Sentences with phrase «death and resurrection make»

Jesus Christ's death and resurrection make us «alive» because we are no longer followers of the prince of this world; we are no longer children of wrath.

He is trying to force us to recognize that in spite of what appears to be orthodox christological affirmations, we are embedded in social practices that deny that Jesus's life, death and resurrection make any difference.

Not exact matches

Paul is making the case that Jesus did in fact rise therefore our faith is firm and the act of baptism associates you with the death, burial and resurrection and shows others (those living) your choice and association with Christ.

I joked last year that 33 was «My Jesus Year» (because in most church traditions, Jesus did the whole «Death and Resurrection Thing» in his thirty - third year and so people try to make their 33rd year very meaningful).

I don't disagree (if I am understanding you correctly), but we must make sure we understand the difference between how to receive eternal life (believe in Jesus Christ alone for it), and the logical and theological foundations for that truth (deity of Jesus, death and resurrection of Jesus, sinfulness of humanity, etc., etc., etc.).

The heart of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus is made present and effective for us here and now.

The death and resurrection of Christ made Him Lord of All.

Only God can make it through us, through Jesus Christ's death and resurrection.

Paul implies that it is just such experiences which have been made possible by the cataclysmic death and resurrection of Christ and which will be climaxed by that final renewal, the second coming.

We can only be saved through God's Grace, which is a free gift from God which we obtain through Jesus Christ's death and resurrection, which makes us righteous before God.

For each year Lent and Easter are, once again, the rediscovery and the recovery by us of what we were made through our own baptismal death and resurrection.

The conception of a cosmos redeemed by the death and resurrection of the Saviour, and sanctified by the footsteps of God, of Jesus, the Virgin, and the saints, made possible...» The terror of history was the time in bondage for Romanians who were in the hands of the oppressive forces, which invaded Romania time and again.

So we come to the resurrection, Christ's conquest of death and his life received into God and therefore made available to humankind for evermore.

«After Jesus» failure and death, his disciples stole his body and declared his resurrection in order to maintain their financial security and ensure themselves some standing» So let me get this strait, the disciples slip past the awake guards and the chief priest that gather, remove a large stone without making enough noise to wake those who were already awake.

Of course the true sign that is given all Christians is Christ's death and resurrection, and so we must say that Matthew has in a sense rightly interpreted the full meaning of Jesus» words, but in such a way as to make it harder to get at the original sense of the passage.

In so doing, some sacrifice of completeness has been made, but by this means the reader will be able to understand that both these writers have a single purpose: to declare the meaning and content of the ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

I believe that the centre of our faith is this vision which was made a concrete reality in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

It is to ask oneself, «What difference does the death and resurrection of Christ make for how I understand this part of the Old Testament?»

For Paul we escape the power of sin, not by making laws against it but by participating in the faithfulness, the death, and, eventually, the resurrection of Jesus.

It seems that the earliest preaching of the resurrection made no attempt to describe the appearances, but rather proclaimed the fact of the resurrection as God's reversal of the disgrace of crucifixion: «the death of Jesus is interpreted as Israel's No to the proclamation of Jesus and the resurrection as God's Yes, his validation of Jesus» message.

Furthermore, the doctrinal structure of faith is much more than the «grammar of the Church's narrative»: it is the reality of communion with the Trinity through the life, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Son of God made Man and the centre of all human history.

The Book of Common Prayer had this meaning in view when it employs, in the course of the Prayer of Consecration in the service of Holy Communion, the words: «Wherefore, O Lord and heavenly Father, according to the institution of thy dearly beloved Son our Savior Jesus Christ, we, thy humble servants, do celebrate and make here, before thy Divine Majesty, with these thy holy gifts, which we now offer unto thee, the memorial thy Son hath commanded us to make; having in remembrance his blessed passion and precious death, his mighty resurrection and glorious ascension; rendering unto thee most hearty thanks for the innumerable benefits procured unto us by the same.»

Both masses would have made us present at the Last Supper, the death and the resurrection of our divine saviour.

But I do see the divine priority, God's prevenient guidance, in the event as a whole — the history of Old Testament Israel, the birth, ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus, and the coming into being of his church — and in its effect, which we variously describe as the supreme revelation of God's love, the redemption of the world, the coming into being of the church.15 Indeed it is precisely God's prevenient guidance that makes of this entire historical sequence, including its climax in Jesus, one single event, producing one single effect.

What does it mean, practically, to preserve and celebrate (as much as we can) the original intent of the authors of the Old Testament while still asking ourselves, «what difference does the death and resurrection of Christ make for how I understand this part of the Old Testament»?

