Sentences with phrase «example of a loving father»

Like the best example of a loving father, God is really serious about guiding, protecting and relating to us.

Not exact matches

To say your purpose is to be a loving father is in error as that is the result of a belief or world view (I do not know you so that is an example)

And he made human fathers and he gives us the example of good fathers so we can understand the kind of secure relationship of love and protection he offers to us.»

Everything we read in the Bible surely has to absorbed and considered in line with our experience of God — for those of us who have travelled with God for a long time this experience (I hope) bears out a loving, caring, intimately involved Father whose example in the life of Jesus is all about love — tough, body - taking - the - brunt - of - whatever - life - throws, with the deeper soul fixed to God's promises of what lies beyond.

Through the examples of our parents, we learn about the love God the Father has for his children.

Take, for example, Jürgen Moltmann's (b. 1926) view of creation as the expression of «God's self - communicative love» or Wolfhart Pannenberg's (b. 1928) rich treatment of the Paschal events confirming for us the eternal truth that Jesus is the obedient Son, the Father is the Ruler of all, and the Spirit is active always and everywhere, including in death.

To illustrate by a few examples from his precepts, note the reason given for the course of action that is enjoined, «Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven» (Matt.

Can there be a more magnificent example of the love, grace and mercy of God than the conversion of our father in Christ, St. Paul?

So the models of God as Father and as Judge can to some extent be merged, or perhaps included in a wider image — an ideal King, for example, who is both loving and just to his subjects.

The chief general lesson of these studies has been the discovery that Christianity survived throughout the ages because it adjusted itself with remarkable ease to the changing demands of the peoples of whose culture it became an inherent part, while it never surrendered the essentials of its faith in Jesus Christ as the revealer of God the Father and the teacher and example of the love of God and fellow men.

Your art reminds me of God's example as a loving father.

Unfortunately, many men (husbands and fathers) have not led by example or had good loving relationship with their wife and children but become abusive, lazy, unspiritual, and the children of those fathers begin to feel distrustful to men and could steer towards accepting women who have possibly been more obedient to God or seem more pure.

Examples abound: twins, separated at birth, reunite and conceive a superman child before one is killed by his father (Wagner's Die Walküre); a polygamous American seduces and later abandons an Asian girl and their child (Puccini's Madama Butterfly); through deceit, seduction, and murder a prostitute becomes empress of Rome and finds true love (Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea); to prove the inconstancy of feminine love a cynical aristocrat convinces two young lovers to seduce each other's girlfriend (Mozart's Cosi fan tutte).

Some of his words were obviously expressions of the commandments of God — for example, «Honour thy father and thy mother» (Mark 7:10) and other commandments of the decalogue (Mark 10:19), as well as the Shema and the command to love one's neighbour (Mark 12:29 - 31).

For example, fetuses that are gestated in wombs where mother and father are not in a loving relationship may carry an imprint of dysfunctional relating that can manifest and seek resolution during adolescence and adulthood.

A super sad story posted by a loving father to Imgur from Tennessee whose baby caught the terrible RSV is just one example of how serious the spreading of germs and diseases can be to our smallest members of society.

«Taken,» for example, was all about a father who gains the love of his teenage daughter by shooting, choking, stabbing and electrocuting scores of people.

Dick Hoyt has touched the hearts of many fathers with his example of selfless love and taught us all — even mothers — pure love and what can really come of it.

Your situation is yet another example, «Father's conduct towards his children & their Mother has been nothing short of despicable, & it had been calculated to punish the Mother for leaving the relationship & has been carried out without the slightest regard for the proper interests of the children - particularly their right to be able to love both their parents».