According to tradition, your words will have the power to penetrate deeply; you will learn to talk inspiringly and your words will always represent
the truth of a given situation; you will always know the consequence of any sequence of actions that you start.
The surveillance camera, a means of maintaining the immediacy of performance in public space and a metaphor for the frames of reference we use to determine
the truth of a given situation, has been a key element in Beirne's work since the early»70s and informs this new project for P.S. 1.
Good advice, but, be very careful that you do not try to be a stereotypical party politician, employing «spin doctor» methods of twisting and misrepresenting the actual
truth of any given situation.
Not exact matches
Wise application
of the Word
of God to our life
situations, our identity and our purpose was the powerhouse that
gave 19th Century African - American theologians the foundational
truths upon which historic and modern «blackness» was built — theologians like Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, Rev. Alexander Crummell, and Rev. Henry McNeal Turner to name a few.
Jeremy thanks for your comments alot
of this i never really thought about before until you provoked me to seek the
truth in the word it is what we all should be doing finding the
truth for ourselves God wants to reveal mysterys if we are open to hear.If we have been christians awhile we just take the word
of whoevers preaching or whichever clip we see on god tube its knowledge but not revelation.Because the story sounds plausible we tag that on to our belief for example for many years i believed that the rich young rulers problem was money so the way to deal with that problem is to
give it away and be a follower
of Jesus sounds plausible.Till you realise every believers
situation is different so the message has to be universal.So the reason its not about money because it excludes those that do nt have it and does nt make room for those that do have it but do nt worship it.The rich young ruler was not a bad person he lived by a good moral code but he made money his idol he put that before God.The word says we shall not have any idols thats a sin and a wicked one.In fact there wasnt any room in his heart for Jesus that is a tragedy.So when we see the message is about Idolatry we all have areas that we chose not to submit to God thats universal everyone
of us whether we are rich or poor.I believe we are unaware that we have these idols what are some
of them that was revealed to me our partners our children our work our church our family i can sense some
of you are getting fidgetty.
I have also tried to
give more attention in several essays and one book (Plurality and Ambiguity) to the kind
of public criteria necessary to adjudicate the inevitable clashes between the claims to meaning and
truth in both
situation and tradition.
Such efforts
give the lie to what is accurately described as the racist slander that black Americans are incorrigibly incapable
of facing the
truth about their
situation, are perpetually parasitic on the larger society, and have no other strategy than to exploit white guilt in order to continue the free ride that blacks are getting on the wagon that others pull (to use Senator Phil Gramm's ugly image).
While such culture may
give elevated and cultured expression to theological
truth, it does not adequately express or touch the lived
situation of the majority
of people.
The problem is that while such culture may
give elevated and cultured expression to theological
truth, «elite» culture does not adequately express or touch the lived
situation of the majority
of people.
Harriet Martineau was a convinced Anglican who, coming to the United States in 1834 for a two - year period, compared the religious
situation in America with what she perceived to be the «established» position
of the church back home in England: «It appears to me that the one thing in which the clergy
of every kind are fatally deficient is faith: that faith which would lead them, first, to appropriate all
truth, fearlessly and unconditionally; and then to
give it as freely as they have received it....
As the Pope says, «
given such a grave
situation, we need now more than ever to have the courage to look the
truth in the eye and to call things by their proper names, without yielding to convenient compromises or to the temptation
of self - deception.»
Tommy God has already forgiven you for your sin the moment you asked Jesus into your life and confessed him as Lord.From that point he paid for your sin in full past present future.It is not sin that stops us from being with the Lord so you are saved.The problem you are experiencing is the battle for your life in the here and now satan is out to destroy you and he knows our weaknesses.If you are honest there were already issues in your life that you struggled with and never got the victory over.So where do you go from here as i found myself in the same
situation i was a christian but walking according to the flesh.God does nt change his mind he always loves us but because
of our choices we distance ourselves from God.The issue is that we like sin thats our wicked hearts and to be fair we cant change our nature only Christ can do that our old nature must be crucified with Christ.The stumbling block is our pride we have to admit that we cant do it For me that was terribly difficult i was so independent thinking i could do anything but the
truth was a made a real mess
of things.I sense you are at a crossroads and are feeling desperate and confused.So as a brother in the Lord you need to confess your sin to God and tell him that you are weak -LCB- we all are -RCB- and that you cant do it in your strength -LCB- None
of us can -RCB- but ask him to send the holy spirit to help you deal with the temptations and the sin that you struggle with and he will help you to change your life he will empower you as he did me.Rather than look at who you are look to Christ and walk in him and he will make you a new man and sin will not have dominion over you.Jesus came to set us free from bondage.Having once been a slave to sin i know what it is like to have been set free by the power
of God and that is what Christ is offering you today.All it takes is a desire to change or repent and admit we cant do it and trust him to
give you the strength to walk in him regards brentnz
«How shall I know in a
given case what I ought to do,» he can always turn to the Church which claims to possess the infallible
truth of God and which therefore claims to speak with final authority on every moral
situation.
Nevertheless, I believe that Jesus was perfectly right in insisting that compared with God we are dependent, incomplete and liable to all the mistakes
of childhood; that is one
of the
given facts
of the human
situation, and the wise man recognizes its
truth.
Asked to comment on the meeting this weekend
of South East Governors and Igbo Leaders, Uko said the current developments are beyond political interest and considerations
of any individual or office holder, maintaining that only the
truth can save the
situation and the
truth is that Nigeria must be urgently restructured in order to
give all sections a sense
of belonging thereby enthroning true federalism without delay, any other solution will not work.
In
truth this is a similar
situation faced by Android OEMs as well,
given that the flagships
of today are not so different from those released last year.