Sentences with phrase «well as servants»

Not exact matches

From Jesus» life, as well as the rest of the New Testament, I see so many examples of tangible servant leadership that I can't help but take them to heart.

In Robert K. Greenleaf's classic 1970 essay, «The Servant as Leader,» he recorded his personal observations over the course of 38 years (while employed at AT&T) and confidently determined that the best leaders are «servant leaders.Servant as Leader,» he recorded his personal observations over the course of 38 years (while employed at AT&T) and confidently determined that the best leaders are «servant leaders.servant leaders.»

It's not just high - ranking officials who will possess the ability to act in a manner that benefits the president's pocketbook — it's ordinary civil servants as well.

When Canada shut down the program in 2014, it left a fully trained industry adept at selling immigration investment and public servants used to administering immigration investment programs, as well as a pipeline with thousands of clients from around the world who had applied to Canada's program and whose applications had not yet been processed.

The main man in this regard was Mr. Paul Boothe, an unassuming, consummate federal civil servant who proved in the heat of battle that he could negotiate with the best of them. If only all our public officials were as determined and skilful in their efforts to pro-actively win real investment and real opportunities for our industries. The St. Catharines announcement is in large part the fruition of the efforts by Boothe (and all the other stakeholders in last year's rescue, including the provincial government and the CAW) to negotiate a package that was much more than a bailout. Rather, it was a recipe for a reaffirmed Canadian presence by these two lynchpin manufacturers (GM and Chrysler).

I can only hope that HE sees me as a good and faithful servant even with my flawed life.

As a willing Servant of God, a Grandchild of him, a disiciple of him and with the knowing I can trust in the good graciousness of our King himself and in our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ I stand straight and militant with our Family.

But, as Hartshorne comments,» [a] stone is better interpreted as a colony of swirls of atoms (crystals) than are its atoms interpretable as servants or organs of the stone.

Now you have something to explain as well on Judgment Day, when God asks you why did you speak evil about one of his servants?

Obviously, I'm a big advocate for mutual submission in marriage, as that is what I believe those biblical passages ultimately teach and this is what works best in our marriage, but more important than adopting a single household model — either patriarchal or egalitarian — is adopting the posture of Jesus Christ, who emptied himself of power and took the role of servant.

And there are various indications in John 10, as well as in the surrounding context of John 8 — 11 that Jesus identified Himself with the lights of Hanukkah and especially the central light of the Hanukkah Menorah, the Shamash, or «Servant» light.

Most of the good jobs were held by White citizens while the Blacks worked as domestic servants and farm hands.

Yet mindful of Thomas à Kempis's words that it is better to be a devoted servant of God than somebody who can discourse wisely, I was delighted to learn the revealing information that the former parish priest of four US parishes has as heroes inspiring men and women of God: Simone Weil, Edith Stein (St Teresa of the Cross), Dorothy Day, Blessed John XXIII, Blessed John Paul II, Blessed Teresa of Calcutta and St Margaret Mary Alacoque.

Well done faithful servant (is purified as He is pure mistakes and all) and depart from me I never knew you (iniquity worker).

Again and again the faithful servant's life ends, and it seemed, at his death, as if he had accomplished nothing for the Good.

Perhaps, in order to persist in thinking of himself as a good and decent man, an upright king and an honorable servant of God, he told himself that as king he had special privileges regarding affairs of the heart.

Possible that other brothers» and sisters» are following the Lord as well... why is it so difficult to leave judgment of the Lord's servants up to the Lord?

