My word for the year is flourish and I blogged about feeling like 2014 was the year I was a seed underground,
dying to self so I can really grow, flourish in all Christ has for me.
Not exact matches
People are too conceited
to want
to believe that when they
die, they cease
to exist,
so viola, in their pea brains God exists
to satisfy their own sense of
self importance through an afterlife and continued existence beyond life.
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.
Paul draws a direct parallel
to the cross, saying, «For we know that our old
self was crucified with him
so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves
to sin — because anyone who has
died has been set free from sin.»
6 For we know that our old
self was crucified with him
so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, [a] that we should no longer be slaves
to sin — 7 because anyone who has
died has been set free from sin.
So he wrote, «We know that the man we once were has been crucified with Christ for the destruction of the sinful
self... ’21 He likened the Christian's immersion under the water at his baptism
to the death and burial of Jesus.22 The
self must
die before a man can rise
to new life.
So the secret is to continually be in love with Jesus, be empowered by the Holy Spirit, it is all about passion, i am so hungry for more of Him, but then do I want to let Him have more of me, a continual dying to self............ being stripped I like to share one amazing thing that happene
So the secret is
to continually be in love with Jesus, be empowered by the Holy Spirit, it is all about passion, i am
so hungry for more of Him, but then do I want to let Him have more of me, a continual dying to self............ being stripped I like to share one amazing thing that happene
so hungry for more of Him, but then do I want
to let Him have more of me, a continual
dying to self............ being stripped I like
to share one amazing thing that happened.
I want
to weep when there's a disaster and people are hurt or
die and some
self - described Christian personality claims that God made it happen
to punish X because of Y. Unfortunately there are people who are gullible enough
to believe such drivel
to the point of sending the drivel masters money
so they can continue
to spout their nonsense.
but i didn't state anything example — i stated that the theory of evolution is yet
to be proved and
so with that i agree that due
to that lacking it is equal
to the theory of god... the only thing i said which is cemented truth for anything is that we don't know what the real answer is... and by stating ideas as facts serves no real purpose but a selfish one... lets call it an ease - ment on the inner
self, the mind can now be at peace with the hope that when i
die i get
to live yet again... full belief in this is insane without evidence.
So it's not a matter of simple «belief,» because the disciple of Christ is called
to die to himself, take up his cross, and follow Christ in the transformation of his new
self.
(And yet Hans Urs von Balthasar, who in many respects appears more cautious in his theology than either Rahner or Schillebeeckx, has endorsed, through his reflections on Trinitarian theology, the notion of a suffering and
dying God much more strongly than most other Catholic theologians: «the death, and the
dying away into silence, of the Logos
so become the centre of what he has
to say of himself that we have
to understand precisely his non-speaking as his final revelation, his utmost word: and this because in the humility of his obedient
self - lowering
to the death of the Cross he is identical with the exalted Lord.»
Nevertheless, besides the issue of natural justice, I think that desire is defined as something that is considered
to have a
so - called positive outcome,
so I would think that on a personal level
self - immolation has no personal desire (unless «fame» and / or desire
to die are there) and it is surely painful
to the person
self - immolating (unlike e.g.
self - explosion), and the thing being probably considered by individual persons as social sacrifice.
Yeah, I'm human, and God loves me anyway,
so what!?! Jesus
died to save my sorry
self, and he knew EXACTLY what I was like.
But if we never forget that Calvary is the culmination of a whole life of obedience,
self - surrender, and
self - giving
to God, and that the medieval sayings are right which speak of «the whole life of Christ as the mystery of the Cross» and of the sacrifice of Christ as «not the death but the willingness of him who
dies,» we are delivered from this danger
so far as our Lord's death is concerned.
As for the media's assumption that money can buy anything, Jesus tells the story of the wealthy farmer who decided
to build a bigger barn, but then suddenly
died,
so Jesus asks, «What does one gain by winning the whole world at the cost of one's true
self?»
Perhaps what you are trying
to say is that God wants the false
self, the Old Adam,
to die;
so that the New Adam, the true Christic
self can be reborn and grow again in us; but than why not emphasize the life - giving part rather than the
dying part and is it not our hearts being resurrected with Christ in Baptism?
I am also a
self - confessed
die hard lover of black pepper,
so adding this
to the blend was not only adventurous but also exciting.
«That would allow us
to fine tune the genetic
self - destruct code that our particles deliver
so that cancer cells
die and healthy cells do not.»
Prostate tumors tend
to be what scientists call «indolent» —
so slow - growing and
self - contained that many affected men
die with prostate cancer, not of it.
Building an indictment of the media, the police, and the provincial governor for placing
self - interest above saving lives, Bus 174 opens out from the people directly involved in the incident
to an examination of institutionalized poverty and a prison system
so dehumanizing that the hijacker would rather
die than be returned
to it.
Why do you people hate dogs they save lives for you and all you do is bitch on how much you hate them you people are
so cruel you should
die your
self if you're using these sounds
to be cruel
The story is
self - contained,
so even those with no prior knowledge of Resident Evil's expansive history can enjoy the tale as much as series
die - hards, making it a perfect entry point for anyone new
to the series.
but the 3 most important in my mind are: God forgives me
so I must forgive others God
died for me
so I must
die to self God has an eternal room for me in His mansion