Sentences with phrase «by sacrificial»

The Gospel writers record that Jesus called his followers to a way of life in which violence and division are overcome by sacrificial love.

Their deep wounds will be healed by sacrificial love (of which Christ is the incarnate example) and intimate relationship (both human and divine).

Therefore, having earned a reward by his sacrificial death, we can avail ourselves of the eternal salvation he has merited.

They are continually beset by temptations which assailed the Messiah - to live by material things rather than by the Word of God, to seek the cheap success of the market place rather than the «well - done» of the heavenly king, to establish an empire by force and fear rather than to win the nations by sacrificial love.

But they who by sacrificial offering, charity, and austerity conquer the worlds, pass into the smoke (of the cremation - fire); from the smoke, into the night; from the night, into the half month of the waning moon; from the half month of the waning moon, into the six months during which the sun moves southwaid; from those months, into the world of the fathers; from the world of the fathers, into the moon.

If you want to rescue people from that road, you do it the way Jesus did it, which is by sacrificial love and service.

Further, entertainment comes to us by the sacrificial labors of others.

Not exact matches

Hmm, «In the precious name of boundaries, and by the blood of the lamb, I will not show self sacrificial love»!

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.

She has been taught «sacrificial giving» by her religious leaders, and that is the pity.

In this garden the shepherd replaces the leopards to tend the sheep; and the servant replaces the masters, and Leviathan is replaced by the Lamb, who is the Sacrificial Lord.

God wants humanity to understand that nothing and nobody is beyond the scope of His redemptive purposes, and so by sending Jesus as the fulfillment of the most violent of religious texts, God not only revealed Himself by way of a stark contrast to that violence, but also showed how to reinterpret and understand those violent events in light of the self - sacrificial God dying on the cross for the sins of the whole world.

The personal sacrificial offering conducive to grace is replaced by the use of someone else's property.

Lewis» most successful novel, I believe, is the first part of his science - fiction trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, in which a Cambridge don named Ransom is kidnapped by two diabolical characters, the scientist Weston and the entrepreneur Devine, and transported via rocket ship as a sacrificial victim to the inhabitants of another planet called Malacandra (Mars).12.

Yet so similar are the sources in the human spirit that through all ages, and not in Christianity alone, the worship of God has found natural expression in music and song, poetry and the graphic arts, the drama of sacrificial rites, and where not inhibited by convention, the dance.

(Jeremiah 15:20) It is not strange, therefore, that when temple and altar were destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, and the exiles in Babylon, bereft of their sacrificial system, were in confusion, Jeremiah's faith was expressed in a message to them concerning personal prayer — anywhere, in any land, sacrifices or no sacrifices, the God of Israel was saying to his people, «Ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

Long before Roman armies demolished the temple on Zion, however, the sacrificial system had been attacked by the prophets as a peril to true religion.

The assumption is always that the Jewish people received eternal life through obedience to the Law and following the sacrificial system instituted by Moses.

(I John 4:7 - 8) As for the sacrificial system, that had been displaced by a moral and universally applicable substitute — «Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.»

In his young manhood he supported the Josian reform by which local high places were abolished and sacrificial worship centered in Jerusalem.

Why do we squabble over percentages, when all throughout the New Testament, generous and sacrificial outpouring is modeled by Jesus and His followers?

On the cross, Jesus shows us what kind of God Yahweh is, and how Jesus came to rule and reign, not by might, nor by power, but by self - sacrificial service and taking the sins and guilt and blame of the entire world upon Himself.

Since World War II, however, only limited parts of the church are aroused to sacrificial giving and service by these visions, and no new vision has emerged to give focus and direction to the denomination.

The terrible dynamism of nature had to be both resisted and controlled by rites at once apotropaic — appeasing chaos and rationalizing it within the stability of cult — and economic — recuperating its sacrificial expenditures in the form of divine favor, a numinous power reinforcing the regime that sacrifice served.

Yet Abraham does not exactly lie: For in Abraham's eyes Isaac, the sacrificial lamb, had indeed been provided by God, presumably for this purpose.

He has experienced awe, the religious passion, during the dark vision between the sacrificial pieces; he has enacted the new covenant marked by (self --RRB- circumcision — a symbolic act of «partial sacrifice,» betokening dedication to God's ways; he has been God's partner in the judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah, and in his own heart has accepted responsibility for (what he thought was) the «death» of Lot; he has beheld the wondrous birth of Isaac and endured the banishment of Ishmael.

