Not exact matches
I pray that the songs I write would bring people not only
into an intellectual understanding, but a true heart connect with the
God who is bending over the balcony of heaven to listen to them sing words that
move Him and impact Him.
AND THAT WHEN WE DO sin we have an Advocate — Jesus Christ — who took the penalty for sin so that when our bodies do die, OUR SPIRIT can
move into ETERNITY with
God.
But, once you drink the kool aid and buy
into the myth, you just have to answer every inconsistency with a nauseating «
God moves in mysterious ways» «
God is sovereign» or «we can not understand the mind of
God» etc..
If they throw you out, simply hire a hall and
move yourself to a different venue.If you are sure that you are doing the will of
God, and I think you are (other than those times when you wonder if you're nuts to be doing this), then go and do it in love and peace and in the knowledge that
God has your back and is aware of any problems you might run
into.
God is all there is, and evil comes
into existence when we
move so far away from
God's love and compassion that we as individuals manifest its opposite — that is, we manifest evil.
Maybe you should look
into moving to one of those European countries, which gave up on
God a long time ago and have put their faith in man to fix all the problems.
I just love the insoght you have
into what is going on in the Church and I agree that
God is
moving toward a more organic and less planned event style of church.
Maybe Annie Dillard's Teaching a Stone to Talk ought to be required reading at every Pentecost season, reminding us to fasten our seatbelts and wear crash helmets when we step
into our pews, lest
God decide to
move among us again.
Or should we
move forward
into the New Covenant of
God, where male authority in marriage is replaced by glorious unity?
The very truth that
God put on flesh and blood and
moved into the neighbourhood through birth, even — especially — that experience of birth, now showing us what it means to be truly human.
God started with a small party in a garden,
moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert, then
moved into a moveable tabernacle (kind of like an Old Testament RV), then reigned in a temple (especially the
God - cave of the Holy of Holies, then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years, then came back to the temple, then traveled the highways and byways with anyone who wanted to join the fun and whooped it up with society's outcasts and wedding attenders, then
moved on to some public forums, then
into some clandestine home groups and a few jail cells, and eventually made his way
into traditional church as we now know it.
My family wants me to
move into commercial development, but sometimes I wonder if I'm an arrow
God hid away in a quiver, and I'm about to be shot out
into creation.
While selling everything and
moving to the middle of nowhere might not be what
God wants you to do with your life, there is still much we can learn from these pioneers of the faith, and plenty of aspects of their community we can incorporate
into our own walks with
God.
Remembering the radical Christian affirmation that
God has fully and totally become incarnate in Christ, we must note that neither the Incarnation nor the Crucifixion can here be understood as isolated and once - and - for - all events; rather, they must be conceived as primary expressions of a forward -
moving and eschatological process of redemption, a process embodying a progressive movement of Spirit
into flesh.
«We are seeking to open wounds, yes, but to open them so that we can cleanse them and they don't fester; we cleanse them and then pour oil on them, and then we can
move into the glorious future that
God is opening up for us.»
If we conceive of the Word or Spirit as
moving more and more fully
into the body of the profane in response to the self - negation of
God in Christ, then we can understand how the Christian
God gradually becomes more alien and beyond, receding
into a lifeless and oppressive form, until it finally appears as an empty and vacuous nothingness.
«Here is what is, here is what I want for you,
move closer to My purposes» and so we find
God out ahead of us, always
moving us further
into his purposes.
Yet for us in our unimportance,
God wished to show what he is made of, to let us look behind the veil at the love that
moves the sun and all the stars, and to draw us
into acts of caritas.
We must understand this whole movement as an atoning process, a forward -
moving process wherein a vacuous and nameless power of evil becomes increasingly manifest as the dead body of
God or Satan; but it is precisely this epiphany of
God as Satan which numbs the power of evil, and unveils every alien and oppressive other as a backward -
moving regression
into the now lifeless and hence ultimately powerless emptiness of the primordial sacrality of
God.
«Now that we are
moving into a season of biblical illiteracy, the world is everything in opposition to
God.
The death of
God in Christ is an inevitable consequence of the movement of
God into the world, of Spirit
into flesh, and the actualization of the death of
God in the totality of experience is a decisive sign of the continuing and forward movement of the divine process, as it continues to negate its particular and given expressions, by
moving ever more fully
into the depths of the profane.
For Bell,
moving on from the church after 13 years at the helm was simply a response to being called by
God into other forms of ministry.
From Nadia Bolz Weber «The Sarcastic Lutheran»: «So when I reject my identity as beloved child of
God and turn to my own plans of self - satisfaction, or I despair that I haven't managed to be a good enough person, I again see our divine Parent running toward me uninterested in what I've done or not done, who covers me in divine love and I melt
into something new like having again been
moved from death to life and I reconcile aspects of myself and I reconcile to others around me.
