Sentences with phrase «faithful promises made to»

Not exact matches

This is why spouses make promises at the altar to stay faithful «in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer» — because it is a choice to stay and serve and sacrifice when the going gets tough.

We have been promised that if we worship God daily in the midst of his people, and if our worship remains faithful to the teaching of the Apostles, God will be made known to us in both Spirit and Truth.

We are supposed to be loyal and faithful to Jesus Christ alone, but this does not mean we can not make other pledge and promises as well.

As we make our way through the Book of Hebrews with its glittering and sometimes confusing images of sacrifices and great high priests and its extended metaphor of Jesus as that priest who makes all other priests unnecessary, the following verses come to us with a remarkable clarity and freshness: «Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.»

Because we believe in divine presence, power, and authority, we know that we should plan our way, making wise, informed decisions about every aspect of life, including voting, but we must also conduct ourselves like those who believe that their God is faithful and true to his promises for his people and his plans to renew the world.

But now since God has taken my salvation out of my hands into his, making it depend on his choice and not mine, and has promised to save me, not by my own work or exertion, but by his grace and mercy, I am assured and certain that he is faithful and will not lie to me... if we do less than we should or do it badly, he does not hold it against us.

Quite simply, attending your wedding, promising yourself as a faithful sexual partner meeting the physical needs of your future spouse and then thinking that you somehow actually have the «right» to renege on those promises makes you to be nothing but a liar and unfaithful to your spouse with respect to the promises that you have made.

Oscar is caught in a police bust and shot and as he lies dying, his spirit, faithful to the promise he made his sister that he would never abandon her refuses to abandon the world of the living.

Julio worries about his girlfriend's trip to Italy, making her promise many times over that she will remain faithful.