Sentences with phrase «upper room»

John tells us that Jesus, now risen from the dead and very much alive, comes to that locked upper room where the Eleven have been hiding.

for example, it is probably the primary theme of John 14 - 17 (Jesus» upper room discourse, the last thing he teaches before he goes to die).

... also, do you have lifts to upper rooms as my friend has limited ability climbing stairs and I'm not so fit either

Speak to her in the first upper room, and she will ask Link for help.

He would then show them «a large upper room furnished and ready.»

In other words, the new converts could expect the same empowerment by the Holy Spirit that they had witnessed in the words and deeds of the little company in the to upper room who had known and loved the Lord when he sojourned with them on earth.

Come celebrate it at Eagan Hills Church, 2 pm Sunday April 19 in the 3rd floor upper room.

Both lower and upper rooms come with terracotta - tiled balconies and pot plants are liberally strewn throughout the cute yard area.

In Bangor Maine, users will be moved out of the main library room into three small upper rooms, as the librarians pack up 750 boxes of the collection.

I tend to reject the gospel according to John, especially the quotes of Jesus during the last supper / in the upper room.

Probably, I should begin on the night of that last supper we had with Jesus in the upper room.

Instead of telling the world about it, they were to go back» down the mountain to the upper room and wait.

After supper, we left the upper room, and headed out to the Mount of Olives.

Yet, in the fourth Gospel, we are told that when Jesus joined the disciples in the upper room after the resurrection «he breathed on them and said to them, «Receive the Holy Spirit»» (John 20:22), establishing a direct (and almost too obvious) connection between him and the amazing Power of the early church.

Jesus preached to a lot of people, still after His resurrection only 120 persons gathered to pray in the upper room.

This helped keep the animals safe at night from wandering off, getting eaten by predators, or from getting stolen, and also helped keep the family in the upper room above (If memory serves me right, Kenneth Bailey writes about this in Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels).

The fact that the first person Jesus appears to after His resurrection is Mary Magdalene is kind of funny in contrast to the men cowering in the upper room.

Still he takes his stand as a skeptic, making Jesus» next gesture seem remarkably generous: Jesus comes back to that upper room the next week, when Thomas is there.

Yet Jesus» most extended recorded prayers are from the intimate companionship of the upper room.

People who share the same commitments often share the same meals, and the breaking of bread together is a liturgical action, both expressing corporateness and re-creating it, whether the occasion be a peace march, a family meal, or a eucharist in an upper room or in a cathedral.

We belonged to a fledgling conversation group that met on Saturday mornings over cups of coffee in the upper room of a small café.

Canon Ernest W. Southcott, founder of the «home church» movement in England, writes in The Parish Comes Alive: «We need fellowship — the fellowship of the Holy Spirit — in «upper rooms» where two or three are gathered together in His name, so that He can be in the midst of us.»

This section, apparently concluding with the dismissal of the disciples from the upper room (14:31) is sometimes called the first discourse.

About the traditional passover hymn (part of Psalms 115 - 118), the group leaves the upper room and goes out to the evening Jesus has been reflecting on the effect his death will have on disciples, and he tells them they will all flee away.

We, like the disciples in the upper room, need something more than mere words about God and Christ.

Chapter 6 itself dealt with Jesus as living bread; here we come (in the upper room, notice) to the second half of the Lord's Supper symbolism: Jesus as the true vine.

When the Christian church celebrates the central act of its worship — whether it calls it Mass, Eucharist, Holy Communion, or Lord's Supper — it points back not only to these events in the upper room, but to the whole drama of God's redemptive action that Jesus is symbolizing in his words and gestures.

It is striking that Mary is in the upper room at Pentecost — the only woman present there who is named — to receive the outpouring of God's Spirit at the birth of the church (Acts 1:14).

It takes place in the upper room of a house in Jerusalem where Jesus and His disciples shared their last supper together, which was a Passover meal.

Maybe this is why Thomas wasn't in the upper room with the rest of the disciples when Jesus appeared to them three days later.

Jesus repeats all of this in His upper room discourse, at which point Philip says, «Lord, show us the Father, and it will be sufficient.»

Over those weeks we took most of the key stories of Jesus» encounters — the road to Emmaus, appearing in the upper room, and the breakfast by the sea.

Just because the gospel writers had the order of a few things different (for example, when the disciples recieved the holy spirit... in the upper room..

The final event revealing Philip's character is in the upper room during the Last Supper.

Eight days later, Thomas was with them in the upper room, and Jesus appeared once more.

And his gospel is the only one which goes into great detail about what Jesus told His disciples during the last supper in the upper room.

In context, only genuine believers are left in the upper room.

Nor, did they believe these women when Jesus, having choosen them as the first witnesses of the resurrection, told them to proclaim the Good News to his frightened - male followers locked behind a door in the upper room.

I would work to avoid trivializing the wind and the fire in that upper room by bringing these primal elements through my hearers» lives as the upheavals in marriage, family, and careers that jar us into new possibilities for wholeness.

When Paul wrote that wonderful sentence he probably was sitting in an upper room in Athens.

The devout Jews thronging the streets of Jerusalem at Shabuot, or the Feast of Weeks, in celebration of the day the Ten Commandments were revealed to Moses, were in one sense not too different from Jesus» followers in the upper room.

(31) In this fact I had a crucial point of identification between the power brokers in the pews in River Oaks and the disciples who waited in the upper room for heaven to break loose.

I would plan to spend little time, however, attempting to argue them into a sense of connection with that upper room in Jerusalem.

Wind and fire sweep through this upper room of our habitual spirituality to upset the self - protective scene we have built around ourselves.

I would help the people of the Community Church see themselves in the capable, first - century entrepreneurs who sat in the upper room praying for new life.