Emmett is obviously pissed, and that's to put it mildly, as anyone would so rightly be, and now acts as a hired gun for anyone having trouble
with the Outcasts, the root of all his pain and suffering.
But whoever devised this conspiracy didn't reckon on the man from Scotland Yard being someone with his own private reasons for sympathizing
with outcasts and looking beyond the obvious.
I began to wonder if what we were doing it evangelical circles had more to do with redeeming ourselves to culture than it did with showing Jesus to a hurting world, a world literally filled
with outcasts.
In the Cult strand, the dark side is welcomed
with outcasts and reprobates taking centre stage in this year's crop of films.
Harmony Korine's filmography is generally obsessed
with the outcasts, adopting their point of view, mannerisms and «freakish» qualities until one can never be sure whether he is condescending to his subjects or empathetic of them.
Just be patient
with the outcasts.
The sense of not belonging, of being unaccepted by the social, ethical, and religious requirements of his times led him to identify in a special way
with the outcasts in order to give them a new and more secure sense of relationship, and therefore of life.
In all His dealings
with the outcasts, His one call always was «Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!»
He hung out
with the outcasts of society & they really mattered to him.
The situation to which these are directed is clearly one of grave offence; any cause less than table - fellowship
with the outcasts in the name of the Kingdom of God is scarcely adequate to the result.
God comes among us as a vulnerable baby born among the homeless, lives as an immigrant, associates
with the outcasts and compares the kingdom to receiving a little child.
If getting a tattoo were some sort of societal punishment, then I might get one in order to identify
with the outcasts, but they're completely elective, and usually had by people with self - image issues.
We spent Easter morning
with the outcast — the lame, the halt, the thieves, the alcoholics, the drug - addicts, the murderers.
We spent Easter
with the outcast — the lame, the halt, the thieves, the alcoholics, the drug - addicts, the murderers.
We spent last Easter morning
with the outcast — the lame, the thieves, the alcoholics, the drug - addicts, the murderers.
A lot of that has to do
with the outcast factor.
When his lie begins to unravel, Oscar teams up
with an outcast vegetarian shark, Lenny (Jack Black) and his loyal friend Angie (Renée Zellweger) to help him stand up to the most feared shark in the water (Robert De Niro) and find his true place in the reef.
Now with that being said, older gamers — especially those who fell in love
with Outcast's revolutionary gameplay back in ’99 — will more than likely appreciate that Second Contact is purely a graphical overhaul, and didn't change the gameplay formula in the least.
Not exact matches
Our service is an outreach to the community, for people who have been hurt by church in the past, non believers, people who are feel they are
outcasts, etc.We run
with no budget, all the offering goes to a need in the community, tonight its going to a senior that lost everything in a house fire.
On the contrary, he chose to spend most of his time
with tax - collectors, prostitutes and
outcasts.
A woman who worked
with me at the restaurant I worked at talked to me often because she saw me as a fellow spirit - filled believer and she felt somewhat like an
outcast because she always wore skirts below her knees, her hair in a bun, and no makeup.
If you doubt that, just look at the startling speed
with which ho.mose.xuality has gone from a crime worthy of committal into a psychiatric ward to being accepted, and now so - called ho.mose.xual marriage is now being legalized, and the
outcasts of society are now the ones who still disaprove of this as being sinful.
The child of privilege who never lost his taste for the finer things or the man who identified
with the marginalized and the
outcast?
And it teaches unbelievers that they are the misfits and
outcasts of society, completely out of step
with what «everyone» else believes in.
One likely «scenario» is that people
with mental illness gravitate toward spiritual paths that are less rule driven (not to mention less likely to treat them as
outcasts due to the societal stigma of mental illness) in order to feel supported.
Jesus was the first hippie — he wore sandals, walked the earth instead of holding a daytime job, hung around
with losers and
outcasts, and always favored the poor.
This shows that in the Kingdom of God, the place of priority is not
with the rich and powerful, but
with the dishonorable, the
outcast, the uneducated, and the poor.
Over a decade ago, in his book The Comfortable Pew (Lippincott, 1965), Pierre Berton chided the church for its tendency to «cast out the
outcasts,»
with homosexuals at the top of the list.