For instance, it speaks of the earth and heaven, Lord - men, Hell and heaven, 3 good deeds and by implication its opposite the bad deeds, righteous soul and by implication the unrighteous soul, at the judgment day4; Light - darkness, believers - unbelievers; 5 God - creation; 6 servant - master; 7 Good - evil.8 There also the repetitive emphasis on the otherness of God as in the notions of «the Lord of the Throne of Glory Supreme», 9 «Lord of the Throne of Honor; «10 emphasis on His power «Lord of Power; «11 His reach «The Lord of the two Easts and Two Wests, «12 and sogood deeds and by implication its opposite the bad deeds, righteous soul and by implication the unrighteous soul, at the judgment day4; Light - darkness, believers - unbelievers; 5 God - creation; 6 servant - master; 7 Good - evil.8 There also the repetitive emphasis on the otherness of God as in the notions of «the Lord of the Throne of Glory Supreme», 9 «Lord of the Throne of Honor; «10 emphasis on His power «Lord of Power; «11 His reach «The Lord of the two Easts and Two Wests, «12 and soGood - evil.8 There also the repetitive emphasis on the otherness of God as in the notions of «the Lord of the Throne of Glory Supreme», 9 «Lord of the Throne of Honor; «10 emphasis on His power «Lord of Power; «11 His reach «The Lord of the two Easts and Two Wests, «12 and so on.

The Bible sees Matthew Snyder as «God's servant» for our good, and his death in that just cause demonstrated his great love for the country he served.

At a time when their colleagues who spoke for the church were conspicuously incapable of giving the faith a good account in the eyes of the learned, the Vanderbilt academics preferred to dissociate themselves from their religious leaders rather than take up their cause as allies and persuade them that sound scholarship was God's good servant too.

The great motive was love of neighbor and this was found to be in a certain tension with the love of God, since the latter prompted a servant of the Lord to shun worldly duties as well as distractions and to give his life to adoration and contemplation in monastic seclusion.

Will we tolerate servant leaders who are image - breakers as well as image - makers, ridding our denominational system of images that are coarsening and corrupting the church's soul?

A growth group for parents should be a place where parents can acquire a balanced sense of the limits of their influence as parents, as well as support for their responsibility of servant ministry at home.

Wee shall finde that the God of IsraelI is among us, when tenn of us shall be able to resist a thousand of our enemies, when hee shall make us a prayse and glory, that men shall say of succeeding plantacions: the lord make it like that of New England: for wee must Consider that wee shall be as a Citty upon a Hill, the eies of all people are uppon us: soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his present help from us, wee shall shame the faces of many of gods worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into Cursses upon us till wee be consumed out of the good land whither wee are goeing: And to shutt upp this discourse with that exhortacion of Moses, that faithfull servant of the Lord in his last farewell to Isreall, Deut.

O when one beholds a man who protests that he has entirely understood how Christ went about in the form of a lowly servant, poor, despised, and, as the Scripture says, spat upon — when I see the same man so careful to betake himself thither where in a worldly sense it is good to be, and accommodate himself there in the utmost security, when I see him apprehensive of every puff of wind from right or left, as though his life depended upon it, and so blissful, so utterly blissful, so awfully glad — yes, to make the thing complete, so awfully glad that he is able to thank God for it — glad that he is held in honor by all men — then I have often said to myself and by myself, «Socrates, Socrates, Socrates, can it be possible that this man has understood what he says he has understood?»

Modern economics is thc science of self - interest, of how to best accommodate individual behavior by means of markets and the commodification of human relations... In this economic world view, the traditional human faculty of reason gets short - changed and degraded to act as the servant of sensory desires.

Since it was a limited - good society, they see the good and faithful servants as being those who exploited the poor for the benefit of the master.

Christological exegesis, when applied to the Old Testament, often takes the form of typological exegesis in which the acts of God in Old Testament history as well as the prophecies of his servants are seen to have their fulfillment in Jesus Christ.

There is only One GOD and there are no other Gods to worship other than GOD... all the rest are his servants... if you worship the One GOD Only doing which ever you know would please him as Good deeds then fear no other... what ever punishment would come as; «It will be for what you knew was wrong but insisted in doing or practicing» then again for which ever «you knew was Right but still you insisted on avoiding or rejecting»...!

As servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute.

