Sentences with phrase «as kingdom work»

The first group tends to take the law, see justice as its core expression, apply it in the public sector (social justice), and then see that as kingdom work.

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It's the story of a prince who goes looking for dragons to figure out why magic is disappearing from his kingdom, only to find a princess working happily as the cook / assistant to the King of Dragons.

Jesus, as the ultimate peacemaker, shows us that the life and work of peacemaking isn't some fairy tale euphoria, but the gritty, subversive and sacrificial life of faithfulness to a God and kingdom that lives by a different standard than the systems and powers of the world.

America is doing more than any other nation to spread the kind of political structures that can best prepare the globe for God's ultimate work of establishing the final kingdom, Webb contends, and he proceeds to quote from a variety of sources to support a role for providence in contemporary theological thinking while interpreting America's rise to world power as a divine blessing that comes with special responsibilities.

For fellow Christians to implicate one of the beacons for Christian thought in the 21st century as a bigoted, senseless, reactionary institution, is equivalent to denying the ultimate conclusions and results of Wheaton's work in the 21st century up until this point, which as a graduate living in a secular world, has been mostly of incredible benefit not only to our world, but the kingdom beyond.

Matthew's Jesus has been teaching the disciples that the kingdom of heaven works not as the world works, but as a new way to live based in forgiveness.

While the Holy Spirit can and does work through every one of our meager attempts, continually experiencing the Good News in our own soul — especially as believers — is part of God's continual kingdom work, too.

Three days before his death, Jesus said that in these «last days» (called by Jesus his (invisible) «presence» at Matt 24:27, 37, 39) a world - wide Bible educational work would be accomplished, with God's kingdom as the theme, saying: «And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.»

I am available to advise any missionaries interested in doing a mission work in Africa on how to be cost effective, yet with great results / fruits for the Lord's kingdom as per mission field they are going / or are interested in.

Not very long ago, he had called his disciples away from their families and work, and had picked up more men and women along the way as he set about «proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God.»

we work with them as born again Christians knowing that this is kingdom assignment.

But as I read it, Jesus wanted His followers to concentrate on doing His work and living for His kingdom, as the preparation for the future.

a deep resignation to God's will, a surrender of ourselves, soul and body, to Him; hoping indeed, that we shall be saved, but fixing our eyes more earnestly on Him than on ourselves; that is, acting for His glory, seeking to please Him, devoting ourselves to Him in all manly obedience and strenuous good works; and, when we do look within, thinking of ourselves with a certain abhorrence and contempt as being sinners, mortifying our flesh, scourging our appetites, and composedly awaiting that time when, if we be worthy, we shall be stripped of our present selves, and new made in the kingdom of Christ.

Out of the pressure cooker of clerical careers may come a fresh announcement of the nearness of the kingdom of God to working people that is fully as arresting as Jesus» announcement to his contemporaries.

We should then remind the activists that, while their work may be a parable of God's kingdom, as Luther said, this kingdom does not depend on their efforts, which are always enfeebled by a self - love that elicits God's judgment.

In the kingdom of God, God rules as Lord but loves as Father and works with us as Companion.

Thus we come to this: that in the kingdom of God, God rules as Lord but loves as Father and works with us as Companion.

Satan wanted Jesus to turn stone into bread (the lust of the flesh), the devil showed him all the kingdoms of the world (the lust of the eyes), and tempted Jesus to throw himself down from the pinnacle of the temple in order to easily declare himself as the Messiah and prove that God was working for him (the pride of life).

«Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.»

Galatians 5:19 - 21 (KJV) Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Jesus is the son of The Living God, son meaning rightful heir to His kingdom (every other heir such as myself is adpoted through Jesus's finished work on the cross), The Holy God has only proclaimed one to be His beloved Son and this message was heard by many people.

Yes, the church awaits the fulfillment, but it lives by God's grace and Spirit, as participant in God's work in the time between the ushering in of the kingdom of Christ in the incarnation and the revelation of its full glory.

Jesus himself pointed to the effects of his work as signs of the coming of the kingdom: «If by the finger of God I chive Out the devils, then be sure the kingdom of God has come upon you.»

Some of us even insist on sacrificing ourselves by working 60 -, 70 -, 80 - hour weeks in the church («for the good of the kingdom,» we convince ourselves) as if God could love us more.

This present aspect of the kingdom manifested itself in different ways in the person and deeds of the Christ (Wood, 1996:648 - 649): Casting out demons Healing the sick Working of miracles such as turning water into wine, raising Lazarus from the dead and walking on water.

Thus, the kingdom is both presence and promise; both within and beyond human history; God's gift and man's task; we work for it, even as we wait for it.

As I have warned so often, there is here no guarantee of any particular social good, but at least there is ground for hope that in ways beyond our present understanding the powers of the «age to come,» the work of the living Christ, the influence of the Holy Spirit, the impact of that within the church which Paul Tillich calls the «New Being» will break through many of the obstacles in the secular order to transform and transform again the kingdoms of this world.

In the form in which this coming kingdom was eventually delineated, as divine victory and the final consummation of Christ's work on earth in both judgment and mercy, the biblical symbolism of Christ's return becomes meaningful.

