Sentences with phrase «christian life of love»

Does the love expressed between these two people support the ability of each to live the Christian life of love more fully?

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Scriptures and the church both tell us, that you not only have to love and have faith in Jesus Christ, but you also must live the life of a Christian.

This is because properly relating God's moral law to love and visa versa is one of the hallmarks of Biblical theology and the Christian life.

This is why, although a limited abrogation of the physical communion of life and love is possible, the so - called «separation from bed and board,» for a Christian it is not lawful to contract a new marriage while the first spouse is alive, because the legitimately contracted bond is perpetual.

Do you know the mathematical impossibility that even one of these could randomly come into existance?Let alone all of the building blocks required for just a single simple cell to come together to form any type of living thing?There sure should be some blobs of fossilized transitions if evolution could happen.You people are real smart why don't you quit bashing Christians and quit believing the garbage you have been fed, and look up the evidence put forth by the Creation Research people.They have in fact proven creation down to a cellular level.Unlike evolution scientists who have no answers, but cleverly devised fables.Evolution is not even a very good fairy tale.Even if I didn't believe in God, Evolution is such a fools explanation of the origin of man that it takes just that to even consider it true.I understand though that you athiests will believe anything that allows you to love your sin and hatred of the one true God.

The New Testament verse is held up by Christians around the globe because it neatly summarizes some key points of Christianity: «For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whosoever believes in him would not perish but have eternal life.»

I grew to love this pattern of daily prayer, and it managed to change my life, immersing me in the Psalms and the rest of Holy Scripture, as well as in the early Christian canticles and hymns.

Atheists, please remember that there are plenty of loving Christians who live their lives quietly and peacefully; we are not «freaks,» and we have no intention of «pushing anything down your throat.»

Bonhoeffer loved Advent and saw in this holy season of waiting and hope a metaphor for the entire Christian life.

We pledge to stand with you, our Christian brothers and sisters of the historic Black church, and to work arm in arm with you in Christ - like self - sacrificial love to build in America a true culture of life and of family life.

I am not advocating a return to the status quo ante when Christian belief and life were carried on as if our neighbor were significant only as a means to learn the love of God.

Sorry honey, but you're living in a fantasy world (not that you weren't already I guess) but to claim that christians have always loved the jews is rewriting history to the point of fiction.

Now as a Christian I follow the new testament, and so striving to be Christ like as a Christian I accept everyone for who they are, I love them and do not presume to know the right way for them to live their life, instead I simply open my arms to others and know that all people of all faiths are just fine it doesn't matter to me what you do with your life all that matters is the way that you do it... that was my understanding of christs teachings anyways

Uh... of course we Christians tweet words of hope, love, joy, life, peace, and grace.

I honestly pray that each one of you will come across a loving, non-judgmental Christian at some point in you life.

His life was not flashy and his personality was not magnetic, but Boreham's writings are filled with a deep love of God and understanding of the Christian life that can only come from years of walking with Jesus.

I dream of a movement of biblical Christians who even as they are carted off to jail will express Christlike tenderness to policemen, who even as they are sentenced will explain Jesus» way of love and justice to incredulous judges, who will even dare to risk their own lives in order to release the captives and free the oppressed.

They use the love of a Christian trying to point out sin and trying to point to Jesus and eternal life with God as being unlovely or judgemental.

The goal of the Christian life is to be found in the experience of «perfect love,» and the eschatological hope is expressed in similar language.

Even so, Christians are not to be serpentlike or to abide by the ways of the Old Age; they are to live in the resurrection according to the love and justice of the New Age.

For the first half of Jack Deere's Christian life, he thought loving God meant obeying God.

In those days I tried to think of myself as an atheist because I was pretty sure that the God Christians proclaimed loathed me for my sins — my laziness, my incompetence, my general lack of faith, and most of all my lack of love toward people in my life whom I knew I was supposed to love.

The rule of life for the Christian is to love God above all things and to love our neighbour as ourselves.

God is Redeeming Church, Redeeming Life Bible & Theology Topics: biblical living, Christian living, following Jesus, good news, gospel, love of God

We encourage Christians in America to look to the persecuted church for an example of steadfast courage and radical love — and to reject the temptation to allow fear to rule our lives.

In a statement released by the FCO, his family said: «We are all deeply saddened by the loss of Ian, a loving father, husband, and devout Christian, who dedicated much of his life in the service of others.

Joseph Allen's Love and Conflict: A Covenantal Model of Christian Ethics (Abingdon, 1984) connects God's general covenant with humanity to the specific covenant Christians know in Jesus Christ, and to the particular obligations, duties and rights that have to be worked out in political, economic, personal and ecumenical life.

