Sentences with phrase «very midst»

In celebrating Fathers» Day recently, we should be mindful that in our very midst are fathers, mothers and their children who are suffering as a result of the family court being so primeval that although it espouses the view that the «children's interest is paramount», it is behaving the other way when meting out justice.

JR sets his photos outside, in the very midst of traffic along the Hudson.

«My point is to simply say that when you, the preacher or bishop or small group leader, find yourself in that moment in which someone bares their doubtful soul, recognize the sacredness of what's happening in your very midst.

The other answer is that Jesus boldly declares an intimate and unmediated access to the gift of divinely derived empowerment, in the very midst of suffering and oppression.

I've come to believe that in the very midst of the burning dumpster fire of the Not - Yet the practice of cultivating joy and happiness, noticing the good and the beautiful and the true and the pure isn't an act of betrayal of our solidarity but instead a very real act of prophesy and invitation to the Soon - Coming - And - Right - Now - Already of the Kingdom of God.

The kingdom is being built before our very eyes and in our very midst.»

Not content to simply be part of the greatest itinerant ministry team in history and to have the Son of God in their very midst, they grasp for this further accolade.

Saul was perhaps the leading persecutor of the Christians but at the gates of Damascus he was «struck down by a miracle, and converted to the faith he persecuted».1 Above all, Paul's conversion is a demonstration of God's triumphant power: «To show His power, He put forth His hand into the very midst of the persecutors of His Son, and seized upon the most strenuous among them.»

Belief and trust can bring them near and make us live in the very midst of them.

And so one day, to my own surprise most of all, I found myself standing in the very midst of church politics, engaged in collaboration in the deliberations and decisions of the Confessional Church which had been assembling since 1934...

The gospel shows believers how to live before a watching world so that the greatest dreams of humanity come to fruition in our very midst.

The shadow of defeat keeps appearing, as I have suggested, not somewhere at the periphery but in the very midst of our alleged success.

How can we today turn the defeat that hangs over us, the defeat that ripens in the very midst of our «success,» into understanding and action?

Madeleine L'Engle might as well take her place in line: the line up of people who somehow disappoint us terribly with their humanity and complexities, their sins and foibles, habits and hang - ups, imperfections and inconsistencies, even in the very midst of their greatest soul - stirring work.

That concept is not easy to teach or warm one's hands over without considerable effort, but it is not impossible to convey even to young children the sense that the real meaning of Christmas lies precisely in the combination of magical ceremonies and the grown - up message that in the very midst of our human selfishness, the waylaying love of God has broken through to us unconditionally.

Kierkegaard's purpose in these discourses was to make it clear that for him as a writer the religious did not follow the «esthetic» but was present from the very beginning, that he was a writer for whom in the very midst of his «esthetic productivity,» the religious was the telos of his work.

Not exact matches

On a summer night in 2011, with the New York Mets in the midst of yet another season that would end in disappointment, a very tattooed man named Darren Meenan made his way into a field - level Citi Field seat with a sign bearing foot - high letters: «Don't Trade Reyes.»

While young Snapchatters who grew up in the midst of the evolving Web may prefer to Google search, the later - adopting Baby Boomers may very well be using Yahoo search.

And the experience has proved out the initial thesis: We've had an incredible six months and are in the midst of scaling up our business in a very large way.

I know that the election is very close, and that we're in the midst of one of the most partisan eras in American history.

«When you are in the midst of a high - stakes situation, it can be very emotional and flustering, so it will be very difficult to come up with strategies in the moment» explains Kang.

But the focus was very small in the midst of major need in these congregations.

However, it is very clear that the Asian peoples have rich religious and cultural resources that have been nutured in the midst of their long sufferings.

With the death and resurrection of Jesus, a new green shoot of a new Kingdom sprouted up from the midst of the ashes of Satan's kingdom, and has been growing ever since, even to this very day.

of how you saw the face of God in the midst of fear or pain or joy and understood, really understood, Mary, not kneeling chastely beside a clean manger refraining from touching her babe, just moments after birth but instead, sore and exhilarated, weary and pressing a sleepy, wrinkled newborn to her breasts, treasuring every moment in her heart, marvelling not only at his very presence but at her own strength, how surrender and letting go is true work, tucking every sight and smell and smack of his lips into her own marrow.

To me, this is a wake - up call to all of us — be we Emergent or Calvinist or Nones or Post-theist — to be aware of the very real potential for abuse in our midst.