(12) The consumer orientation of electronic culture and the expansion of widely advertised and available alternatives has brought a shift away from a committed and sacrificial relationship to organically - integrated communities towards one where as individuals we construct our own individualised networks characterised by tentativeness and usefulness.

It expands by manifesting the power of self - sacrificial, Calvary - like love.»

Here, for example, is what she said in her 1999 Christmas address: «I hope that, like me, you will be comforted by the example of Jesus of Nazareth who, often in circumstances of great adversity, managed to live an outgoing, unselfish and sacrificial life.

But I am a «slave» of His love as He «bought» me with His sacrificial death by paying the price for the redemption of my soul.

The never - ending cycle of violence will never stop through the use of more and greater violence, but through the self - sacrificial way modeled by Jesus.

By stating that no sacrifice for sin is left in Hebrews 10:26, the author of Hebrews is making a very similar point to that made in Hebrews 6, namely, that the Hebrew Christians came to recognize that the Levitical sacrificial system did not grant them eternal life or forgiveness of sins.

Jesus didn't teach on changing the world by taking over the government; He taught on changing the world by showing radical, sacrificial, merciful love (turning the other cheek, going the extra mile, giving everything we have to the poor and following Him and His ways).

Much of what Paul writes addresses problems and concerns in the Corinthian congregation, such as the problem of eating foods that have been offered to idols in sacrificial worship and are now offered by a host to an unsuspecting Christian guest, one who might be offended.

Instead, Jesus came to inaugurate a new bloodline of relatives, a family connected by the means of His sacrificial death and life - restoring resurrection on our behalf.

This basically mirrors the scene in Mission to Mars between the characters played by Tim Robbins and Connie Nelson, whereby the death of one leads to a void whereby the other is willing to act in a heroic and self - sacrificial manner.

Now, blood was the best way for atonement because it required the sinner to play an active role in the sacrificial process by giving up and slaughtering his own animal, however not everyone owned animals which is why God arranged alternate processes to give flour and money as atonement offerings.

91 So Niebuhr retained his emphasis on man's freedom, sin, sacrificial love, and God's grace, vindicating their meaning by an analysis of contemporary history and experience.

Mithraism more obviously drew upon spring equinox fertility myths by depicting Mithra's sacrificial bull with a tail that consisted of sheaves of wheat that were supposedly scattered throughout the world once it was slaughtered.

Both Mithraism and Christianity emphasized mankind's redemption resulting from a sacrificial death followed by the god's ascent to heaven.

I certainly hope for the Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, as I would hope for myself and others with me, if found out to be of Christian faith and a modern order, not unlike the Christians who walked with Jesus as a man and Pastor who, as it were, was finally offered up as a sacrificial offering to God upon a cross after being found guilty of offending the then Church of Israel who then proposed his death sentance to be carried out by a Roman Court, though he was innocent of the charges.

I think that Mr. Bottum hears their tone and misses their point because he assumes that the United States represents the «Christian alternative to the sacrificial logic by which mythic cultures are founded.»

Secondly, as an action the Eucharist is sacrificial in quality, since it has to do with an oblation, offering, or self - giving which was the characteristic mark of the life of Jesus in obedience to what he took to be the vocation given him by his heavenly Father.

But this sacrificial way of reading the Bible is influenced heavily by paganism, and is not at all what Scripture teaches.

In His death, Jesus exposed the emptiness of the sacrificial system for what it was: a form of satanic enslavement by which humans think they are appeasing God for that which He had already forgiven them for.

The expiation of sin achieved by Jesus» priestly sacrificial death on the cross is brought to fulfilment in the Eucharist of which Jesus is the heavenly high priest.

In fact, in Hebrews 9 - 10, the author uses the «sacrifice» of Jesus to subvert the sacrificial system, and then redeems it by transitioning to speaking about the «offering» of Jesus.

(The second aspect of Christ the Truth was treated by Niebuhr under the heading of «the second Adam» — a disclosure of sacrificial love as the perfect form for human nature.)

The perfect expression of God's grace is the sacrificial love demonstrated by Christ on the Cross.

Unless a gift is in this fashion sacrificial — the giving up of something — it is argued, a gift reduces to a hidden contractual agreement, governed by a principle of self - interest; and actions out of self - interest, as Kant pointed out, are not pure gifts.