Sentences with phrase «so in loving relationships»

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So the lesbian couple who left sex far behind them aren't in sin even though they're in a long term committed love relationship and the two elderly gentlemen who no longer have sex are also not in sin, and yet these are homosexual relationships between people who choose to share their lives.

Some awkwardness and misunderstanding is inevitable in relationships, but sometimes, Christian women get so bogged down by the concept of men being «leaders» that we fail to recognize that God only calls us into this kind of «leading» relationship within the walls of a loving, respect - filled, and mutually submissive marriage.

There's no shortage of voices in our culture when it comes to love, and they speak quite authoritatively on all matters of love and romance: What to value in a relationship, how to handle conflict, what real love looks like, the importance of sex and so on.

The cultural perceptions of love speak so loud, in fact, and with such consistency that we would be naive to think we don't enter into romantic relationships with a picture based largely on our surroundings.

(CNN)- Americans love kitsch, and the holidays bring out the best in our love / hate relationship with products that are so bad they just might be great.

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Am I incorrect in saying that you believe that Christine and I can have a truly loving relationship that we each see as a big part of how we relate to the love of God (like the article was suggesting) and yet, when we die and meet God face to face, he will tell us that we broke the rules and so our relationship was detestable to Him and we must now spend eternity in hell?

Rey i assume your married but is your relationship about the dos and donts its about showing your love to your wife not rules if it is theres something wrong.In the same way with Jesus its about the relationship we want to please him in what we think what we do so that we give him the glory.brentnz

In my experiences many victims love their abuser and just want the abuse to stop so they can enjoy the relationship with their loved one without experiencing fear.

This is one of the reasons why artificialcontraception has had such damage upon marriages and relationships: the couple deliberately withhold their fertility and so no longer give themselves completely to each other; in doing this they deny not just the meaning of sex itself but they also subtract from loving one of its «givens» - the orientation towards giving oneself completely to one's spouse.

Reality therapy, developed by psychiatrist William Glasser, is an action - oriented therapy that aims at enabling people to change their behavior so that it will fulfill their basic needs (to give and receive love and to feel worthwhile to themselves and others) in the real world of relationships in ways that do not deprive others of the possibility of fulfilling their needs.

So in your mind having a loving respectful long term relationship with the person you love and are committed too while raising a wonderful children is a sin.

Barth's efforts came so close to resolving the power / love relationship in God, particularly in his focus on the implications of Jesus» crucifixion.

In contrast, modesty can awaken an instinct of respect, and so prepare the way for a truly loving relationship between a man and a woman.

And, most importantly, to take all of that sin and pain and brokenness in the world onto his body and die on the cross for us, because He loves us, unconditionally, so that we can have a relationship with Him.

But when we bring the principle of growth of persons in loving relationship to the judgment of marriages where the partners discover that they have made a mistake and that two people are destroying the possibility of growth in freedom and love, it is no violation of integrity to end the marriage so that each may seek a new life which is more responsible and genuinely productive.

She's the most amazing person and her relationship with her wife is so steeped in unconditional love, peace and joy, that I CAN NOT judge her for it.

(Liberal religion refers to open and ongoing revelation, interconnected relationship grounded in love and never coercion, an understanding of our responsibility to assist the arc of the moral universe in bending toward justice, and our understanding that there are resources both human and divine that make it possible for us to do so.

If Jesus is what the gospel proclaims him to be — that One in whom the love and light and life of God possessed completely a genuine human life, possessed it so fully that we may say of him, as Mr. Basil Willey has well phrased it, that «the life of God is seen in him in human life» — then we can preach Jesus Christ as decisive, as definitive, as the norm for the God - man relationship and the clue to whatever else God may be purposing and accomplishing in this vast and mysterious creation.

Relational people, on the other hand, focus on what God has done for them, and know that God is already in every conversation and relationship (even if He is not mentioned), so they can just love and enjoy the person standing in front of them right now.

If it has not become so already, surely it is now obvious that our consideration of Radha's and Krishna's relationship has brought us to encounter the issue of eroticism and sexuality in the human - divine love relationship.

Scriptural authors never deal with homosexual orientation, and when they do treat homosexual activity, they never do so in the context of a loving relationship.

There are so many gay people in loving relationships that have children that he is threatening.