Unexpectedly and uncomfortably accepting
outcasts by breaking social mores, he created a sense of belonging for them, which frequently conflicted
with the moral sensibilities of religious people of his day, angering them.
By eating
with the poor, the despised, the sick, the sinners, the
outcasts, and the unclean, Jesus was saying, «These are my companions.
God started
with a small party in a garden, moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert, then moved into a moveable tabernacle (kind of like an Old Testament RV), then reigned in a temple (especially the God - cave of the Holy of Holies, then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years, then came back to the temple, then traveled the highways and byways
with anyone who wanted to join the fun and whooped it up
with society's
outcasts and wedding attenders, then moved on to some public forums, then into some clandestine home groups and a few jail cells, and eventually made his way into traditional church as we now know it.
The reality of acceptance before God actually is in itself the grateful involvement in the enterprise of human culture, and always
with particular and peculiar concern for the
outcast and the suffering ones in the midst of that enterprise.
Jesus didn't care about tattoos, he hung out
with all the
outcasts of the day, loved them all, and saved us all.
These would be such things as the fact that Jesus was baptized by John, kept company
with sinners, called disciples and chose twelve as a special group, performed some «faith healings», reached out to
outcasts, entered Jerusalem in triumph, defied the authorities, was arrested and crucified, and was experienced afterwards by his disciples.
They hope that God accepts people regardless of their sexual or political orientation, who sides
with the poor and the
outcast, who doesn't have favorites, and who wants equality, justice, freedom, and fairness for all.
But more than that, Jesus welcomed these
outcasts into table - fellowship
with himself in the name of the Kingdom of God, in the name of the Jews» ultimate hope, and so both prostituted that hope and also shattered the closed ranks of the community against their enemy.
Laxness in observance of fasts and friendship
with religious and social
outcasts could certainly be regarded as related to one another, but only in a quite general way.
The Kingdom of God, the place of priority is not
with the rich and powerful, but
with the dishonorable, the
outcast, the uneducated, and the poor.
Pagels grants that many Christians were themselves slave owners, yet says others went among the Roman Empire's wretched
outcasts with the message of radical equality — that class, education and gender «made no difference.»
Is it not solidarity
with the sinner, the
outcast, the poor?
I don't recall Jesus Christ persecuting the
outcasts of society, rather breaking bread
with them.
Jesus shatters this theme of divine withdrawal
with both a message and a lifestyle that proclaims God's intimate nearness6 and participates in a «prolepsis» 7 of what is yet to come in fullness: The
outcast is brought back into the fold, the physically impaired are made whole, the eschatological banquet of inclusivity is experienced here and now.8 And yet, these are only foretastes.
Beggarly theology identifies
with society's
outcasts.
Whether he dealt
with women, children, or slaves, whether the persons in need were Jew, Roman, Syro - Phoenician, or Samaritan, whether he associated
with «respectable» people or social
outcasts, whether he was illustrating true neighborliness by the story of the good Samaritan or declaring the principle of divine judgment on the basis of «as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren» — all persons were of equal and supreme worth to him because he saw them through the eyes of God.
They parade
with signs that say Protect the unborn», but soon the unborn are born, they and their parents are the throwaways of the society, being trashed as
outcasts of society if they can't pay the insane insurance premiums to Mafia owned Health care Co's, when they need medical treatments and meds to help them stay alive.
With Jesus, there were no
outcasts, no rejects.
Jesus reveals a free God, who is uncoopted and uncontained by those identified
with religion This God is free to hear the cry of the
outcasts against the guardians of religious society This God is not under the power of Brahman but is free to hear ones against Brahmans and other upper castes and side
with the Dalits, who are ousted from the Temples and who are denied the right to study the Scriptures.28
Jesus often associated himself
with the poor and
with society's
outcasts and was criticized for it (Matt.
This «God of the sufferers» is also acknowledged by Deutero - Isaiah, who writes not only of the God of heaven and earth, who perceives and is above all, but also of the God who remains near the
outcast, who dwells «
with the contrite and lowly of spirit.»
And I had to work through those other things — which had to do
with being female, and leaming that I really am made in the image of God, that God really does have a preference for the oppressed and the
outcast.