Sentences with phrase «first act of this faith»

The first act of this faith is the uniting act; and in its exercise the believer cordially receives Christ; is sincerely pleased with him, love those things which Christ loves; desires and seeks those objects which he seeks, and in affection becomes one with Him.

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If someone acts as if they have the final say about you «getting to heaven,» remember first that «getting to heaven» isn't even the point of Christian faith, and second, that anybody using a carrot on a stick to manipulate your behaviors doesn't follow the God who gives grace with crazy generosity.

Rogers, who worked with the Obama administration during the planning of his first inauguration in 2009, will become Director of the Office of Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, a job that includes working with outside religious groups and acting as the top White House official on religious issues.

An Act of Toleration was passed in 1649, the first in America, guaranteeing freedom of worship for all Christians who professed faith in the triune God.

For the historical event of the rise of the Easter faith means for us what it meant for the first disciples — namely, the self - attestation of the risen Lord, the act of God in which the redemptive event of the cross is completed.

This response was continuous, although the resurrection marked the crisis in its development — the moment when loyalty to the person reached its climax and when faith in the meaning of the event as an act of God became for the first time clear and sure — but at every stage this response was a constituent and creative element in the event itself, and the event had not fully happened until this response of faith had been fully made.

First, one can raise questions about the freedom of the act of faith; one then situates the problem in the field of an essentially psychological or anthropological discussion.

If all men had kept faith with each other from the first act of free loyalty onwards, and if men in their freedom had always trusted God as the sparrows trust him in their lack of freedom, then Jesus Christ might have been welcomed as the perfecter of faith, its universalizer and guarantor.

So, deep in the sixth century, on the very eve of the second exodus, the voice of prophetism, summoning into a single moment of time the act of creation and the first exodus, proclaims the now old prophetic faith in the redemptive purpose of Yahweh's judgment:

Similar substitutions should be made in the passages where Jesus deals with the centurion of great faith (Matthew 8:5 — 13, Luke 7:1 — 9), where Peter brings the gospel to gentiles for the first time via the centurion Cornelius (Acts 10), and where the writer of Hebrews commends to his Christian audience the acts of force used by noble soldiers in the Old Testament (ch.

If Christianity continues to tell you that WHEN you get your act together — God will finally open his arms, the representatives of this faith are not understanding the premier principal of God — through Christ he loves you NOW — but when his love begins to radiate into your personal life - your very personal life - you will make choices reflecting that reality — all other things, people, dogmas, Biblical interpretations — all of that through the long centuries of man — will be a drop in His eternal ocean and in that first eternal moment — won't matter - your needs now matter — Christ addresses need — with Himself — demands — with parabolic events — and refusal — with the end result of free will — even the will to reject Him — when He would have done anything for you to not be rejected.

Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virg = inia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.

The encyclical would have us consider first the journey already charted by the faith of Abraham and Moses: how the believer has been called out of prehistoric notions of a god of this or that place or season into the truly personal response («I» - «Thou») to a Word whose divine utterance both precedes us and calls us forth to journey towards a horizon which the Word himself illuminates and for which the Word himself acts as guarantor.

You say faith is not a work but then go on to say, «Human faith, then, is not the first step,» this admitting, at least to me, that it is a step, which is descriptive of an act, a work.

My fear is that the first Anglican church, synagogue or mosque that says, «It offends our principles and the basic tenets of our religion's faith», will be countered by the zealots of Stonewall moving in, saying, «We're going to sue under the Equalities Act and the Human Rights Act».

The first act reintroduces you to the familiar portal mechanics of the first game, as well as adding springboards (Aerial Faith Plates), light bridges (Hard Light Bridges) and tractor beams (Excursion Funnels) to the mix.

(3) A matrimonial property regime that according to the first and second paragraphs of this Article should be governed by a foreign law shall not be asserted against third parties acting in good faith (bona fides) insofar as it concerns juristic acts performed in Japan or property situated in Japan.

Among them, he represented the successful appellant Harish Bhasin, in Bhasin v. Hrynew, in which the Supreme Court of Canada for the first time recognized a legal duty to act honestly and in good faith in their contractual obligations.

This is not as bad as the first - instance judge's suggestion that D acted in bad faith (2010 QCCS 1550 at para. 52) but it does suggest that there was something underhanded about action D's attempt to avail herself of her statutory rights.

The Ontario Supreme Court stated that «the grantor of a right of first refusal must act reasonably and in good faith in relation to that right, and must not act in a fashion designed to eviscerate the very right which has been given».

Acted for insurance company on first case to consider piercing litigation privilege based on allegations of bad faith claims practices.

Secured lenders also owe an equitable duty of good faith — they may act to protect their security, but may not conduct themselves in a way which unfairly prejudices the mortgagor — Downsview Nominees Ltd v First City Corporation Ltd [1993] AC 295, [1993] 3 All ER 626.

One of the issues for the court to consider was whether the seller had acted in good faith, and whether he was being unreasonable by first blindsiding the buyer with last - minute document requests, and then by refusing to allow the registration to take place on the Monday.

These are: first, that the board acted outside the scope of its authority set forth in the bylaws; second, the action did not further the corporate purpose of the co-operative; or third, the board acted in bad faith.