Sentences with phrase «christian life demands»

That is his proper understanding of what the Christian life demands: one of interior transformation, constantly striving for perfection.

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These are an adequate summarization of the ethical demands of the Christian life.

Ours is indeed a consumeristic culture, the kind that too often turns people into commodities, and I believe Christians can speak into that culture in a unique, life - giving way — not only as it concerns sex - on - demand, but also as it concerns food - on - demand, celebrity - on - demand, stuff - on - demand, cheap - goods - on - demand, pornography - on - demand, entertainment - on - demand, comfort - on - demand, distraction - on - demand, information - on - demand, power - on - demand, energy - on - demand, and all those habits that tend to thrive at the expense of the dignity and value of our fellow human beings or our planet.

Miller, pastor at the Living Word Christian Fellowship church, says he's now demanding that 50 married church leaders delete their Facebook accounts or resign.

But no one could seriously read the essential message of the gospels or study the lives of the early Christians without seeing that living according to the plan of God calls for the highest courage, and makes the most strenuous demands on the human spirit.

Newman confronted me on my own ground — that of the importance of doctrinal orthodoxy — and demanded that I examine what my dogmatic principle meant for my Christian life.

The call to develop a responsible Christian life style within the community may be resisted because of the hard demands of the gospel.

Present USA is not Christian they can not demand the world payback for all the great, life - saving con - tri-butions the American Christians did and are doing everywhere.

As these Christians spread across the Mediterranean world they were not belligerent, did not even think of culture wars, did not demand their rights and had no opportunity to live in a protected Christian sub-culture.

To suggest that the wall is «offensive» (a common refrain) or that it ought to come down (as numerous Christian leaders have demanded) is to suggest that Jewish lives are not that important.

But don't demand us to take down Christmas trees in the airport when you have made the conscious decision to live your life in a Christian based country.

Karl Barth himself perhaps even fell into an exaggerated identification of a political cause with the cause of Christ in some of his writings during the war.54 In any case the Christian affirmation is that the reign of Christ involves a demand for justice and freedom throughout the whole of life.

The life of its people together will be complex, the demands of being a Christian difficult, but they will find joy and peace as they seek to embody the symbol of one who gave his life for what he believed.

The religious understanding of the conflict between good and evil, the fact of the stubborn resistance of the human heart to the love of God and its demands, the vision of the divine strategy of sacrificial love in the life and death of Jesus as the climax of history, all this is foreign to most of the philosophies of progress, but it was the heart of the great expressions of Christian liberalism.

Judgment as to whether Barth's theology adequately interprets the moral demand in the Christian life must await the completion of his Church Dogmatics.

It is the Christian faith that God is the creator and ruler of the universe, a righteous and loving Father who demands goodness in his children, a saving God who in mercy forgives the penitent sinner and gives him a new start in life.

Reverence for the courageous intelligent response of human beings to the problems and demands of life, the patient discipline of the scientist, the integrity and creative expression of the artist, is a valid theme of Christian theology.

If you're a so - called Christian that is not aware of what Christ demands for you to gain eternal life in Heaven, then you have been blinded by your greed.

The point of the parable of the sower, if we may bypass the details of the allegorical explanation, is that the seed is the gospel being proclaimed by Jesus; the soil is the Christian who is called to witness to it and to live by its demands under many thwarting circumstances.

What is demanded of Christian ethics in our time is to show how we can hold together the absolute claim of the God of love upon every life amidst the ambiguities of our moral situation.

Then, by his third distinction, Maritain makes clear both that Christian faith can not be made subservient to democracy as a philosophy of life and that democracy can not claim to be the only form of regime demanded by Christian belief.

The Christian church of the early second century lived in this world, and knew that an «organic» body of Christ demanded some kind of organizing.

The general reason for the inquiry is to be found, of course, in the conviction that «the unexamined life is not worth living» — a principle that has been given a special form in the Christian demand for daily and lifelong repentance.

«liar» prevails jumps in from canada to demand more, O.K. dip stick every Christian who has ever accepted the Lord as their savior has had their life changed by prayer.

Christian ethics is defined as the systematic study of the way of life set forth by Jesus Christ applied to the daily demands and decisions of human existence.

