Sentences with phrase «with living presence»

Exploiting the camera's ability to copy with an intensity and subtlety that endows lifeless things with living presence, Hiroshi Sugimoto has led Japanese conceptual photography for the past thirty years.

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And, despite Meyers» insistence that Trump would not have appeared on his show anyway, the GOP candidate is a frequent media presence who made a number of late - night TV visits in the early months of his campaign, including with Meyers» NBC colleagues like Jimmy Fallon, on The Tonight Show, as well as a hosting gig on Saturday Night Live.

And with the new Facebook Live set, celebrity sightings are a near - constant presence.

Social media is filled with people who are believing that relationship and presence are important for a productive and powerful life.

Among other questions, which dovetail with one's own afterlife estate plans, businesses that cater to customers throughout their lives, might also wonder: How do you manage their presence after they're gone?

And the younger generation, one that never lived under Stalin, has grown accustomed its presence and «even think [s] it's cool,» Hankiewicz said, referencing a popular T - shirt with the Palace as a heart.

They may not get filled up every day, but overall in your life, with some stability, do you have a presence in each bucket.

Make sure you have an e-commerce component to your offering, and make sure it lives in harmony with your physical presence.

You can promote your live feeds to your existing followers and boost your Twitter presence by engaging with them.

When he wasn't busy navigating world events, he was adding some panache to the Washington social scene, often appearing at political fetes with Jon Lovett, a former Obama speechwriter and a co-creator of «1600 Penn.» Still, despite his waggish social - media presence, he is guarded about his private life, suggesting a persona more carefully calibrated than he lets on.

David Kipping, an astronomer at Columbia University who was not involved with the research, told the New Scientist that there «is a legitimate case to be made that this system could host life, and we may be able to infer the presence of that life in the next decade.»

If Paul can rejoice about his contentment in God's presence while lacerated in a jail cell, then we too can live with that kind of perspective in both enjoyable and daunting situations.

See... I'm convinced that with the brilliant rock stylings and stage presence of headliners Hawk Nelson and Jason Crabb, the attendees will be so mesmerized by the bad - ass music that the message of their lord may well be drowned out... So worry not heathens... you'll live to fight another day...

Because of God's pursuit of my heart and presence in my life, I must agree with Torrance and nakedpastor.

As for feeling the presence of the Christian savior in your life... that, too, can be countered with a psychological explanation.

2nd Timothy 4:1 - 5 1 In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: 2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage — with great patience and careful instruction.

We don't require hope of some glorious life after death in the presence of some God, we're quite happy with what we believe we have.

That is, He allows a person to freely choose Him or reject Him, and if rejected, He will gracefully step out and allow the person to live with the decision forever, because God can not be in the presence of sin.

The book of Hebrews affirms the connection between God's presence and our contentment and says, «Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, «Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.

It is not as if matter has been invested with some divine quality in its own right — that would indeed be a magical understanding — rather it is the dynamic, Spirit filled presence of the Christ in an enfleshed relationship with his People that constitutes the principle of sacramental life - giving empowerment.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

When we are in the presence of love and given a unique path to a healthy inner life, we indelibly carry the Good News to share with others.

These include: the feeling of deep trust and at - homeness inside oneself, with others, and in the universe; a fundamental respect for self, others, and nature; the ability and the inclination to give and receive love; a lively awareness of the wonder of the commonplace — awe in the presence of a new baby, a sunset, a friendship; a philosophy of life that makes sense and guides decisions toward responsible behavior; a dedication with enthusiasm to the larger good of persons and society.

(Jeremiah 7:31; 19:5; 32:35) In the next generation Ezekiel tried another apologetic: granting both that the command to sacrifice children was in the Law, as it obviously was, and that Yahweh was responsible for its presence there, he asserted none the less that; Yahweh had given «statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live,» for the ultimate purpose of punishing them with such desolation that they might recognize the divine hand in their tragedy.

When, centuries later, Brother Lawrence described prayer as establishing oneself «in a sense of God's presence by continually conversing with Him,» (The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life, «First Conversation.»)

His narrative is interlarded with swift, ejaculatory appeals to God, (E.g., Nehemiah 4:4; 5:19; 6:9, 14; 13:14, 22, 29) sometimes ethically dubious as when he calls down divine wrath on his enemies, sometimes high - minded and devout, but always revealing an intimate sense of the spiritual presence and availability of the living God.

By this he means that sheer waiting in the presence of the Bread of Life, with increasing attention, nourishes and educates us enormously.

But I am qualified, by the work and presence of the Holy Spirit in my life, to wear priestly garments as a representative and ambassador of Jesus Christ from the very first day of my relationship with Him.

If Christians could come to see that we can not understand the saving work of God within us, the incarnation of God in the world, the presence of the Holy Spirit, or the character of the Christian life apart from a doctrine of mutual indwelling that is irreconcilable with atomistic individualism and all its works, we could have powerful leverage to liberate us from oppressive canalizations of thought and practice.

