Sentences with phrase «christians rejoiced»

There was a time when the church was very powerful... the early Christians rejoiced at being deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed.

Read Revelation 19:1 - 5 to learn how Christians rejoice.

Let the contemporary Christian rejoice that Christianity has evolved the most alien, the most distant, and the most oppressive deity in history: it is precisely the self - alienation of God from his original redemptive form that has liberated humanity from the transcendent realm, and made possible the total descent of the Word into the fullness of human experience.

True Christians rejoice in this development, but weep for the lost.

Let the Christian rejoice that only Christendom has evolved a radically profane form of Existenz.

Not exact matches

In my concern for policing the borders of Christian ethics, fearing that we might be stepping over the line into bloodlust, I had forgotten that rejoicing in justice being done is a natural and healthy reaction.

In particular, the LCMS, along with its sister church, Lutheran Church — Canada (LCC), has developed good relations with the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), publishing last year a joint statement rejoicing that they can «jointly affirm core teachings (articles) of the Christian faith shared by our church bodies.»

I welcome this «radical,» «don't waste your life» message to up the pace, and I rejoice in its positive impact on thousands of Christians.

you cant put your finger on it, cant smell it, or taste it, but your soul will rejoice, if you have one left... this is your connection to the world, to the universe... nothing else really matters at all... we see all of this creation, and we've got the math and science to figure out a tenth of it, but if we cant realize that it was put here ultimatly out of love, and saved by the love of ONE true God, then we are blind even to that tenth... God is great, and may he bless you athiest, muslim, christian, jew, gay, whatever... God is Love, but rest assure He is also our Judge, the Judge of our hearts, hope you get them right.

So while as a Christian, I am not rejoicing over bin laden's death, I am assured that his death happened at the hands of his judge, Almighty God.

We suspect that much of the difficulty of current church life, and our corresponding theology, is that we have not paid serious attention to how hard it is rightly to understand the common things we do as Christians — such as pray, baptize, eat meals, rejoice at birth, grieve at illness and death, reroof church buildings.

The president - elect spoke by phone with Hunter and other Christian ministers, rejoicing in victory but also grieving the death of his grandmother, who helped raise him, just a few days earlier.

It exhorts the Christians in Philippi, «Rejoice, rejoice always in the Lord&Rejoice, rejoice always in the Lord&rejoice always in the Lord».

Christians should rejoice in the rise of this new spiritual force and give their support to it.

Above all, Christian worship is rejoicing in what Christ has done for us, a form of God's self - giving in which the historical events are again offered to us.

Yet now the contemporary Christian can rejoice because the Jesus whom our time has discovered is the proclaimer of a gospel that makes incarnate a Kingdom reversing the order of «history» and placing in question the very reality of «being.»

I have no doubt that John, our choir director at one of the congregations where my father served, sincerely believed that «Whispering Hope,» a number frequently chosen by him as the choir's offertory piece, was a profoundly Christian hymn; but it was really an expression of vacuous hope without any substantive theological grounding: «Wait till the darkness is over / wait till the tempest is done / Hope for the sunshine tomorrow, after the darkness is gone / Whispering hope, oh, how welcome thy voice / Making my heart in its sorrow rejoice.»

Thus the Christian must finally rejoice in the advent of a total darkness, because the Christian knows the reign of the Antichrist as the darkness before the dawn, a darkness that must ultimately pass away by being transfigured into light.

Just as the primitive Christian could call upon his hearer to rejoice in the Crucifixion because it effected the advent of the Kingdom of God, the contemporary Christian can announce the glad tidings of the death of God, and speak with joy of the final consummation of the self - annihilation of God.

We can sense something of the early Christian understanding of the eschatological meaning of the new covenant by noting the words of Paul, who, while speaking of the old covenant as a law of death and condemnation, rejoices that the glory of the new covenant so surpasses the glory of the old that the old covenant now has no glory at all:

The special logic of this theory, after all, is that the Christian philosopher — having surmounted the «aesthetic,» «ethical,» and even in a sense «religious» stages of human existence — is uniquely able to enact a return, back to the things of earth, back to finitude, back to the aesthetic; having found the highest rationality of being in God's kenosis — His self - outpouring — in the Incarnation, the Christian philosopher is reconciled to the particularity of flesh and form, recognizes all of creation as a purely gratuitous gift of a God of infinite love, and is able to rejoice in the levity of a world created and redeemed purely out of God's «pleasure.»

With such an approach it is possible to rejoice in the enormous variety of Christian churches.