In recent years they have developed hundreds of need - meeting small groups and now offer some seminary courses, but one wonders where they will find the determination and example needed to
move into disciplined encounters with the full word of
God.
Progressive religious folks of all stripes tend to share a post-triumphalism (a sense that it's time to
move beyond the old triumphalist paradigm in which one religion is The Right Path to
God and all the other paths are wrong), as well as an inclination toward reading our sacred texts through interpretive lenses which take
into account changing social mores and changing understandings of justice.
Otto's great study of the eschatological proclamation of Jesus discovers the fundamental and distinctive motif of Jesus» message to lie in its announcement of the «dawning» of the Kingdom of
God, a dawning that is itself a forward -
moving process, a process whereby a future and transcendent Kingdom penetrates from the future
into the present, from its place in the Beyond
into this world, and is operative here as an inbreaking realm of salvation.
Though we are only now beginning to realize it, as our awareness of this fact increases we
move into new possibilities for becoming sensitized to the life of
God in his incarnate form, that is, in the world Christologically viewed.
In the one understanding of contextualization, the revelatory trajectory
moves only from authoritative Word
into contemporary culture; in the other, the trajectory
moves both from text to context and from context to text, and in the midst of this traffic the interpreter, rather like a police officer at a busy intersection, emerges as the sovereign arbiter as to what
God's Word for our time actually is.
What was yet future and known as such,
moves into the present and from there
into the past; but the divine knowledge accompanies it in its course, it assumes a changing shape in the divine knowledge itself, and that presupposes a movement, a change even in the knowing activity of
God himself.»
Moving with hopeful confidence
into the future on the basis of the data of
God's past and present action in our history is simply what Christianity is about.
We will all
move into the light eventually, I'm sure someone as wise as
God does not accept failure as an option.
Our belief in
God «is built up, rather, out of a number of metaphysical
moves and claims which, when they cumulate
into a full - blown understanding of reality, and of the human place in this reality, constitute a theocentric world picture.»
Christians redefine
God, and
move toward mysticism or drop
into Agnosticism or Atheism.
The great prophets of
God have
moved along this path
into a vivid sense of
God's reality.
I'm not
into the «
God moved so powerfully, the sermon was cancelled» notion.
Basically they imply that
God has, after all, given us the wrong sort of book and it is our job to turn it
into the right sort of book by engaging in these hermeneutical
moves, translation procedures or whatever.
You are not being saved if you are not
moving on with
God from glory to glory, being changed
into His image!
By choosing to blend our vision with
God's, to attend to
God's direction of our life experience, we can condition ourselves and our environment to
move more easily
into the kinds of experiences that
God sees are best for us all.
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».
As we know
God lives outside of time and the creator of time and is the alpha and omega, so to understand this is like Our
God is looking at a chest board and
moving his pieces
into place, along the way battles are to be fought and conquered.
And others on my side couldn't understand why you were going back
into the old ways, when
God was
moving as a fresh wind, beyond boundaries and walls.
If you want to know / understand how
God wants us to be human and so with this thought, please listen to every bit of Jeremy Myers and
move into relationship with Jesus Christ and your fellow citizens of the world meant for you / us.
When
God's word of wounded grace
moves Micah
into a penitential frenzy, my ears perk up.
Because I believe in the redemptive movement of
God,
moving the story of humanity further
into God's purposes and heart for us, one story at a time.
But aside from that this potential can be used for good (such as orienting us as a community to bring practical expressions of
God's love to the world, such as pursuing social justice) or for evil (such as when we turn our worship services
into corporate naval gazing that never
moves beyond the intention to touch the world — there is far too much of this kinda BS pretending to be worship of
God, the Bible would call this idolatry).
Science is actually
moving towards an understanding of
God without knowing it as we
move from the observable physical
into that which has no mass.
Second, the act of supernatural faith is a grace that allows us to accept divine testimony with an unfailing certitude, by an act of the will
moved by charity, the love for
God poured
into our hearts by the Holy Spirit.
religion can keep
moving god /
gods further and further out
into the universe or a seperate reality and science will continue to narrow down possible hiding spots for the religious to put «
god».
He
moves us
into Advent, He
moves us to repentance, and then, as if
God can not wait to bring us to Himself, the Rose - Colored Sunday we call «Gaudete» intrudes.
But unlike man's experiences which when experienced perish,
God's unified feeling is always immediate, never perishing, even as it is always
moving forward in a creative advance
into novelty.