Sentences with phrase «god my father loved»

Because, his mission was to continue the work of Christ and tell the world that God the Father loved all people and that Christ died to cover Everybody's sin not just the believers.

When writing elsewhere about living in community she said: «The Community of the Trinity is simply the Community of Love: God the Father loving God the Son, and this love bringing forth the Holy Spirit.

Not exact matches

I never read it as a list of dos and don'ts but if God is real and so is love, then it's best read as a letter of love from your Father.»

For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments.

Garff seems to assume that the message of Kierkegaard's father (to love God and to love your neighbor as yourself) is irrational and impossibly demanding.

'' For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height — to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Once the power of the love of our father is known through John 3:16 «For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life.»

He was simply a devoted husband and father, a sincere believer, a humble man who put his gifts at the service of the royal family out of love of God and Russia.

As someone who has sat by the death bed of a sister, father and mother, I full heartily agree that those looking into the thin veil that separates the living and dead, think about their loved ones not God.

We should learn from those who are dying that the best way to teach our children about God is by loving each other wholly and forgiving each other fully - just as each of us longs to be loved and forgiven by our mothers and fathers, sons and daughters.

You can't throw out the other half of the gospel just to make it fit your idea of God as a loving father.

I do find it hard to believe that God the Father would welcome Judas into Heaven with a «Your work is done» - type welcome, but I am looking at it with my human mind, which is perhaps incapable on any level this side of Heaven to understand the limitless love of God and Jesus Christ.

We're doing so because we believe in the God who does not just have love — but in the community of Father, Son and Holy Spirit — he is love.

The bottom line is if you don't believe that a man who was his own father rose from the dead to make up for the mischief of a talking snake you are going to burn forever, for God is love.

When my father passed away, my boss in a sympathy card said that God shows His love for us in the people He gives us to love.

God is our loving Father in Heaven — he wants us to grow, find joy, and to be like Him — that's why we are here on this Earth — there's a reason that we are here.

CONFESSION OF SINS AND ASKING FOR FORGIVENESS March 12, 2000 The Holy Father: Brothers and Sisters, let us turn with trust to God our Father, who is merciful and compassionate, slow to anger, great in love and fidelity, and ask him to accept the repentance of his people who humbly confess their sins, and to grant them mercy.

Heavenly Father, Most Gracious and Loving God, I pray to you that you abundantly bless my family and me.

If, however, you believe God loves you, that He is for you, the old man with a cane becomes a loving father with an outstretched hand.

Since last week, I've been thinking about how differently my life and / or the world (all mankind) might have been, had I / we been taught what has been revealed to me over the last 20 + years and now know in my mind / heart is the truth / gospel for me, about Father God's love, character and nature, the death of Jesus and Salvation.

God is not a tyrant, or spoilsport, but a loving Father, who adopts us as His OWN sons and daughters, that we might dwell with him and share in the inheritance of Jesus Christ.

The Book of Hosea in the OT reveals this same Divine perspective that Jesus» testimony about his Father reveals, a God of Unconditional Love & Mercy who always keeps his covenant with us even when we fail fulfill our obligations to God.

As in liberal Protestantism, the Father was Good; the Son, being human, even better and more philanthropic (well, the Jews and Muslims dropped this bit); and keeping God's commands involved less tradition or ritual and more love of our fellow - men, all men being sons of the one Father.

If I thought it was God who killed my father when I was twelve, and some of my best friends before I was 20, if it was God who had people kidnap me, slander me, threaten to kill me, and turn loved ones against me, then I would have a hard time trusting God, if He was like that.

Because God is a very kind loving heavenly father who wants his children to know and understand the gospel principles, so he caused Joey Smith to have the inspiration to translate the Gold Plates.

I may be mistaken, but it seems in his letter that Cardinal Kasper is denying that in the book he said mercy is essential to God, but rather that it is only «the mirror» of God's love among the Trinity, that the love between the Father and the Son from which proceeds the Holy Spirit has a counterpart in God's merciful love for creation.