Some will doubtless see this development as the beginning of the end of all that is good and godly in Christian America, while others will read it as a reason to rejoice in U.S. religious pluralism.

Among his writings are the following: Christian Apologetics in a World Community (InterVarsity Press 1983); Let the Earth Rejoice: A Biblical Theology of Holistic Mission (Crossway 1983); Christian Art in Asia, (Rodop Amsterdam 1979, distributed by Humanities Press); Themes in Old Testament Theology, (InterVarsity Press 1979); Daniel in the Television Den: A Christian Approach to American Culture (Western Baptist Press 1975; and Rouault: A Vision of Suffering and Salvation (Eerdmans 1971).

Let your rejoicing be that your name is written in heaven — that is, that you have followed your Christian vocation, have proclaimed the gospel in both its verbal and its physical forms (preaching and healing), and that God has taken account of your stewardship.

When, years later, I found Calvin declaring that every Christian experiences the inward witness of the Holy Spirit to the divine authority of Scripture, (2) I rejoiced to think that, without ever having heard a word on this subject, I had long known exactly what Calvin was talking about — as by God's mercy I still do.

In 1981's «Rejoice» they had sang I can not change the world, but I can change the world in me, if I, Re-joice, a statement as much Counter-Cultural (The Revolution will occur via inner - change not New Left political action) as it was Christian, and which also recalled The Beatles» and Ten Years After's declarations of desperately wanting to «change the world» while not seeing a way to do so.

«Lesbian and gay religious need to reclaim their tradition, publicize it, rejoice in it, and share it with other Christians and gay people,» he writes.

Finally, we ought to do what the early church did, and what many Christians in persecution and imprisonment in our time have done — rejoice in the Lord Jesus Christ.

When earthly securities have been swept away, the vitality of Christian faith has again and again been seen in the power of Christians to rejoice in the Lord in the midst of tribulation.

We are all going to heaven NOT because we are some super human Christian like you are but simply because Jesus died on the cross for us and we rejoice in that sacrifice!

«I rejoice to bear that the fairest provinces of Persia are adorned with... Christians... Since you are so powerful and pious, I commend them to your care, and leave them in your protection.»

Christians are called to «rejoice with those who rejoice» and «mourn with those who mourn» (Romans 12:15).

But we, as Christians, rejoice, regretting only that his influence is so often corruptly mediated by his followers.

very soon, all these non believers with cry like never before, but it will be too late, the true Christians will be rejoicing in heaven, while the rest stay here with the antichrist, and the beast.

As «Christians around the world rejoice» at Abedini's release, Middle East Concern (MEC) reported that «Iranian Christians request our continuing prayer, asking that... other Christians detained in Iranian prisons will be encouraged and released soon.»

If we can understand, appreciate, learn from and accept the particularities of each other as Christians and Churches, we will be able to rejoice in our diversity and in society's plurality.

If it is proper doctrine to rejoice at the death of a Christian, then this would be the place to say it.

The orthodox belief that the dead go immediately to heaven to be with Jesus has sometimes caused Christians to try to not grieve, but to rejoice.

If Communism could be overthrown by internal revolt, most Americans would rejoice, and few Christians would condemn flatly all forms of revolution.

But what I can know, and what I can rejoice in every day as a Christian is that God bestows His love upon me in His Son, and that He will give it to all who believe on him, the Son of God.

But Christians can rejoice that economists have learned to do without God at that point.

As Christians our suffering is now inextricably linked with Jesus» suffering, so much so that St. Paul says: «I now rejoice in my sufferings and in my body I fill up what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.»

I've witnessed Christians (myself included) treat non-Christians badly in the name of Christ, get told to hit the pike, and then go away rejoicing that they were persecuted for his name's sake.

Some rejoiced that the persecution was over, others were troubled by this, because they believed that Christians were called to suffer and die, if necessary.

Some Christian leaders have even rejoiced in the dissolution of a Christendom that allowed, or perhaps encouraged, an excessive degree of nominal Christian allegiance: the impact of modem secular society has challenged people to make a conscious choice about whether they are either for or against Christianity.

Most of all the Christian might rejoice in this vision, for it may well embody a recovery of what the Christian has long since lost: that is, nothing less than the meaning of the Gospel, the meaning of Jesus» original proclamation of the triumphant dawning of the Kingdom of God.

In the light of this present possession, involving endless hope, affliction was not so much endured as rejoiced in by the early Christians, and of this spiritual triumph Paul's words are representative: «Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

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If they were true Christians, they would be rejoicing the fact that they were wrong...