All the ugliness seen in the OT does not fit with the Jesus I see of the Gospels, so that I hold at arms length until I have been in relationship with others long enough for my inner self to show me how it does fit with the all loving nature of Jesus Christ.

So the point here is that even people who may be «far» from God in terms of meaningful, loving relationship are still «close» to him in the sense that he continually sustains them in existence.

time for me to leave my country for 5 years study (medical field)... and while i am i that country (China) once i intercourse with a prostitute (i am really shamefull)... then after few times i found another girl in facebook (from my hometown only) then fall in love with her and that loves get stronger day by day (she is a christian) and i told her that im not virgin and i had this girlfriend and i did with prostitute so she forgives me and ask me to lie new life... but still i havent leave my e girl friend (i found difficult to leave her, i do nt love her much, but i do nt know how i love her in first place, she is much older than me), my ex gf came to suspects about my new relationship via facebooks post, comments, likes and all and sometimes i did told her that i have this new friend... as time passes by, she realised it and she do nt talk to me anymore till now... and last time i went home i met my new girl friend and we intercourse....

A relationship of love is established rather than a relationship of rejection or condemnation (in spite of what we have so often heard!)

i can feel love for him throughout my heart and soul... i want to grow old with this man... i am 47 and he is 45... he has never been married... he said there is not a chance of getting back together again regardless of how we feel towards each other because we committed adultery and God will never forgive us and it will be wrong to do so... so am i supposed to go on living my life being so deeply in love with this man i can never have... why would God put him in my life to make me feel so spiritually happy, so wonderful, so at peace with myself and someone I can finally worship Him with just to take him away from me... I've never been with someone who was so religious and i thought this was it... i finally have someone to read the bible with and go to church with and put God first and share things with my self and my daughter as a loving relationship would be....

The reason same - sex relations were condemned is because they were not in the context of a loving, long - term relationship (May I ask - do you tell homosexuals that are only in a short - term, sexual relationship that they are sinning, and if so what is their response?)

I relate with some of your dangers, I use to experience some of them when I first «left the church»... But I will say, years later... now that I have learned to center the majority of my relationships around Christ, that this builds lasting relationships and it is fulfilling for all in so many ways... I am learning to «live in community» with some close believers and feel as though I am experiencing Love like I have never experienced it before.

In no area is this adventure so promising as in the one - to - one, person - to - person, relationships where two human lives are glad to share and work together, for the best good of each and with love as the motivation and resource as well as the result of that sharinIn no area is this adventure so promising as in the one - to - one, person - to - person, relationships where two human lives are glad to share and work together, for the best good of each and with love as the motivation and resource as well as the result of that sharinin the one - to - one, person - to - person, relationships where two human lives are glad to share and work together, for the best good of each and with love as the motivation and resource as well as the result of that sharing.

In fact, it sometimes seems that there is an inverse relationship between the two, so that as Bible knowledge goes up, the presence of love goes down.

Two books that changed me in late high school (they set me firmly on the path I still follow): Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (it grounded my faith in reason)[and] Out of the Saltshaker by Rebecca Manley Pippert (for many reasons: loving Jesus so much that it overflows into your relationships with non-believers, and it gave me a picture of a strong, intelligent woman who was doing ministry)-- Laura Mott Tarro

So when the people of Israel reject a relationship of love in favor of a religion of law, it is not surprising that this religion of law exponentially increases in complexity.

In the case of Israel, God entered into the religion they wanted so that He could lead them out of it and into the loving relationship He wanted for them.

At night, I picture God, in his love without condition, standing over us while we sleep, clutching his heart over how beautiful we are, longing for more and better for us, knowing us better than we know ourselves, seeing a bigger picture, longing for a deeper relationship and loving us so much that it takes over the entire story.

But if that's so, he notes, then it should govern the way Christians think about same - sex sexual activity as well, and thus he concludes: «When those with homosexual orientation act on their desires in a loving, committed relationship, [they] are not, as far as I can see, violating the love command.»

God does not want to be «figured out» but wants to be in relationship with us so his (or, if you will, her) love, wisdom, inspiration, health, energy and very life can be part of us, flow through us and give us love, life, wisdom, inspiration and energy to share with others.

