Sentences with phrase «about grace in»

It's just all so sad, but never actually rings true, a movie about grace in defeat that showcases few discernible grace notes.

When we talk about grace in the Church, we most often define it in terms of the bad things we've done that don't matter anymore in God's eyes.

They are referring, of course, to the statement in Romans 6:1 where a person objects to Paul's teaching about grace in exactly the same way.

Not exact matches

In excerpts released from the book, Princess Caroline (his older sister) was candid about her relationship with her parents, specifically her mother who was film - star - turned - princess Grace Kelly.

July 26, 2017: A discussion with Grace Ezzell and Will King, who will speak about blockchain use cases in land registry and property rights.

If you are in the six - month, post-graduation grace period before you have to start paying your federal loans, use the time to get informed and do the necessary analysis to make the right decision about your payment options.

Unlike many reports that have emerged in the wake of revelations about Harvey Weinstein, Grace's story is not one of workplace harassment.

Grace is a middle aged woman who writes about the challenges of saving for retirement and minimizing debt late in life, with a middle class income.

«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.

humility is where grace can be found, and in the end it's all about love.

Keep firm with your Faith and continue to proclaim the Good News of our LORD, the TRUTH about his HOLY SPIRIT given to all who believe in GOD's SAVING GRACE.

I'm involved in Grace, an alternative worship community in London, that has been going for about 13 years.

[There was] passion in the room to be talking about this subject and for those living with same sex attraction, to be welcoming, to be grace filled, to be including!»

There was, to be sure, a pastoral problem of the «troubled conscience» in the late medieval Church, brought about — to oversimplify — by the convergence of certain unresolved issues in Augustine's theology of grace with certain developments in the canon law of penance.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad he's gone, but grace in victory says more about a people than common defilement (a la «wrap him in bacon» crowd) in said situation.

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 world.

Because of this, many have called you a representative of postmodern Christianity — postmodern in the sense that while holding to the traditional doctrines of Christianity, you embrace a view of God's love and grace that extends beyond the parameters evangelicals tend to establish about who is «in» and who is «out» in God's family.

Salvation comes by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone ----- Except if God placed you in a region on earth where christianity doesn't exist, then you've never heard of Christ, and will likely go your entire life without learning the first thing about him.

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.

Background About two years ago, I published an article called The Gospel is More than «Faith Alone in Christ Alone» in the Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society.

It was exciting because my theology was changing and I was discovering new vistas on about the grace of God and the role of faith and works in the life of believers.

Michael shares eight of the reservations he had about institutional church and how grappling with these issues led him to see that church is not found in a building, but in all people who are saved by grace and follow Jesus in their day - to - day lives by loving and serving others.

I was told by a former small group leader in a group setting that its good that I know these principles (about grace).

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.

Just as God will not remove his grace from us, there are certain other things about conversion that can never be removed from us, or repeated in us.

The movie mogul's dramatic fall from grace has been widely reported as a flood of lurid allegations about sexual harassment and rape from women in the...

The plot of the video in relation to the song is difficult to pinpoint, but Bridges sings «I don't worry, don't worry, don't worry about people in my face / I hit»em with the style and grace, and watch their ankles break,» as he brushes off haters, and Elsessner appears to do the same.

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?»

Pundits can banter about one southern cook and the nature of racism in this continent, about the nature of marriage and truth and grace and orientation and the Church, and our screens can explode with opinions and rebuttals and politics.

Although even then, the statement in Malachi 3:6 is not so much about the actions of the son of Judah, but God's long - suffering grace upon them.

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.

The question is if it is all about grace and belief in jesus christ whatever, why would you even need to bother with the whole silly old testament nonsense that make the bible so laughable?

and Deeper Story — writes about her adventures in following Jesus with consistent wit, vulnerability, color, and grace.

Launch an Arminianism Awareness Day to address some of the common misconceptions about Arminians — that we think grace is earned, that we have a «man - centered» theology, that we're all dispensationalists, that just because we lost that one argument with our Calvinist roommate back in 2003 we're always wrong.

But enough about inner lives and the need for the absence of grace in order to be an asshole.

Now at some time in the eternal security debate, after all this talk about grace, someone says something like, «I think you're taking this grace thing a little bit too far.

Grace is working on her first book, Detroit's Daughter, a memoir about surviving her father, her brother, abuse, racism, Christians, boys, and poverty, while growing up in Detroit.

In this way, women would first be given an empowering script about divine grace that secures their personal identity, affirms the goodness of their embodiment and sends them forth into the world with renewed agency and purpose.

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.

People who believe in the free grace of God also need to develop a vision for the future about planting churches.

And not just Jesus: A whole gospel in all of its theological details — right down to debates about baptism, the relationship of law to grace, and the problem of divine foreknowledge — is taught to the people of the New World centuries before Jesus was even born.

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?)

when I failed, I felt that I abuse His grace... and the other dangerous thing I found about this pray that I fall in love more and more with Him......:)

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.

We in the Free Grace camp need to think BIG about the future.

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.

Because our basic theological understandings of grace include assent to the claim that the most beautiful and precious things in and about our lives are unearned and undeserved, themes of gift and gratitude sometimes seem overworked.

When you're going through changes in how you think about faith, how do you have grace for people who aren't changing or may be changing in the opposite direction than you are?