Sentences with phrase «work of his servant»

The elder Bonhoeffers were listening to the radio from London on July 27 when an English voice spoke: «We are gathered here in the presence of God to make thankful remembrance of the life and work of His servant Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who gave his life in faith and obedience to His holy word... «22

It was the astounding work of the Servant / Messiah to reconcile that division.

,,,,,,,,,,, and by giving charity through the Church, God gets all the Glory and Praise, through the working of his servants.

Their path will change upon meeting a long - lost friend and discovering even more treason in the country of Rohan, where the king Théoden (Bernard Hill) is under the influence of Saruman through the work of his servant Wormtongue (Brad Dourif).

Not exact matches

Today, scores of successful companies embrace the practice of Servant - Leadership, including some that have made Fortune magazine's 100 List of Best Companies to Work For over the years.

It is clear that these wildly successful companies — some of which are regularly featured in Fortune magazine's annual «100 Best Companies to Work For» list for having high trust, high employee engagement, and low turnover — are guided by visionary leaders who walk the talk of servant leadership.

We devote an enormous amount of time to making sure we get people who are other - oriented, who have a servant's heart, who enjoy working as part of the team.

Part of my rationale for speaking so strongly here is that Kevin called into question the integrity of the Tax Policy Center, a group staffed by highly respected former civil servants, by calling their work «scientifically indefensible» and «fiction».

Employers and employees have a «master / servant» relationship — the employer has the right to direct and control the type, manner and timing of the employee's work.

Bonney was engaged in promoting the free enterprise, anti-union position of his party, while working as a public servant, Butcher said.

Zinn credits his success to disciplined work habits, servant leadership, fulfilling the human needs of his employees, and the will to do the Tough Things First.»

But in light of the proposed Quebec rules on what religious garb the province's public servants would no longer be allowed to wear on the job — Sikh turbans, Jewish kippas, Muslim hijabs, and large Christian crosses would all be banned — Kenney might have allowed himself to get a bit more worked up.

Some of those elderly just marry not for the joy but for a helping hand in the house if they are all alone as a servant since religiously single men are not allowed to have female maids work or live in their houses unless they are married to each other..

The leadership style needed at the beginning of a new work (for advancing the kingdom of God) is very strong and protective — but must quickly change to the style of facilitator / servant when the Wind of the Spirit brings an end to the «strong leader» phase.

My reading of the Gospels shows that status can be obtained by giving and praying in secret; power comes to the quiet servant; and god's approval is upon those that work among the wounded, poor, widows, orphans, hungry, thirsty, sick, prisoners, homeless, and unclothed.

Prayer is communication with almighty God, equipping the servant of God for all good works.

When he returned, he found that two of the servants went out, and worked to trade them to make more money.

9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you.

Living by faith does not absolve you of your responsibility to be a faithful servant and work hard.

Of course in principle, a leader must be a servant of all according to Jesus» teachings and the writer of Hebrews instructs to have confidence in leaders and respect their authority in a way that their work is a joy not a burdeOf course in principle, a leader must be a servant of all according to Jesus» teachings and the writer of Hebrews instructs to have confidence in leaders and respect their authority in a way that their work is a joy not a burdeof all according to Jesus» teachings and the writer of Hebrews instructs to have confidence in leaders and respect their authority in a way that their work is a joy not a burdeof Hebrews instructs to have confidence in leaders and respect their authority in a way that their work is a joy not a burden.

Obviously, I'm a big advocate for mutual submission in marriage, as that is what I believe those biblical passages ultimately teach and this is what works best in our marriage, but more important than adopting a single household model — either patriarchal or egalitarian — is adopting the posture of Jesus Christ, who emptied himself of power and took the role of servant.

Most of the good jobs were held by White citizens while the Blacks worked as domestic servants and farm hands.

To me, Wright's approach makes the most sense of 2 Timothy 3:16: «All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.»

Even wonderful works, but are still captive to sin and servants of corruption and walk in darkness.

You shall not compel him to serve as a slave: In the Mosaic law, if one chronically could not pay his debts, he would have to work off the debt as a servant of his creditor.

We have said that the Hebrew faith does not come to a clear resolution of the question of how the suffering either of God or the Servant enters into the redemptive work of love.

O Dayspring from on high, who raised up your servant John Newton to enlighten your people with the message of amazing grace; grant us the courage to work for the freedom of all who live in unjust captivity and slavery and to scatter the darkness of those who live in self - condemnation and fear by the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ our Lord.

