred to identify intellect with matter itself and has come to accept that idealistic cosmic pantheism which is almost as common a philosophy today as evolutionary materialism.

Since Western social and natural sciences shape the thinking of many Easterners today as well, the problem is not limited to the West.

What Washington understood» something as true today as it is difficult to say out loud» is that attending to the sensibilities of whites is directly in the interest of blacks.

The problem is that much of what is found in the text can not and should not be proclaimed today as the truth by which Christians are to live.

These bloody events merit remembering today as India approaches its seventieth anniversary as the world's most populous democracy.

And that is what I hope to provide for you today as we talk about putting on the third piece of spiritual armor — the sandals of the Gospel.

I agree with this evaluation of her contemporary relevance: «Her ideas and understanding of the human person are as alive and fresh today as they were when she first shared them through her writings.»

Extending an appreciative and cooperative spirit toward those who are usually excluded from the fold is a challenge to Wesley's followers today as it was then.

Jesus is as faithful to His disciples today as he was when he walked the earth in the flesh.

That organized church continues today as Eastern Orthodox.

God uses believers today as his witness to the world.