Sentences with phrase «what about a grace»

What about a grace period or a finance charge?

Not exact matches

When you struggle and fight and endure, you not only stretch the limits of what you believe you are capable of, but you also sometimes enter a state of grace that you find only when you strip away what is truly nonessential (which turns out to be most of what you worry about).

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

It bothers me often when I think of the youth that I was a pastor to and those who I was placed in authority over, I seriously fear at times about what I have done, yet I also thank God for his grace and mercy.

We recently spoke with author Eric Metaxas (Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy; Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery) about his new book Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life and what inspired him to explore the idea of supernatural phenomenon in an increasingly cynical woWhat They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life and what inspired him to explore the idea of supernatural phenomenon in an increasingly cynical wowhat inspired him to explore the idea of supernatural phenomenon in an increasingly cynical world.

These verses, though quite popular as texts about how to receive eternal life by grace alone through faith alone, are actually about what God has done to rescue us from the condition described in Ephesians 2:1 - 3, so that we can become what is described in Ephesians 2:11 - 22.

If you want to learn more about what Scripture teaches about the words «save» and «grace» and «faith» and how these are related to the gospel, consider taking my course, «The Gospel According to Scripture.»

The content of that record was influenced by Bono's activism, the Jubilee 2000 campaign and a book Bono had been reading: Philip Yancey's What's So Amazing About Grace?

By cherry - picking texts out of the Bible to reveal the goodness, and love, and mercy, and grace, and acceptance of God, while at the same time, soundly rejecting and denying the texts which talk about a bloodthirsty god of violence, we have seen that both Jesus and Paul are saying what we can loudly proclaim today as well: «God is not like that!

This is what growing in grace and sanctification is all about.

After a brief explanation about what this life in Christ, this «salvation» entails (Ephesians 2:6 - 7), Paul picks back up the «by grace you have been saved» statement in Ephesians 2:8 - 9 and explains it further.

I love it when I am teaching about grace, and someone in the class objects by saying, «But if what you are saying is true, then why can't I just go sin all I want?»

I did not know much about Grace from the B.I.B.L.E, however I use to realize many people commit flagrant sins, they know exactly what there were doing.

He modifies what he wrote in Ephesians 2:5 by pointing out four additional things about this life which we received by the grace of God: He says this life is also (1) through faith, (2) is not of yourselves, (4) it is a gift of God, and (3) is not by works.

Indeed, given what Christianity teaches about charity, human sinfulness, and God's grace, being a Christian may make Benedict or any other Christian far less likely to be fanatical than the atheist.

But this past week I was talking to someone about grace, and they objected with the grace litmus test, and I don't know what happened, but I sighed out of exasperation and decided to give a different answer than the one I had always given before.

Philip Yancey's tells Lucinda van der Hart about his latest title, Vanishing Grace: What Ever Happened to the Good News?

It's Peter Selby's re-issued Grace and Mortgage and it asks profound questions about what our message is to a culture in bondage by debt, who Jesus is for this culture, and with whom we are called to stand in solidarity.

The other possibility, the evocation of the transcendent good — grace, beauty, God — through the hard temporal realities of individuals in action is much harder to carry off, as evidenced in Greene's The Power and the Glory, Charles Williams» Descent into Hell, C. S. Lewis» Out of the Silent Planet, Tolstoy's Resurrection, and perhaps most poignantly in the dismal failure of most literary attempts to portray the central mystery, the life of Jesus — Kazantzakis» The Greek Passion, Faulkner's A Fable, or — most dismal of all, historical novels about Jesus (what could be less hidden?)

what I appreciate about David's cartoons, is that he'll go on for awhile exposing the flaws in some of our churches, right up to the point where I almost don't want to hear any more and then * KABOOM * he hits us with the love and grace of God.

This time has been a critical moment of transition and momentum for me: as I look to publish a book this year that God spoke to me about eight years ago, as the church we serve in begins to feel momentum and grace for a new season, as my wife and I close out our seventh year of marriage, and enter what I believe will be our most fruitful season yet.

