Sentences with phrase «about sacrificial»

What about sacrificial altars?

Niebuhr does talk about sacrificial love as an ideal and also as a solvent in human affairs.

And besides, later in the Pentateuch when Moses gives instructions to the Israelites about the sacrificial system, fruit and grain offerings are said to be acceptable to God.

Not exact matches

So before we can talk about what exactly Jesus fulfilled through his sacrificial death on the cross, we must understand what the sacrificial system was for.

That is a good point about focusing on the big picture of God's sacrificial love.

But instead comes Easter, which rudely interrupts all the minatory and sententious moralisms of the tragic chorus, just as they are about to be uttered to full effect, and which cavalierly violates the central tenet of sound economics: rather than trading the sacrificial victim for some supernatural benefit, and so the particular for the universal, Easter restores the slain hero in his particularity again, as the only truth the Gospels have to offer.

The one thing I do know is that when I have been intentional about living a self - sacrificial life like Christ, and explaining that to those around me, they tend to see the beauty of it and follow!

The message of Christianity, the Good News, is not about accepting or requiring either death or brutality, sacrificial or otherwise.

The eshet chayil of Proverbs 31 is a valorous woman, it seems, because she is sacrificial: the whole poem is about how she serves her family and the poor.

In fact, in Hebrews 9 - 10, the author uses the «sacrifice» of Jesus to subvert the sacrificial system, and then redeems it by transitioning to speaking about the «offering» of Jesus.

As if to reiterate the sacrificial nature of the way in which the faithful are to «walk in love,» the writer warns of the forces of evil ready to deceive Christians with illusions about the fruits of sin.

Most of what I had written was a hypothesis, a theory, about how to reconcile the violence of God in the Old Testament with the sacrificial love of Jesus in the New.

The Jews of the day could not mistake what the sacrificial lamb on the 3rd day was all about.

But if Rohr is right (and I believe he is), Calvary didn't change God's attitude toward us, it showed us what God has always felt about us: Deep, self - sacrificial love.

By letting us kill Him in such a violent and bloody way, Jesus unveiled the truth about humanity and the truth about sin, and in so doing, called us to abandon these scapegoating, sacrificial rituals in our own lives.

Certainly there is danger in our using sacrificial language about Christ's death and about the sacrament in which that death is recalled.

And his claims about America as a nation addicted to the sacrificial system of killing and dying that is war, as ìneedingî September 11 and the wars that followed to sustain its identity, are at times offensive in the extreme.

No doubt he was but more importantly he was making a statement that animal sacrifices would no longer be necessary because he was about to become the sacrificial lamb for everyone's atonement of sins.

The first thing to notice about the context of Hebrews 9:22 is that the author is clearly contrasting the sacrificial system of the Mosaic Law with what Jesus accomplished in His death on the cross.

The author of Hebrews intentionally subverts the sacrificial elements of the Mosaic covenant by transitioning away from images of blood and death, and writing instead about offerings and purification.

It was clear to me even as a child that the people using that catchy little phrase knew absolutely nothing about what it really meant to love somebody with the «love of the Lord» which was an extremely selfless and sacrificial love.

The cognition of the nature of the world and of the metaphysical significance of one's own self in it; the knowledge about the mission; the «Yes» to destiny; the sacrificial thought; and the last struggle and hesitation are clearly portrayed in that passage from Luke's Gospel: «I am come to cast a fire upon the earth; would that it were already kindled.

They view our songs and sermons about His blood in a way that is similar to how you or I might view a cultish sacrificial ritual deep in the woods on a dark night.

I keep thinking about Jose Altuve, who was brought up as a sacrificial lamb in 2011, straight from the low minors.

People often talk about love in sacrificial terms: I'd take a bullet for you.

Interestingly, the subtext of the NY - 9 special was all about redistricting, with much speculation about what will happen now that the Democrats» assumed sacrificial lamb, Assemblyman David Weprin, failed to win.

«It was all about timing... just look how late in the game the redistricting is,» said Cefalo who refused to be a «sacrificial lamb» just to be the token resistance to another term for Braunstein.

-- but may feel differently about in 10 years, having left their social lives on the sacrificial Ph.D. altar and wasted time they may never recover?

What On Chesil Beach gets right is the sheer silly, tragic pointlessness of the virgin - wedding - night business and how disturbing sex was for a generation whose hypocritical elders had withheld information about it — a bizarrely sacrificial ceremony which probably had its last gasp with our own Lady Diana Spencer.

The Lion of Judah (PG for mature themes) Faith - based animated adventure about the attempt of a brave lamb (Georgina Cordova) along with his stable mates to avoid the sacrificial altar at Easter time.

Finally, after biting my nails at the prospect of writing something about romance and my book, I realized that Valentine's Day started with St. Valentine, who was known for his healing miracles, his sacrificial love and faith.

Many animal lovers have fantastic stories to tell about friendships, adventures and tragedies that proved their pets» sacrificial love.

There are about 15 skeletal remains in the main chamber and these, and the Crystal Maiden herself, were probably sacrificial victims.

Vella isn't too happy about being sacrificial monster food, however, so she takes control of her fate.

Haines and assistant curator Jackie von Treskow have written eloquently about how the exhibit's military setting «turns a spotlight on the often sacrificial role of soldiers [and] on the thin line between defense and attack» and the way in which the ocean directly below evokes images of «diaspora and displacement... lives adrift...»

This week we'll propose actions you can take in order to eat a «low energy diet» (and don't worry we're not talking about a «diet» in the traditional sacrificial sense of the word).

In the end, Jay gave her encouragement about the challenging role and sacrificial love she was showing her sister, and in response, the seller gave him the painting.