Once we recognize this and believe that Jesus made the way thru His death and resurrection, then our relationship with God is restored.

But religion is a man - made system that tends to go against the flow of what the Lord Jesus brought to life through His death and resurrection.

What makes me as well as God angry about, is so - called Christian people, that act like Jesus death burial and resurrection meant NOTHING!

Thus the authentic line of development, as the expectation of an immediate advent faded, led to a concentration of attention upon the historical facts of the ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus, exhibited in an eschatological setting which made clear their absolute and final quality as saving facts.

These sorts of adjustments to water baptism would make the death, burial, and resurrection symbolism much more clear for the average viewer.

In Pastor Benke's actual prayer (as opposed to the written text from which he departed), he made no mention of Jesus (except in the closing phrase), nor of the significance of Christ's life, death, and resurrection as the unique expression of God's love, nor of the need for repentance and faith in Christ as means of grace.

Moreover, whereas Judaism spoke of its covenant with God as established through Abraham and Moses, the Church spoke of its covenant made in the life - death resurrection of Jesus.

Especially the theme of God's word and promise, but also those of exodus, redemption, covenant, justice, wisdom, of the Logos made flesh, of the Spirit poured out on the face of creation, of the compassion, paternity and maternity of God, and especially the Trinitarian character of God — all of the indispensable elements in a Christian theology — communicate their depth only when they are united with the theme of divine self - abnegation which, at least to Christian faith, comes to its most explicit expression in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus?

And this Environment is mediated to us through the Person of Jesus Christ, God made man, the Word become flesh — in His living and knowing as revealed to us in His birth, life, death and resurrectiAnd this Environment is mediated to us through the Person of Jesus Christ, God made man, the Word become flesh — in His living and knowing as revealed to us in His birth, life, death and resurrectiand knowing as revealed to us in His birth, life, death and resurrectiand resurrection.

As we have noted, the exact meaning of these words has been a matter of dispute, but worshippers believe that in making a memorial of what Jesus said and did, they share in his death and resurrection.

Before making progress on that front, let us consider more closely how we understand the central Christian claim that God revealed himself in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Here there is entrance into the «benefits» — the results made available for the lives of men — which Christ's life, death, and resurrection effected and which gave rise to the specifically Christian claim that he is God's Son, that One in whom True God dwells supremely in a true man, for the wholeness of all men.

Wherefore, O Lord and heavenly Father, according to the institution of thy dearly beloved Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, we thy humble servants do celebrate and make here before thy divine majesty, with these thy holy gifts which we now offer unto thee, the memorial thy Son hath commanded us to make, having in remembrance his blessed Passion and precious Death, his mighty Resurrection and glorious Ascension, rendering unto thee most hearty thanks for the innumerable benefits procured unto us by the same.

Now what I mean is this: in the three verses listed above, the apostle Paul makes it clear that the Corinthian Christians he is addressing HAD «received» and «believed» his gospel message of Christ's death and resurrection (cf. 1 Cor.

To put it still another way, overstating the case but perhaps making it somewhat clearer: Jesus» gospel was the gospel of the Kingdom; the apostolic gospel was the gospel of the death and resurrection of Jesus the Messiah; and yet the latter was believed to be the continuation and proclamation of the former.

In the end, Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel reveals a vision that makes death a parenthesis between moments of life, and makes the body a site not only of death but also of redemption.

In the first case, this reminds us that baptism makes us part of Christ, members of his body the Church, and sharers in his death and resurrection.

«The rekindling of the paschal candle reminds us that baptism makes us part of Christ, members of his body the Church, sharers in his death and resurrection»

but I am aware of OT Scriptures prophesying how Christ's death and resurrection would make the payment for our sins so we could be reconciled to God (e.g. Isaiah 53).

But the study of initiation symbolism seeks another end: to decipher the implicit symbolism in such and such a rite or initiation myth (regressus ad uterum, ritual death and resurrection, etc.), to study each one of these symbols morphologically and historically, and to elucidate the existential situation which has made the formation of these symbols possible.

They must find and destroy all that remain of these seven items before the Dark Lord gets his hands on the three Deathly Hallows (the Elder Wand, the Invisibility Cloak and the Resurrection Stone), which will make him the master of death, and therefore impossible to destroy.

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A sphere made of colored strips of fabric torn from a plethora of unraveled paintings, The Painting Ball performs the undoing of painting in its traditional form to mark a tabula rasa moment that inscribes Saban's project firmly into the canonical narrative of painting's many deaths and resurrections.