Sentences with phrase «even sanctifying»

The Cross» where the incarnate Word takes on human sin in its depth and purifies it» is about overcoming and even sanctifying death.

Throughout the book of Genesis, we see troubled families and the trouble families cause, even as the family principle is endorsed and even sanctified.

Suffering cleanses, even sanctifies, he came to believe, and he turned away from Satan and toward God.

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Marriage is a form of acramentum — a symbolic expression of Christ's love for his Church, even a channel of God's grace to sanctify the couple, their children, and the broader community.

To begin to measure this impact, one need only recall Louis Armstrong's statement about jazz that «it all came from the old Sanctified Churches,» or Mahalia Jackson's assertion, «I believe the blues and jazz and even the rock and roll stuff got their beat from the Sanctified Church.»

Circumcision emphasizes, even as it also restricts and transcends, the natural and the generative, sanctifying them in the process: Under God's command, men willingly produce in their living and generational flesh the mark of their longing for God, of their desire for His benevolence and care.

Clearly, before Jeremiah was even born, God «knew» him, «sanctified» him, and «ordained» him.

We walk as human and even as believers who are indwelled by the Holy Spirit we are people with a continuing sin nature who are positionally sanctified and otherwise in process as to experiencial sanctification.

The biblical faith, with roots in revolutionary messianic hope which is itself rooted in the prophetism of ancient Israel / Judah, is even now, and daily, used to sanctify and perpetuate the life, culture, security, and privilege not now of imperialist Rome but of the imperialist United States.

In recent decades, this pneumatological and ecclesial way of reading the Scriptures is being widely recovered, thus protecting the sacred text from individualistic exegesis and those critical methodologies that are indifferent, or even hostile, to God's saving and sanctifying truth.

They purge believers from false loves under the sanctifying power of the Spirit even as they proclaim a love that mercifully forgives all and calls all to forgive.

The growing recognition of the family as a sanctified entity even within divorce has inspired new and creative living arrangements, uniquely tailored to the psychological and financial needs of the large number of divorced families with children.