He is given valuable aid, however, by a pair of superhuman twins, Pietro Maximoff / Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor - Johnson, «Godzilla») and Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen, «Martha Marcy May Marlene»), whose
ultimate allegiance is questionable.
If we start preaching the gospel again, we will have to get used to ethnic, theological, and political diversity because we will share our lives with people whose
ultimate allegiance lies with something greater than a political party, greater than a ballot measure, greater even than the highest office in the world.
As such IT requires
our ultimate allegiance.
Since he is not the outcome of a cosmic tug - of - war, he owes
ultimate allegiance only to the Creator.
As Christians, we are reminded today that
our ultimate allegiance belongs not to a political party or even a country, but to the Kingdom of God, where the first is last and the last is first, where the peacemakers and the poor are blessed, where enemies are forgiven and slaves are set free, where our King washes feet, where abundant life grows from a tiny seed into a tree — not by power or might but by the Spirit.
Technology as a total way of life becomes idolatry, that is,
ultimate allegiance to something less than God.
The corporation, the university, the army, the market all make claims to
our ultimate allegiance.
That is to say, authentic religion provides a complete account of reality, it bespeaks
an ultimate allegiance that is not in the service of any other allegiance, and it is the controlling core of one's existence.
What is a man's
ultimate allegiance; on what does he actually rely?
The ultimate allegiance of Christians is to Christ and the Church, which is universal.
If there is a fault to find in his interpretive work, it is, I suspect, in the area of
ultimate allegiance and ultimate truth.
Not exact matches
On the theological level, it was now assumed that despite Christian worship of the Trinity, the
ultimate object of Christian worship and
allegiance is the God who is creator of heaven and earth.
Our
allegiance to God is
ultimate, but to our country it is finite.
Whatever its object,
ultimate concern is a total perspective involving the whole person and requiring his unreserved
allegiance.
Yahweh makes less than
ultimate every other
allegiance we have.
Django's
ultimate goal is to find his wife (Kerry Washington), the pair having been split up and sold off by their cruel former owner, and Schultz, feeling some
allegiance to Django and to the wife's name, Broomhilda — straight out of German legend — agrees to help him.
Kate has only known a world where her church is the
ultimate authority, but after her father's death, she begins to question her
allegiance.
His
ultimate choice will once again call into question the integrity and
allegiance of those he loves most.