Sentences with phrase «biblical calls for»

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.

Not exact matches

I'm impressed by the ability of some of these so - called Christian leaders» attempts to rationalize their support for Obama and / or his positions despite Biblical teachings.

WHat does invalidate the Biblical account is the measurable and observable passage of those events, that would take more of what humans call time than the Bible allows for.

Clearly, there is biblical precedent for calling people out when they use the name of God to cover their own selfish or malicious intentions.)

The Law or general biblical principles can never decide individual cases justly because there are always mitigating circumstances calling for compassionate mercy on the practical level.

Christians have been calling for the Second Coming since Biblical times.

How do you know that this wasn't part of God's judgment for splitting up the Christian body through denominations, creating structures that we call «church» and creating doctrine that isn't even biblical?

Found in both testaments, it called in biblical times for both charity and social justice.

It would make an evangelistic call for biblical repentance central to its approach.

Christianity itself has become a principality and holds thousands captive, Before anyone comments on me calling todays Christianity a principality, (a demonic stronghold) let me just make a request that those who do answer are those who live as the followers of the way did in biblical times, that is, meeting every day, considering nothing they owned as their own, laying their lives down for the gospel (and not getting paid to do so) and having signs and wonders accompany them when they speak of the Lord.

As if I'd give ANY credence to a mouthpiece for a so - called «church» which was LITERALLY founded for the purpose of providing Biblical justification of slavery.

There's certainly a biblical pattern of sending and calling, but I wonder if that's an exclusive thing, or merely normative that allows for non-normative modes of mission and ministry?

Several decades ago, when I was filling out my application for seminary admission, I came to a question that asked me to provide biblical justification for my calling.

Drawing on the biblical motifs of community and solidarity, the document formulates several principles of economic justice and then advocates community interests above private interests, and calls for public ownership and worker management in corporations.

Obama went on to frame decisions as disparate as ending tax breaks for the wealthy and defending foreign aid as examples of biblical principles in action, quoting Jesus» teaching that «for unto whom much is given, much shall be required» and invoking the «biblical call to care for the least of these.»

Piper expands on this idea in his book, Recovering Biblical Manhood & Womanhood, in which he advocates for what he calls «non-directive leadership.»

I'm looking to eventually teach theology, but in between my personal studies, an obsessive reading habit, and spending far too much money on coffee, I started a blog called New Ways Forward as an outlet for some of my random thoughts and a way to interact with others who share a passion for theology, Biblical studies, and social justice.

Sarah Bessey clearly, passionately and faithfully explains why her Christian faith means she has to be a feminist, and offers a profoundly moving call to action for us all to grow into full Biblical personhood.»

Sure, there are some extra-loud voices calling for women to conform themselves to narrowly defined roles that have more to do with an idealized conception of pre-feminist America than with actual «biblical womanhood,» but I believe these cries represent the last desperate throes of a dying movement.

To call for a reform in the worship of God, however, implies that the churches» standing before God is flawed seriously enough to require a turnabout, the biblical word for which is «repentance.»

The initiative has sparked a campus - wide debate about biblical interpretation and the roles of women, as well as a second group called Students for Egalitarianism in Marriage.

There are other Biblical verses which call for the killing of children who curse their mother or father such as Exodus 21:17 among others.

The report affirms feminist theology insofar as it is an aid to biblical interpretations that can be a part of a harmonized whole and insofar as it constitutes a call for equal treatment of women in church and in society.

Those in that wing emphasize numbers, the SCBF charges, above faithfulness, are obsessed with bigness, use celebrities to draw a crowd, employ worldly music, destroy small fundamentalist programs for the sake of their «Super-church» and electronic empires, share platforms with nonfundamentalists, say «Whatever will get a crowd I will do it,» and then call the «biblical fundamentalist» a «nit - picker.»

In biblical times, the Jews expected a messiah who would come with flaming sword, conquering and to conquer, calling down the hosts of heaven to destroy all who did not bear the mark of God's elect, thereby purifying and clearing the earth for God's Kingdom.

A reading of scripture refreshed by appropriate scholarship: «Biblical scholarship is a great gift of God to the church, aiding it in its task of going ever deeper into the meaning of scripture and so being refreshed and energized for the tasks to which we are called in and for the world,» says Wright.

The structure of the report, combined with these explicit statements, indicates clearly that what is called for is biblical hermeneutics.

