Sentences with phrase «gifts of the spirit only»

Some are more formal and sedate, expressing gifts of the Spirit only on occasion.

Not exact matches

The gifts and offices of the Holy Spirit are given equally to a certain «level» on the chain - of - command, thereafter, only men receive certain gifts and offices.

In our mundane existence, we know God only partially, and the gifts of the Spirit appear to be more promise than fulfillment.

I can only explain to you that the scripture promise that to all there is a gift of faith by the same spirit, and that there truly are other spiritual gifts that not everyone will experience.

According to the New Testament, this experience of the indwelling presence of God is the essential source of the Christian's power (Acts 18) and of his peace and joy; (Romans 14:17) it is the best gift which the Father can bestow on his children; (Luke 11:13; John 14:26) it is the secret alike of moral renewal (Titus 3:5) and of practical guidance; (Acts 13:2) it furnishes the interior standards of motive and behavior which must not be violated; (Ephesians 4:30) whatever else in Christian faith is valuable, even though it be the love of God, becomes effective only when this experience makes it inwardly real; (Romans 5:5) and the temple is easily dispensable since to every Christian it can be said, «Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you?»

It is to see God's gift of the creation as not only a word about the earth «in the beginning,» but also the affirmation that God is present now through the spirit, overcoming brokenness among people and their habitation.

It is the Biblical notion that miracles have ceased to be normal... This is not to say that God has stopped performing miracles, or that the Holy Spirit has stopped working, but only that the Apostolic miracles such as speaking in tongues, prophecy / revelation, and healings have ceased as a normative gift to individual believers: 1) The Holy Spirit's purpose in imparting the «sign gifts,» has expired 2) The sign gifts were given exclusively to the original Twelve Apostles, so that the sign gifts and Apostleship are inextricably linked 3) The gift of Apostleship no longer exists

The emphasis on the supernatural Jesus — the relentlesly singular «personal Savior» dynamic and the focus on the gifts of the Spirit, almost to the exclusion of everything else — just didn't ring true, and I wasn't the only person I knew who got chewed up pretty badly when «miracles» didn't happen or they couldn't keep the happyhappy going.

The name of the Holy Spirit himself as «gift» is after all bestowed not only to denote a pure one - way gratuity, but also because the Spirit expresses the infinitely realized exchange between Father and Son.

Further, he makes explicit the link between baptism and the receiving of the Eucharist by interpreting the words of Jesus regarding the thirsty coming to him and the gift of the Spirit (John 7: 37 - 39) to indicate that «it is only after we have been baptised and have obtained the Spirit that we proceed to drink the cup of the Lord.»

We do wait for the adoption — that will come at the fulfillment of all things, which, however imminent, is still future; but even now we possess the Spirit of adoption, that is, God's miraculous gift of forgiveness and grace, an advance installment, a token payment, a foretaste, a «first - fruits,» of a life which in its full, true character belongs only to the world to come.

The Pentecostal contribution has been to emphasize not only the person of the Spirit, but the Spirit's gifts or charisms and their function for Christian spirituality and for the practices of the church.

«He that believeth hath eternal life»; (John 6:47) «He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, but hath passed out of death into life»; (John 5:24) «This is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ» (John 17:3)-- this conception of immortal life as a present gift, inhering in the quality of spirit that Christ bestows, is characteristic of the Fourth Gospel.

A concrete «act» of God in history can be discerned only by faith — and faith, as even the most orthodox theology maintains, is the gift of the Holy Spirit; the physical, objective «miracle» or act of God is only an outward indication.

Paul argues that we do not have a licence to sin.because of grace If christians continue to sin and grieve the holy spirit they clearly arent walking by faith or abiding in Christ.There has to be an ongoing repentence in the christians walk that leads that person to become more like Christ.It is true that salvation is a gift of grace received by faith however the word also says that we called to walk by faith otherwise it is impossible to please God and if we love him we follow his commands not willfully disobey.If we do nt continue to abide in Christ and turn from sin then i think we can risk Christ saying to us that he never knew us.Like everything that God offers us we must meet his conditions that are only possible in Christ..

