Not exact matches
Federal Labor has effectively committed to end live
sheep exports
with its agriculture spokesman, Joel Fitzgibbon, telling an Adelaide radio station the party does not believe there is a future
for the sector.
For you and all the faithful
sheep out there drinking the cool aid today and
with all due respect YOU»RE IDIOTS, or just completely INSANE!
Not taking up
for Reality's little brother H.Sent but calling another's following of something that you might not believe or agree
with as «a
sheep»... does get you just about as dirty as H.Sent..
Artist, being referred to as
sheep and Jesus is our shepherd beats hands down any day being known as fools that refuse to learn His wisdom, dry bones, wells without water, spiritually dead who only get this life
with no eternity
for those
with big egos if they don't shelf the PRIDE, humble themselves, repent, ask Jesus
for forgiveness and sin no more..
its frustrating because i feel i need to explain to them my reasons
for changing my beliefs and they just want to stick
with what they are told by the church and i'm the black
sheep.
The idea that a being would create the entire thing —
with 400,000,000,000 galaxies, EACH
with 100, 000,000,000 starts and even more planets, then sit back and wait 13,720,000,000 years
for human beings to evolve on one planet so he could «love them» and send his son to Earth to talk to a nomadic group of Jews about
sheep and goats in Iron Age Palestine (while ignoring the rest of the 200 million people then alive) makes no sense to us.
A rich man
with many
sheep stole a poor man's one beloved ewe lamb to serve as the main course of a banquet
for a guest.
Some poor girl... or
sheep... has to listen to him rant and spew, eyes bulging, talking non-stop, adamantly raging on about how Russian miners have heard the screams of hell and how some ancient vanished superrace made the pyramids and modern man couldn't which means evolution is wrong... she'd be wondering if she should just run
for it, or does he have a big kitchen knife on him ready to use if she does... there she sits,
with that «please - don «t - stab - me - repeatedly smile on he fear - petrified face...
He replied
with an expression that he had used, again according to Matthew (cf. Mt 10:6), when instructing the twelve
for their mission: «I was sent only to the lost
sheep of the house of Israel.»
Yes, the available history says that the heart was in the possession of the church about a century later, so either someone kept it
for a long time after cutting it out of his corpse — yeah, that sounds likely — or it is a medieval «relic» that is actually the heart of a pig or a
sheep that some clergyman sold along
with genuine pieces of the cross and bones from St. Peter to make a buck on the rubes, uh, faithful.
6And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbours, saying to them, «Rejoice
with me,
for I have found my
sheep which was lost.»
It consisted mainly of small farmers and, near the sea of Galilee, of fishermen,
with artisans like carpenters and tanners,
with enough shepherds to make the symbols of the lost
sheep and the good shepherd meaningful, and
with small - town merchants to provide
for the exchange of the few goods needed to meet the simple requirements of the people.
Number 2 not going to church can be harmful to you not to them this is the problem
with many Christians claiming they can serve God at home rather than going to the house of God it's not a social service you are doing when you go to Church you don't go
for hypocrites they are not Christians they are wolves in
sheep clothing your example of worship is always needed.
Hitler was born
with little money, and the majority of jewish families that lived near and around germany HAD been wealthy, and so one could argue that Hitler was just looking
for funding and a back reason to make his
sheep like followers do his deeds so he played on his peoples misunderstandings and cultural separations.
I agree
with sheep learning to think
for themselves.
The angels informed shepherds... in fields...
with sheep... that peace is
for all people on earth.
They were helpless
sheep, tenderly cared
for and protected; but they were also subjects of the Supreme Ruler of the Universe; indeed they were the King's sons,
with whom it was his sovereign will and fatherly pleasure to share his own royal authority and power.
We are called to partner
with our God as He calls the lost home and invites the outcast to be His children; we are invited to join Him as He searches
for His
sheep on college campuses, in offices, on the streets and, yes, at the Grammys.
The
sheep being those who visited people in hospital an prison, did things
for the least of others and had to be reminded by Jesus of when they had done
with him welcoming them.
He consorted
with the disdained and the despised he searched out the lost win, the lost
sheep; he spoke
for the poor, the meek, the sick, the bereaved, the voiceless in the courts, and the silent in their graves.
How ironic that atheism defends itself
for not having done anything out of hate and yet millions of
sheep condemn people's choices and ways of living
with a set of beliefs.
What an awesome God we serve, and if the shepherds in the field understood what it meant to pray and seek God
for what He sets in their heart, and to allow God to fulfill what He sets in their heart, God's
sheep would be witnesses unto God, and Christ would be
with man, and this world be a much different place than it is.
The idea that a being would create the entire thing —
with 400,000,000,000 galaxies, EACH
with 100, 000,000,000 starts and even more planets, then sit back and wait 13,720,000,000 years
for human beings to evolve on one planet so he could «love them» and send his son to Earth to talk to a nomadic group of Jews about
sheep and goats in Greco - Roman Palestine (while ignoring the rest of the 200 million people then alive) makes no sense to us.
Didn't jesus base judgement (seperation of
sheep / goats) on what we did
for the least... visit those in prison, feed the hungry etc... nothing to do
with what we believed... but how we live.
Jesus seems to be prefiguring his death
with phrases about his «hour» which was to come, and the temple of his body to be destroyed, about the kind of love that leads one to give one's life
for a friend and a shepherd to give his life
for the
sheep.
Jesus seems to be prefiguring his death
with phrases about his «hour» which was to come, and the temple of his body to be destroyed, about the kind of love that leads one to give ones life
for a friend and a shepherd to give his life
for the
sheep.