Just because Wars had been waged in the name of religion doesn't make the point of it Wrong,,, otherwise why does it say (He who loves me, keeps my commandments) almost at the same time as it says (I give you a new commandment, love...) in short, Yes, Jesus is what matters, but to know Jesus I need His word, the Bible, I need a relationship with Him, I need to understand What He wants me to be Like (Be Holy as your Father in Heaven) which is not just an old testament quote, but a new Testament as well,,, at the end, if Religion was so pointless and to be hated, why Would God ask us to test the spirits, why does he tell us (by their fruits you would know them.)

Its purpose is to illumine the ways in which the channels of the relationship can be deepened and broadened so that the love which is available in persons and in the universe can flow more fully.

Carnal concupiscence on the other hand, also present in marriage, tends in its self - centered forcefulness to disturb the loving relationship which should exist between husband and wife, and so can easily prevent marital sexuality from being completely at the service of love.

Spiritual maturing occurs when a couple lives their religion; that is, when they relate so that realities like faith, hope, and love come alive in their relationship.

«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».

Jefferson in his many words is todays paul by basically testifying to a lost society by preaching «The heart «that is what God wants not the shell which will rott away.I can stand with this truth until the day I die because I also have had disagreements in my church about this same topic.I dispise religion and encourage salvation which come from having a relationship with Jesus.Many may ask how do i have a relationship with him?by simply asking God through prayer, not what we know as pray but simply given up and telling God he win.That is what being righteous means saying «lord your're right and i will believe and obey that.Last i will like to thank jefferson for this clip, becuase for so long I have been feeling like todays churches in not like the first churches.They are stuck into their four cornered walls preaching to those who already obtain the word and people who already think they are perfect, but what about the weak and the sinners who we are suppose to love, go after, preach to, help and deliver the same way as Christ camed for the sinners so do we also be like him.Jefferson basically telling all us young people and old no matter who have suffered in the world, the church, or no matter what party or the past that there is hope and «God wants that person» not the sin but the person.Jefferson wants us to know that God can become personal with us and we do exist or can exist in the christian world not because we are perfect but because «he is perfect and he saw our broken spirits and rescued us!

no, its no more a sin than eating buggers, just stop beating up on oneself, if you are in love with YHWH, and do His law, the 10 commandments, just as David did, plenty of wrong in his life, but he prayed, and he prayed, he also loved YHWH so much, he was loyal, and loving to YHWH, so YHWH chose him, and his seed, do the law of righteousness, the commandments, and pray, and pray, love YHWH with all of you heart, and no other man made of flesh, and blood can judge anyone else, only YHWH can, He has the complete authority, and as long as you have a relationship deep with Him, He knows.

And so the relationship between Hartshorne and Aquinas is not unfairly described, in the words of the old cliché, as one of love - hate.

No, God is intimately involved in our daily lives, but this first point of the chaos theory simply argues that God is such a believer in having true relationships with His creatures, that He gave us true and genuine freedom within creation, so that we can choose to love and serve Him (or not).

We must use what is familiar to talk about the unfamiliar; so we turn to events, objects, relationships from ordinary, contemporary life in order to say something about what we do not know how to talk about — the love of God.

The framing of a husband and wife relationship in terms of love — the kind of delightful, playful love found in the Song of Songs — completely changes things... So, too, if we frame our relationship to the Bible in terms of authority, we will inevitably have authoritarian issues emerging as theology.»

In so doing he perhaps had in mind the words of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which reminds us that, «Created «in the image of God», man also expresses the truth of his relationship with God the Creator by the beauty of his artistic works» before further explaining that, «To the extent that it is inspired by truth and love of beings, art bears a certain likeness to God's activity in what he has createIn so doing he perhaps had in mind the words of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which reminds us that, «Created «in the image of God», man also expresses the truth of his relationship with God the Creator by the beauty of his artistic works» before further explaining that, «To the extent that it is inspired by truth and love of beings, art bears a certain likeness to God's activity in what he has createin mind the words of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which reminds us that, «Created «in the image of God», man also expresses the truth of his relationship with God the Creator by the beauty of his artistic works» before further explaining that, «To the extent that it is inspired by truth and love of beings, art bears a certain likeness to God's activity in what he has createin the image of God», man also expresses the truth of his relationship with God the Creator by the beauty of his artistic works» before further explaining that, «To the extent that it is inspired by truth and love of beings, art bears a certain likeness to God's activity in what he has createin what he has created.