It was rather that whether you take the story literally or as a mythical description of what we mean by the Resurrection (namely, that the living presence of the crucified Christ is present with us now), the idea is better forgotten, or rather is better not entertained at all, that the Resurrection is parallel to the raising of Lazarus from the grave in the Fourth Gospel.

Yet Christians continue to be encountered by his living presence in other modes, and the reality of their experience is more easily understandable, to say the least, if the appearances at Easter were a real encounter with an objective presence.

The Holy Spirit represents the presence of God with us, God's pulling and encouraging, the fact that God is the context within which we live.

But normally the life of the consecrated virgin is rooted in the particular situation of her parish, in which she will wish to be a supportive and unobtrusive presence, in cooperation with her parish priest, and to serve as he considers appropriate.

The scriptural witness of the prophecies should be enough as a basis for faith; Mary did not find the Lord through her quest for his body, but only through answering his personal call to her; she must not cling to his bodily presence, for his life is now on another plane, with the Father who is the Father of all those who follow Jesus because he is his Father who has raised him from the dead; Thomas is offered sight and touch, as a gracious concession to his lack of faith; but he does not believe because of this, but because the risen Lord addresses him; and the happiness of those who have faith without sight is greater.

She invites her readers into Christian practices that heighten both the spiritual and relational dimensions of time, so that we may live with greater authenticity as people created in God's image — with an awareness of time as a gift rather than a burden thrust upon us by our daily planners, and with a sense of being «attuned to the active presence of God.»

With the greater apprehension of that presence comes the dawning through «spiritual sense» (a term Eddy adapted from her «New Light» Puritan heritage) of what life in Christ even now can include.

Once you ask Him all of that, ask the Holy Spirit to fill any areas in your body and life, where darkness used to reside, to be now filled with God's presence.

It's an instinct that drives him to pursue art with an almost physical vulnerability («You put your hands under your skin, you break your breastbone, you rip open your rib cage»), an instinct that drives him to hit high notes that he claims he can reach only in the presence of an audience, an instinct that compels him to construct a life filled with tension and paradox — a life in which he finds himself a friend of both the poor and the rich.

While here in the flesh he could be with only those that were in his presence and subject to the ideal life he lived on this world.

we are blessed with the presence of these wonderful people in our lives.

One does get the impression, however, that if Farley had his way, there would be in many of our seminaries much less preoccupation with education for the professional tasks of the clergy and much more concern with learning how to discern theologically the meaning of «ecclesial presence» in the various situations of life in the world.

A man came into my study this week struggling with sin, salvation, and a sense of God's presence in his life.

Some choose paths that are so in conflict with Kingdom values, their very presence would either pollute the Kingdom or the holiness of the Kingdom would obliterate everything that was of an alien nature to the peace and joy of Kingdom life.

If we were to accept the presence of God in our lives, we would move more slowly, eat more slowly, take time for loving each other, and act with curiosity and sensitivity to all things.

Such a commitment places Volf at odds with two formidable rivals in the contemporary world: (a) those ecclesial traditions (Roman Catholic and Orthodox) that insist that the «constitutive presence of Christ is given only with the presence of the bishop standing in communjo with all bishops in time and space» and (b) those postmodern cultural and social standards that are grounded in individualistic and consumer - driven life styles and that simultaneously relegate all religious experience to the nether regions of the privatized soul.

By «God» I mean the pervasive personal presence, distinct from me and prior to me, who is the source and support of my existence; who through Scripture makes me realize that he has towards me the nature and name of love - holy, lordly, costly, fatherly, redeeming love; who addresses me, really though indirectly, in all that Scripture shows of his relationship to human beings in history, and especially in the recorded utterances of his Son, Jesus Christ; and who is daily drawing me towards a face - to - face encounter and consummated communion with him beyond this life, by virtue of «the redemption which is in Christ Jesus» (Rom.

Because Jesus Christ is present with all people as the Giver of food and drink and as the Bread of life, and because his presence is revealed to his congregation by the Holy Spirit, and because he permits and commands us to eat and, drink, therefore we may and must eat and drink all things with Jesus in faith, love and hope.

Wilson can not grasp anything but corniness in a trope that goes back to Ancient Greece, resonates through the Middle Ages, and informs the social preaching of our day — the presence of God in a beggar that binds him into a community with me despite our radically different lives.

They were conscious of living in the presence and power of the living God; in immediate contact with deep and permanent springs of life in the unseen world.

The resurrection of Christ is a way of affirming that God has received into his own life all that the historical event, designated when we say «Jesus Christ», has included: — his human existence as teacher and prophet, as crucified man upon his cross, in continuing relationship of others with him after that death, and also what has happened as a consequence of his presence and activity in the world.