Sentences with phrase «from obedience to»

My devotion this morning (My Utmost by Oswald Chambers) was about the true peace that comes from obedience to Him.

He worked in many different avenues from obedience to protection training, but for him it was always to stressful (for both the handler and the dog) to be waiting for the dog to make a «mistake» so the human could «correct» it.

The work can range from obedience to agility to working sheep, but they do need training and attention.

Rottweilers love to work and will happily compete in virtually all dog sports from obedience to herding and weight pulls.

Love is a crappy reason to marry, according to historian Stephanie Coontz, author of Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage:

Experiencing that joy and the blessing that results from obedience to other commandments as well, I have come to a new appreciation of the wisdom and mercy embodied in the divine instructions given us in the Scriptures.

Victory in this area is going to come from obedience to God and not other people's actions.

When one couples this with what we have said earlier about man's freedom, the openness to the future which is before each of us and all of us, and the importance of decision as to choices made, the moral question is radically transformed from obedience to arbitrary command to willing acceptance of the invitation of love.

They noted that this Swiss scholar moved easily from Moses to Mozart, from Mesopotamia to East Germany, from obedience to Caesar to defiance of Hitler.

As the revered Christian theologan Calvin put it, woman is Calvin described women as»... more guilty than the man, because she was seduced by Satan, and so diverted her husband from obedience to God that she was an instrument of death leading all to perdition.

The British court cited a South African decision from 2000, which acknowledged the difficulty of determining religious exemptions from obedience to laws.

And let not pity for the twain withhold you from obedience to Allah, if ye believe in Allah and the Last Day.

Committed as they are to Christ as the source and model of all that is holy, Christians are in no way exempted from obedience to the moral law permanently inscribed by the Creator in human nature (Romans 2:15).

Book Review Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage.

Calvin described women as»... more guilty than the man, because she was seduced by Satan, and so diverted her husband from obedience to God that she was an instrument of death leading all to perdition.

The claim of knowing Christ is meaningless apart from obedience to his commands.

According the the revered Theologan Calvin, women are»... more guilty than the man, because she was seduced by Satan, and so diverted her husband from obedience to God that she was an instrument of death leading all to perdition.

Even within the Church, the gospel, separated from obedience to God, becomes a permissive principle of undiscriminating tolerance to bless human desire and fantasy.

Not exact matches

Many conservative commentators point, as the icon for all that went wrong, to the 1967 Land O» Lakes statement, in which the presidents of Catholic colleges declared that their pursuit of academic excellence served a high Catholic goal and thus exempted Catholic schools from direct obedience to the hierarchy and magisterium of the Catholic Church.

Sad to say, many churches have permitted the revolution to redirect the faith away from the hard path of obedience to one that simply affirms everyone without seeking to transform their affections and their lives by God's word.

In a letter announcing his retirement from the army at the close of the War, he wrote: «I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.»

The only way to get a pass from your ward bishop is by proving your obedience to the church and it's leaders.

I've heard some Christians claim that their decision to forego an abortion that's for a woman's health, or kicking their gay kid out of the house were the product of prayer, that these were «hard answers», but still ones that required obedience because they came from God.

A lawyer in the 1st century C.E. wrote that «through one man sin (from the Hebrew chattath meaning «to miss», missing the mark of perfect obedience) entered into the world and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men because they had all sinned.»

I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

Obedience to God, these texts suggest, can not take place in isolation from social structures; faith in the living God demands not only love of neighbor.

But their quick obedience to that look isn't because they are worried about a frightful spanking or punishment when they get home away from witnesses.

Obedience has always been important to God from the beginning to now.

It is a story of repentance and the movement from disobedience to obedience.

I clung to the belief that God can bring beauty from the ashes, that my faith and obedience could be the soil from which He would one day produce pleasant fruit.

Furthermore, the Jews were not motivated here, as Haman was, by greed and self - advancement, but were solely focused on obedience to the Word of God, and focused only on defending themselves, not on profiting from their enemies.

Because the Bible is the most effective force in history for lifting women to higher levels of respect, dignity, and freedom, we join an historic succession of women whose Christian faith is forged from biblical truth and whose lives are shaped into Christ's image on the anvil of obedience.

It is rather that in the incarnation of the Word of God humanity has been taken into unity with God; human life has been sanctified; and a way has been opened for all men in every century and in all circumstances to enter into their right relationship to the Creator (the relationship of sons to their Father) through God's gracious approach to them in Christ and the response of trust and obedience which God in Christ evokes from them.