We have stressed that in the Christian view the saved and the healed life is given in responsible and loving service in the great task of world - making, and is not concerned merely to be relieved of private burdens.

They need what Christians are supposed to provide by virtue of their title and job description: living examples that God is and that God loves.

The Christian life is not about tolerance... but truth... The Bible is quite specific about what sin is... we must love the sinner but not tolerate the sin... being a Christian requires us to know and speak the truth in love... tolerance means accepting everything without judgment... we can not do that in this society in the midst of moral decay.

Our duty to love our neighbours regardless of their racial and family backgrounds, following Jesus» teaching and example, will shape how Christians understand and respond to this distressing and shameful episode in our national life.

But any Christian — not to mention any member of any family — knows that a huge part of the art of living well is knowing how to serve with love and dignity.

In those circumstances the early Christians called men from faith in false gods to faith in the living God, from lives ridden by fear to a life lighted by the love of God.

Furthermore, Wesley argued (against Reformed doctrine) that Christians could enjoy entire sanctification in this life: loving God and their neighbors, meekness and lowliness of heart, abstaining from all appearance of evil, and doing all for the glory of God.

The real test of love as seen in the deeper moral traditions of mankind, and in the Christian faith, is the willingness of persons to commit their lives and sexual being faithfully to one another «till death do us part».29

I dare say that Atheists would have very little negative to say about a Christian who kept her mouth shut, lived her life with humility and compassion, served her fellow man, and allowed the pure love of Christ to shine through her.

Later, Nympha will read other letters, letters that speak of husbands loving their wives as much as Christ loved the church, willing to give their lives for them, and of Christians «submitting to one another» and living as «slaves to one another»!

I need hardly say that this is no brief for the traditional sanctimonious patter of the churches that have retreated into their piety, or for the mediocre, musty, introverted, and highly moral lives of many Christians, who are impervious to the violence of love and the power of the Spirit.

I am a Christian... but an astounding number of agnostics and pagans and atheists keep coming into my life, and I love them to bits.

Paul thanked God for personal victory over sin, (Romans 7:25) for the church's victory in the proclamation of its faith «throughout the whole world,» (Romans 1:8) for the lives of faithful Christians, (Philippians 1:3; I Thessalonians 1:2 - 8) and for deliverance «out of the power of darkness» into «the kingdom of the Son of his love.»

Reconciliation and redemption, regeneration and the Holy Spirit, love of our enemies, cross and resurrection, life in Christ and Christian discipleship all these things are so difficult and so remote that we hardly venture any more to speak of them.19

The sentiment behind the interview and its fallout is as clear as it is absurd: It matters not how a professing Christian loves, or how much fruit of the spirit is exhibited in his or her life; the only way to determine whether someone is a «real Christian» is to sit around a coffee table and talk about theology.

Righteousness and love are the marks of the Christian life.

The Christian affirmation that the love of God and neighbour is the foundation of life can be discerned in the mystery of sexual love when it leads persons out of themselves into a new dimension of love.

I'm sorry, I've got a Christian gay friend who is married to the love of her life.

Of course I was skeptical because of my past and seeing all the people who were either decieved or really didn't care about really knowing God but saying they did... but seeing the genuine ones that really had had their lives turned upside down and went through all kinds of hard situations but something was different about them that made me want the peace and love they had, that's what led me to become a ChristiaOf course I was skeptical because of my past and seeing all the people who were either decieved or really didn't care about really knowing God but saying they did... but seeing the genuine ones that really had had their lives turned upside down and went through all kinds of hard situations but something was different about them that made me want the peace and love they had, that's what led me to become a Christiaof my past and seeing all the people who were either decieved or really didn't care about really knowing God but saying they did... but seeing the genuine ones that really had had their lives turned upside down and went through all kinds of hard situations but something was different about them that made me want the peace and love they had, that's what led me to become a Christiaof hard situations but something was different about them that made me want the peace and love they had, that's what led me to become a Christian.

The later history shows three main ways in which the love of God made known in Christ was grasped and embodied as a Christian view of life.

Christian love is the life - blood of the new Fox series The Exorcist, in which devout Catholic characters grapple with demonic forces, putting at risk their lives and even their souls.

Jaime went on to rescue hundreds of young people and used his money to build a home where they receive an education and live in a loving Christian community.

But only recently have we realized how distinct is this form of love from agapé, how important in itself, and how badly needed in the Christian life.