Any followers of Jesus or of John the Baptist who had not received the Spirit were still living the obsolete life of the old Israel which had only the Law and the historical Jesus, but not the eschatological gift of Spirit.

As great as the gift of the Holy Spirit is, He is only a deposit, a foretaste, a small glimpse of the beauty, glory, greatness, and majesty that awaits us in eternity with the redemption of our bodies.

Thus, any human attempt to claim that the Spirit has chosen to give only men the «gift of leadership» and women the «gift of nurturing» is a human construct that seeks to bind the work of the Spirit in the world for the benefit of those who establish such strict categories and try to enforce them through claiming some biblical authority to do so — as men have for millennia now.

«Let us not think that these Gifts of the Spirit are proper only to souls that have reached certain heights on the road to perfection; let us not believe that only the saints possess the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.

«Christianity has remained faithful, without a pope who is only a man, but having Jesus Christ, its head, who guides it perfectly, the heart which gives it life by the life of grace the fountain which waters it with the seven gifts of the Holy spirit, the bosom from which torrents of grace flow, the unfailing and sufficient refuge.

One of the Great Spirit's biggest gifts was the maple tree; one only had to break off a twig and the sweet syrup would flow.

In a world of war, of rapid communications, of instant hearing and misunderstanding where the response is only hatred and separation, the Holy Spirit whose creative and sustaining gifting of the church is done in diversity, demands that diversity of history, culture, gift, vision be expressed in a unity of love.

Plus, gifts in this book tend to look and feel more like normal fantasy fare: telepathy (one - way only, listening), scrying (distance viewing, but only by the enemy spirits and subject to the twists caused by the lying enemy), possession (only by the enemy), healing (very quickly wounds disappear and much more — healing restoration is available if even a spark of life is left).

«American Art Today: Faces and Figures,» The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum (formerly The Art Museum at FIU), Florida International University, Miami, FL, January 17 — March 9, 2003 «The Harlem Renaissance and Its Legacy,» Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, January 18 — April 13, 2003 «A Century of Collecting: African American Art in the Art Institute of Chicago,» Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, February 15 — May 18, 2003; catalogue «Structures of Difference,» Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, February — April 13, 2003 «The Space Between: Artists Engaging Race and Syncretism,» Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, March 18 — June 8, 2003 «Visual Poetics: Art and the Word,» Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, April 25 — November 16, 2003; brochure «Visualizing Identity,» The Jack S Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, August 27, 2003 — January 4, 2004 «Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection,» Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, October 26, 2003 — January 1, 2004; catalogue «Skin Deep,» Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C., March 15 — April 26; brochure «Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self,» curated by Coco Fusco and Brian Wallis, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, December 12, 2003 — February 29, 2004; traveled to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, 2004; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, 2005; catalogue «Supernova,» San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 2003 «Fast Forward: Twenty Years of White Rooms,» White Columns, New York, NY, 2003; catalogue «Today's Man,» curated by John Connelly, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2003 «The Disembodied Spirit,» curated by Alison Ferris, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, 2003; catalogue «The Alumni Show,» curated by Nina Felshin, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 2003; catalogue «Crimes and Misdemeanors,» Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2003 «DL: The Down Low in Contemporary Art,» Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos, Bronx, NY, 2003 «The Paper Sculpture Show,» organized by ICI, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY, 2003; traveled to Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston - Salem, NC; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA «An American Legacy: Art from the Studio Museum,» The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, 2003 «Stranger in the Village,» Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, organized by the Museum of Modern Art, NY, 2003 «On the Wall: Wallpaper and Tableau,» The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 2003 «Family Ties,» curated by Trevor Fairbrother, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, 2003 «Influence, Anxiety, and Gratitude (Toward and understanding of trans - generational dialogue as a gift economy),» curated by Bill Arning, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, 2003 «American Art Today: Faces & Figures,» The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL, 2003

Only Christian faith as a whole constitutes the answer to this question: the goodness of creation, the drama of sin, and the patient love of God who comes to meet man by his covenants, the redemptive Incarnation of his Son, his gift of the Spirit, his gathering of the Church, the power of the sacraments, and his call to a blessed life to which free creatures are invited to consent in advance, but from which, by a terrible mystery, they can also turn away in advance.