Sentences with phrase «biblical call»

We wrote it because, while there are books for discerning biblical calling for clergy and missionaries, less material seemed to be available for laity.

Our challenge as Christians who are also citizens of an empire is to find hope and guidance in biblical calls to repentance and conversion that inevitably confront people whose historical ties are linked to dominant powers that come under the judgment of God.

It is easy enough to counter nation - first claims with biblical calls to love the stranger (Matthew 25:40; Luke 10:27; Hebrews 13:1), put the interests of others above our own (Philippians 2:3 - 4), recognize the Christian community has nothing to do with ethnicity or borders (Galatians 3:28 - 29; Colossians 3:11) and acknowledge the image of God in all people (Genesis 1:27).

These are the ones that get the most attention in our churches, but get relatively little attention in Scripture in comparison to biblical calls for justice, love, and mercy to the poor, needy, outcast, rejected, and oppressed.

Bringing together the biblical call to care for immigrants and working with each other to move toward responsible immigration is a challenge that can be accomplished with willing parties who desire to gain perspectives and understand each other.

I point out the biblical call for people to respond to God, not to say that people can contribute to the reception of eternal life, but only to show that if God expects people to hear His truth and respond, who are we to teach that they can not do so?

Einstein penned the letter on January 3 1954 to the philosopher Eric Gutkind who had sent him a copy of his book Choose Life: The Biblical Call to Revolt

According to Richard Cizik, president of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, which helped to pay for the ad, «Being consistently pro-life requires more than caring for the unborn, it requires following the Biblical call to care for the poor and the downtrodden.»

Instead of taking the bait, we focus on the biblical call to be wise stewards of God's gifts — a value we share.

As Christians, we have a biblical call to care for the least of these that Christ laid out clearly in Matthew 25:40.

People are rising to the biblical call to «welcome the stranger,» an indispensable ethic for anyone choosing to follow Jesus of Nazareth, who once set out on the refugee trail himself.

Another graduate asserted that Hawkins's stance is in keeping with the college's historical focus on «the biblical call to advocate on behalf of people made in the image of God.»

Health care sharing — inspired by the biblical call to «bear one another's burdens» and the example of the Acts 2 church that «had everything in common» — has been around for decades.

Together they have brought roughly 2,400 + people to an Arizona 1.27 Orientation, put nearly 500 through a day long intensive faith training (that prepares and ties together families and the biblical call to this ministry) and have seen hundreds become new foster and adoptive families.