God is not religion, believing in God and truly loving God, Jesuscrist's father is to believe what the Holy bible says and follow the 10 commandments.

And wiht the cross in the cartoon another symbol of gods love, the giving nature of God in the soldier posessing the rainbow coloured garment and not forgetting what Jesus said on the cross «father forgive them, they don't know what they are doing».

However, a life time of theological / spiritual formation in our Western Churches has left many people with a concept of God that is more like Baal than the Loving Merciful God and Father of Jesus.

5 You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

Jesus came to tell and show all mankind the true heart of our Father / Mother God; the name, the character, the nature and nurture; which is love, and compassion;

What kind of loving Father would God be if He let me encase myself in comfortable and complacency?

If you read St. John 14, it will tell you that for the man who loves God (he will keep His words) and be loved by the Father also.

I agree that God didn't pursue Adam to smash his face in, never suggested that or alluded to it, but there is no confusion where sin leads and there is no doubt about the consequences off those who love their lives, they will lose it where as those that hate their lives will find it... So to conclude, Jesus and the father are not two different things, they are both the very same in as much as God desires all to be saved and has shown the way to salvation.

If we hadn't done that, we wouldn't have heard about Jesus, and that God is our father and loves us.»

Everything we read in the Bible surely has to absorbed and considered in line with our experience of God — for those of us who have travelled with God for a long time this experience (I hope) bears out a loving, caring, intimately involved Father whose example in the life of Jesus is all about love — tough, body - taking - the - brunt - of - whatever - life - throws, with the deeper soul fixed to God's promises of what lies beyond.

This is not just true of impoverished people, addicts, prostitutes, and those we normally think of, but dignity extended to those who have been terribly wounded by the impossible standards of traditional religion can work wonders in showing people that God is not a tyrant whose expectaions we can never live up to, but a loving Father who takes us as we are.

We let the tinies read the Bible verses and I looked down the table at my father, his once curly red hair now a close - cropped white, holding the Bible open for my son, listening to Joe read about the love of God towards us all.

God gains nothing by being adored, but we gain everything because we are blessed by being drawn ever deeper into his presence, knowing and loving him more and more as he allows us to enter the endless mystery of his being as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Ultimately it is through Jesus that those who love him will see God as he really is and become utterly like him, so we can live the life of heaven together with Jesus in the indescribable joy of the Holy Spirit, which is what God the Father wants for us.

And we are blessed as believers and unbelievers that we are created by God who is loving, merciful and gracious to give us time to find our way to Him, or back to Him, to begin rebuilding and reconnecting as Father and child.

Most often this scripture passage is used to preach or teach about God's unconditional love and his patient mercy, etc., and the primary focus is usually upon the father.

God the Father, who loves us with an infinite love, sacrificed His Beloved Son in order to redeem us from sin and death.

But I love theology (reading and writing and discussing it) because it changed my life... how I think about God, how I interact with people, how I go about being a father and a husband, etc..

It's a father - son book that just tells a story of redemption and how God's love can fill any void in your life and can help restore relationships and redeem them.

God the Father accepts his Son's sacrifice of love for all humanity as an apology for all the sins of the world.

To think that my patient, kind, and tender father who loves God and people more than anyone I know, served as a supportive deacon to these scumbags, and began to question his own observations when they put their spin on the situations... SICKENS ME.

If a basic rule of hermeneutics is that the simpler and clearer texts should override the more difficult and troubling texts, and if Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible God so that He can say «if you have seen Me, you have seen the Father,» why do we choose to let the more troubling, difficult, and violent texts override and trump the loving, merciful, and Christlike texts?

The Father can be loving and just to the Son and the Spirit, and so to say that God is loving and just essentially doesn't create the problems that come from saying he's essentially merciful.

As we seek to love our children like God loves us, and take the needs of our children to our own Father, He helps guide us as we parent our own children.