If you read his parable about the
sheep and goats, it's easy to walk away
with the impression that eternal life rests entirely upon whether or not a person cares
for the poor.
I was an assembly - line employee
for several years, and there, despite the presence of hundreds, even thousands of other people, I could be as solitary as a peasant in a field or a herdsman tending
sheep, laboring in rhythm — not
with nature, to be sure — but
with the conveyor belt that brought the auto body or its parts to me.
After a generation or two in which paid quartets, in the better - heeled parishes, praised God weekly as surrogates
for the congregation, and professional organizations raised the money
for «plant expansion» (all, of course,
with a well - oiled unction that would have glazed the eyeballs of St. Paul) it is not surprising that the counsel to stewardship should be preceded, according to some church programs, by an inquisatorial scrutiny of the share of each of the
sheep in the gross national product.
When he has found it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulder; and when he comes home he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, Be glad
with me,
for I have found my lost
sheep again.
High school is short but life is long and having belief in your principles and capacity
for rational thought are going to mean a lot more in the long run than being popular
with the vapid
sheep you are currently surrounded by.
The idea that a being would create the entire thing —
with 400,000,000,000 galaxies, EACH
with 100, 000,000,000 stars and even more planets, then sit back and wait 13,720,000,000 years
for human beings to evolve on one planet so he could «love them» and send his son to Earth to talk to a nomadic group of Jews about
sheep and goats in Iron Age Palestine (while ignoring the rest of the 200 million people then alive) makes no sense to us.»
it's always the same deal
with religious folk: show some marketable humble or charitable stuff to pull the
sheep in and rake in some dollars to pay
for the lavish robes, and provide something to use as a red herring to keep people from focusing in on the nasty bits and priest crimes.
The parables disclose
with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping
with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests
for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed
with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose
sheep falls into a ditch; the woman
with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!
If you read His parable about the
sheep and the goats, it's easy to walk away
with the impression that eternal life rests entirely upon whether or not a person cares
for the poor.
So Beck and his
sheep are the only people
with smarts enough to get ready
for a storm.
Some people wonder how these
sheep are able to provide
for the Jewish missionaries and Jewish people if the only way people can buy and sell is
with the mark of the beast.
In other words, if one can only buy or sell
with the mark of the beast, so that the Jewish believers can not buy or sell, then how is it that the
sheep of this parable are able to buy and sell so that they can provide
for the Jews?
The first steps in this have already been accomplished
with the transplanting of additional genes
for growth hormone into
sheep in Australia to produce larger animals and therefore more wool.
You honestly believe that an all powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies (each
with billions of stars) about 13,720,000,000 years ago, then sat back and did nothing
for virtually all this time, until h.omo Sapiens evolved on one planet, then sent his «son» to visit some Jews in the late Iron Age Middle East and tell them parables about wheat, goats and
sheep.
His body swelled and his thigh wasted away (his thigh supported Him on the cross in order
for Him to breathe)
With Christ resurrection, God was now able to RE-NEW His covenant with Israel and gather the lost sh
With Christ resurrection, God was now able to RE-NEW His covenant
with Israel and gather the lost sh
with Israel and gather the lost
sheep.
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof (Nay, from my youth he grew up
with me as
with a father, And her have I guided from my mother's womb); If I have seen any perish
for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering; If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed
with the fleece of my
sheep; If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate: Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder - blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone.
This capacity in Yahweh
for prolonged and violent hatred of Israel's foes is set down in the record
with unashamed emphasis, whether in the traditions of the wilderness, where «Yahweh will have war
with Amalek from generation to generation,» (Exodus 17:16) or in the early days of the kingdom in Palestine, when Yahweh commanded Saul to «go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and
sheep, camel and ass.»
The experienced nearness of God's reigning power justifies Jesus» anticipatory actions: his table - fellowship
with the lost
sheep of Israel looking forward to the messianic banquet; the gift of God's forgiveness, reserved
for messianic times (Mark 2:5); his preaching of a new, eschatological Torah designed
for this new coming age.
For the past decade or so, I've been assembling a mid-sized Judean village of Fontanini crèche figures, including artisans, herders (
with sheep), farmers (
with chickens and an ahistorical turkey), vintners, blacksmiths, musicians, weavers, and a fisherman or two (one awake, another sleeping).
2017 UPDATE: After further study and discussion
with people in the RedeemingGod.com discipleship group, it is interesting to note that the word
for «hell» is Gehenna, which is the smoking trash valley outside of Jerusalem, and the word
for «destroy» is appolumi, which is used in Matthew 10:6 in reference to the «lost»
sheep of Israel, and then also in 10:39 (cf. 16:25) when Jesus says if you «lose» your life
for his sake, you will find it.
I
for one have no desire to surround myself
with mindless, head - nodding
sheep.
The priest is asked to love the Church, to care
for the people to whom he is sent,
with the same love of the Good Shepherd who laid down His life
for the
sheep (cf. John 10:11).
He runs to discourses of some length, as
for example, concerning the new birth, in his conversation
with Nicodemus (chapter 3); on the bread of life after the feeding of the five thousand (6:22 ff); on the true children of Abraham (8:31 - 59); on the shepherd and the
sheep (10:1 - 18); and particularly his forceful discourse after eating the Last Supper
with his disciples, which include some of the most highly cherished utterances recorded of Jesus.
Ambrose thereupon declares: «The care of these
sheep, this flock, not only
for that time did the blessed apostle Peter take upon himself but also along
with us he received them, and all of us [bishops]
with him received them.»