Like Bonhoeffer, I am not interested in a Christian faith that makes no demands on my life, that leaves me the same way I was when I came to the foot of the cross, that does nothing more than put a stamp of approval on my imperfection and ordain my self - centered way of life.»

Where the Faith is truly taught, taught moreover with the ability to justify it, defend it and live it, there is no lack of vocations either to the full, demanding love of faithful Christian marriage or to the priesthood and the religious state.

Give them the full vision of the majesty of Christ, King of all wisdom and truth in creation, together with the full, demanding heritage of the ascetic and spiritual life of the Christian man, and you will be surprised at the readiness with which they come: «everyone who belongs to truth, will listen to my voice».

This is why I don't think most Christians who demand laws against abortion are sincere about it being about «respect for human life».

The lesson demands from us a solid answer, our being a Christian may not be and can not be constituted by any of our religious relationships to God but by our social involvement, a new life in our being there only for others, in participating in the being of Jesus.

He realized the demands of an authentic Christian life.

It is the source of the trust and confidence which alone can — with some reality in every Christian life - bring alive in humanity the spirit that Jesus demands and imparts.

Nothing less is demanded of the Christian who would truly and fully live in our world, and nothing less is promised by the radically kenotic way of Christ.

The pastor's need for a metaphor for ministry which provides a sense of meaning through all the personal crises of passing decades as well as the continual need to balance the demands of the congregation with maintaining the integrity of the «call» can be met by the New Testament based metaphor for ministry as being a «prophetic guide to maturing in the Christian life.

Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Language of Mystery by Virginia Ridley Ellis University of Missouri Pres, 352 pages, $ 35 A demanding but rewarding book that takes Hopkins for what he was, a «deeply committed priest and Christian poet, for whom faith was life, and art the voice of the instrument of faith.»

899 The initiative of lay Christians is necessary especially when the matter involves discovering or inventing the means for permeating social, political, and economic realities with the demands of Christian doctrine and life.

These gain their distinctiveness not from their rejection of the marketing approach in the name of religious faith but from their almost total integration of modern consumer marketing with religion, producing what Virginia Stem Owens identifies as a range of prepackaged, certified Christian life - styles to meet one's particular demands and aspirations, with appropriate seminars available to show a person how to fit into that life - style.

Accordingly, the common life of a theological school that educates those who lead and nurture communities of Christians in that life must in high moral seriousness focus above all on the nature and demands of that activity and on analysis of the society in which it must be lived.

The worldly Archbishop, prepared now to communicate directly with Luther, dismissed the theological matters as not really important — the right of the Pope and the freedom of the will were trifling matters, he said, nugamenta, compared with the demands of the Christian life.

The Christian life was not the keeping of a Law, leading to a series of minute obligations, «works» to obtain «grace», but rather a service to one another, and a waiting on the Spirit, faithful to the simplicities and demands, normally beyond human capacity, of humility and love.

There the great issue was the institution of Christian discipline; i.e., the subjection of all phases of life, personal and social, private and public, to the moral - religious demands of the gospel.

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But even as Richard has high hopes and strict demands for studious Christian, he hides a passionate double life and shocking secrets that come back to haunt him.

If it were possible to overlook some of the annoyances of this character during the first two films, it isn't anymore: Grey is borderline abusive in the demands he makes on Ana, and it's frustrating to watch the film confuse playful sexual dominance with emotional domination, as Christian insists on knowing his wife's every move and overreacts to the slightest insinuation that she might have her own life.

When a wounded Christian Grey tries to entice a cautious Anastasia Steele back into his life, she demands a new arrangement before she will give him another chance.

64) «Fifty Shades Darker» Smart Rating: 19.41 Release date: Friday, February 10, 2017 Genre: Romance, drama, erotic Starring: Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Eric Johnson Description: When a wounded Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) tries to entice a cautious Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) back into his life, she demands a new arrangement before she will give him another chance.

The emotional fallout of the first movie continues here, as a wounded Christian Grey (Dornan) tries to entice a cautious Ana Steele (Johnson) back into his life, she demands a new arrangement before she will give him another chance.

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