Sentences with phrase «god authored life»

That said, since God authored LIFE (Creation), he is free to take it BACK again (termination, although WE are the ones who brought death into th World to begin with.

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Paul is a best - selling author of Quarter - Life Calling: Finding Your God - Given Purpose in Your Twenties.

Be warned... God is not mocked... he is literally holding this entire creation together by Jesus Christ, the author of life.

Jesus said; I will show you my faith by my works: Faith without works is dead: (There is no life) = If we have the Faith of Christ (a gift from God) then we will have the works that go with it that is evident of our faith; the works will testify to our faith, then do we produce fruit that will remain: If our heart does not convict us to do what is right according the written word, then we are not in faith: Our hearts are far from the life of Words of our Lord penetrating into our hearts because our hearts are wicked; even Paul who said; follow me as I am of Christ; how was that??? In and by the Holy Spirit, even Spirit of truth as Paul takes us through the Words of the Lord to have us established in the truth: The Word of our Lord is as refined silver, 7 times in the fire: Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith, to them who believe: In the Bible one's «belief» and one's «behavior» are often compared.

You say God is an immoral killer and the author as well as everyone who read or was read the scroll would ask you what world are you living in!

i think this is a pathetic attempt of the author to find «god» in the lives of people who may have not shared her beliefs at all.

Though not a Catholic, as a Christian, I do believe that only God (as the author of life) has the right to end it.

If God IS BEING ITSELF then I am in an active conversation with God by being, by living and as the author stresses by loving in this life.

The question of why God allows it can easily subvert an author into producing something of little relevance to those at the sharp end of life's experience... More

In The Wisdom of Stability, author Jonathan Wilson - Hartgrove writes, «Life with the God we know in Jesus Christ is lived in community with other people.

The reviewer can tell the reader that in Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions he is to think along with the author about what it means to seek God, how the «resolution of duty» that ought to be present in marriage transforms romantic love into love that conquers everything, and how the awareness of one's mortality, of the certainty of death, of «death's decision» enhances earnestness in life.

God is the Author of life.

Describing its author's life up until his conversion to Christianity, the Confessions grounds Augustine's individual, mutable life in the unchanging nature of God: «I entered into the depths of my soul,... and with the eye of my soul, such as it was, I saw the Light that never changes casting its rays over the same eye of my soul, over my mind.»

The EV authors were putting on paper what I had been thinking about for at least the previous 10 years, and I wanted to connect with them personally because I was (pretty desperately) looking for a group of Protestant Christians with whom I could seek God, hoping to find anything like what they were advocating and describing near where I live in the Coastal Range of northern California — the pickin's were and are really slim.

Michael Lindvall is senior minister of the Brick Presbyterian Church in the City of New York, and author of Leaving North Haven (Crossroad / Herder & Herder) and The Christian Life: A Geography of God (Geneva Press).

Debra Farrington is a retreat leader and the author of books on Christian spirituality, including Hearing with the Heart: A Gentle Guide to Discerning God's Will for Your Life and Seasons of the Restless Heart: A Spiritual Companion for Living in Transition (both from Jossey - Bass).

The author knows how to make an impact, often using short pithy sentences to good effect: «Peace of soul is the tranquility of order; an ordered heart, an ordered life according to God's precepts» (p. 55).

We should affirm the authority of God's Word, said Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life, and that gender is God - given.

The couple are both authors and have together written Prayer: Living in the Breath of God and Women and the Kingdom (both PUSH Publishing).

CNN: My Take: This is where God was in Aurora Rob Brendle is the founding pastor of Denver United Church, a former associate pastor at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, and the author of «In the Meantime: The Practice of Proactive Waiting.»

The author clearly does not understand the spiritual atheist — someone who has no belief in Gods or the «supernatural», but for whom life has deep spiritual meaning.

Wendy is the author of Practical Theology for Women: How Knowing God Makes a Difference in Our Daily Lives, and she spent four years teaching theology to women at Mars Hill Church in Seattle.

Elizabeth Scalia is the author of Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols of Everyday Life and the managing editor of the Catholic Portal at Patheos.com, where she blogs as The Anchoress.

He is the author of Of God and Pelicans: A Theology of Reverence for Life and Earth, Sky, Gods, and Mortals: Developing an Ecological Theology.

I can't for the life of me see how this author made the connection between the recent discovery and God.

