Sentences with phrase «jesus as our lover»

Marital lovemaking, not only mirrors this act of Jesus as our Lover, and we His Beloved, but also the creation of the world itself, when the Spirit of God (male) hovered over the dark waters (female) before the Spirit impregnated the Void with His life, and the Big Bang occurred (orgasm), evolving the Universe to what you see today, which is the creation yearning for the birth of the sons of God - truly the creation and earth and Universe is still in labour pains until the birth occurs!

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Helped by the promotion of numerous popular Nigerian artists, Bassey, who describes himself on his Twitter page as an «authentic Jesus lover», tweeted «It is a Revival and a revolution.

In church I used to think many things favoured women — songs like «my lovers breath is sweet as wine» when singing about Jesus that I found repulsive.

For example, Bernard of Clairvaux takes a line by the woman to her lover, «O that he would kiss me with the kisses of his mouth» (1:2) as an analogy for the incarnation: Jesus is God's «kiss»!

As a first year seminary student and an avid lover of all things Christmas, I've had the pleasure of learning a number of things about the birth of Jesus that I found too beautiful not to share.

Indeed when my friend Professor Seshagiri Rao, a distinguished Hindu scholar, was asked to address an international Christian missionary conference, he began by saying, «I speak to you as a fellow lover of Jesus Christ...»

We may describe it as due to an increased interest in Jesus as a human wonder - worker, as the Friend and Lover of men, especially of those who were without the law, as the ideal for Christian conduct.

But one of the things I've always loved about blogging is that I get to my whole self here: I get to love theology and Church talk, I get to write about mothering and family and marriage, I get to crack jokes at my own expense, I get to love Doctor Who and Call the Midwife, I get to love thrifting and knitting and pretty things as well as being a Jesus feminist, I get to be a homemaker who talks recipes and cleaning and laundry as well as a lover of literature and poetry and history and Girl Power, I love the local church and yet I don't wear rose - coloured glasses about this stuff.

Known as love - in - action, disclosed as that love by the event in which Jesus is central, caught up into life «in love» (which, if I John 4 is right, is life «in God»), we are enabled to become what God intends us to be, created lovers.

They spoke of Jesus like one speaks of an intimate friend or lover, as if they had just returned from a long walk by his side, their faces still flush from the movement, their breathing still labored from trying to keep up.

The lovers of mankind are often its martyrs; because, as Oscar Wilde said, Jesus was a lover for whom the world was too small, he had to die.

It points to God as active lover as it sees Him supremely active in the Man Jesus and in all who participate in His Spirit.

Liberal Christians supposedly know all this stuff they ignore, but they tend to have their little cute image of Jesus as a lamb hugging, all forgiving incarnated god or a rebellious, lover of the poor, challenger of the system.

My strong conviction is that this God is self - disclosed in the total event of Jesus of Nazareth — and is there disclosed as nothing other than «pure unbounded Love», as Love - in - act, as (if you will) the cosmic Lover.

Keller writes in his best - selling book The Meaning of Marriage: «Husband and wife are to be both lovers and friends to one another as Jesus is to us.