For many years, I felt that part of my call as a writer and blogger of faith was to be a different sort of evangelical, to advocate for things like gender equality, respect for LGBT people, and acceptance of science and biblical scholarship within my communiFor many years, I felt that part of my call as a writer and blogger of faith was to be a different sort of evangelical, to advocate for things like gender equality, respect for LGBT people, and acceptance of science and biblical scholarship within my communifor things like gender equality, respect for LGBT people, and acceptance of science and biblical scholarship within my communifor LGBT people, and acceptance of science and biblical scholarship within my community.

To put it — for the sake of argument — a bit too simply: there have been behind the civil religion from the beginning two great structures of interpretation, the one I shall call biblical, the other utilitarian.

I know some think claiming «Biblical misinterpretations» is better than calling the Word of God «hate speech», but all of us are accountable for deliberate misinformation; that's why we must judge for ourselves.

In biblical terms this means: Call no man your father, for you are all brothers.

We are called to be light and salt, and one way to do this is to stand up and speak out FOR BIBLICAL VALUES and against sin... yes, of course we should be preaching / teaching / living God's «theology of marriage» in our own marriages...... but God has clearly defined marriage as between one man and one woman, and therefore, when our government says it's otherwise, we should be light and salt and speak up, and vote accordingly.

The primary biblical foundation for understanding family living as caring for the generations is in God's call to human beings in the first chapter of Genesis «to exercise care over the earth and hold it in its proper place.»

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.»

Calling the Web app eScapegoat is a play on a practice observed during biblical times when the Temple still stood in Jerusalem and sacrifices were offered for atonement.

The secret call as always remains important, but in the conception of the ministry that is emerging out of the Biblical and systematic theology of the day and out of the personal reflections of young people and their pastors, the divine action whereby men are chosen for their station and calling is less spiritualistically understood than was the case for the past hundred years.

But aside from that, is what he is calling for truly biblical?

For this reason they have retrenched into what Berkouwer calls «a biblicist misinterpretation of the church's dealings with Scripture and its confession 6 Interpretations have seemed to lead in questionable directions — directions which either have moved away from traditional Biblical consensus or have disputed current cultural analysis.

It is inconceivable to me that Paul can be quoted by modern male chauvinists as the biblical authority for excluding women from accepting God's call to serve others in the name of Christ, when Paul himself encouraged and congratulated inspired women who were prominent — to use his own descriptions — as deacons, apostles, ministers and saints.

Third, it encourages superficial scholarship rather than serious Biblical wrestling for fear that one proven «error» will call all of one's faith in doubt.

I know there are evangelical biblical scholars who assert that it was the season for what the Arabs call taqsh... small little buds that the fig tree produces and which fall off before the figs come in.

I can not wait for her next book A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband «Master» to release this fall.

As expected, I found that most of the folks calling for a return to «biblical womanhood» aren't actually calling for a return to the ancient near Eastern familial structure, but for a return to the nuclear family of pre-1950s America.

On the other hand, a Christian who adopts this position will call for the development of our theology and views of homosexuality based on what are judged to be more central and enduring biblical themes.

Bonhoeffer maintains that the Biblical understanding of God directs us to a powerless and suffering God who is with us and who calls us to share his suffering for the sake of the world.

One figure who has consistently called for a re-evaluation, purification and augmentation of the prevalent method of biblical exegesis is Joseph Ratzinger.

Greene, a faithful Christian, undertakes this project (Bibliotheca, as he calls it) for anyone who wants to «enjoy the biblical library anew, as great literary art.»

As a result, the high valuation placed upon the concrete and the temporal both by Hartshorne and biblical faith calls for a reorientation in fundamental attitudes which men can not easily achieve.

It was the popularity of books calling for a return to «biblical womanhood» that inspired me tofollow all of the Bible's commandments for women as literally as possible for a year in an effort to highlight the inherent selectivity of discussions surrounding «biblical manhood» and «biblical womanhood.»

While Mary may have never been called an apostle, there was an apostle Junia (Rom 16:7 — the «of note among the apostles» that the ESV and other masculinist translations try to pigeonhole this into is a modern invention, not at all supported by biblical Greek; it was only even created when the masculinists finally had to admit that there was no manuscript evidence for transforming the name into «Junias», a masculine form), and there certainly was a Priscilla who «instructed Apollos» (Acts 18) and who was lauded by Paul as a «fellow worker» (Rom 16:3), as were numerous other women, such as Phoebe the deacon (Rom 16:1).