Jeremy, you could write a novel, without any thing illicit being said or done, as Lewis did, about a man who found ways to talk about Jesus (Gods Grace you know what I mean) over and against the forces surrounding him.

His distinction between «cheap» grace and «costly» grace changed my heart about what it means to be a disciple of Jesus.

Some recent contributions to this conversation include Grace Biskie's plea to engage in racial reconciliation, Erin Thomas» story of what it's like to be a person of faith with Asperger's Syndrome, Aric Clark's defense of the passionate Mainline, Dianna Anderson's explanation of what feminism is not, and Registered Runaway's heartbreaking post about what happened when his father learned he was gay.

If you want to learn more about what Scripture teaches about the words «save» and «grace» and how these are related to the gospel, consider taking my course, «The Gospel According to Scripture.»

Focus on the love and grace of Christ, and please stop being obsessed about what people do with their genitals.

This recalls what was said in Chapter IV about grace.

Philip Yancey's book What's So Amazing About Grace?

feels like a counterpoint to What's So Amazing About Grace?

What if the intent, watchful one on the right sees a halo of self righteousness about the head of the one on the left, and feels love and sadness over the truth and grace missing when he draws close and encounters a publicly presented picture of «happy face»?

• «What Nostra Aetate failed to do was to tell the truth about the essence of God's Grace and Mercy, the truth about our Salvation,» writes a reader of our weblog First Thoughts, responding to something I'd written about our Jewish brethren.

Christians who wish to speak «the language of the people» — and thus talk a lot about what makes up «the Christian lifestyle» — often assume that they can return to their own familiar «religious» language of grace and faith, sin and redemption, justice and mercy, even act and consequence, whenever they want.

Yet mysticism is scarcely half of what spirituality is about — the other half being prophecy, by which I understand the living out of the grace - experience in the body politic by way of justice.

As I was writing What's So Amazing About Grace?

We talked to Yancey about his new book Christians in politics and what it looks like to live in grace in a «post-Christian» society.

Jeremy Myers, i think you are wrong and David is right, so many out there are preaching you can live any way you want and be right that Grace covers any sin, they really believe that, that is not what the bible says, God was very concerned about sin so much he sent Jesus his son to die on a cross for us, if we accept Jesus as our savor then we are to obey his commandments, not break them, we are to live a righteous and holy life as possible, the bible plainly list a whole list of things if we live in will not to to heaven unless we repent, if we die while in these sins, we will not go to heaven, what is the difference, between someone who said a prayer and someone who did not, and they are living the same way, none, i think, if we are truly saved it should be hard to do these things let alone live and do them everyday, i would be afraid to tell people that it does not matte grace covers their sins, i really think it is the slip ups that we are convicted of by the Holy Spirit and we ask for forgivness, how can anyones heart be right with God and they have sex all the time out of marriage, lie, break every commandment of God, i don't think this is meaning grace covers those sins, until they repent and ask for forgiveness, a lot of people will end up in hell because preachers teach Grace the wrong way,, and those preachers will answer to God for leading these people the wrong way, not saying you are one of them, but be careful, everything we teach or preach must line up with the word of God, God hatesGrace covers any sin, they really believe that, that is not what the bible says, God was very concerned about sin so much he sent Jesus his son to die on a cross for us, if we accept Jesus as our savor then we are to obey his commandments, not break them, we are to live a righteous and holy life as possible, the bible plainly list a whole list of things if we live in will not to to heaven unless we repent, if we die while in these sins, we will not go to heaven, what is the difference, between someone who said a prayer and someone who did not, and they are living the same way, none, i think, if we are truly saved it should be hard to do these things let alone live and do them everyday, i would be afraid to tell people that it does not matte grace covers their sins, i really think it is the slip ups that we are convicted of by the Holy Spirit and we ask for forgivness, how can anyones heart be right with God and they have sex all the time out of marriage, lie, break every commandment of God, i don't think this is meaning grace covers those sins, until they repent and ask for forgiveness, a lot of people will end up in hell because preachers teach Grace the wrong way,, and those preachers will answer to God for leading these people the wrong way, not saying you are one of them, but be careful, everything we teach or preach must line up with the word of God, God hatesgrace covers their sins, i really think it is the slip ups that we are convicted of by the Holy Spirit and we ask for forgivness, how can anyones heart be right with God and they have sex all the time out of marriage, lie, break every commandment of God, i don't think this is meaning grace covers those sins, until they repent and ask for forgiveness, a lot of people will end up in hell because preachers teach Grace the wrong way,, and those preachers will answer to God for leading these people the wrong way, not saying you are one of them, but be careful, everything we teach or preach must line up with the word of God, God hatesgrace covers those sins, until they repent and ask for forgiveness, a lot of people will end up in hell because preachers teach Grace the wrong way,, and those preachers will answer to God for leading these people the wrong way, not saying you are one of them, but be careful, everything we teach or preach must line up with the word of God, God hatesGrace the wrong way,, and those preachers will answer to God for leading these people the wrong way, not saying you are one of them, but be careful, everything we teach or preach must line up with the word of God, God hates sin,

