Sentences with phrase «gracious god of the loving»

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The God of the bible is sovereign, loving, gracious, and just.

The covenant at Sinai also begins with a brief historical introduction («I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt») whose explicit purpose is to document God's gracious intentions toward Israel and to engender Israel's desire to be a faithful servant who would love her lord above all other competitors.

God so loved the world He gave His son Christ... I would not want my last hours on earth to be filled with only kind words, but also with the truth of salvation thru Christ... because of God's gracious love.

The building of the local hospital, the ambulance that got me there before I died from blood loss, the image of God in the paramedics that made them give their lives to rescuing people they've never met, the wisdom of the surgeon, the intelligence and skill of the thousands of individuals whose discoveries have made operating theatres and anaesthesia possible — all of these are gracious gifts of a loving God, whose mercy enables healings to take place across the world that would, in any other generation, be considered quite miraculous.

Jesus is the gracious justice of the God who is love.

The biblical answer to this problem is to first of all recognize that we have the gracious and loving forgiveness of God, but then to admit to God that we have actually messed up our lives by failing to live according to His instructions, and then seeking to take steps and make changes which allow us to live according to God's will.

Gracious God, in Jesus Christ you teach us to love our neighbors, but we build dividing walls of hostility.

God extends it out of his love, simply because He is gracious.

But remember, of course, that theological truth about a loving, gracious, and forgiving God helps lots of people out of the bondage to religion, laws, and guilt.

What are we to make of God's gracious mercy to us, the proof of God's love for us, that while we were still sinners, Christ died for the ungodly?

notice, those whose talents are spent vilifying the Word of God have no interest in the merciful, gracious, and loving, side of God.

If God really is violent, but Jesus revealed none of this violence, then the real lie is Jesus hiding this side of God from us so that He appeared more loving and gracious than He truly is.

Our Queen has been «gracious» and «noble» and «victorious» in the things that really matter — hope and faith in Christ, love of God and of the people she's been graced to serve.

The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, «The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.»

But if we understand God's «glory» as precisely the divine Love - in - act, with its rejoicing in the joys and its sorrowing with the sadness of God's human children — indeed the glory which is nothing other than the divine generosity, gracious welcome, and unfailing faithfulness in mercy and forgiveness, then the phrase is rich in meaning.

Judas who did not repent, but instead hanged himself or Peter, who bitterly repented and restored of the love intensly coming from the Creator and Redeemer of the world toward his unbelievable bitter denial of friendship to a much superlative gracious God!

What the New Testament does do is to portray the gracious message of an open access to that same God whose depth of accepting love is seen on a cross and whose presence in the life of that crucified one is designed to call forth from us the same awe, reverence, and obedience to those rules of life through which we find the fullness of life, the depth of love, and the meaning of our own humanity.

His understanding of God placed gracious love in the center.

This kind of internal contradiction seems to run through much traditional theology; it finds explicit expression in Luther's dichotomy between the terrible God, who put him not only in awe but in utter terror, and the tender and loving God whom he knew in Jesus Christ as the savior, the loving friend, and the gracious Father of men.

There is a good deal of the central message of the Gospel here; God's gracious and forgiving love is powerfully described.

God speaks of his people living lives of gracious and generous giving, of prudent and wise decisions (something never very popular in our culture), our time and money and love, our lives, a sowing towards life.

But God is not capricious, and so there must instead be something wrong with our understanding of prayer and it works in connection to our loving, gracious, and relational God.

If the center of the Christian world view is a gracious and loving God, then the sermon will be delivered in a gracious and loving way.

This is the age - old, liberating Old Testament and biblical faith — that against all indications to the contrary, in all of time, God remains the Lord of history — a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love.

The very heart of the gospel is that the life and death of Jesus reveal the unconditional, gracious love of God.

If the Christian continues to believe in the gracious and providential love of God after Auschwitz, then not only is he once more denying the humanity of the Jew, but he is also inevitably denying the pain of all humanity, refusing the authentic or ultimate reality of a pain that can not be relieved or assuaged by a dehistorized or dehumanized God.

Hate evil and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Because of one of the key truths in the book: God is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in love (4:2).

God's way of acting toward others seems terribly unfair at times because He decides to be generous, loving, forgiving, gracious, and merciful to those who didn't earn it, work for it, or deserve it.

At the heart of this difficult doctrine is the proclamation that our lives and our deaths are in God's hand; we are loved of God not by our own merit but by God's gracious initiative toward us We need not spend our lives in good works in order to be saved but only in grateful response to being so loved.

Gracious and loving God, Mother Hen, Abba, who was made known to us in the body of a babe, born into poverty and despised by the state - Our parent and brother Help us recognize the stranger as our kin.

The gracious love of God our creator has made a way for our redemption.

This gracious God is the perfect fulfillment of the saying, «If you love something, let it go.

What Nygren has shown is that the Reformers» doctrine of the gracious love of God as utterly beyond all calculation and analogy with human love establishes an aspect of New Testament faith which helps to shape every Christian perspective on love.

You have been created again as God's masterpiece for two purposes: to show what God can do through Jesus Christ, and to serve human need, engaging in good works which reflect the nature of God as gracious love.

The words came up to me on every side jostling one another and smiling in agreement so that, where before there was hardly any word in the whole of Scripture more bitter tome than penitentia (which I sought to feign in the presence of God — coram Deo — and tried to express with a fictitious and forced love), now nothing sounds sweeter or more gracious to me than penitentia.

I can fully understand why Muslims aren't that interested in the Trinity, considering our sorry record of fidelity to Jesus, but we Christians are trying to believe what the Jews taught us: that there is only one God (and it's not us)-- Lord of heaven and earth, God of love — who commands us to deal with our sisters and brothers as this gracious, forgiving, receiving God has dealt with us.

Whenever the context requires especial precision I distinguish between the «human loves» meaning man's love for man, other creatures, the world, beauty, all the things which call forth our natural capacities for love, and «the love of God», meaning the gracious love which God gives to man and which takes on the special character of forgiveness and reconciliation.

Universalists, of which I am one, hope that in the end all souls will recognize and accept the gracious love of God and that God's love by its nature is never withdrawn.

Perhaps he might have been most disappointed by the way his original revelation — «the generous love of a gracious God» — was somewhat lost along the way.

I'm Glenn Jackson i recently had a very pleasant & rewarding conversation with Mr. George Ackerly George was not only very understanding & informative but gracious i was pleased with the results of our conversation consultation & when we were finished Mr. Ackerly said something in a beautiful tone of voice that made me feel wonderful he said (God Bless you) i love an try & walk within Jesus all day & when & how he finished with those words it felt like two Christians having an understanding.

Faith Lutheran Church is dedicated to showing the love of Jesus to the world through the sharing of God's gracious gifts with our community and the world.

We are a blended family and the simple beauty of the linked rings so wonderfully depicts how God's gracious second chances in our lives are such a blessing as he combines our families and our love.

I am thankful for 1) A loving and gracious God 2) A healthy and loving extended family 3) A wonderful and loving, God - fearing fiance» - after twelve years of waiting!

Oh, my, goodness, gracious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so over-the-top thrilled!!!! I've got goose bumps!!!!!!!! I've followed you guys for so long & now...... Wow, God!!!!!!!! Love to all three of you... and that pic on FB of Sonny... be still my heart!!!