Sentences with phrase «who sat»

Where it comes from: Remember Little Miss Muffet who sat on her tuffet?

Who sat there and said, «why yes, I think we should sell these delectable little coconut chocolate treats — and hey!

Third is the immediate cultural context, since the minister in preaching has always, willy - nilly, felt the necessity to adapt himself somehow to the general level of interest and understanding of the people who sat in the pews.

Those of us who sat at the feet of Sidney E. Mead, as I did at the University of Chicago and as Bozeman, Hughes and Allen did at Iowa, heard him saying what he wrote in 1956 about «the tendency chronic in Christendom, but perhaps more acute among Englishmen, to support every contemporary innovation by an appeal to «primitive Christianity.»»

The compelling force that took possession of them «with strength of hand» was the holiness of a personal God who was very near and who sat in judgment upon the unrighteousness of man.

She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what He said.

In those pure regions he sees his father, or mother, his sisters, or brothers, or those persons who sat under the same means of grace with him, and whom he derided as fools, fanatics, and hypocrites....

They were at the hospital when I arrived, but I knew people who sat outside on the street waiting for the police to come to survey where I had been hit.

Predictably, however, the whole death and dying discourse began to develop into a sort of trendy psychobabble for nurses and chaplains and therapists who sat wringing their hands over someone stuck in stage three, saying things like, «If only he could move past it.»

It was a sign of growing up when they were old enough to join the youths who sat together in the back row or in the balcony.

These were not cities filled with a bunch of Bible teachers who sat around reading the Bible and waiting for people to bring them food and meat.

Last year Yale Divinity School bid farewell to a teacher whose intellect and character shaped generations of students who sat for his lectures, sermons and seminars.

He and the servers paid attention only to the guests who sat at the smallest tables and who had received the most.

«Action - reflection,» a procedural term in urban training, became something more than a buzz phrase for clergy and seminarians who sat with organizer Tom Gaudette between engagements of a community organization, sometimes to 4 A.M. (hours preferred also by Alinsky)

And, to my surprise, my online students seem more willing to enter into heated discussion than the students who sat in my classroom.

Rev 20:11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them.

39 And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching.

Those who sat on their hands while she at least attempted to speak up for the Church she loves are the ones who should examine their consciences.

The men who sat the feet of the Apostles and heard their preaching turned around and venerated them as martyrs for Christ.

Then He came and took the scroll out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne.

«I have the keys of death and of Hades» (Rev 1:18) «And the rest were killed with the sword which came from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse.»

Landry serves as catalyst for an interface of his people with the people who sat by the waters of Babylon and wept, or with the band of faithful who were shipwrecked, stoned, and imprisoned on behalf of the gospel.

It may well be that those critics are right who suggest that the model who sat for this portrait of the Man of Sin was the mad Emperor Caligula, whose attempt to set up his image in the Temple had deeply affronted Jewish sentiment, recalling, as it did, the sacrilege of Antiochus Epiphanes, which Daniel had described as «the abomination of desolation.»

In my church, it was always an old lady who sat right in the front.

Those who sat in the history classes of the late James H. Breasted will recall his treatment of the alleged solar monotheism of Egypt of the fourteenth century B.C..

And there were a great number of tax collectors and others who sat down with them.

(His most harsh verbal cut - downs were reserved for the «faithful» who sat in pious judgment of others.)

The man who sat at Jesus» feet and who learned from him wants to go with them.

Isn't it also true that we are here today, that we are who we are, in the condition in which we find ourselves, because we also had biological and spiritual ancestors who sat on their hands, who cared only for themselves, who thought little about the impact of their actions on future generations?

shipwreck73, Jesus warned us (Matthew 23:1 - 39) about who sat in the lead roles in the churches, synagogues, any / all false religions in the world... and specifically told us to read and study His truth (the Bible) so that we can sharpen our knowledge with those that profess to know him whether they are teaching His truth or the lies of man.

If you believe the Bible is literally true, «At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dun - geon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well.»

The caverns of earth are filled with pestilential dust which once was the bones, the flesh, the bodies of great ones who sat upon thrones, deciding causes, ruling assemblies, governing armies, conquering provinces, possessing treasures, tearing down temples, flattering themselves with pride, majesty, fortune, praise and dominion.

And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war.

Over the hills, the vales, the cities, rage the red flames fierce: The Heavens melted from north to south: and Urizen, who sat Above all heavens, in thunders wrap'd, emerg'd his leprous head From out his holy shrine, his tears in deluge piteous Falling into the deep sublime: flag'd with grey - brow'd snows And thunderous visages, his jealous wings wav'd over the deep; Weeping in dismal howling woe, he dark descended, howling Around the smitten bands, clothed in tears & trembling, shudd» ring cold.

In the hordes of immigrants, «nativist» Protestants saw mindless hordes controlled by the «Roman dictator» who sat atop the Catholic Church.

«The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death, light has dawned» (4:16, quoting Is.

Presumably the persons who sat at the right and left hand of an oriental monarch shared in his power.

Human bodies do not resurrect WHO sat and watched jesus be «tempted by a so - called devil,,, then wrote about it??

Our hearts may sing as we hear the glorious prophecy of Isaiah, as repeated in Matthew's Gospel: «The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light.»

Most people were going about their business, oblivious to their travelling companions, but one young man had become preoccupied with the rather perplexed and obviously disorientated elderly gentleman who sat opposite him.

She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he said.

As one who sat on a jury in a murder case in a state that is not shy about executions, I am aware of how important it is to make sure the right person is convicted.

Jesus did not stand in the way of a God who sat there saying» oh ok I'll let them off then» he stood between a God who is fully prepared to smash all of your faces in had it not been for Jesus taking that punishment for us.

The destruction of the voting assemblies of the eastern cities, which came about as a consequence of their inclusion in the empire, effectively left competition in the practice of benefactions as the only means by which the civic elites could compete for power in their localities; and success in this was dependent upon attaining the patronage of the man who sat at the top of the social pyramid.

I was eventually laid - off to due to «lack of funds» (which I have in writing) it seemed as though people in our congregation began fleeing contemporary church and we couldn't pay me and the Lead Pastor (who sat in his office day in, day out)... I won't settle for another stagnant «building - pastor» gig, I promise.

And I doubt very much that the author of this philosophy would accept such a lame excuse from a babysitter who sat idly by while the children in his care consumed poison.

«And at midnight the LORD kil.led all the firstborn sons in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn son of the captive in the dungeon» Exodus 12:29 - 30 NLT

After all, we elected a president who sat and listened to a Black Liberation Theologist spew hatred and anger for 20 years.

Who sat and watched for the millions of years, that they say it took to form fossils?

I think it's actually contrary to the teachings of Christ, who sat and ate with prost.iutes and tax collectors.