Sentences with phrase «with idols of»

A. I had a lot of fun with the character and loved that I got to work not far from where I live with idols of mine like Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton or Jennifer Ehle.

While many people try to meet this need with the idols of wealth, power, success, sex and other such things, many Christians try to meet it with the idol of certainty - seeking faith.

Empower us with your grace so that we might resist the temptation to replace the moral law with idols of our own making, or to remake those institutions you have given us for the nurturing of life and community.

Not exact matches

I'll end with one final quote of advice — this time from my idol Albert Einstein — that applies especially well for hardware entrepreneurs — «Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.»

Philosophizing with a hammer In his 1889 book Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche philosophized about challenging — or taking a «hammer» to — our iIdols, Nietzsche philosophized about challenging — or taking a «hammer» to — our idolsidols.

12 The blacksmith takes a tool and works with it in the coals; he shapes an idol with hammers, he forges it with the might of his arm.

Not quite tallulah, all the other gods are man invented or possibly demonic.Every other idol god either mimics God and or requires a series of works to gain their favor.They are created by men to appease the inner knowledge of God, but all fall short of the creator God.You can not work your way into Gods good graces, you can only be saved by faith through grace.God alone has resolved the sin problem we all suffer from, in the selfless sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross.It is by accepting Jesus» redemption for us that allows us to be reconciled with God.God bless

Do something good with the money instead of practicing idol worship by building a statue that God most likely wouldn't have approved anyway.

well known private home with idol dedicated to foul poison orgies and rampant destruction of brain and lung due to ingestion of OPIUM FLOWER AND ANIMAL FECES if you want better argument you would be better of trying to quote adolf hitler!!!

I am writing this BEFORE reading anyone else's comments, because I'm betting I can predict the majority of responses lol... Here's the list, starting with «Proof»: «Proof» not to worship idols.

Pull down the idols of the tribe, debunk the status of the proud and powerful, desanctify the saints and desecrate the holy places: as the blinding sunlight of their glory fades, the gathering dusk reveals a hundred thousand points of lesser light each with a glory of its own.

@ Catholic Mom before you talk you should reseach your beliefs cause in the 2nd council of Nicene they accepted that they could make Idols, that the 2nd commandment was talking about pegan gods lol... the only thing they did was bring Pagans beliefs and mixed it with Christianity....

In Psalm 29, the writer proclaims with majestic confidence that God is greater and stronger than every form of chaos, and by implication, than every idol through which we imagine we can control the manifestations of chaos.

When he finds city shrines and altars dedicated to a variety of idols, he debates their existence wherever and with whomever he can: in the synagogue with the Jews, in the marketplace with the buyers and sellers, in the town center with the Stoic and Epicurean philosophers.

Some of those idols were people... having those relationships end was heart - breaking, but what I've gained in my relationship with the Lord is the best thing that's ever happened.

However, the realism indicated above means that, along with dreamers, we need doers who seek power in the real world of the present to free the oppressed from the tyranny of the dominating idols of our society.

They failed to destroy the peoples As the Lord had commanded But instead they mingled with the nations And learned to act as they did They worshiped the idols of the nations And these became a snare to entrap them.

I am not about to equate visiting a church building with idol worship, but I do think it is important to recognize that people can worship and follow God just as well outside of the four walls of a church building than they can inside the walls — and maybe even better.

«And yet, strangely enough, as much good as «living with less» has done me, it has also been too much of an idol at times.

How could American Lutherans make an idol of a nation whose philosophical assumptions (enlightenment liberalism) and dominant religious tradition (revivalist Calvinism) were so fundamentally at odds with their most basic understandings?