Such an understanding is of course the shared legacy of the so - called dialectical theologians of the «20s (one must include not, only Bultmann and Tillich here but the new hermeneutic movement as well), but it was Barth's formulation of it that I found particularly potent, especially his insistence that the theologian is the helpmate of the preacher, both as servant and as critic.

«We are merely servants...» (better translated as «we are useless servants.»)

The basic meaning of the parable of the pounds or talents as a whole is that God's servants are required to make the best use they can of what he gives them.

The story is told in terms of kings, servants and debts large and small, and as such it is an exemplary story, as is that of the Good Samaritan, except that it makes the point in reverse.

Running throughout all these variants is the question of whether Christ's followers as the servants of God have a responsibility for bringing it to pass — «building the kingdom» is the phrase formerly often heard — or whether God in his wisdom and power will usher in the kingdom in his own good time.

But since the State tends of become the Beast that makes war on the saints (Rev. 13), i.e. to become totalitarian, it needs the checks of tradition, law and judiciary as well as opposition and revolution, to keep it a servant of justice.

Well; as my servant John once told me, when I asked hm what was the worst Hell there is, or could ever be: and he smiled and said: «The worst Hell is that of Regret»

The former civil servant also acknowledged the frustration felt among communities following the Grenfell Tower tragedy, as well as the «deprivation and inequality» which divides the capital.

The self - emptying of the servant who lived among the people, sharing in their hopes and sufferings, giving his life on the cross for all humanity - his was Christ's way of proclaiming the Good News, and as disciples we are summoned to follow the same way.

It may well be, therefore, that as Dr. James Moffatt puts it, «The suffering Servant conception was organic to the consciousness of Jesus, and that He often regarded His vocation in the light of this supremely suggestive prophecy.»

Jacob's wealth, to give the most important example, consists in proliferating flocks and herds, male and female servants, as well as women and children.

Well, yes, but that rather misses the whole point at issue, which is that the ban on contraception has created a crisis of conscience among Catholics who on every other point of faith and morality are obedient servants of the Church but who, as I put it, «find themselves unable to conform their beliefs or practices to Humanae Vitae.»

As well the latter as the former seem to have regarded the practice of impeachments as a bridle in the hands of the legislative body upon the executive servants of the governmenAs well the latter as the former seem to have regarded the practice of impeachments as a bridle in the hands of the legislative body upon the executive servants of the governmenas the former seem to have regarded the practice of impeachments as a bridle in the hands of the legislative body upon the executive servants of the governmenas a bridle in the hands of the legislative body upon the executive servants of the government.

Baptism opens up the way of Christian life: it is completed by the sacrament of confirmation, and then throughout the Christian's life he can receive God's forgiveness through the sacrament of reconciliation, and be fed by the Eucharist: «Priests are stewards of the means of salvation, of the sacraments... not to dispense them according to their own will, but as humble servants for the good of the People of God» (Benedict XVI).14

Current discussion as to whether the «servant» was the nation or an individual rests on a misconception; for it has been well said that he was both.

He pairs the restoration of the widow's son with the cure of the centurion's servant (7:1 - 10), an incident recounted in Matthew and John as well.

Thus the Vestries in America soon gained effective control of the spirituals as well as the temporals of the churches, largely through assuming power to hire and set the salary of the clergyman, plus a studied neglect of presenting him to the Governor for permanent induction into the «living» until forced to do so.14 «In 1697 the Arch - bishop of Canterbury expressed surprise that the clergymen might «be removed like domestic servants by a vote of the Vestry,»»15 but obviously neither he nor anyone could do anything about it.

If it is for loyalty's sake then it is well misplaced, as his role is to create the best squad possible to compete on all footballing fronts, and not to be charitable to ageing (yet good servants) to the club.

He's been a loyal servant to the club, joining as an unknown prodigy and turning into one of Europe's best centre backs.

If you do nt make that team you probably better look for a job as a domestic servant.