Sentences with phrase «god center of my life»

i've always learn to make God the center of my life... in all your way acknowledge him and he shall direct your path...

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God is the center of my life and the source of the best that I have to give to others.

Evangelical Catholicism is a biblically centered form of Catholic life that reads the Bible as the Word of God for the salvation of souls.

Our boundedness by Christ gives us the framework, center, vision and mission: We are the body of Christ, gathering around Jesus, dreaming His dream of the Kingdom of God and sharing His mission of living it (in unselfish service to our neighbour), preaching it and modeling it before a watching world.

Thus the entire movement from Leo XIII's Providentissimus Deus to the Second Vatican Council's Dei Verbum was a reformist reaffirmation of St. Jerome's axiom that ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ, who is the living center of the Word of God read and the Word of God preached.

The lives of such congregations often appear to be centered in the consequences of the gospel — peace and justice — not, in the heartwarming experience of God's saving love in Christ Jesus.

Throughout the interruptions of his life, Bonhoeffer placed the living Christ at the center of it all, He knew and witnessed to the truth that only a suffering God can finally help us.

Christianity has at its center the life, death and resurrection of the Messiah as foretold by Moses and the prophets, namely the person of Jesus Christ the son of God.

This mentality — one centered around service of God and others, in lieu of self — seeped deep into Burkhead's life and ministry.

The temple, the very center of national life and pride, the very seat of God, destroyed?

«At the center of biblical faith,» says Walter Brueggemann in a sermon on this passage, «is a command from God that curbs economic transactions by an act of communal sanity that restores everyone to proper place in the economy, because life in the community of faith does not consist of getting more but in sharing well.»

It forces recognition of the fact that Jesus» teaching did not center around such ideas as the infinite worth of personality, the cultivation of the inner life, the development of man toward an ideal; that Jesus spoke rather of the coming Kingdom of God, which was to be God's gift, not man's achievement, of man's decision for or against the Kingdom, and of the divine demand for obedience.

As their interest and care centered increasingly on man's inner life, on spiritual quality and ethical devotion, as the stronger emotions ceased being merely anger or grief and became also penitence, aspiration, moral idealism, and the love of God, the word ruach expanded its meanings to cover the case.

Rather than staying becalmed in the sacristy, the sanctuary, and the presbytery, the clergy of his day, he urged, should lead a demanding, Gospel - centered life of proclaiming the Word and celebrating the sacraments, nourishing their people with the tangible realities God had entrusted to human hands as pathways to the Trinity: the Bible and the Eucharist.

I propose that one theological task is an experimental one with metaphors and models for the relationship between God and the world that will help bring about a theocentric, life - centered, cosmocentric sensibility in place of our anthropocentric one.

It is Christ's victory over evil and the promise of eternal life with God, however, that is at the center of evangelization.

Sometimes called Plainness, this is basically humility in action, and an effort to place God at the center of living.

God is not at the center of our life; something less than God is.

From the inception of the enterprise in the decree of Darius, «Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be builded, the place where they offer sacrifices,» (Ezra 6:3) to the festal celebration of ultimate success — «They offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced» (Nehemiah 12:43) the religious life of the restorers of Zion centered in the altar.

(Acts 1:24 - 26; I Timothy 5:5) Prayer was the affirmation of confident trust, the centering of attention on faith, not fear, on assets rather than liabilities, on the help of God rather than the troubles of life.

This involves the sharing of living space and resources in order to reduce one's personal living expenses and / or to free up more individual time and energy for mission of one kind or another and / or to provide mutual support in living a more person - centered and God - centered life.

So that even though the center of gravity of the Christian's faith is not really in this world at all, yet as far as this life is concerned God is always his contemporary.

Moreover, in The Divine Milieu, Teilhard reveals that a religious life which would respond to the death of God can not direct its prayer or meditation to a transcendent or numinous realm, but instead must open itself to a divine «center» that fills the whole body of the cosmos, and a «center» that has no existence apart from the movement of the cosmos itself.

The 17th - century French priest St. Vincent de Paul said, «If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary.

The God of Israel met men not on the borders of life, but at the center, at the point of deepest significance.

