Sentences with phrase «jesus called»

But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

Bonhoeffer's advice is practical: (1) don't argue about your sins with anyone but God; (2) remind the devil that Jesus called the sinners, not the righteous, to repentance.

There are some behaviors, actions that straight and LGBTQ people can engage in that Jesus called sin, but he didn't call who someone is sin.

Jesus called them «little children» (13:33).

Forget that Jesus called it a no - no: modern American christianity is not really about the teachings of Jesus.

(After all, Jesus» most early followers were fisherman from fishing villages, who Jesus called «fishers of men.»)

The greatest obstacle to prayer is that it is too often addressed not to the One whom Jesus called Abba but to ourselves or to an idol of our fantasy.

Jesus called followers to a purity of heart and a radical loyalty to God.

The Gospel writers record that Jesus called his followers to a way of life in which violence and division are overcome by sacrificial love.

Jesus called on believers to take responsibility for taking care of the orphans, widows, and the poor; he never once asked the Romans or the Hebrew king to take care of anyone.

That's what Jesus called us to do, and that's what, at least in occasional moments, each of us is doing.

While Genesis 6:5 does speak about a specific period of time (before the Flood), but the conclusion of that verse is that Man is totally wicked / depraved and it shows Man's true sinful nature.Me personally, I don't use Genesis 6:5 to prove that man is totally depraved when Paul teaches that in Ephesians and Romans.Scripture teaches that man is DEAD, Dead is his Sin, and it's God who makes one ALIVE.The simplest example is Lazarus dead in the Tomb when Jesus called him forth.Lazarus came forth.Could of Lazarus resisted?

Several times already we have quoted Wesley's fine words about «pure, unbounded love»: never was there a more apt description of the reality of God, although in Wesley's hymn the words are in fact applied to Christ — and appropriately, since in Christ (if Christian faith is right) the «pure, unbounded love» that is seen humanly expressed is the manifestation, reflection, and participation in human terms of the divine Lover whom Jesus called «my Father in heaven.»

He is the publican Matthew, whom Jesus called from his seat at the receipt of custom (Matt.

The disciples ate, drank, sweat and slept ministry from when Jesus called them to the day they died.

Of course, we don't know what happened to Zebedee — how he may have responded the next time Jesus called.

The fire Jesus called for had fallen on himself and his ministry.

When Jesus called for them to come to him when He would meet with the crowds of people, do you think He asked them to wash their clothes and take a bath before approaching Him?

Indeed, they claimed to worship the one true God of Israel, the Creator of all that is, the one whom Jesus called «Father,» by whose power he had been raised from the dead.

As a prophet and renewal movement founder, Jesus called his hearers into «an alternative community with an alternative consciousness,» to use Walter Brueggemann's illuminating phrase (The Prophetic Imagination [Fortress, 1978]-RRB-.

Jesus called himself the Son of God, making himself equal to God.

The same inconclusiveness applies to the argument that Jesus called only men to serve in the Twelve and that we must follow his example.

Matthew 20: 25But Jesus called them aside and said, «You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their superiors exercise authority over them.

I am convinced the only reason the government got into «social justice» in the first place is because the church has been neglecting its responsibility to take care of the needy in our community as Jesus called us to do.

Paul blessings as i shared with Christine it is a personal relationship with Jesus when Jesus called his disciples he said follow me not the church not man.I belong to 2 churchs and i keep in touch with a couple indirectly and minister from time to time they are all different styles and different doctrines and in each of them i have people i care about they are family to me brothers and sisters in the Lord and i can go there and feel at home we sing and worship the Lord and hear the word together its awesome.I used to feel that i did nt fit in now i can fit in anywhere because where we go he goes with us.There is unity in Christ even though we may differ in doctrine.brentnz

Jesus called Christians to be a community of believers.

Christ was not inflexible nor was he irritable, as is shown in the Gospel of Mark 2:13 - 17 (NJB) in which it is recorded that Jesus called Levi and ate with sinners saying to those who condemned him: «It is not the healthy who need the doctor, but the sick.

Now we must ask whether such a deity could be understood as the one whom Jesus called Abba.

Jesus called Satan the «great accuser».

And don't forget now: Jesus called us friends.

I can find no where in the bible Where Jesus called his disciples to hate any one, He taught to forgive your those who hate you and to bless them that attack you.

A Buddhized formulation would be close to the one Jesus called Abba.

Why was Jesus called «The son of man?»

«And Jesus called them to him and said to them, «You know that those who are supposed to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.

Jesus called people snakes and hypocrites because He told the truth.

Jesus called out with a loud voice, «Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.»

Jesus called us to love Him with all our heart and all our mind and all our soul.

Jesus called it committing adultery in the heart, a sin Jimmy Carter famously confessed in a Playboy interview many years ago.

Yes, after Lot (who jesus called a «most righteous man») tried to give his virgln daughters to an unruley mob to r@pe.

Jesus called you to spread hatred and bigotry?

Third, we can liken the marvelous works to which Jesus called the Twelve to the heroic, superhuman efforts made by individual Christians to combat the powers of death, disease, and evil.

On this occasion Jesus called them to him and told them, as he had before (cf. Mk 9:35; Lk 9:48), that the greatest among them would he the slave of the rest: they were not to lord it over men, as the rulers of the nations did (cf Lk 22:24 - 26).

Pre-flood thought patterns are rising... «Gen 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually...» Jesus called it a sign.

At this point, whether in good circumstances or bad, Christian faith and especially that aspect of it which Jesus called the kingdom of God, becomes highly relevant.

Jesus called them that becuase of their acts, conduct and behavior.

Jesus called the Pharisees vipers and whitewashed tombs.

Who is it Jesus called friends?

I think it would do us well, though, to remember that Jesus called his disciples to be witnesses.

This is nearly identical to what we saw Peter do when Jesus called him to be a fisher of men.

Jesus called men to himself to be leaders.