I felt like that was Abrams trying a bit too hard to come up with a meme, a scene that will be continually remixed until SW is erased from the universe, and a character people will, at first, ironically glorify, but eventually
worship as the second coming of Christ.
But of course I'm not saying that I literally
worship it as if the game was a god, I'm not that stupid.
He was an enlightened ruler who encouraged the Muslims, Jews and Christians who had fled the city to return and allowed them to
worship as they pleased.
I've never seen as much corporation
worship as I've seen inside the publishing industry.
Religious literature and it's uses in
worship as well as the Impact of religious literature on believers and non believers.
There are two women who are exceptions that prove the rule: their mother (Stephanie Faracy), whom the brothers treat with just enough respect (maybe because she isn't as strict as their fed - up father, played by Stephen Root), and their sister, whom Dave and Mike essentially
worship as the epitome of female innocence (Their perception of her goes far beyond that of protective older brothers and into a fairly creepy realm).
If you're unfamiliar with the comic book source material, the Acolytes are a group of mutant supervillains who subscribe to Magneto's beliefs, even going as far as to
worship him as a «mutant messiah».
This is a way for him to
worship you as a sex goddess and to acknowledge your vagina as a place of shared spirituality.
However, a talented female poisoner who used her knowledge to lead natives to
worship her as a demigod might have been living on an island.
``... I think it's proper for anyone to step in to afford people an opportunity to
worship as they would want.
In a rather awe sight to behold was the choice of some residents who were going to different churches within New Haven area of Enugu for Sunday
worship as they joined the crowd in the protest march holding their Bibles and chanting «Anyi amakwe» meaning «We will not agree».
Shortly after the ruling he fast - tracked the Localism Act's «general power of competence» which he claimed gave principal councils the power back to include acts of
worship as part of their official meetings.
He'll also grow up more comfortable with the liturgy and rituals of your faith and come to see a house of
worship as a place where he can feel comfortable and secure.
They say not to worship a god yet
they worship themselves as tho they are one.
Never think of
worship as instruction.
The intent of the reformers was not so much to secularize
worship as to sanctify common life.
Indeed, as we saw in chapter 3, that is what gives an air of plausibility to looking on the practices of Christian
worship as engagement in a «Christian» type of paideia.
God created us to be social creatures, not only in our family and friendships but in
our worship as well.
I believe it is one of the primary functions of meeting together — as seen in Old Testament
worship as well as implied in Paul's admonition: «Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.»
I am not opposing your right to
worship as you wish.
Perhaps chapter 12 has been as often read as the New Testament lesson in Christian
worship as any chapter in the entire Bible.
Certainly Jesus gives us endless reasons to
worship him as Lord, but I am convinced that he does this graciously as we endlessly «forget» his Lordship.
In fact, Bonhoeffer declares that «God is worshiped first by the earth, «21 which might raise questions about
worship as an act of free creatures toward a Creator.
One pastor referred to Trinity's
worship as a common table around which God gathered a marvelously diverse collection of human beings: rich and poor, black and white, privileged and outcast.
«The God Muslims worship,
we worship as well,» he said, noting the common attributes of oneness, power, and transcendence.
Hence it deals with the theory of preaching, of Christian education, of social action and of
worship as well as with the theory of divine and human nature, of God's activity and man's behavior.
We do not say it by rote in services of
worship as we do the Lord's Prayer.
I was emphasizing to parents of confirmands that the young people should be with their families in
worship as part of their preparation for membership.
With David and his court singers,
worship as kingship adoration arose.
We are to see it and
worship him as we enjoy them.
Will they give me a job and let me take Saturday Sabbath days off to
worship as the real Jesus did?
We don't care how or who
you worship as long as you don't try to dictate to the rest of us how and whom to worship.
Those evangelicals who are thinking about worship tend to think almost exclusively in terms of
worship as expressing God's worth.
While it is essential to recover
worship as directed toward God, it is equally important to rediscover the content of that worship.
Israel did not ignore the destructive capacity of creation, but regarded
worship as the means by which this destruction could be negated and blessing could he increased.
I believe a case can be made for the activity of
worship as that which finally separates humanity from lower animals.
It forms an early and discerning protest against the powerful and perennial tendency in every cult, ancient or modern, so to proliferate, so to elaborate, so to glorify the total «equipment» of
worship as to make of worship's material representation an end in itself.
Like the German school before him, Brueggemann reclaims
worship as a central dimension of Old Testament theology.
We tend to think of
worship as the 15 - minute song set preceding the sermon.
The New School Presbyterians, conversely, were very much in line with revivalism as it unfolded in the nineteenth century and had a looser view about
worship as a result.
On the contrary, it is precisely in the celebration of the world as creation, and not in
its worship as something divine, that we taste its hauntingly vulnerable sweetness.
Beauty is of great importance in
worship as elsewhere in life; in church services, these things have a point that includes but goes beyond sheer beauty, since they have as their principal reason the provision of a context in which the worshippers as whole men and women are moved to pray, to adore God, to listen to his Word, to confess their sin, to receive assurance of his forgiveness, and to be strengthened for discipleship.
For my own part, I believe that the first condition for such a revision of our services of
worship as shall make them fully Christian is theological; by this I mean that only when our doctrine of God is soundly Christian will these services be appropriate to the worship of the community that finds its center in Jesus Christ, who revealed God as «pure, unbounded Love» but who also revealed that this Love is not soft or sentimental — the fact of Calvary makes that truth sufficiently plain.
In this chapter we are concerned with the significance of all public
worship as such and with why praying in church should be part of the normal Christian discipline of life.
Perhaps the best comprehensive term for the practice of
this worship as a whole is simply «discipleship.»
Worship in the full sense —
worship as discipleship - involves shaping persons as agents and thus involves action in the public realm which consists in arrangements and rearrangements of social, political, and economic power.
The Chiristian church must begin to understand that it needs democracy and democracy CAN NOT BE WITHOUT THE ATHENIAN PRINCIPLE of woship and allow others to
worship as they will.
The book of Hebrews is particularly important here because it shows the connection between the worship of the Old Testament and the worship of the N.T. and also because it draws attention to the uniqueness of
our worship as the New Testament people of God.
They regarded
the worship itself as simply a prelude to the preaching.
The first «nay» I often hear for not inviting a friend is this: we can't invite them to our act of
worship as they won't get anything from it.