Christianity has been described as a set of beliefs about God and humankind and as a way of life; or attention has been centered on the worship of God through Christ.

Christ alone lived a life of obedience that truly had God at its center.

In the second and third sections I explain two proposals for Christian self - understanding that originate from a dialogue with Buddhism and that have direct relevance for the adoption of life - centered ethic and belief in a life - centered God.

In an age in which we have became increasingly aware of other faiths and religious traditions in our own backyards and in other parts of the world, we can not develop our life - centered ethics and our life - centered understandings of God in isolation.

To be life - centered is to be especially attuned to the value of living beings amid one's ecological sensitivity, cognizant of their value in and for themselves, for one another, and for God.

Oratio obviously includes praying as requesting but it is by no means limited to this, for prayer is a many - sided expression of a God - centered life.

Christian biblical scholars have also shown a vibrant new interest in the historical Jesus, much of it utilizing an approach to Christologv «from below,» i.e., an understanding that begins with the humanity and ministry of Jesus, who, precisely as a figure embedded in history, moves toward God and lives as one wholly centered in God.

McDaniel, a member of the Working Area of the Church and Society Sub-unit of WCC, wrote two papers for WCC consultations, one of which was on the conceptual foundations of a life - centered ethic, and the other on a life - centered understanding of God.

Itâ $ ™ s because at the root of my theology, my thoughts about God and life, is the belief that, somehow, Jesus is the center of all things.

Jesus gives us no explicit doctrine of sin; what he does do is to show us what is wrong with our living and what the good life, centered in obedience to God's will, might be.

Whereas Paul described his former life in Judaism as focused on human relationships with his contemporaries and predecessors, his depiction of his new life is so centered on his relation to God that he as yet has no relationship to the other apostles.

All that was summarized as to the pattern of the God - centered life and the requirements for the conquest of sin is here involved.

Jesus gave so clear a picture of what a life centered in the love of God and expressing itself in love for others would be that, when the New Testament was written in Greek, the meaning of agape was transformed.

«Prayer,» as The Westminster Shorter Catechism puts it in matchless simplicity, «is an offering up of our desires unto God, for things agreeable to his will...» (Question 98) It is the attempt to become consciously aware of God's presence, to discover his will for our lives, to surrender our vagrant thoughts and self - centered desires to his controlling purpose, and to find in him power for living.

Yet he turns his lodgings into a center of evangelization, calling the Roman Jewish community to consider Jesus anew and to reconsider the criticisms of the new Christian «sect» they had heard, while explaining how God, in the Spirit, had extended life - giving salvation to the Gentiles.

His concern was to proclaim the nature of a God - centered, love - filled life lived in obedience to the call of God, and to win men to it.

c) Jesus set forth a clear pattern of the demands of the God - centered life.

The type of mystical communion which breaks connections with life and centers in ecstatic enjoyment of God may well be viewed with suspicion.

Although those contemporary theologies which stress the persistence of sin even in the best Christians have a note of truth which rightly challenges complacency about the redeemed life, it is also true that there are Christian saints who attain to a very high measure of the God - centered faith and love portrayed by Jesus.

Like you get to be Kings and Gods of your own planets after you die, oh, wait, that's already taken by the Mormons... but seriously, why are you so self centered to think you get to live on even though your life span is no greater than that of some tortoises (in fact one tortoise named Hanako lived to the very ripe age of 226 years).

By suggesting that the individual is exclusively social, Marx alienates the individual «from the constitutive center of his or her human life, i.e., from God.»

Religious traditions understand themselves as presenting a truth revealed by a holy and almighty God who calls human beings from a self - centered focus to a life of serving God and neighbor.

He who is ready to surrender his hopes, ambitions, and life itself, for the love of God and his fellowmen, no longer fears death and the end of human existence, for that self - centered concern which wants to cling on to life beyond its appointed span, and seeks to bring it back again in some supernatural realm, has already died.

We worship a God of life, but mysteriously that life has costly sacrifice at its center.

This is what it means to be the Church: enabling and leading people to follow Jesus Christ, not in their words alone but by living towards God, by putting Jesus» message at the center of their lives.