Sentences with phrase «god gave them the task»

Were angels helping Andrea Yates complete her God given task or was she insane?

As Schuller explains it, when God gives you a task, he also gives you the wherewithal to carry out that task.

Not exact matches

«We are determined, as leaders of the nation, to fulfill as a national government the task which has been given to us, swearing fidelity only to God, our conscience, and our Volk....

He argues that God has chosen nations other than Israel to accomplish the task God gave Israel, and that the American effort to spread political freedom can be interpreted as a specific geopolitics that advances a providential mission.

He once again sent the wind to push back the waters into their designated places, to dry out the land so that humans and animals might once again have a way to fulfill their God - given task of filling and subduing the earth.

And it is only God's to give, for it is based on the recognition that it is not our task to make history come out right or to save the world — through either our bombs or our peace — because, in Jesus Christ, history has already come out right.

@Theo,» The task that is given to mankind in creation is to bear witness to the holiness of God, to be His image bearer.»

«One of the main things our chaplains do as we draw alongside people is to give them and encourage and affirm both their own value and the value of the tasks and work that they do in God's sight.»

I pretty much gave up on the task of reconciling God's violence with the love of Jesus.

But he also has his rights in regard to married couples - which means that, in marrying, a man and a woman also take on special duties towards God: duties to marry so as to create a home, duties to accept generously the children God wishes to give them, 6 duties to maintain a united marriage and a united home that will both keep the spouses engaged in the task of learning to love, and help the children grow in the reflection of their parents» and of God's love.

The task of Bishops is to teach and celebrate God's plan, making use of the rich insights given through his faithful servants down the centuries.

But it is to these lepers that God gives a place and a task in his miracle.

The benefactor is being called to give neither too much nor too little but to discover due proportion in giving a fit and equitable amount, responsive to the competing claims of ever - changing human needs.17 If beneficence is accompanied by a moroseness that silently signals the recipient that it is a very heavy task indeed for the giver to provide, the touchstone of pastoral counsel is «God loves a cheerful giver» (2 Cor.

From a general as well as from the pastoral point of view it would be wrong to assume that the Church in the various countries needed only to follow the directives of the Council willingly and exactly in order to fulfill her God - given task in this time.

I judge that the greatest short circuit in the whole hookup of denominational and world church agitation for charitable mission lies in the failure to provide for the process of forming a convictional consensus on the part of church groups so that they own particular projects as their God - given task and opportunity.

God was working in Paul with energy like dynamite to carry out the task given to him.

The First God gave Izanagi the task of finishing the creation of the world.

I end here by repeating my conviction that the canonical interpretation of Scripture is the theologians main job and by adding to it my further conviction that only those who give themselves to this task first and foremost will ever be fit to interpret anything else on God's behalf.

A church's concern for mental health is at the very center of its mission, at the heart of its God - given task.

She knew her Bible, and she knew that when an angel appears to give you a message from God, it will be no small task that God is asking.

None the less it is a «good»: it is, indeed, the Kingdom of God which is the sovereign rule of love into which those who respond to God's love are admitted — and in being admitted given the task of conforming this world of human affairs to the pattern of the Love «which moves the sun and the other stars».

What if God didn't want to give you a list of instructions to follow or tasks to accomplish, but was waiting on you to ask more and better questions?

The trouble is that when you give the task of shepherd and gatekeeper to God, you lose control over who enters the fold.

Which means what we want and what God wants might not be the same thing... So our task is to figure out why we have the Bible we have, why God gave it to us, and then align our understand of the text with this.

Jesus had a special task to fulfill, and God gave Him helpers to aid in that task.

We might not think we are capable but we can do all things through God who gives us strength no matter how risky, scary or overwhelming the task might seem.

And they should fulfill their God - given task and do this.

The chapter headings give us an overview of the work: Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ: the theological project of Joseph Ratzinger; The critique of criticism: beginning the search for a new theological synthesis; The hermeneutic of faith: critical and historical foundations for a biblical theology; The spiritual science of theology: its mission and method in the life of the church; Reading God's testament to humankind: biblical realism, typology, and the inner unity of revelation; The theology of the divine economy: covenant, kingdom, and the history of salvation; The embrace of salvation: mystagogy and the transformation ofsacrifice; The cosmic liturgy: the Eucharistic kingdom and the world as temple; The authority of mystery: the beauty and necessity of the theologian's task.

The world tells us to go and experience all of the pleasures that can be found in our youth, but the book of Acts teaches us to go and consider our lives nothing to us, and only aim to finish the race and complete the task God has given us — to share His grace.

The rest of Ephesians explains what your roles are, and what tools God has given you to perform these tasks.

I suggest that a reading of scripture gives us the clues, that John was in fact the last Levitical priest whose task was to inaugurate the» handing over» of the priesthood to the new High Priest, in the new order of Melchizedek (as the writer of the Letter to Hebrews explains it) So Jesus came to John the Levite, John gave Jesus the ritual bath of the High Priest, then Jesus emerged from the bath not to be anointed with oil as the old Levites, but to be anointed with the Holy Spirit and then Jesus» distinction was announced to the people by the voice of God Himself.

The task of giving spiritual direction to a congregation that does embody some of the attitudes of a family - pew theology calls for pastors with the convictions of a prophet, able to tell the people of God that their loyalties are misplaced.

It is the proper time now for Korean churches to deliberate their role in the world church, in managing God's abundant blessings and entrusted financial resources, to help other members of the familia Dei to implement God's given tasks in their respective contexts, which are sometimes quite different from the Korean context.

God set forth to remove all of humanity from the face of creation, and before doing so, gave a profound and unimaginable task of faith to Noah.

All this is done by God who, through Christ, changed us from enemies into his friends, and gave us the task of making others his friends also» (2 Cor.

By the beginning of the twentieth century all the churches of Europe and North America were heavily involved in what they called Foreign Missions, by which they meant their God - given task of Christianizing the rest of the world.

The final journal entry lists some «immutable rules» that he hoped would bring order and comfort: «To pray every morning to God, the source of all power and all justice; to my father, to Mariette, and to Poe, as intercessors; that they may give me the necessary strength to fulfill all my appointed tasks.»

And that made sense: So much of the book is about receiving what God has given you to do in life, instead of the tasks you would have chosen for yourself.

And God has provided two means by which we can accomplish these God - given tasks: work and prayer.

Elijah is given the task of staging the coup d'etat in Syria which will replace Ben - hadad with Hazael, but God also considered that Ahab himself should have killed Ben - hadad.

I mean real women that God gave an important, significant task or high position to.

It said, «World evangelism is the God - given task of the Church.

This extraordinarily intimate union, given the task of multiplying so that there are more human beings made in the image and likeness of God, is what we call marriage.

Unity does not come from us, it is given to us by God when we become Christians, and it is simply our task to maintain it in the Spirit.

It is in assuming this sacrificial task that we Israeli Jews uphold the charge given to us by God in Exodus 19: «For all the earth / land is mine; and you shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.»

In the first place, God will probably give you a bigger task than you would ever have dreamed possible yourself, because God generally sees greater possibilities in you than you do yourself.

But, furthermore, Luther's solution to the problem of how to reform the Church was that the rulers of society, itself God - given like everything else, should take on the task of reform if the Church authorities themselves would not do it.

But if there is a fellowship of persons, God will give us tasks for their enrichment.

Paul understood that when God placed him here, He was given a purpose; a task to carry out.

The greatest task ever given to mankind by God is given to this motley crew of apostles, some of whom believe, and some of whom doubt.