When you read in the Bible about proclaiming Jesus as Lord, following Jesus, taking up your cross, eternal reward, inheriting the Kingdom, life in the Spirit, faithful living, and on and on and on, the author who wrote that text was primarily thinking of how we should live as followers of Jesus so that we can experience the life God meant for us to live.

The author is saying that her life was basically good with the exception of an incident in grade 5 (when she was scared but otherwise unharmed) and that led her to God?

But it fulfills marvelously the author's purpose as he states it at the original ending in John 20:31, «These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.»

Clive, you point out how others often don't understand what Jesus was saying; but while Jesus often labors to try and make things clear to the unbeliever («Oh, you of little faith) or at the very least the author tries to make it clear for us in retrospect (At the time they didn't understand that he spoke of this...), in this case Jesus switches from something that might be figurative to essentially say «no, I seriously mean this» and it concludes not with Jesus saying «don't go away, this is what I actually mean» but confirming that people would refuse to accept that God intended for them to actually fill themselves with the life that He offered so they stopped following him.

Or, as the author of What the Bible Says About Healthy Living (1996) puts it, «Don't let any food or drink become your God.»

God being the AUTHOR OF LIFE has the right to take life, since he madeLIFE has the right to take life, since he madelife, since he made it.

Hartshorne's fundamental position, writes the author, is that birth and death are the necessary boundaries to an existence that is fragmentary, and only God is capable of sustaining the infinite novelty that would be required for everlasting life.

Ironically, as I was reading this book about how to live as Christians in a post-Christian era, I ran across an exchange between atheist Christopher Hitchens (author of the best - selling book God is Not Great) and Suchin Pak (correspondent for MTV news).

According to the author of this psalm, God is a rock upon which to build a secure, long, and productive life.

It seems that ever since Rick Warren published The Purpose Driven Life, every pastor out there is preaching sermons and every Christian author is writing books about discovering who God made you to be and how to live accordingly.

Nothing is impossible with God, He is the beginning and the end, the author and the finisher, Meaning he is the ultimate scientist that is much older than when you think life came into being.

Ed is the author of Coffeehouse Theology: Reflecting on God in Everyday Life and is the co-author of the forthcoming book Hazardous: Committing to the Cost of Following Jesus (Due out in August 2012).

He is the author of Coffeehouse Theology: Reflecting on God in Everyday Life, among other books.

The author concludes that cremation isn't necessarily a sin of disrespect for we live and die as whole persons and are raised to immortal life by God alone.

If this was written by the same god that created the heaven, earth and all living things in 6 days then he ought not quit his day job to be an author.

Its purpose is stated succinctly by its author, «these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name» (20:31).

Therefore, I would suggest that the most important reason for our clinging to the notion of revelation is not to evoke a sense of privilege but to give strong expression to our sense of the always surprising initiative or «prevenience» of God and the conviction that we are not ourselves the authors of the promise we live by.

Choices matter, things serve a purpose and life has meaning; and it is the logos, the mind of God, the creator of all that is and the author of history, who provides the necessary context.

Even if that wasn't the case, as the Author of life God still has the right to take life according to His own judgment.

My answer is unequivocal: It is not evil for God to take life, because God is the Author of life.

The author deals with the scientist's vocation to worship God, and the impact of technical work on his personal life and religious beliefs.

The Strategy of the Genes: A Discussion of Some Aspects of Theoretical Biology (London: Allen and Unwin, 1957); Hardy, Sir Alister, The Biology of God: A Scientist's Study of Man the Religious Animal (New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1976); by the same author, The Living Stream: A Restatement of Evolution and its Relation to the Spirit of Man (London: Collins, 1965), and The Divine Flame: An Essay Towards a Natural History of Religion (London: Collins, 1966), Vols.

They will know that whatever may be the real and ultimate truth of God's being and purpose (and it must be, in the nature of the case, far beyond our knowing), we never approach so near to that truth as when we say with Paul, «God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us,» or with the author of the Fourth Gospel, «God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son,» or with still another of those upon whom the light first shone,» Because of the great love wherewith he hath loved us, God hath made us, who were dead in sins, to live again with Christ.»

Disarming Scripture — Derek Flood Dying to Religion and Empire — Jeremy Myers A Living Alternative — Several contributing Anabaptist authors Crucifixion of the Warrior God — Greg Boyd Stricken by God — Several contributing authors

As these authors maintain, all people «seek him and yearn to «feel after him and find him,» this God who is «not far from each of us» but is the one in whom «we live and move and have our being» (17:24 - 28).