I love doing life with people who are so committed to living out the Kingdom of
God in real ways.
Not exact matches
Therefore those who Trust
in God and
in Jesus Christ
God's Only Son WILL NOT Panic I'm NOT a preacher, i don't make a living that
way, I have a
real Job.
Too bad you practice your
god faith
in any ole
way and it doesn't matter, but there's only one right
way to do chemistry and math and
real world practice lets you know if you got the chemistry or math correct.
There is no
way to tell a
real god from a voice
in the head.
They are trying to be «personal»
in a
way that ends up losing the sense that
God is a
real person who comes to us from outside our own lives.
Again, I don't aim to lock anybody into a logical box where the answer must only be, «the Christian
God is
real» because,
in truth, there is simply no
way to do that.
That's quite sweet
in a
way — it takes all the responsibility off of you and puts it on
God — name another relationship like this you know about
in real life (whether with family, friends, or wife)?
God is very
real, but until you encounter Him
in a
way that changes your life and the lives of the people you come into contact with, it's hard to see that.
Which proves that
God is real, because it's mysterious, and god moves in mysterious wa
God is
real, because it's mysterious, and
god moves in mysterious wa
god moves
in mysterious
ways.
«
God knows pain,» declared Austin Channing Brown, «not
in an abstract
way, but
real, bloody, torturous pain... and it matters that
God didn't opt out.»
In a similar way, when we enter into relationship with God who reveals Himself to us in Jesus Christ this will have real consequences for the way we live our live
In a similar
way, when we enter into relationship with
God who reveals Himself to us
in Jesus Christ this will have real consequences for the way we live our live
in Jesus Christ this will have
real consequences for the
way we live our lives.
I've found
God to be most present, I've heard the Holy Spirit most clearly, I've felt the peace of Christ most, when I stop thinking that these indignities and frustrations or failings, are getting
in the
way of my
Real Life.
In a recent Ethics Daily post, Dennis Atwood wrote that the «ongoing process of «knowing» God should make a real difference in the way we live, make decisions, and treat other people.&raqu
In a recent Ethics Daily post, Dennis Atwood wrote that the «ongoing process of «knowing»
God should make a
real difference
in the way we live, make decisions, and treat other people.&raqu
in the
way we live, make decisions, and treat other people.»
He did not invent something new, but
in a
way was simple a «
real Jew» according to
God intentions.
Yet it will also require a countercultural
way of life, a deep faith
in the goodness of
God and
in the intelligibility of creation, and
real hope
in the transcendent vantage, beyond our immanent success or failure, opened up by the Resurrection.
They have fascinating stories, the stories that leave me breathless with awe at my
God, awe at the goodness of life
in The
Way, I needed to catch my breath a time or two, it was
real.
He rather affirms categorically that
God is a
real entity co-extensive
in time with the reality of the universe, and that creativity is a
way of understanding the whole process of reality, not the beginnings of reality.
The order of creation is achieved when
God is the vine and we are the branches, when
God is the life - giving power and we are related to him
in such a
way that we expand and bloom, becoming full, free, whole, and
real.
Those who think
God can not mean well toward us because he «sends» us suffering can prove their point only by showing that there is a
way to run the universe, compatible with the existence of other
real powers than just the supreme power, which would be more fully
in accord with the totality of interests, or by showing that
God sends us the suffering while himself remaining simply outside it,
in the enjoyment of sheer bliss.
26 The only
way to hold these two statements together would be to acknowledge that all powers other than
God's are not,
in the final analysis,
real.
(Bultmannian spiritualizing, for which, if
God is the Wholly Other, all these manifestations are just forms of expression with no
real content, is certainly quite unacceptable, for why should not the Almighty be free to act
in this
way too?)
This is
in a
way the experience of the shepherds of the field, who are terrified at the realization that
God is
real, and his actions will not only change the course of history (as an abstraction), but their history.
no
real Christian would advocate murder though and it is
in no
way an indictment against
God, he gave us free will to do good, not evil.
Richard reminds me of the Apostle Paul, Paul was vehemently seeking out Christians to stone them
in effort to do what he believed to be the truth until
God got a hold of him and revealed to him the
real truth that being Jesus Christ The
Way The Truth and The Life And I believe if Richard Dawkins continues to seek the truth as he is The same result will occur
in his life, Jesus will reveal Himself to all that seek him
«Richard reminds me of the Apostle Paul, Paul was vehemently seeking out Christians to stone them
in effort to do what he believed to be the truth until
God got a hold of him and revealed to him the
real truth that being Jesus Christ The
Way The Truth and The Life»
Process doctrines can go the whole
way with existentialism
in recognizing that man
in his freedom may plunge into self - worship, or self - destruction; but this is because the
real world has this risk within it, not because
God wills that any creature should lose the meaning of life or decrees that any person should lose his possibility of knowing the good and doing it.
With that kind of drug and their belief structure, we will have faster - than - light travel, cold fusion, a
way to reverse global warming (caused by an overabundance of CO2
in our atmosphere, not
god), and a
real recipe for amrita, ambrosia, and a panacea by New Year's!
Aside from the generality and stigma of women's groups closely resembling bridal showers with bubbly fruit drinks and teeny tiny food (I'm not a Keebler elf, give me
real food), every experience I've had with a women's Bible study focused on how to be a good, Christian wife or how to date
in a
way that is holy and pleasing to
God.
