Sentences with phrase «young ruler who»

The rich young ruler who came to Jesus knew that beyond particular requirements which he had fulfilled there was a deeper commandment.

and the remark of the complacent young ruler who said to Jesus, «All these things have I observed from my youth up.

We sympathized with the rich young ruler who turned away from Jesus, unable to sell his possessions and join the troupe.

Despite our apparent desire to serve in the present world food crisis we are often like the rich young ruler who «went away sorrowful; for he had great possessions.»

Remember the story of the rich young ruler who came to Christ.

As a commentary on the plight of the rich young ruler who can not bring himself to sell all he has, give the money to the poor, and follow Christ, it leaves little room for doubt that Christ is not merely rebuking one wealthy man for a lack of proper spiritual commitment, but is saying something very disquieting about wealth as such.

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Yet, like the rich young ruler, we need a God, both for ourselves and for others, who impels us to change our ways.

Think of the rich young ruler, who was just plain too well off, too much like us, to be a disciple of Jesus.

It's always tempting to look away when Jesus speaks to us of wealth, convincing ourselves that the rich young ruler is someone else who makes more money than we do.

He references Jesus» command to the rich young ruler in Matthew 19 who asks, «What good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?»

I had a fascinating conversation with Max Stackhouse of Andover - Newton Seminary who felt that one of our greatest needs in the subject area of this book was for an examination of the history of preaching on certain texts as the «Rich Young Ruler» to see how sermons related to different contexts.

Wasn't it Jesus who told the rich young ruler to sell all his possessions and give the money to the poor?

Their founder was Peter Waldo, a rich merchant of Lyons who, seeking salvation, in 1176 took to heart the advice of Jesus to the rich young ruler, paid off his creditors, provided for his wife and children, gave the remainder to the poor, began begging his daily bread, and traversed the countryside and the cities preaching the Gospel as he found it in a vernacular translation of the New Testament.

They were not «sinners» in the conventional sense: the call to discipleship, Jesus» table - fellowship with sinners, the «conversion» of Zaccheus; the woman who anointed Jesus» feet (Luke 7:36 - 50): Jesus» healing of the sick: Jesus» acceptance of children, the shepherds, and the wise men who were present at Jesus» birth; the centurion of Capemaum; the rich young ruler; the Eunuch (Acts 8), and Cornelius; Nathaniel, Joseph of Arimathea and the women at the tomb.

Unfortunately, one of those attacked was one Osunbade who our correspondent learnt is indeed an indigene of Oyo and a younger brother of a traditional ruler of Orile Igbon.

I am a young dom college student who's looking to attain his rightful position as ruler of you pigs.

But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman (Chris Hemsworth, Thor) who was dispatched to kill her.

Pointing to the imminent rediscovery of the ruler who created England, Francis Young reveals the true Edmund in this compelling account.

To keep his country's dream of independence alive by means of a government in exile, the young ruler would not only have to brave battalions of enemy soldiers and the whiteout conditions waiting on the slopes of the Himalayas» highest peaks, he'd have to overcome a different type of blindness: the naïveté intrinsic to his sheltered palace life and his position as leader of a people who considered violence deeply taboo.

Controlling Styx, a young girl who had her family «cleansed», a more lenient way to say executed, after she committed a crime and now seeks for revenge, you and your drone will venture through random generated levels of the underwater city of Subaeria while fighting security enforcers to reach the ruler and execute your vengeance.

Set in Citadel City, you play as a young woman named Luditte who has been cast out as a heretic by theocratic ruler, the Copper Hand, for associating with an AI named Jasper.