Sentences with phrase «god in a broken world»

All you must do to engage God is be willing to leave everything behind, be willing to walk away from your identity, and embrace joyfully the trials and tribulations, the torture and perhaps martyrdom that will come upon you for being a child of God in a broken world working out its own redemption in empty pursuits.

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Blessed are us who thirst with those who are parched for a glass of clean water and who hunger with those who crave crumbs from our brushed off tables, for our God is Emmanuel, God with us, and withness breaks brokenness, and being with the broken in the world begins to breaks the brokenness of the world.
The church in the world understands that the reign of God, like an early shoot from a hidden seed, is breaking out in all the dark, anonymous corners of creation.
The unified, interdependent, diverse family of God is designed to model Christ's love to our broken world and in doing so, collaborate with him in healing our world.
Today, when the world will likely be celebrating the death of a broken man who led a movement characterized by deception and disdain, reach out to others and show them what the unconditional love of God is really like and how it is shown in Jesus Christ.
The infusion of historical relativity into the orders can also break their linkage to an ethical conservatism that finds it necessary to stand against every revolutionary development, thus denying the freedom of God to do any new thing in the world.
Can this be the end — a broken Israel in a broken world, with a broken God?
But now, after the fall, we see that though God still offers beauty and meaning in this life, the world is fallen and broken, and we experience the frustration of decay that needs our attention everywhere we look.
They are not one - dimensional archetypes but people, which means that Lance Armstrong, despite his celebrity, is really one of us — a human being, made in the image of God, marred by sin and living in a broken world.
In a broken world where the sense of the reality of the whole often discloses itself as a sense of the eclipse of the reality of God, one can still find a fundamental trust in the very meaningfulness of existence itselIn a broken world where the sense of the reality of the whole often discloses itself as a sense of the eclipse of the reality of God, one can still find a fundamental trust in the very meaningfulness of existence itselin the very meaningfulness of existence itself.
Hey man, think you said it before... perfect in this world doesn't look perfect, it looks messy, it goes under and loves the broken and hurt whose hearts in their brokenness are close to God.
Adam fell and the world right along with him... guess what... it's all still fallen,,, you can bitterly list all the broken nasty things that happened as a result of broken people in a broken world making awful choices and all you accomplish in the the process is to display how bitter your heart is and why the world needs God more than ever...
This last point is particularly important because in the Psalms, God gives us permission to feel all that we experience as human beings living in a broken world, and he invites us to vocalize those feeling to him.
If I can never adequately state the significance of my relationships with those whom I love in this world, or give a neat description of how I can overcome the alienation and estrangement of myself from another, or describe with any fullness what it means to be accepted by another and loved in spite of my deficiencies and my self - centeredness, I can never state in other than symbolic idiom the opening of further human possibilities with the overcoming of human deficiencies in my relationship with God — a relationship that has been broken by my willfulness and sin.
THE BIBLE IS THE WORD OF GOD AND IT STANDS SURE... THE WORD OF GOD ALMIGHTY HAS BEEN SETTLED IN HEAVEN BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THIS WORLD... IF YOU LIKE BELIEVE IT OR NOT, «and i am so happy to tell you that WHETHER ANYONE BELIEVES IT OR NOT... ITS TOO LATE TO CHANGE GODS WORD... IT CAN NEVER BE BROKEN, ITS UNSHAKEABLE... IT DOES NOT FAIL EITHER, hahahahaha, thats when is so sweet... LET ALL MAN BE LIAR BUT GOD REMAINETH TRUE, i would never force anybody or kill myself because the Devil has blinded hearts of men from believing the truth... HALLELUYAH,,,, NO ONE CAN CHANGE GODS STANDARDS, NO ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But know this — urban ministry is not a better way and it's definitely not the only way to seek God's Shalom in this broken world.
Jesus was an apocalyptic prophet that believed God's reign was about to break in soon (not 2000 yrs later) and so a lot of his statements have a very dire and urgent as well as end - of - the - world tone.
A true offering to God is where we partner with God in bringing His love and healing to a broken and hurting world.
In such a world of sinful, broken unity, any participation in war is a compromise of what God intended and risks serving chaos rather than shaloIn such a world of sinful, broken unity, any participation in war is a compromise of what God intended and risks serving chaos rather than shaloin war is a compromise of what God intended and risks serving chaos rather than shalom.
He indicates that those who were behind the wall had no hope and were without God in the world, but this wall was broken down so that the two people groups on earth, the Jews and Gentiles, could become one new people group, the church.
For in fact the world is not patient of deity in any real sense, if at the crucial point it is required that God thus break into his own ordering of things» (p. 108).
God is in the business of setting all things to rights, and what we see and feel in this fallen and broken world is not what God intended for us.
Altizer holds that Jesus was an apocalyptic prophet who proclaimed and enacted the dawning of the Kingdom of God, and that there is a comparable dawning in modern thinking which calls for a transformation of and a break from the old aeon or old world.
Love your husband, love your babies, love the poor, love the orphans, love the widows, love the powerful, love the broken and the hurting, love your friends, love yourself, love your enemies, come to love the whole world in the fullness of God, in the full expression of the woman that he has created you to be, just that, no more, but certainly no less.
As the sent church of God we must love the people in the world with the love of Christ expressed in words and deeds, while hating the broken and sinful systems of the world that war against the Kingdom of God.
If the Church is to demonstrate the Gospel in its life as well as in its preaching, it must manifest to the world the power of God to break down all barriers and to establish Church's unity in Christ.
If Rabshakeh can confuse God and the gods at this point, it is because Hezekiah has not gone far enough in his break with the world.