It is, furthermore, too much disposed in its doctrine of divine judgment to spread the doom on thick without adequate recognition of God's saving grace or of the concrete works of love which man not only can but must do if he is to be God's servant in fashioning a better world.

The Messianic mystery is based on a real hiddenness which penetrates to the innermost existence and is essential to the servant's work of suffering.

In a series of poems the prophet described the ideal «Servant of God»: his character, calling and work.

These and other less central activities of the ministry of all periods are carried on by the pastoral director, but the work that lays the greatest claim to his time and thought is the care of a church, the administration of a community that is directed toward the whole purpose of the Church, namely, the increase among men of the love of God and neighbor; for the Church is becoming the minister and its «minister» is its servant, directing it in its service.

Here then is a summary of the essential purport of the life and work of Jesus in a kind of symbolic shorthand: he undertook his mission, our informants are saying, as Messiah, as Son of God, as the Servant of the Lord, in the power of the divine Spirit — and this is «God's truth,» affirmed by the divine voice whose echo can be caught by the inward ear.

But massive downsizing, the slashing of real wages and the degeneration of working conditions for public servants have deprived millions of Africans of whatever minimal access to health care, schooling and responsive public services they once had.

The Sufis quote the following Tradition in which God says, «In no way does My servant so draw nigh unto Me as when he performs those duties which I have imposed on him; and My servant continues to draw near to Me through works of supererogation, until I love him.

And if the mission of tile Servant defined the work to which Jesus set his hand, the fate of the Servant, whose life was made «an offering for sin,» 11 and who «bore the sin of many,» pointed to the destiny that awaited him: «The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give up his life as a ransom for many.»

That is why they lay such stress on this part of their story; and not they alone, but the «original eyewitnesses and servants of the gospel» who transmitted the memories on which they worked.

Members have worked hard to avoid any sense of competition over righteousness, both as individuals and in comparing Servant King to the wider church.

As the Jerusalem community grew, special deacons (Greek Diakonos = servant) were appointed for the day to day work of charity, and elders (= Greek Presbyteroi) are mentioned (Acts 11:30, 15:2) who probably corresponded to the elders of the normal Jewish synagogue (cf. Lk.

But God also works persuasively; and His supreme resource is not coercive force, but the compelling power of His revelation in the Suffering Servant of all.

Until we challenge the status of women as men's servants and subordinates at home and at work, assault, harassment and abuse will continue.

In this faith he can work with courage and hope as the servant of God for the conquest of evil.

If we are ready to be unworthy or unprofitable servants (although busy and active at the same time), then our works can truly redound to the glory of him who freely loved us first.

Lawyer Li Guisheng told China Aid a group of his clients have been «accused of being cult leaders, gathering secretly in different regions of Yunnan, doing missionary work, recruiting new members, spreading apocalypse rumors, rebuilding Three Grades of Servant's buildings, accommodating secret gatherings, and fostering new religious leaders».

He celebrates his God, shouting and singing words of exaltation, singing possibly the same songs he had written years earlier as a nomadic sheep herder, where his devotion was worked out in the sweat and stench of his servant situation.

The disciples were sent out in pairs: the servant of the Kingdom can not work in isolation.

As a child I used to suffer tortures of shyness, and if my shoe - lace was untied would feel shamefacedly that every eye was fixed on the unlucky string; as a girl I would shrink away from strangers and think myself unwanted and unliked, so that I was full of eager gratitude to any one who noticed me kindly; as the young mistress of a house I was afraid of my servants, and would let careless work pass rather than bear the pain of reproving the ill - doer; when I have been lecturing and debating with no lack of spirit on the platform, I have preferred to go without what I wanted at the hotel rather than to ring and make the waiter fetch it.

The Book of Joshua makes it clear that the Israelites get to the murderous work of genocide and become quite efficient at it: And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded.

Before the foundations of the world, that's eons ago, God decided that every person who believed in Jesus for eternal life would be His chose servant to accomplish His work and His will in this world.

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!

On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, except that they should fetch your beer from the fridge and make thy snacks for the game, nor any foreigner residing in your towns, except for the National Football League players and the coaches and the trainers and the referees and the ticket takers and the purveyors of hot dogs and beer and the color commentators and the play by play commentors and the cameramen and the... skip a bit Brother Maynard 11 For in six days the coaches trained the players with drills and films, but they contest on the gridiron on the seventh day.