Sentences with phrase «future reigning»

By using the term «kingdom of God,» with its indelible future orientation, however, Jesus implies that God's power is this power of the future, for it is this future reigning of God which is actualized in the present by means of this ministry of exorcism.

If this future reigning is already effective in our world, then we may anticipate the conditions of the age to come here and now.

This is the power of divine lure, expressed in the vision of the future reigning of God (chapter 3).

The first three Sundays of Advent speak of an adult Christ and the future reign of God not of an infant born in the past.

He was looking to a future reign, but Jesus handed out the royal pardon immediately.

It's not surprising that when Pentecostal power is at work in communities, it brings disruption, for this is the future reign of God breaking into the present.

Fisher quotes David Tracy: «To affirm the belief in Jesus Christ is... to affirm the faith that in the ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus the decisive token, manifestation, prolepsis of the future reign of God (and, thereby, Messianic time) is already here in a proleptic form and, just as really, not yet here.»

So all hope and concern was directed toward God's future reign, when Israel would be freed, and the whole world would see and acknowledge God as king.

Jesus shared this focus of concern toward God's coming, future reign.

Not exact matches

Hand over the retirement reigns and when you hit the golden years I'll let you know how we did» they listened surrendering personal responsibility for their future to their broker / adviser / friend.

What all this portends for the future of Hazard remains to be seen, though there's little doubt that King Coal's absolute reign is over.

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, in an open letter to B.C. Premier Christy Clark, has sided with those who want to reign in wealthy foreign buyers and thereby reduce stress on Vancouver's current and future housing stock.

Uncertainty reigns on how to shape future company strategic direction.

I wonder what will the religious wackos believe in the future... and the mighty prophet Tom Cruise climbed to the highest tower and defeated the evil Tethans that were holding his virgin wife Kate the tall one and his reign lasted for a hundred years as recorded in the fragments of the magic blue disks written by Sony the inscriber... or... Frodo the saviour..

If we believe that no matter what we do, the majority of us will perish in some reign of heavenly or demonic fire, what is our motivation to plan for our collective future?

The biblical good news also tells us about how God wants to rule and reign over all aspects of life, how there is nothing beyond the scope of redemption, how there is hope for the future, a source of joy and gladness to be had, true community to be experienced, and peace to be introduced.

I am deciding, like Adam and Eve, that God's reign on my future is not good enough for me; no, I need to try to tackle it myself.

Bultmann has made the shift in aeons the decisive factor distinguishing Jesus from Paul: «Jesus looks into the future, toward the coming reign of God, although to be sure toward the reign now corning or dawning.

I believe in a future, literal, 1000 - year reign of Christ on earth.

It will probably not be an actual crown or ring of leaves, but will be some sort of special blessing, honor, privilege, or recognition in the future, eternal reign of Jesus.

The defense of church buildings consisted largely of looking back to the Temple of the Jews in Jerusalem, and to the future rule and reign of Jesus Christ on earth.

At an early date it was a favourite of those who expected the imminent coming of God's reign on earth; Papias (early second century) made use of it and supplied other traditions about future miraculous fertility from what (he said) had come from John the Lord's disciple.

Although Peirce does insist that there is divergence from law and increasing variety in the world, and that at no time in the finite future will there be no aberrancy from law (6.91), he also insists that growth is continually expanding into law and that if we were to reach a point in the infinitely distant future, we would have reached a state of no indeterminacy or chance but a complete reign of law (6.33).

Even more important than our decision about which college to attend, which city to move to or what job offer to take is the future hope of the Kingdom of God foretold by the prophets and fulfilled in the reign of our now and coming King.

By putting off the Kingdom of God until «the future millennial reign of Christ» we have divorced most of the message of Jesus from the Gospel of Jesus.

Set it in a dystopian future in which only your hero stands between civilisation and a 1,000 - year reign of terror?

As I am using it, theocracy refers to the benevolent reign in the eschatological future when God will be all in all.

The witness wavers between this sense of a partial realization of God's reign of love and the expectation that it will yet arrive «with power» at some time in the not very distant future (Mk 9:1).

If you don't know whether or not you are dispensational, this book will be a good read to introduce you to the idea that how we live now effects our future rule and reign with Jesus Christ in eternity.

Even as late as the 16th century, the future Edward VI of England received confirmation a few days after birth; soon thereafter, the first prayer book of his reign mandated knowledge of the catechism as requisite for confirmation.

This ecumenical affirmation is a challenge which the churches extend to each other to announce that God reigns, and that there is hope for a future when God will «unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth» (Eph.1: l0).

That is where Christians believe that he came to this earth to live a humble life of humility to save us all, and at a future point he will reign as king.

Jesus proclaimed this reigning of God as the power of the future operative in the present.

However, it was actually a prophecy of things that were to occur in the immediate future during the reign of King Ahaz, several hundred years before Jesus.

Therefore, among the central identifying characteristics of the followers of Jesus would be involvement in the struggle effectively to bring about the Kingdom of God, «on earth as it is in heaven,» where freedom, fellowship, justice, responsible love reign and where people live as brothers / sisters, equitably sharing the resources of God's creation and being accountable for their own human future and that of the created world.

The proclamation of the coming reign of God is the Gospel, and the assurance of future salvation and eternal completion is the Christian faith.

In the first, «The Future of a Glorious Past,» I comment upon the confusion that reigns in the churches today as we find ourselves deprived of the triumphs that fifteen centuries of «Christendom» promised us.

If our analysis of God's reigning as the power of the future is correct, it is not hard to see why this is so.

It is the energizing of possibilities by divine appetition that constitutes the power of the future in the present, the nearness of God's reign.

-- focuses on a future kingdom and / or heaven, and ignores the current reign of Christ — plays pretend «literal» interpretation of certain passages, versus a robust understanding of the overarching story of God's work and purposes.

Thus the reigning of God is forever future, never capable of surrendering its futurity to present realization.

I firmly believe that Jesus will return at some point in the future, and that He will return physically, and that He will rule and reign upon the earth from Jerusalem.

He concludes that «two reigning popes and three future popes in significant ways offered resistance to Hitler... wherever Nazism held sway, it found an unrelenting foe in the pope and the Catholic Church.»

Hopefully, the «gypsy curse» will manifest, this SCOTUS majority and Congress will «get what they wished for,» and a future SCOTUS or Congress will need to reign in RFRA's disruptive impacts.

This is evidenced in such things as Barth's eschatologically oriented framework of creation, reconciliation and redemption; his focus on promise and hope rather than the present possession of God's reign; the reconfiguration of experience as a determination toward the future; the placing of the divine summons to action — the ethical life — at the summit of each volume of his doctrinal work; and, above all, his refusal to make his theology an apology for Christendom or to give priority to the established church.

The conditions pictured in this psalm — for example, the king's worldwide sovereignty (v. 8)-- certainly never obtained in any actual reign; but the psalm is nonetheless not just a dream of an indefinite future.

If the church does not let itself be held captive to the state, it will take most seriously its responsibilities to the reign of God, present and future.

About half (48 %) believe in premillennialism, the view that the 1,000 - year reign of Christ happens in the future.

So, for instance, the landmark ecumenical document Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry, developed by the World Council of Churches» Faith and Order Commission, treats the meaning of the Lord's Supper under five headings: thanksgiving, memorial of Christ's death and resurrection, invocation of the Spirit, communion of the faithful, and feast of the future fulfillment of God's reign.

We must anticipate His future rule and reign by trying to restore righteousness here and now.