Jeremy thanks for your comments alot of this i never really thought about before until you provoked me to seek the truth in the word it is what we all should be doing finding the truth for ourselves God wants to reveal mysterys if we are open to hear.If we have been christians awhile we just take the word of whoevers preaching or whichever clip we see on god tube its knowledge but not revelation.Because the story sounds plausible we tag that on to our belief for example for many years i believed that the rich young rulers problem was money so the way to deal with that problem is to give it away and be a follower of Jesus sounds plausible.Till you realise every believers situation is different so the message has to be universal.So the reason its not about money because it excludes those that do nt have it and does nt make room for those that do have it but do nt worship it.The rich young ruler was not a bad person he lived by a good moral code but he made money his idol he put that before God.The word says we shall not have any idols thats a sin and a wicked one.In fact there wasnt any room in his heart for Jesus that is a tragedy.So when we see the message is about Idolatry we all have areas that we chose not to submit to God thats universal everyone of us whether we are rich or poor.I believe we are unaware that we have these idols what are some of them that was revealed to me our partners our children our work our church our family i can sense some of you are getting fidgetty.

I find it interesting that only 3 recommendations were made (related to the most offensive sin issues of immorality and idols, and the sensitivity to Jewish brothers issue of being able to eat together), with James specifically saying he didn't want to «burden» the new believers with the Jewish laws.

If there is a religious debate as arguement / it always ends with the religious groupings / in taking hands / praising the name of Jesus / or whomever having as an religious idol then as one turning their anger upon the poor atheist.

Come on get real samson old testement its in there wilful sin my definition is walking away from the Lord and doing opur own thing knowing what you should do but still do what you want to do.In the life of Samson WE SEE Gods forgiveness and the sacrifice is the same as today repentence we are saved by the grace of God if we turn from our own way.He was disobedient to his parents and to the Lord his heart was no different from ours wilfully disobedient he chose sin over the Lord all the time sleeping with prostites and lying with foreign woman going his own way and yet God saves him not only that he was Gods chosen instrument to deliver his people.The sad part is his term was only 20 years if he had walking in the ways of the Lord he should have had that ministry for 40 years that is the term of completion.We cut ourselves short when we choose sin over the Lord which is an idol by the way.We all have those areas in our lives that we keep to ourselves thats wilful they are our demons and our comforters.Until we surrender all to the Lord we can not be overcomers and will be influenced by satan like samson it is clear warning to us wilful sin or making sin an idol in our lives has consequences better to serve the Lord with all our hearts even though samson did nt for much of his life God still showed him his grace and faithfullness.You can also see wilful sin in the Life of David yet God saves him but not all were saved in the life of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his flesh.

It's only after we're older once we've had notions pounded into our heads that we can't or shouldn't learn from this or that, that we lose our ability to appreciate all of God's creations and see God's hand (poetic term not literal) in all things (or worse, some have been so blinded as to see it in nothing, as they hide behind their cold scientific idols, losing the same wonder that got the scientists there to start with)

did anyone take the quiz... there is a question about what is the religion of most people in indonesia... the answer is muslim, yet... the picture that goes along with the question and answer is confused... i think i saw an elephant trunk on the idols face... maybe the folks who put together the quiz and slide show should brush up on thier religious and cultural studies as well...

He debates whether we've made an idol of the Bible and the way that Jesus read scripture with evangelical church leader Andrew Wilson, the author of Unbreakable.

Thus did the Mexicans set out, just as the children of Israel had done, in search of the promised land, taking with them their idol enclosed in an ark, made of rushes, just as the others had taken with them their Ark of the Covenant.

In this connection I concur with Jean - Paul Gabus in his excellent analysis of idols: «The idol remains in a sense a symbol, since it is a concept overloaded with meaning....

One does not have to be an especially keen observer to come up with a roster of the idols that are competing with God in North America.

If it was the places where idols were publicly worshipped that homosexuality was publicly practiced, drawing a connection would have made obvious contact with the common sensibility of the time.

As with meat that had been offered to idols, there was nothing in the wearing or not wearing of the head covering itself that was wrong, but the rebellion against God.