I agree that there is enough «evil that is in the world, and that we all have within us is bad enough», but when even god doesn't give you a break.
Jefferson in his many words is todays paul by basically testifying to a lost society by preaching «The heart «that is what God wants not the shell which will rott away.I can stand with this truth until the day I die because I also have had disagreements in my church about this same topic.I dispise religion and encourage salvation which come from having a relationship with Jesus.Many may ask how do i have a relationship with him?by simply asking God through prayer, not what we know as pray but simply given up and telling God he win.That is what being righteous means saying «lord your're right and i will believe and obey that.Last i will like to thank jefferson for this clip, becuase for so long I have been feeling like todays churches in not like the first churches.They are stuck into their four cornered walls preaching to those who already obtain the word and people who already think they are perfect, but what about the weak and the sinners who we are suppose to love, go after, preach to, help and deliver the same way as Christ camed for the sinners so do we also be like him.Jefferson basically telling all us young people and old no matter who have suffered in the world, the church, or no matter what party or the past that there is hope and «God wants that person» not the sin but the person.Jefferson wants us to know that God can become personal with us and we do exist or can exist in the christian world not because we are perfect but because «he is perfect and he saw our broken spirits and rescued us!
The Church thinks that loud bands, trendy vicars, comfy seats, child minding and a cafe will bring um in, give me a break, when I first got the call, the Church then was cold, hard pews, poor lighting, a choir who thought they were Gods gift to the world, toffy nosed upper classes who looked down their noses at me and the divorced, but I didn't care, I loved it and joined in the singing except when it was in latin.
God's judgement upon this world must be accepted as God's judgement upon myself, while the kingdom breaking in and destroying the present evil aeon is accepted as the grace of God in my life.
Fourteen years on, 24 - 7 Prayer has become an international movement with countless stories of God breaking in across the world.
Although they cite the Baptist theologian Timothy George in a way that shows his awareness of the ground - breaking work of the World Conference on Faith and Order at Montreal in 1963 on «Scripture, Tradition, and traditions,» Noll and Nystrom make no systematic use of his insights; they also neglect to note the phraseology of Pope John Paul II when he called for further study on «the relationship between Sacred Scripture as the highest authority in matters of faith and Sacred Tradition as indispensable to the interpretation of the Word of God» (Ut Unum Sint, 79)» a formulation that I think may hold the best promise of resolving the question since the sixteenth century.
It's the words that our Lord provided for us as a reminder that our shared voices, our shared poverty, and our shared faith are aligned under the one God Who descended into our broken system in order to bring balance back to a world that's lost its original perfection of peace and harmony.
In his «consequent nature» there is suggested a vulnerability in God which can motivate the individual to break out of the safety of the maternal, static world of infancIn his «consequent nature» there is suggested a vulnerability in God which can motivate the individual to break out of the safety of the maternal, static world of infancin God which can motivate the individual to break out of the safety of the maternal, static world of infancy.
Jennifer Ellison feels called by God to love broken people, help others understand the Bible, and equip leaders for God's redemptive work in the world.
Such a relationship may then be understood as a witness in a world of broken and impersonal relationships to the God - given possibility of and provocation toward fidelity and trust among persons.
The time between was the Day of the Lord when God would suddenly and shatteringly break into the world in cosmos - destroying power and judgment, and in which the old world would be completely destroyed and the new world born.
Anyway, that rising of the sun in the morning is a lot like how the church believes the kingdom of God is breaking into the world around us even though the Son has not yet returned to finally rid the world of darkness.
But whatever convenience and expediency require about the way in which the unity of theological study be broken up into manageable parts, the first requirements laid on all the specialists in the community seem to be: that their intellectual participation in the life of the Biblical, the historic and the contemporary Church always have in view the common theological object — God and man in their interrelations; and that it always be carried on in acute awareness of the «world» in which the Church has been assigned its task.
I think the starting line is to recognize that we all live in a broken world and God wants us all to move toward healing and restoration with Him and with one another.
The guiding element in Teilhard's world view was his introduction of the evolutionary principle into God's relationship with man, by means of which he wove a vision that both broke from the traditional transcendence - immanence dualism and challenged many timeworn dogmas of divine providence.
Great dems will take all 3 chambers in 2012 then we can fix all the broken policy by the gop thank the real god not the one gop said was taken the world on 21st
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Humanity is depressingly scarce in McCarthy's dismal future, but in the man (Viggo Mortensen) and his son (Kodi Smit - McPhee) we find spirits that refuse to be broken, even in a world God has forsaken.
«If you think, why did God create the world, how does he love the world, what in the world, if you imagine him through the lens of Christ, what in the world breaks his heart, it seems to me it's the irreducible beauty and pathos of human beings and their capacity for love and their capacity for loyalty and all the rest that is simply beautiful, even though in many forms it is in error, it is possibly destructive, and so on....
Tappiyah Falls, where the gods in the native tribe's cosmology come and converge is the piece de resistance to any visit to Batad which is world renowned for its amphitheater like rice terraces and where I broke a ritual taboo many years ago.
The videogame industry might have grown to become one of the largest entertainment mediums in the world since Killzone's debut back in 2006, but it's become more difficult than ever for a studio to actually break away from its area of expertise and take a real honest - to - god risk.
In this time, The World of Terrene Gall has been broken into different factions, each warring for one cause or another under the guiding hands of one of the six Gods.
Namely, that its God — You — has revealed Himself or Herself to the people in here, just as the real world God breaks into history to make some revelation, whether it's commandments or resurrections or prophets.
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