I totally agree, Matthew, and wish I knew enough Greek to discern the «works» of the Law that Paul rejected as being necessary for salvation and the «works» of the Spirt (which I prefer to call the good and Godly deeds), that John claimed were essential for kingdom living.

The chapter headings give us an overview of the work: Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ: the theological project of Joseph Ratzinger; The critique of criticism: beginning the search for a new theological synthesis; The hermeneutic of faith: critical and historical foundations for a biblical theology; The spiritual science of theology: its mission and method in the life of the church; Reading God's testament to humankind: biblical realism, typology, and the inner unity of revelation; The theology of the divine economy: covenant, kingdom, and the history of salvation; The embrace of salvation: mystagogy and the transformation ofsacrifice; The cosmic liturgy: the Eucharistic kingdom and the world as temple; The authority of mystery: the beauty and necessity of the theologian's task.

God has promised that he will work through everything for those who love him, and as I have viewed the experience of the life of [my little son], I can see how the kingdom has come....

To describe the Church as a community of memory and hope, sharing in the common memory not only of Jesus Christ but also of the mighty deeds of God known by Israel, expecting the coming into full view of the kingdom on earth and / or in heaven; to describe it further as the community of worship, united by its direction toward one God, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit yet worshipped more as Father or as Son or as Holy Spirit in this or that part of the community; to describe it as a community of thought in which debate and conflict can take place because there is a fundamental frame of agreement and because there are common issues of great import — to do all this and the much more that needs to be done would be to essay the work of a large part of theology.

We have a responsibility as resurrection people to work for the coming kingdom in the here and now.

One could say the Apostles only wrote what they thought Jesus was teaching, but as common sense reveals to us humans if we are not doing good works we won't make it into the kingdom.»

But God ordered his world in such a way that his own work within that world takes place not least through one of his creatures in particular, namely, the human beings who reflect his image... He has enlisted us to act as his stewards in the project of creation... So the objection about us trying to build God's kingdom by our own efforts, though it seems humble and pious, can actually be a way of hiding from responsibility, of keeping one's head well down when the boss is looking for volunteers...» (207).

3) Here, Jesus identifies people as a part of His kingdom who could do absolutely nothing to earn it, this then becomes a powerful demonstration that salvation is by grace alone, not of works.

Since God is love, the Council spoke of God addressing us through his revelation as friends, inviting us into loving fellowship with himself, making us adult partners in his work of bringing in the kingdom.

There is both continuity and discontinuity between our work now and the coming kingdom, just as there was continuity and discontinuity between Jesus of Nazareth and the risen Lord Jesus.

He likely became a national god for all of the Jewish tribes when Saul created the United Monarchy sometime between 1020 and 930 B.C.E.. Later, after the Assyrians conquered the northern Kingdom of Israel and the Babylonians conquered the southern Kingdom of Judah and took the royal family and the kingdom's elite to Babylon starting in 597 B.C.E, when the Jews had to re-evaluate their religious beliefs, because of the calamity that befell them, there was a shift to view their god as a universal god in works such as the Book of Isaiah, which were composed after the Exile.

When we feed one of Christ's brothers who is about the work of the kingdom; when we visit one of Christ's sisters who is proclaiming the gospel message; it is the same as if we had done that act of identification with Christ himself.

This is a good thing, but in the critique of Ralph Winter that David Hesselgrave gave, he referred to Ralph Winter's reliance on Gregory Boyd's view of «microbial evil» and the necessity of kingdom work overcoming the forces of darkness as represented by disease and poverty in war.

Namely, God's mission works primarily through Jesus Christ's sending the people of God to intentionally cross barriers from church to nonchurch, faith to nonfaith, to proclaim by word and deed the coming of the kingdom of God in Jesus Christ through the Church's participation in God's mission of reconciling people to God, to themselves, to one another, and to the world and gathering them into the church, through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, by the work of the Holy Spirit, with a view to the transformation of the world, as a sign of the coming of the kingdom in Jesus Christ.

Here, Jesus identifies people as a part of His kingdom who could do absolutely nothing to earn it, this then becomes a powerful demonstration that salvation is by grace alone, not of works.

He also noted the irony of so many premillenialists, convinced that civilization will steadily decline until the second coming of Christ working for all the world (as it were) like postmillennialists intent on bringing in the kingdom through hard, faithful effort.

It is our challenge to work towards a more human world, that for Christians is the effort to move more towards values of the kingdom of God on earth as relevant to our times.

If we believe this, we can believe in the kingdom of God as both present and future; we can work for it as we wait for it; and we can know that our times and our lives are in God's hands

He also said pastors who are worldly and extremely focused on fashion such as changing and acquiring clothes, vehicles, and houses at the expense of the kingdom work do not know the Lord Jesus Christ whom they profess to follow.

With wit and heart, de Waal uses examples from decades of his own research as well as others» work to make the case for different types of intelligence in all corners of the animal kingdom.

I work in Ghana as a pilot and live in Devon in the united kingdom.

While Kyle and Lee are on camera, the unstable everyman capable of blowing the whole studio to kingdom come at any moment, Patty is in Lee's ear, doing her best work as a producer to help him keep the situation calm by using his talents as a showman to stall Kyle and keep his mind busy.