Sentences with phrase «christ directed life»

And in the last part of verse 17, Paul tells us what this God directed, Spirit empowered, Christ directed life will look like.

Not exact matches

The Father directed those who would confess Jesus to understand that the word of Christ is the word to receive and live by.

Instead, they are directed by God, whose call to live a holy life dedicated to the rescue of others is laid bare in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

It was a zeal for Christ that directed their extraordinary lives.

If Lutherans really believe what their theology says about Word and Sacrament, then I think they would be equally passionate about engaging other Christians: When Christians understand what Christ offers in the sacraments, that understanding, and what is actually received, changes their lives because they come into direct contact with the death and new life of Jesus.

Adnama Satan uses external circumstances to direct our steps he knows that if we walk according to the flesh we come under his authority for the flesh is weak and he manipulates by keeping christians in bondage to sin through lust or whatever sin the christian is weak in.He can also fire into our minds evil thoughts to make us feel condemned or guilty these are fiery darts they are not ours and we need to stand on the word to rebuke them by faith.If we have given our lives to Christ then we belong to Christ so if we walk in accordance to the spirit the enemy has not power to effect us either internally or externally that is not to say that he can not manipulate situations and circumstances to his advantage that is why we need to be alert and pray against the work that he does we are in a spiritual battle but we have overcome in Christ so fear not brentnz

The biblical biopic, directed by Garth Davis, who Mara worked with on epic drama Lion, recounts the life and death of Jesus Christ from a female perspective.

The struggle necessary if we are to direct our sexual energies to their appointed and life - giving ends becomes, in Christ, a battle with an old self that refuses to honor God and insists upon its own way.

They know about the anti-Jewish polemics of certain church fathers; about the forced baptisms, especially of children; about the church council decree that sanctioned the removal of such children from their parents; about a papal edict encouraging raids on Jewish synagogues by the faithful; about the expulsion of all Jews from a country like Spain; about Luther's hate language directed against Jews when they did not convert according to his timetable; about the prohibition against Jews living in Calvin's Geneva; and about all the cruelties Christians have felt justified in perpetrating against the people they called «Christ - killers.»

CHRIST DID NOT SAY TO LIVE FOR OTHERS He said to live for Him which includes laying down our lives when He directs us to doLIVE FOR OTHERS He said to live for Him which includes laying down our lives when He directs us to dolive for Him which includes laying down our lives when He directs us to do so.

Our meeting with Jesus Christ likewise is mediated and not direct, like our meeting with persons living with us on the earth.

Instead, the message of Romans is primarily directed toward believers, and specifically, how they can live and function as followers of Jesus who live according to the gospel of Christ (Romans 1:16 - 17).

It is concerned not with rules but of actions directed by our life in Christ.

The very editing of the Evangelists proceeds from this direct engagement of the prophetic inspirations attributed to the living Christ and of the memories of the eyewitnesses.

The actions of the spiritual body are animated and directed by that life - giving spirit of the last Adam, that man who stands on the threshold of a new emergent reality, the body of Christ.

In a sacrament, a material and visible — in brief, a «sensible» — thing or action is taken and used by God, in accordance with the will of Christ (whether that is by direct institution, as with the eucharist, or through what Christians believe to be by the Spirit in the life of the fellowship, as with baptism), to convey and to effect a spiritual, invisible result.

3 This nonperceptual yet real experience of Christ's directing activity in and through their lives assured the early believers that he was alive.

He constantly directs us towards understanding our relationship with God as a living and lived reality, always nudging us to take this understanding out into the world in service of our neighbour, which in turn leads us into a deeper and more fulfilling relationship with Christ.

Instead of following habits from their old way of life, they are directed to look to Jesus Christ to see the kind of life that is pleasing to God.

The living Christ, thus present, directs, guides, builds up the church, and thus it «serves God.»

John Galt's famed speech at the end of the book, which I have listened to in its entirety (and which would never pass for a speech in real life because Rand got carried away) is filled with angry attacks directed against Christ, albeit without naming him.

The vividness and power of Christ's presence in the life of the believer suggests that there also may be a sense in which that presence itself is unmeditated, that is, not subject to the diminishment and deformation of two thousand years of continuous direct causal transmission.

Baptism, of itself, is the beginning, for it is directed toward the acquiring of fullness of life in Christ.

The Jewish faith does not give an «indirect witness to Jesus Christ,» but a fully historical living tradition, constituting a quite direct witness to the God of Israel.

What I was coming face to face with, however, was no shadow, no «indirect witness to Jesus Christ,» but a fully historical (certainly «warts and all») living tradition, constituting a quite direct witness to the God of Israel.

And to the extent that it does not exist we may well wonder whether Christ or the gods of false secularism command and direct the church in this sector of its life.

«Make me to know what is acceptable in Thy sight, and therein to delight, open the eyes of my understanding, and help me thoroughly to examine myself concerning my knowledge, faith, and repentance, increase my faith, and direct me to the true object, Jesus Christ the Way, the Truth, and the Life,...» [from a 24 page authentic handwritten manuscript book dated April 21 - 23, 1752]

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

Most probably the presentation of real Berlitz type languages and a flesh - and - bones, hungry and lunching risen Christ were both directed against the temptation to equate the life of faith with esoteric experiences in withdrawal from the real world.

Hence no Christian can despair of any man, even of himself; for each man is «a sinner for whom Christ died», each man is loved by God, each man can direct his life in response to that love made manifest in diverse ways but «re-presented» (in Schubert Ogden's word) in Jesus Christ.

(ENTIRE BOOK) This book summarizes the history of the Christian religion, directing attention to the challenges it has met, the failures of many of its most loyal adherents to live up to «the high calling of God in Christ Jesus,» and some of the achievements in seeking to make that calling a reality.

(46) Muggeridge who, late in life, became an active Christian, considers that the fantasy image of the television screen stands in direct contrast to the reality of Christ and therefore is totally unadaptable to the proclamation of the Christian message.

«Just as the entire life and passion of Christ was directed primarily and comprehensively to the glorification of God, and as even the salvation of man is subordinated to this goal, likewise in the liturgy the soteriological purpose of the rite (santificatio hominis) is totally subordinated to its latreutical purpose (cultus divinus)... The two inseparable objectives of the liturgy, sanctification and homage, do not simply run side by side, but have an ordered relationship to one another; the act of grace is subordinate to the rite (David Berger, Thomas Aquinas and the Liturgy, 2004, pp.73 - 4, 87).»

I just try and live my life the way I believe Christ directed me to and hope I have done well enough.

As a writer, Schrader collaborated with Martin Scorsese on Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Last Temptation of Christ, and his directing credits — Blue Collar, Hardcore, Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters — are similarly distinguished, if less ubiquitous.