Pastoral listening can not cheaply reduce the pain of
standing before God in the remembrance of these losses.
Rightly understood, and with the reservations of which I have already spoken, the concept of existence in this sense is not open to any objection: it simply means man standing
before God in judgment and grace.
God made Christ to be sin for us, that we, through him might stand
before God as righteous (2 Cor.
Narratively, Chains of Olympus actually comes
before God of War in the timeline of Kratos universe.
For these, the leaders and churches are culpable and stand guilty
before God for their failures.
The stories are usually about famous people or the enduring stuff of universal experience, but they can not satisfy the congregation's deepest longing, which is to explore its own
life before God in as concrete a fashion as possible.
I wonder what these radicals are going to think when they
come before God on judgment day and see that he is black
Now if you don't want to accept this, that's Ok, you are a creature of free choice and you can do as you want, just remember what I tell you today when you stand
before God on judgement day; the only problem then is that it will be too late to change your mind and do differently.
Moses didn't even make it to the promise land when leading the Israelites out of Egypt and he
sinned before God only once..
Jesus, then, in no sense desires asceticism, and this is highly characteristic of his whole attitude and shows how he regards the position of
man before God.
Forty - eight percent of Lutherans «agree» or «probably agree» that «people can only be
justified before God by loving others,» and 60 percent agree that «the main emphasis of the gospel is God's rules for right living.»
As a Christian I want to treat all men as
equal before God, I believe that if Jesus was here today he would definitely associate with gays & be criticised for it, but, like the woman that was caught in adultery, he would not condone what they do.
So familiar has this idea of the equality of all
persons before God now become that it is difficult to project one's thought back into a time when it was a new and startling experience to talk seriously with a woman about her soul (John 4:7 - 27), or to set a child in the midst and say, «To such belongs the kingdom of heaven» (Matt.
«Pure religion and
undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world» Religion is not the invention of man; if you are withuot Christ in your heart, you are fatherless and a widow.
His treatment imposes upon the reader the task of not allowing himself to be deceived by the attempts of individuals and groups to hide their guilt
before God by so - called good works.
We will not stand
before God with our proud peaco - ck feathers in full bloom.
Dear Chesterton, you and I go down on our knees
before a God who is more present than ever.
When a marriage ceremony takes place at a church, there are really two things happening — there are the vows
made before God and people, and there is the signing of the official government documents.
No matter where man may be or what he may do, he is in fact so related to God that he can not escape feeling
guilty before God, either in his conscious mind or in the torments and imaginations of the unconscious.
While it can find in the Bible no clear justification or condemnation of intermarriage, but only a discussion of the duties of the faithful in marriage with partners of other religions, it can not approve any law against racial or ethnic intermarriage, for Christian marriage involves primarily a union of two
individuals before God which goes beyond the jurisdiction of the state or of culture.
When Paul assured the Sanhedrin that he had lived in good
conscience before God, the high priest ordered the man nearest to Paul to strike him in the mouth to indicate he thought Paul was a liar.
I think atheists will find it uncomfortable standing
before God at judgment day after having spent their life calling him and his prophets fairy tales.
«Though I lived as a monk without reproach, I felt that I was a
sinner before God with an extremely disturbed conscience,» he later wrote.
Pious tales of the patriarch regard him as a precocious monotheist even
before God calls him, a man who smashed his father's idols, a man who sprang forth fully pious and knowledgeable about the ways of God.
True Christianity is to «do justice and walk
humbly before your God...», to «love onanother, as I have loved you...» If some is showing you love you'll know it, and if they're not you'll know that too.
What Abraham
did before God's call might not have meritoriously qualified him but it would have facilitated the process.
«Sometimes a prideful and stubborn man is brought to his
knees before God by a high - strung woman pastor who dares to ask if he has the testicular fortitude to follow God.»