Sentences with phrase «work as an apostle»

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The «working out dramatically,» of course, suggests the great poetic potential of southern religion, as we see in THE APOSTLE and TENDER MERCIES, for example.

in the day, s that jesus our lord was on the earth (jesus) there was many people named jesus, just as among hispanic and central american peoples, it was a common popular name of many people, if you want to prove to your self that jesus was not married, look up what the apostle said,» i saw standing upon mount zion with the lamb 144,000, these are they that have washed thier robes and were not defilled with women, for they are virgins, jesus emphasised in parts the need and values of a husband and wife in a home, the two mary, s and the women that followed him and ministered unto him tells us the great importance of women, and women in the home, he wanted all married men to have thier own wife, in those days of so many years ago there was false prophets, storytellers, wild imaginations, he told us not to believe them, whether you are catholic, christian, islamic or any other, we can all take pride in the fact what the prohets, jesus and the apostles told us all fits jointly to gether, they were a work of love, to understand the christian bible correctly, islamic people are not rejected, but rather they are a equal, the angel told hagar to return to her mistress, he also told her he would make ishmael a blessing and his seed a great nation, regards

while the writer has little knowledge of the bible, he is also greatly lacking what he should know to write such a article, the laws give to people of all walks of life is the commandments given by moses, religion does not have anything to do with goverments laws or rulings, he told us straight the one law that there is no forgiveness for is murder, rulers and goverments take it upon themselves to make the decision whether to go to war, or if a person should be put to death, as far as jesus and the apostles are concerned thier labours was a work of love and true humanitarian towards all peoples, races, religions, they never asked for anything for themselves, and they never took from one to give to another.

It is the Biblical notion that miracles have ceased to be normal... This is not to say that God has stopped performing miracles, or that the Holy Spirit has stopped working, but only that the Apostolic miracles such as speaking in tongues, prophecy / revelation, and healings have ceased as a normative gift to individual believers: 1) The Holy Spirit's purpose in imparting the «sign gifts,» has expired 2) The sign gifts were given exclusively to the original Twelve Apostles, so that the sign gifts and Apostleship are inextricably linked 3) The gift of Apostleship no longer exists

And for those of us who are Christians, surely we can obey the apostle's command that whatever we do, we work as for the Lord?

I think we agree on the fact that it is by faith that all are saved i have no problem with that and its in that that there is unity.You find within any christian modern church law can be mixed with Grace that is not peculiar to any domination maybe it is more extreme in some.Where there are believers there are works of the flesh such as pride and self reliance.I was thinking today the word says if we believe in our hearts and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord then you shall be saved.Its not a hard doctrine to believe thats in its basic form.The seventh day have tacked on to that belief adherence to the sabbath that is sadly how denominations spring up.In the anglican church we still recite the apostles creed how many church still do that today as a basis for there faith in Jesus Christ.Your statement that some are saved is just as true to those who go to modern christian churchs who say they are christian but walk according to the flesh..

No work that the church does can be successful in the eyes of God if not built on the foundation as laid by the apostles and prophets.

For his final presentation in class, he had chosen to work on a reading of a section from 2 Corinthians 11, where Paul speaks of his «weakness» as an apostle of Christ.

Following Bonhoeffer's exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, he gives an exposition of Matthew 9:35 - 10:42.39 Short vignettes are drawn of the harvest (the people are without a shepherd, without relief, deliverance, and forgiveness) for which one must pray for laborers; the call of the apostles (who are given power stronger than Satan's and are bound together only by their choice and call); the work (fulfilling their commission to preach, traveling as messengers of the King, living in «royal poverty,» warning men of the urgency of the times); the suffering of the messengers (as Jesus was persecuted so the messengers will be, but they are forewarned; because Christ will return the disciples are not to fear man, or to be gullible in thinking that «there is good in every man «40); the decision (man's eternal destiny is determined by his decision on earth for the devil or for Christ); and the fruit (the disciples are fellow workers having as their goal the «salvation of the Church»).41

We must not suppose that the apostle regarded his work as a means of attaining personal satisfaction.

One could say the Apostles only wrote what they thought Jesus was teaching, but as common sense reveals to us humans if we are not doing good works we won't make it into the kingdom.»

We are co-workers of the apostles (bishops and priests) in this work, but as lay Catholics we are all equipped and commissioned to speak for Jesus Christ because of our baptism and confirmation.

None could find occasion to discredit the motives of the Apostles of Christ and therefore, their words were regarded as from God and not from man and so the Word of God had occasion to work effectually in them that believed.

To see the universe as a whole in this way, with the same God working in the universe at large, and in the life of Jesus, and in the lives of all of us, was put in highly symbolic language by the apostle Paul in his letter about the «Cosmic Christ» in Colossians 1.

That's what the apostle Paul told slaves in the ancient world: «Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters» (Colossians 3:23).

Every minister is unpaid and supports him / herself from their own work, like the apostle Paul did mostly, as a tent maker.

But a body of newer work on the apostle — including, perhaps, as Hurtado notes, Wright's own new books (which I haven't had the chance to finish reading yet)-- reveals that Paul may, after all, look less like a liberal Westerner than the New Perspective has taught us to think and more like a Christ - haunted figure whose radical social practices arose directly from his pioneering, innovative thinking about the identity and achievement of Jesus Christ.

The facts were, chiefly, these: Jesus of Nazareth, a man anointed by the Spirit and divinely accredited by mighty works, who went about doing good, and healing all those who were oppressed by the devil (for God was with him), who was put to death by the blind and misguided authorities, religious and civil, at Jerusalem, where he was crucified — all this is preliminary and descriptive, as identifying him, like the central clauses in the Apostles» Creed.

There are very great difficulties, as has been pointed out, in the way of accepting the whole of the gospel as the work of an original apostle, but much of the material in the gospel implies knowledge which only an eyewitness can have possessed.

As for the work of the apostle and the relationship he sustained with the churches, we must depend almost entirely on the letters of Paul — and this means that we can know very little except about Paul's own apostleship.

The Bible would have been «a very different book and may have produced a very different history for mankind,» had it drawn on the work of philosophers and writers as opposed to prophets and apostles, says Grayling, a philosopher and professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, who is an atheist.

Between 1962 and his death in 1977, Rossellini was to make forty - two hours of historical films, treating topics as diverse as the Acts of the Apostles and the life of the seventeenth - century French philosopher Descartes, and at his death he was working on further historical projects, including one on Marx.

Something of a prophetic figure in postwar abstract art, Reinhardt is often associated with abstract expressionist painting, although he is best seen as an apostle of concrete art, whose works bridged the gap between the Abstract Expressionism and Hard Edge Painting of the 50s, and the Minimal art of the 60s.

Savitsky discovered first - class works by contemporaries of avant - garde apostles such as Kazimir Malevich, Vassily Kandinsky, and Marc Chagall - but many were little known or totally unfamiliar to art historians.