Sentences with phrase «what widows and orphans»

Not to mention what widows and orphans fall back to stay out of the poorhouse.

Not exact matches

I am reminded of what Jesus said about the purest form of religion being taking care of the most vulnerable of society with widows and orphans and to keep from being polluted by evil, in this case the love of money over meeting the needs of the poor.

They all shared what they had equally, gave to those who had none, took care of the widows, the orphans and the poor.

Actually, yes you can know that what was done there pleased the Lord because he tells us that the religion that He finds to be pleasing is to take care of widows and orphans.

Maybe that's why he was so concerned about widows and orphans - because he knew what it was like to be one.

The description in James puts it best, and is far from what some online message board posters try to tell me what and why I believe: «Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.»

What those consequences will look like is anyone's guess, but justice cries out from the graves of the innocent killed and those victims, widows and orphans still living with the wounds, scars, and pain of the actions of one man.

Again and again it measures the degree of success by what happens to the marginalized members of society, the widows and orphans and the stranger in the midst.

Neither seems to be fully in line with what James called «true religion,» which is to attend to widows and orphans (i.e., to vulnerable women and children) in their affliction (James 1:27).

It does this first by having the patience amid the injustice and violence of this world to care for the widow, the poor, and the orphan... it is our conviction that unless we take the time for such care neither we nor the world can know what justice looks like.

When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, do not glean what is left; it shall be for the alien, the orphan, and the widow.

When you beat your olive trees, do not strip what is left; it shall be for the alien, the orphan, and the widow.

But even if you take away what Paul has to say and leave me with only what Jesus has to say I would still have to come to the conclusion that as a person of faith I would need to support government programs that help the needy, sick and poor... the orphans and the widows... those who are oppressed and marginalized by the majority and the rich.

My current ministry is taking care of widows and orphans, ministering to those with drug & alcohol problems — in other words doing what the true God would want; not going after the civil rights of millions of Americans — we need to keep church separated from hate — and stop trying to deny civil rights based on perceived religious doctrine.

It is said, for example, that what remains in the fields after the harvest and the gatherings of olives and grapes should not be collected, it is for the alien, the orphan, and the widow (Deut.

I stay within my faith, and the rituals of individual prayer and worship, because of peace, joy, and a sense that what matters to Jesus (and God)-- that is, to help the poor, the widow, the orphan, the hungry, the thirsty, the unclothed, the homeless, the sick and the prisoner.

And that pretty much switched me over to pragmatic theology: what do I do with my own hands for the poor, the widow, the orphan, the hungry, the thirsty, the homeless, the sick, the prisoner?

In the first two chapters of the letter, James points out instances of hypocrisy When we say we have faith but do not care for the widow and orphan, what kind of faith are we confessing?

What is collected is deposited with the president, and he takes care of orphans and widows, and those who are in bonds, and the strangers who are sojourners among [us], and, briefly, he is the protector of all those in need.

Many Christians believe that caring for orphans and widows is primarily a married person's job; however, single Christians can get involved in what God is doing around the globe to meet the needs of the fatherless in many ways.

If you want to not have your pages end two lines early on some pages, then make sure you tell your formatter that you don't want to set widows and orphans at the default setting (Note: I set mine to 1, so this is what you can tell your formatter you want yours to be if your taste matches mine).

Not only is a good proofreader amazingly good at actually seeing what you've actually written (as opposed to what you THINK you've written — missing words that our minds fill in, homonyms, etc.) but they will see where the design has created problems that weren't in the manuscript — technical fine points like rivers, widows and orphans, as well as gross formatting errors — missing paragraphs, improperly formatted pages and the like.