Sentences with phrase «earthly father»

oh and Tiggy, my thinking of earthly father screws up my thinking of Heavenly Father, it may not be neccessary to have an earthly one

If you have the opportunity to someone whose earthly father was very performance based, you can change their image of their heavenly Father.

We know that earthly fathers care for their children so how much more God cares for His children.

Perhaps the most eye - opening was the scene in which Joseph, the accidental earthly father of God, is trying to explain to the cynical would - be wise man how he could possibly believe his young bride's story of divine impregnation.

(Matthew 23:9) This had to be meant in a spiritual sense since we all have earthly fathers, while our heavenly Father is a spirit to be worshiped in spirit and truth.

Ideally, our experiences with our father should point us to the heart of a greater Father who loves us more than any earthly father ever could.

Our earthly fathers never expressed their love and affection for us or spent quality time with us.

A perfect father surely becomes angry at his disobedient children, but he's not going to roast them alive because of it — and any earthly father who does is soundly and rightly condemned as evil and / or insane.

This story vividly illustrates the relationship between the impressions left on us by our earthly fathers and our perceptions of God.

Also, both the mother Mary and Joseph (an earthly father - figure for Jesus) KNEW and accepted that Jesus had came to this earth for more than a normal life.

We have an earthly Father and we have a heavenly father.

It is often said having a poor relationship with your earthly father can affect your relationship with your heavenly Father.

I believe in Jesus Christ, the One with no earthly Father, with the dust of this earth between His toes, and with our names etched onto the palm of His hands, right beneath the nail scars... Who now sits at the Father's right hand making endless intercession on our behalf.

People have varying kinds of experience with human fathers and, as soon as one speaks of God as father, some are sure to project upon God the dependency, fear, hostility or resentment that has marked their relationship with their earthly father.

Take example in a earthly father.

I love that Young portrays God in this way, particularly for Mackenzie, a character who struggles with bad memories of his earthly father.

But with a twist — instead of regular flashbacks to your childhood and what your earthly father did and said about you, what if you could clearly see and hear what your Heavenly Father did and said about you?

In addition, if any earthly father were to say, «I plan on killing one of my sons when he reaches the age of 21 just because I feel like doing that — people would think he was crazy and probably try to get his kids away from him.

When we are in Adam (ie when we have an earthly father) we are in sin, it was therefore the only way for Jesus to born without sin... Nothing at all to do with weakness of woman but rather the headship of Adam.

'» We have heard that so many times, but the apostles were astonished that He would encourage them to address God, not even as an earthly father like Father Knows Best, but «Papa» and «Daddy.»

They do not believe in a God just a «heavenly father» who is like «earthly fathers.»

Growing up as a «guilt sponge» I was caught up in a spiritual eddy hurling me into a convent to please my earthly father and my heavenly Father.

We were brought up to please our earthly fathers; they rewarded us when we did well; we learned how wonderful it is to get approval for good behavior.

Likewise, Jesus» statement, «If you ask for a egg, will your earthly father give you a scorpion?

And since Jesus had no earthly father, He didn't have it.

The reason for the avoidance of abba in address to God in the ancient Jewish piety is that this is the form of the word used by a child in first learning to speak to his earthly father.

6: 5 - 6) It constitutes no claim of the petitioner; it invokes the goodness of God, which can be trusted, for even an earthly father gives good things to his children who ask him — how much more would God do so!

Would an earthly father not say this to his child who said «I hate you, I don't love you anymore, I wish you weren't my dad» «I wish you were dead».

No, Jesus was a perfect man, because he had no earthly father, rather when the Holy Spirit came into Mary, she became pregnant.

because we have not the mind of God but the mind of our earthly father the devil.

An earthly father can surely weep in sorrow because he has limited control to change things.

All those years ago, my earthly father taught me the art of turning, but it was my heavenly Father who turned me first to Christ and then to preach his gospel.

But Jesus was born without sin because He did not have an earthly father.

Leave the man alone, I don't think he's embarrassing his earthly Father, nor is he embarrassing his heavenly Father.

He is the son of God and therefore can not have an earthly father.

The Church says that there should always be a statue of Our Lady in every Catholic church, and a very good reason for this is that Mary always reminds us just who Jesus is: her humanity reminds us that Jesus was truly human; her virginity in giving birth to Jesus is a sign of his divinity, for he had no earthly father.

It can be a shortened form of the name Joseph (a Biblical name — Mary's husband, Jesus» earthly father).

«Is it a caricature for me to ask you, since you are a Roman Catholic, do you believe Jesus had an earthly father?»

Joseph was the husband of the Virgin Mary in the Bible, the earthly father of Jesus.

I've realized that when I'd cry I would long for my Dad's wisdom, that his wisdom was from above so I kept on getting wisdom from my Heavenly Father in the absence of my earthly Father.

Even though I know my Heavenly Father has always loved me, sometimes that «pit in the stomach» ache for your earthly father arises.