She had attacked the theology of the ministers, and by emphasizing the personal operation of the Holy Spirit in revealing the truth of Scripture, or truth apart from Scripture, she was denying the very foundation of the holy experiment — that of Scripture as interpreted by the ministers in the midst of the congregations.

As I express my gifts in very public settings, I'm putting myself in the midst of this battle on a weekly, if not daily, basis.

Jesus himself was reported to have said that «where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them,» (Matthew 18:20) and very early in the New Testament's narrative we are made aware of a strong, corporate solidarity in the nascent churches.

In the interest of anonymity, I won't get into too many details — but at this very moment, my work has placed me in the midst of a staged, imagined debate between a certain famous atheist and a certain famous theologian (I work in the arts).

The affectivity of the individual complements its emergent subjectivity; and while it seems to indicate primarily the passive aspect of organic existence, it yet provides, in a subtly achieved balance of freedom and necessity, the very means by which the individual forges its solitude in the midst of its community.

I've always felt very unconfortable that so much christians could be paid as musicians and earn their lives with it... while we have so many brothers / sisters who live in the midst of terrible persecutions... and we have just around us thousands of poor

Even in the midst of calamities, such as plagues, it was Christians who went with help whereas the attitude of pagans was very negative.

At Advent, it begins again: the cycle by which God breaks through the clutter of our lives to announce to us that the Presence is very near, irrupting into our midst, hauling us out of our myths, our half - truths and the ways we have settled for what is religious rather than what is holy, alive and real.

The primitive Christian movement in Mesopotamia and Persia found itself in the midst of a number of movements and groups such as the Marcionites, Valentinians, Manicheans, which were very congenial to asceticism.

The Counselor, here called the Spirit of truth, is the very presence of Christ in the midst of his people, bringing to them the riches of God himself and empowering them to claim it and to declare it to all.

The metaphorical response to the saving act of God in history, that subtle and complex instance of attending to ultimacy in our immediacies, to the mystery of the Kingdom in the midst of historical circumstances, is thus seen to be a persisting and unexpendable witness to the very realities that inform and sustain our authentic existence.

The underground church is working very effectively... It [the war] will come down out of the north — that has to be the Soviet Union — upon the midst of the earth — Israel and the Middle East... That's why most of us believe in the imminent return of Jesus Christ.»

In one life, which arose in the midst of that people, God uttered His truth and spirit in such a way that His love, which is His very essence, became known and operative in human history with transforming power.

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

This solidarity gives me hope — and is, I believe, a very important model for the church of prioritizing relationship in the Body of Christ in the midst of diversity over the priority of being right, certain etc..

A future historian may shake his (male or female) head in wonder at how a very thoughtful reporter feels it necessary to insist, in the midst of the shambles, that he is against restoration.

They did not look back to it, as Christians very soon perforce were doing; they stood in the midst of it.

But when I looked at the Gospel for the day (John 20:19 - 31), it became very clear to me that here is a story, a story of Jesus» appearance to the disciples when they were in hiding after the Resurrection... this was a real opportunity to say something about that story and about the faith which is built around people who were fearful, were skeptical, and into the midst of them, somehow, in a way that was ultimately moving, comes the presence of Jesus through locked doors and barriers of skepticism, cynicism, and doubt, all of these things that prevent ourselves from being God's people.

That's not a very hopeful thought, but the good news is that there's hope even in the midst of the worst situations.

This the Church is not very likely to do unless laymen give their witness in the midst of their daily tasks.

I have taught a course on Catholic Social Teaching twice now, but the ideas my students and I discussed have taken on new life in the midst of a community that is embodying these ideas in its very practice.

But, in the midst of a gentle rain, while these thoughts prevailed, I was suddenly sensible of such sweet and beneficent society in Nature, in the very pattering of the drops, and in every sight and sound around my house, an infinite and unaccountable friendliness all at once, like an atmosphere, sustaining me, as made the fancied advantages of human neighborhood insignificant, and I have never thought of them since.

Now the nation, along with the entire industrialized world, is in the midst of profound shifts in the very structure of the work force itself.

Just as theologians have said that the revealed God remains the hidden God, so we can say that the power of the age to come in our midst means that signs of the kingdom, very real signs, are revealed to us while at the same time the kingdom remains hidden and is yet to be revealed in all its glory.