Sentences with phrase «holiness teaches»

This challenge is finally no different from the traditional Christian challenge of love and holiness taught through the centuries.

«It seems safe to say that five years ago such a congress could not have taken place - so strong were these differences in such matters as Pentecostalism, holiness teachings, and co-operative evangelism».6 Yet they met.

Not exact matches

The marks of the Catholic church are: One - In doctrine, sacraments, and head (the pope); Holy - its sacraments and teachings lead men to holiness; Universal - meaning the same doctrine and sacraments and head throughout the world; and Apostolic - can be directly traced to the Apostles and Jesus Christ.

The lives of the saints do not present us with a new theory of virtue, but a new way of teaching, a new strategy that builds on the tradition of examples, but enriches it by unfolding a pattern of holiness over the course of a lifetime.

«Tts 2:3 - 4 The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,»!!

John Paul saw how women can continue Christ's selfless love in a way that teaches the world the meaning of holiness and true human happiness.

We must teach and encourage them to discern whether they are being called to marriage or celibacy and that nothing in between can serve their call to holiness.

Through this same vision we are able to teach and encourage the way of holiness and prayer as personal fulfilment in both wisdom and joy through humble union with the Father, through the Son, in the Spirit.

Mormons teach a rigorous, exacting standard of Holiness that ALL their Church members must meet in order to be in good standing with the Lord.

The document also insists, however, «that God has been present in their seeking and finding, that where there is truth and wisdom in their teachings, and love and holiness in their living, this, like any wisdom, insight, knowledge, understanding, love and holiness that is found among us, is the gift of the Holy Spirit.»

Christianity teaches nonsense when it speaks of the holiness of God, of his absolute sovereignty, or of God as suffering love.

We felt called to listen to John Henry Newman's teachings and so be inspired to be witnesses to the beauty of holiness in this land and to defend and proclaim the unchanging moral truths of the Gospel.

Providing basic catechesis Leonard creates a simple introduction to the main points of Catholic teaching on the Sacraments, prayer, personal holiness and the call to evangelise those around us, with a bit of salvation history thrown in too.

God uses the idea of cleanliness to teach us about His holiness.

In his sermon on that day the Holy Father invited «everyone to bless the name of the Lord whose glory shines forth in the teaching and holiness of life of Blessed John, minstrel of the Incarnate Word and defender of Mary's Immaculate Conception.»

Synan argued that Pentecostalism was an outgrowth of the 19th - century Holiness Movement, which in turn had its origin in the teachings of John Wesley.

Evidence of Chesterton's holiness begins with his lifelong resolve to heed Christ's teaching: «Unless you be converted and become as little children, you shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.»

R. R. Reno has written eloquently: «By clarifying what God has done in the person of Mary, the Church raises our eyes toward the highest goals, teaching the faithful that human flesh is capable of remarkable feats of holiness — even to the point of sinless perfection and fellowship with God in our flesh.»

The Council teaching readily recognizes the evidence of Christian faith and holiness outside the boundaries of the Catholic Church; evidence, one might add, that is sometimes more conspicuous than the evidence found among some who are in full communion with the Church.

We are called on to clarify what God in the historical labor for holiness and justice wrests from us as sound teaching.

The lines are also blurred by large segments of Pentecostalism (especially in the south and among blacks) that are also «Holiness» in that they teach «three works of grace» — conversion, entire sanctification and a «baptism in the Spirit» with speaking in tongues.

Americans in the two opposing strains of Protestantism, the evangelical and liberal, along with many adherents of Pentecostal and holiness cults, would agree that religious knowledge is special knowledge that can not be taught or learned by ordinary means (Philip J. Lee, Against the Protestant Gnostics, 113).

It teaches one true God, holiness, salvation, sanity, compassion, goodness, intelligence, dignity and justice.

The experience of God's holiness makes us sensitive to the importance of Christian teaching.

My purpose is to nail down bluntly three areas where we Christians in North America are not doing much reflection these days: God's holiness, sound teaching, and capitalism in the church.

The struggle over God's justice teaching, however, will not get anywhere without the premise of a new experience of the holiness of God.

doctorezero, Marriage to Jesus means she believes in His teachings and distributes His truth to others which then brings forth fruit to God, the fruit of holiness.

The Council of Trent taught that it's always possible, with the help of God's grace, to obey the commandments — that God wills our transformation and helps us along the way to holiness.

«You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.»

Usually, we believe that creeds and confessions protect the gospel, defending it against heresy, keeping at bay those who teach a false gospel, and leading people toward central truths of gospel, such as God's holiness, our sinfulness, and the person and work of Jesus Christ.

Just at what would seem to be the moment of Moses» total immersion in the mystical presence of God, God stops Moses where Moses is, to teach him that his holiness depends on finding holiness where he stands.

The damage this can do to the Church, her liturgy, her teaching, and above all to the yearning for holiness — which always requires renunciation of the goods of this world for love of the Good who infinitely transcends this world — is beyond calculation.

I teach my children to follow the teaching of Paul found in the book of Hebrews: «Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.»

You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrüpted by its deceïtful desïres; to be made new in the attïtude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Msgr. Jaeger expanded upon that theme, noting that «while often presented as if it were absolutely new,» the teaching of Nostra Aetate «perfectly corresponds to the most ancient intuitions of Christian theology» when it affirms there can be, and in some cases are, «elements of truth and holiness» in other religions, particularly Judaism, as explained by St. Paul in the Epistle to the Romans.

Without falling into that old rut of opposing the legalistic and the prophetic, we may discover in the very teaching of the Torah an increasing pulsation that turn by turn sets out the Law in terms of endlessly multiplying prescriptions and then draws it together, in the strong sense of the word, by summing it up in one set of commandments which only retain its being directed towards holiness.

While the Apostles were truly a less than desirable lot, between the arguments between themselves.The fact that they had Jesus there but never believed Him till He rose from the dead always gave me hope for my salvation knowing I was not a model of holiness that Jesus taught.

No, I think that we have severely misunderstood what the Bible teaches about sin and the holiness of God.

It «teaches that all life is essentially a unity as the creation which proceeds from the Divine oneness».26 This affirms the wholeness and holiness of the creation and thus it brings value to creation.

-21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

To teach prayer and holiness to edgy adolescents is no small achievement.

By their teaching and judging, priests served as guardians of Israel's holiness.

According to Shafi'i teaching, the descent of the Qur» an took place on one of the uneven dates of the last ten days of Ramadan; therefore, the nights of the 21st, 23rd, 25th, 27th, and 29th of Ramadan have a special holiness.

Under Moses, who led the Israelites to the edge of the Promised Land of Canaan, the people had been taught to recognize God as the one who had saved them from the Egyptians and who had protected them through the wilderness and who required holiness and moral behavior.

In the church, it seems to me that Black women - more than any other racial / gender group - are taught that strain and suffering are indicative of holiness.

After YEARS of almost every baptist, holiness, church of god, and other denominations teaching that mormonism is a cult, all of a sudden, they're WRONG?

Those who teach a doctrine of sanctification in the Wesleyan, Holiness tradition, the «three works of grace.»

For example, East Africa was evangelised, it is true, first by missionaries, but it was the East African Revival that set the pattern for holiness, for a vigour of lifestyle in relationship with Christ that so impressed an 18 year old teaching at Kiburu Secondary school.

The East African Revival teaches us the need for holiness.

Personally I find this the raw material for teaching but even more importantly: it's your holy time with holiness, with the creative processs, to uncover how you move, breathe, feel and ignite your passion.