Sentences with phrase «under persecution»

People under persecution don't have intramural debates because there isn't time, but because there isn't need.

To its credit, the movie does an excellent job at humanizing Jews under persecution, rather than lumping them together as a persecuted rabble.

This story must certainly have served as a message of hope to the storm - tossed church under persecution in Mark's day.

Their conglomerate tribal origins as slaves under persecution by Pharaoh Rameses II is the setting for the emergence of the Hebrews as a people under the leadership of Moses.

Study history, and you will see that the church always grows under persecution.»

Shamgar, is your claim that, if the church was under greater persecution, we would all agree about these things because the people holding to one side of each of these debates aren't true believers, and so they would leave under persecution?

much of the New Testament includes statements to christians to endure under persecution and statements to comfort those being persecuted.

Act off generosity are not enough to prove a religion is true do you know what persecution even means they are persecuted to stip being generous they are being persecuted cause Satan said no man would be faithful under persecution.

Yet surely the Church's role in any possibly humane Chinese future will be built around its steadfastness under persecution and its forthright defense of the human rights of all (including Uighurs, Tibetans, and Falun Gong devotees), not by reaching agreements with those who may well have harvested organs from Catholic dissidents, pioneering a new form of martyrdom.

Tracing the historical story of underground Christians in Japan in the mid-17th century, Endo offers a stark look at the realities of following Christ under persecution, and the intense psychological struggle of a particular priest to know whether it would be better for him to be martyred for his faith or to recant.

On Sunday, let us remember that true liberation is found in sacrifice, that the Church usually thrives under persecution, and that our extra resources and freedoms only make us more responsible to care for our neighbors.

Even if the blessing does not come in this earth, we know that there are great rewards stored up in heaven for those who stand firm under persecution and worldly trials.

At one time one of the great missionary faiths of the world, it has declined under persecution, or pressure from without, until there remain only a little more than a hundred thousand Zoroastrians in the whole world.

For thirty years or so, the Christians, though not continually under persecution, were made painfully aware that they held a most precarious footing in a hostile society.

Christians under persecution needed to be reminded of their Master and of the sufferings he had undergone.

(1) It is allegorized, which Jesus rarely does with his parables; (2) from verse 17 on, there are clear references to the situation of the church in Mark's day under the persecution of the emperor Nero.

We sympathize, often achingly, with the plight of non-Christians under persecution.

They are those who are humble in spirit; comforted by God in their mourning; unpossessive, yet possessing God's richest gifts; eager and persistent in the quest for righteousness; merciful; pure in heart; peacemakers, as the Sons of God ought to be; faithful to duty even under persecution; able to endure misunderstanding and scorn for the Kingdom's sake.

In James 1, how to live under persecution and trials.

His fears are backed up by recent reports that show just how dramatically Christianity has declined in the country under the persecution of ISIS.

In fact, Christians are under persecution for their believe.

It was only in the period of the Maccabean revolt that any conception of life «beyond death» was envisaged as a corollary of belief in a God who was just and who would recompense his people for the suffering they experienced under persecution and slaughter.

Communism tried to kill it, but when communism crumbled it was found that the «church» that body of believers had grown stronger under persecution.

Decide the fate of three rival hackers under persecution by an oppressive government in this cyberpunk RPG featuring turn - based mech combat and visual novel storytelling, coming soon from Arcade Distillery.

The homosexual lobby has been very effective in aligning itself with minority groups, is prominently represented at the Holocaust memorial service [12] each year and has created an image of itself as a group of people under persecution.

The Jews under persecution or doing the persecuting their entire history beginning with Isaac.

At another church, a prayer of the faithful called for strength for Christian victims to hold up under persecution, without any details.

It enabled him to break with the church of Rome and its external system of salvation, and under persecution to speak these historic words at the Diet of Worms: «Here I stand; I can do no other.»

And if you were to do that with the book of James, you would discover that James tells these Jewish believers how to stand up under persecution.

However, having introduced the existence of hostility toward the gospel, Jesus does elaborate on what can happen to God's people under persecution and sustained opposition.