No, what American Catholics are happy about, or should be, is that the pope is bringing Christianity into the dialogue with secularism in a way that doesn't alienate the people he would like to introduce to Christ via grace and mercy AND that he is doing so while maintaining the firm teachings the Church holds on moral matters.

Philip Yancey's tells Lucinda van der Hart about his latest title, Vanishing Grace: What Ever Happened... More

God chose a guy that was steeped in law, to tell us that it is not about law (or what we do) but rather it is all about grace (what Christ has done... for us).

This is not what I believe about grace, nor is it what I believe the Bible teaches about grace.

What I meant, of course, is that I can never read enough or learn enough about God's grace.

I remembered Brennan Manning — the man who has translated the love of God in a way that I could receive it more than probably any other writer — was addicted to alcohol and I re-read up one of his last books before he died: «All is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir» where he vulnerably writes about what this battle has cost him, even as he experienced the unending and unconditional love of God in the midst of it, how he experienced regret and pain and loss alongside of the love and tenderness of God in this dependency.

I would call you every name in the book and tell you where you can shove it and not think twice... But the lords grace helps not to tell you what I am feeling about you inside...

But, I question what the fuss is about that we have no new Flannery O'Connors, when the old O'Connors, the Catholic writers of an earlier day, seem to have gained popular attention largely by giving a slightly Catholic accent to the conventions of existentialism rather than offering a vision of the world that really captured its intelligible and lovable quality — one that prepares us, as Beatrice prepared Dante, to enter into the presence of grace.

It's that living under law thing that kills us (the Spirit gives life but the letter kills), trying to live up to standards and rules, principles and guidelines, etc... The church these days has pretty much no idea what grace even is, and if you start talking about God's love, I mean his real love based only on Christ's merit, people call you a heretic.

The principal points Paul made in that address are (1) to recall to their minds the character and quality of his ministry to them; (2) to remind them of the trouble the Jews gave him and the anxiety and suffering he underwent in their behalf; (3) to state that he preached repentance and faith in Jesus Christ as the essence of the gospel; (4) to testify that he went now to Jerusalem not knowing what would happen to him there except that he knew by the Holy Spirit that afflictions awaited him; (5) to assure them that nothing concerned him, not even the loss of life itself, so long as he could testify to the grace of God in Jesus Christ; (6) to say that he had no regrets about his ministry to the people in Ephesus, for he was clean of the blood of all the people there, for he preached the full gospel to all of them; and (7) to admonish them to be diligent in their oversight of the Ephesian church and to feed the church of God there, which Christ purchased with his own blood.

Grace; forgiveness of sin belief but them comes hell, prayer; fasting certain rituals; penance certain meeting reading verses; join the Republican be a good Conservative they are saved protection of life in the Womb but what about every one else?.

If that is the grace of marriage, what about the symbolism of marriage?

And for those who feel bogged down by the seemingly endless debates about women in the Church, it offers a fresh, grace - filled take on what the Bible really says about women.

Christy Gualtieri writes a blog for RELEVANT about the show Intervention and what it can show us about God's relentless pursuit of us and His grace.