Again, with like sarcasm, he ridicules the entire faith and vogue of idols: one cuts a tree for firewood, using it for heating and for cooking; but still a sizable piece remains, until as an afterthought it is given to a craftsman who, with a deal of labor, shapes it into a pretense of human form — and then men bow down to it and say, «Deliver me, for thou art my god!»

After a long personal and professional life spent reading philosophy and literature that pointed inevitably, it seemed to me, toward a secular vision, I was skeptical that forthright expressions of religious belief could compete in logic or intellect with Derrida, Foucault, Rorty, and other academic idols of the eighties and nineties.

From the vestments (which are really nothing more than the Fourth Century CE court clothing of the Eastern Roman Empire), the canonized saints (which are essentially «Christian» demigods that replaced the pagan pantheon), the numerous feast days and holy days (which replaced pagan holidays), the statues and painted icons (which replaced pagan idols), and the episcopal structure (in which «third sons» of landed aristocrats who had no hope of inheriting their fathers» titles and lands could become «princes of the church» with as much worldly comfort as the «first sons» and almost as much wealth and power), the Anglican Church was practically indistinguishable from the Roman Church except that they used English in the Mass instead of Latin.

The lengthy discussion of meats sacrificed to idols in I Corinthians 8 — 10 is in harmony with the apostolic decree, and Paul says that the Corinthians are to give no offence to Jews (10:32).

The story of man is strewn with the corpses of his gods just as the victorious march of Sennacherib was littered with shattered idols.

Are they the one's on Earth controlling our lives or are you about God the creator of universe that is worshipped by mankind in different ways, given different names, given different looks and combinations, partners, sons... others worshiped Satan or made him partner to God... The Message of the «Monotheism» was there from time of existance up to Noah PBUH and the monotheist derived from those saved by Noah named Abraham PBUH who came up then with the message of «Submission» and rebuilt the house of worship in Mecca for religion teachings redirecting pagans worshiping idols, trees, or worshiping many Gods they made and named as in Greek mythology...

The apostles sent a letter to the Gentiles that included the following: «It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from se - xual immorality.

like hindu with due respect to hindu community that they go and ask to their idols or monkeys and so on, buddists go and ask a statue of buddah, sikh asks guru nanak, catholic asks marry and dead human, christian in general asks a human and the list could go on and on... how do you know that which one is being answered by The True God... all can't be correct or true... as Truth can't to more than one but ONE only....

To those with graven images and large molten idols, the Israelites surely appeared to be the atheists of their time.

(12) Venerations of Saints some of whom were never born... (14) Mary made a common idol with countless services.

But I'm pretty sure that preserving the sacredness of sexuality means speaking about it with reverence, respect, and truth (and with some humor now and then too, as I'm convinced that our ability to laugh at ourselves has a direct correlation to our ability to spot the idols in our lives).

This is a problem I have with forms of religion that make certainty their central idol.

These are Apostates who believe they can mix oil with vinegar, they eat pork meat and bow before the idols of Rome.

Taking us away from YHWH with these delusional idols not of the fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, taught to us in Daniel 11:39 - 45, strange gods are with us today.

I think you are confusing this idol with the Creator YHWH, in Isaiah 43:13, He says that No Man Can Be Delivered From Out of His Hands, not jc.

There is a church in Kansas that says that our soldiers are dead because of homosexuality in America, there is Joel Osteen with his fake idol $ $ mile, there is Promi $ eland TV and Trinity Broadca $ ting that HAVE to make God puke, if you know what I mean.

e ¯ bha ¯ h is even used as synonymous with «idol» or heathen deity, John also says that the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah was no hospitality this is totally bogus, in fact their sin was the very same thing we see today that's why he cant see clearly that they were sinners before the Lord exceedingly, guilty of the most notorious crimes, and addicted to the most scandalous and unnatural lusts that can be thought of; and these they committed openly and publicly in the sight of God, in the most daring and impudent manner, and in defiance of him, without any fear or shame.

It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sëxual immorality.