The concept of a
god allows people to define it
in whatever
way they want precisely because there is no
real definition.
There's no drawing a line here, Republicans ARE Christians, the double whammy of hell fire secular law that they bullied -
in only to make
way for their
real agenda,
God's law according to their
God.
Gods came to set the captive free.
God is always
in control he calls the shots not Satan he is
in control his motives and purposes we can not understand but we do know his character is always for good and he always has a plan.It is spiritual lesson from a
real life situation.I am jumping
way ahead here but at the time the people sent Jesus away the demoniac man was sent back to his family when you read later because of his testimony the next time they visit years later to those towns many people are saved because of him so again yes some pigs died one man was set free but that man went and told his story and many were saved and added to the kingdom so to
God be the glory.brentnz
It's not until we have a firm grasp on the true love of
God and learn to remind ourselves often that
God's love does not prevent us from suffering, that we can offer that hope to a hurting world
in a
way that also acknowledges that pain and suffering are
real.
You are basically just coming up with the old «
god works
in mysterious
ways», when you have no
real answer.
Come on get
real samson old testement its
in there wilful sin my definition is walking away from the Lord and doing opur own thing knowing what you should do but still do what you want to do.
In the life of Samson WE SEE
Gods forgiveness and the sacrifice is the same as today repentence we are saved by the grace of
God if we turn from our own
way.He was disobedient to his parents and to the Lord his heart was no different from ours wilfully disobedient he chose sin over the Lord all the time sleeping with prostites and lying with foreign woman going his own
way and yet
God saves him not only that he was
Gods chosen instrument to deliver his people.The sad part is his term was only 20 years if he had walking
in the
ways of the Lord he should have had that ministry for 40 years that is the term of completion.We cut ourselves short when we choose sin over the Lord which is an idol by the
way.We all have those areas
in our lives that we keep to ourselves thats wilful they are our demons and our comforters.Until we surrender all to the Lord we can not be overcomers and will be influenced by satan like samson it is clear warning to us wilful sin or making sin an idol
in our lives has consequences better to serve the Lord with all our hearts even though samson did nt for much of his life
God still showed him his grace and faithfullness.You can also see wilful sin
in the Life of David yet
God saves him but not all were saved
in the life of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his flesh.
Yeah yeah, you can say that religion is the
way to truth but, logically speaking, believing
in a
god is the incorrect conclusion to reach based on what we know about religion
in general and the incompatability between the religion and the
real world.
Each story gives the reader a tangible experience
in what it means to step into the Kingdom of
God in a very
real way.
By this he meant that for a great many people the whole function of their faith is to provide them either with a keen awareness of what
God does for them and
in them or with a
way of escape from the
real facts of life.
There are a gazillion buzzwords out there like «authentic» and «missional» and»em ergent» this or that but really, I have yet to see anything capbable of transforming the politics of power and privelege into, well, into a group of believers living
in the world whose love for
God and one another is lived
in a
way so
real and so powerful that they become a transformational presence
in their community.
The
real question is whether we are to make absolutely central
in our thinking the «love of
God which was
in Christ Jesus our Lord» or
in one
way or another regard that love as so adjectival to the divine substance that it appears to be irrelevant.
Along with the other monotheistic faiths of Judaism and Islam, albeit
in its unique
way, Christianity professes that there is only one true and
real God.
You are using an abstract socially acceptably construct to falsly equivocate the idea that
god is as provable as love without understanding that we prove if someone «loves» another person or thing through action whereas
god is only provable
in the most abstract
way possble (if you believe
gods real, then
god is
real).
One central element
in the Christian gospel is the affirmation that
in a very
real way God deals with that situation — this is the meaning of what we call redemption or salvation or atonement.
Theophilus, by the
way, means «Lover of
God» and so although Theophilus was a
real person
in history, if you love
God, then Luke was written to you as well.
In the same
way a simple vision, however
real and vivid, of Jesus subsequent to his death would not have led to the Easter faith unless it had been preceded or accompanied by the Easter message that
God had vindicated the crucified one and made him Lord.
Yet decisive moral victory over sin by the grace of
God is
real, with fruits manifest
in the
way one treats his neighbor as well as
in reorientation of the soul toward
God.
Indeed, he finally assures us that the reality of
God can be completely denied without
in any
way doing violence to the
real meaning of the Christian witness.
It follows, then, that, while ordinary beings are indeed related to
God, he himself is
in no
way related to them and that the present world of nature and history is neither fully
real nor ultimately significant.
In the same
way God's forgiveness is
real forgiveness only if it is His free act, an event.
But when I looked at the Gospel for the day (John 20:19 - 31), it became very clear to me that here is a story, a story of Jesus» appearance to the disciples when they were
in hiding after the Resurrection... this was a
real opportunity to say something about that story and about the faith which is built around people who were fearful, were skeptical, and into the midst of them, somehow,
in a
way that was ultimately moving, comes the presence of Jesus through locked doors and barriers of skepticism, cynicism, and doubt, all of these things that prevent ourselves from being
God's people.
Because of these acts we know him to be
real, accessible, and infinitely gracious, and
in that knowledge we find the promise of both the coming of his kingdom and the ultimate fulfillment of our own lives: «Through the tender mercy of our
God, the dayspring from on high hath visited us, to give light to them that sit
in darkness and
in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the
way of peace.»