However, the power of the Kingdom is inseparable from the «end» which it is bringing to the world, and, as Albert Schweitzer has so powerfully insisted, the new life of ethical obedience to which Jesus calls his followers is likewise inseparable from the liberation of the believer from the very reality of the world.

Far from being simplistic, obedience during our toughest moments reveals that we are deep enough to suppress our tendency to find excuses to avoid what we know is the best path.

This is the Latin from Eph 5:21 to indicate that each one is to be subject to the other: «Give way to one another in obedience to Christ,» as the New Jerusalem Bible translates this verse.

While monasticism in modern times has been deeply influenced by Dom Paul Delatte's rather rigorous interpretation of the Holy Rule (he was Abbot of Solesmes from 1890 to 1921) we find in Hugh Gilbert's firm but gentle hands a rather more humane understanding of the contemporary mind, particularly in his substantial treatment of the concept of obedience (a minefield for any Christian apologist) which stands at the centre of this present work.

For Peter, the term Messiah was incompatible with Jesus» obedience to God and the suffering and death that would come from his obedience.

Once God has ceased to exist in human experience as the omnipotent and numinous Lord, there perishes with him every moral imperative addressed to man from a beyond, and humanity ceases to be imprisoned by an obedience to an external will or authority.

When I allow my questions about God to stop me from taking the risk of obedience, I am guilty of sin.

Molded in a cider press from the milk of nine hundred cows, this phenomenal creation bore the motto «Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.»

Later theology for Whitehead, hence, distorted Jesus vision of «gentleness and mercy» by an «old ferocious God..., the Oriental despot, the Pharaoh, the Hitler; with everything to enforce obedience, from infant damnation and eternal punishment,» Price (1954) 176.

The path of suffering which Jesus chose to tread, the agony in Gethsemane, and the cry of dereliction from the cross, all reveal the intensity of faith, just by virtue of the uncertainty that marked each act of obedience.

The Roman Catechism, issued in 1566, three years after the end of the Council of Trent, taught that the power of life and death had been entrusted by God to civil authorities and that the use of this power, far from involving the crime of murder, is an act of paramount obedience to the fifth commandment.

The letters of Paul as well as the Gospel records show that the Christian community from the beginning made ethical decisions within the community and in relation to buying and selling in the market, and the problem of obedience to the state.

I thought straight away this is a joke as scriptures tell us only the father knows the time of his sons return and hes keeping it to himself he hasnt even told his son yet.Mark 13:32 This a mystery isnt God all knowing and isnt Jesus God it is a mystery.Yet I like that that is the case because it proves that the father is not the son and the son is not the father they are separate yet they are one just like the holy spirit.I have come across denominations that believe the father son and holy spirit are the one person i asked them how they can say that when Jesus was baptized we see 3 separate persons.We have enough information to know that we are in the last days the signs are present and increasing.Ever since Israel became a nation the countdown has begun.The verse the enemy will come like a thief in the night i have heard preached many times and i believe the preachers have got it wrong because they preach it from the view for the church to get there act together or you will miss out.This view is incorrect because if you are a born again believer following him in obedience and relying on the holy spirit you are not walking in darkness but are walking in the light so you will not be caught unaware as those who are sleeping this is a warning for those who are sleeping or walking according to the flesh they are in darkness.Remember the 10 wise virgins the ones who were alert and keep refilling there lamps went in with the bride those who slept were left behind and so it will be when the Lord returns.Now is the time to prepare our hearts and lives to be ready for his return.It is an exciting time to be living and we are to live in the expectation that the Lord could return at any time brentnz

If you are walking uprightly, in obedience to God and His Word, there is no good thing he will with hold from you.

For much in Scripture can not be understood apart from the active obedience to the voice that speaks there.

Faithful obedience takes its cues more from the plight of the oppressed and seeks to serve the God of life by rescuing them from the deadly grip of systemic injustice.

What God is looking for is repentence and a turning to him rather than a turning away from him.God instituted the animal sacrifices to show just how bad sin was so we would be sorry that we greived him.For us to be made right there has to be a choice to turn from sin and follow him and out of that decision there should be a desire to walk in his ways.Under the old law part of that obedience was to make offerings however it was by faith in God that made the person righteous and not the blood of animals.