Sentences with phrase «blessings of»

As Levin says, the basic challenge is to reconfigure relational life by both deploying and purposefully limiting the blessings of technology, our creative accomplishments that are, after all, wonderful revelations of what beings made in the image of the creative and relational God can do.

Before then her life abounded in all the blessings of the other dozen wise women, but, in spite of efforts of her father, the curse of the unrecognized thirteenth brought her down.

He invited tax collectors, traitors to their culture, and sinners to share the blessings of his table and to experience the acceptance which that sharing signified.

Many of these acts throughout history were carried out with the help and blessings of Christian rulers and political powers.

The first three chapters of Ephesians are an exquisite description of the spiritual riches available through the blessings of God's grace.

All you need to do is to accept Jesus as your saviour by faith, rest and enjoy the abundance blessings of God.

May you be given opportunities to repent and to ask forgiveness, to embrace the hard blessings of forgiveness sought and received and offered.

For the small group, it meant giving up all ambition or hope in this age and relying on the blessings of the age to come.

I tell you this tale as I mull and marvel how the Almighty metes to mankind the blessings of reason, rule, and realm.

«This country will miss out on the Blessings of God for sure if prayer isn't included in this memorial...»

(Mark 10:23 - 27) Renunciation is the rule for all, (Mark 8:34 - 37; 10:21, 28:31) and the compensations are as simply and absolutely set forth as is the requirement: the good things of this life, such as they are, the blessings of family and of property, will be shared by all within the community, «now in this present time: houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.»

It is the blessings of God poured out upon those who do not deserve it.

We thank our parents for teaching us the blessings of having siblings.

The blessings of the kingdom of God are not measured by length of service.

The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be on him, said: «When one of you is invited to a marriage feast, he should go to it.

May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.

The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be on him, said: «It is the sunna that a man should accompany his guest to the door of the house.

His grace is manifested in our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life, but above all in our redemption through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.30

Paul is talking about how we can experience the riches and blessings of being in the family of God, and how God seeks to unify us into one family, and how we can live for the praise of His glory.

The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be on him, said: a prostitute was forgiven — she passed by a dog, panting with its tongue out, on the top of a well containing water, almost dying with thirst; so she took off her boot and tied it to her head - covering and drew forth water for it; she was forgiven on account of this.

Prayer is always the key which open's heavens doors so that the blessings of God can pour down upon you.

To call such contingencies «blessings of God» too blatantly suggests to me a very capricious omnipotence or a finite deity who has managed to exert a bit of benevolent influence in this particular instance — and either way I am back with my old problem.

For me, one of the blessings of considering suicide and being able to retreat from the abyss is the gift of faith.

Perhaps the Eastern Christian Tradition can provide a way to preserve the material blessings of Western technology and scientific insights without losing the intuitive spiritual wisdom gained earlier when Religious Traditions experienced Grace more deeply by their participation in the natural rhythms of life.

My marker found three favorites: at least 30 «Heavens,» as in «merciful Heaven,» and 15 or 20 «blessings of heaven»; there were 15 usually casual «sacreds,» as in «sacred liberties.»

Of course, all the blessings of salvation you list are true.

Yet we do not lack blessings of unity in the body of Christ, which includes the vast company of believers of all times and places, from Abel the righteous one until our Lord's return in glory (Hebrews 11).

One of the blessings of ecumenical contact has been a movement towards agreement on some of the contentious issues the book mentions as dividing the Churches, such as the filioque clause and the papal primacy.

Nature, therefore, is to be looked upon as sacred, rather than as a mere agent of utility for human needs, towards which human beings are called to relate with a sense of duty.161 The arrival of the harvest, as may be noted from the case of the mustard seed, asserts that the time has come when the blessings of the Kingdom of God are available for all including non-human creation.

Secondly, we know that Jesus made use of the image of a feast to signify the blessings of the kingdom of God consummated in a world beyond this.

Or maybe this is the way that it's always been, which makes phrases like securing the «blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity» all the more remarkable.

«143 So, fertile soils, crops, and animals were evidence of the blessings of God.

The Qur» an stresses the importance of giving thanks to God for the gifts of life, for the rich provision of nature, (6, 98 - 99) for blessings of life, such as hearing and sight and sleep:

It was to the poor, humble, oppressed common people that Jesus promised the blessings of the kingdom of God.

But, as Rubin points out, this attempt to create a post-human hunter - gatherer who lives in mystic harmony with the whole remains deeply reliant upon the blessings of civilization, especially the peace secured by the Enlightenment.

We can not do otherwise: no man can fashion world - history or the history of peoples unless upon his purpose and his powers there rests the blessings of this Providence.»

There are many other indicators in this context, as well as the chapter, that the writer of Hebrews is not talking about loss of the deliverance from hell to heaven, but loss of the blessings of sanctification and rewards, and the loss of «saving of the life» in vs 39.

«Not only does it lift that cloud of shame that he walks with, but more importantly it allows him to have a second chance with the blessings of the victim's brother.»

The first view sees the Reformation as a completed fact, a success that has brought us freedom of conscience and worship and the worldly blessings of progress and democracy.

And so, if we moderns are to share in the blessings of which the New Testament speaks, we need the help of someone who understands the language of mythology and can translate it into a language with which the modern world is familiar.

The unsaved don't experience the blessings of the Spirit that are mentioned.

Another image of the blessings of female fertility, «Your wife, a fruitful vine, / in the recesses of your house,» is doubly altered: «Your beloved, a fruitful vine, / in the warmth of your home» (128:3).

Whereas in the Didache the Eucharist was a thankoffering for the blessings of creation and redemption, Justin Martyr thought that the bread and wine were consecrated through the repetition of Jesus» words and thereby became the body and blood of Christ.

Its leap toward a material gospel bypasses the defining convictions of the historical Christian community and the obvious ways that these represent a point of discontinuity with the blessings of the first promise.

Thus our version of Athena has characteristically been packaged under the name of Horatio Alger, whose heroes embody the virtues and blessings of success through careerism.

These are just six blessings of studying Scripture.

Since revelation now has established the doctrine that worthy men of any race can hold the priesthood «with power to exercise its divine authority, and enjoy with [their] loved ones every blessing that flows therefrom, including the blessings of the temple,» such difficulty is avoided.

Your second paragraph stating that we do not have the moral authority to deny others the blessings of communion, baptism and marriage leads me to think that maybe that is God's job, agreed?

Jesus (peace and blessings of God be upon him) himself worshipped the Only One true God and that was his message to the people, to worship the Only One true God.

Here the term is being used as in the synoptic tradition to denote the blessings of salvation and is equivalent to eternal life.