Sentences with phrase «glory of god»

These suggest a vision which revealed Jesus in his heavenly glory at the right hand of the divine throne, not unlike that seen by the martyr Stephen when he looked up to heaven and «saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand».47 So Goguel comments, «When we consider the part played by the faith in the resurrection in Paul's religious life and thought as a result of Christ's appearance to him, we see that most essential to his faith was not the feeling that Jesus had returned to the environment of his life on earth preceding his passion but a belief in his glorification, i.e. in his transition to life in heaven where death has no more dominion over him.»

Being gay is a political issue not a spiritual one because we all come short of the glory of God; we have to pray and be a good witness to everyone and God takes care of the rest.

However, when we use our gifts and talents in a relevant manner and «to the glory of God,» guarding ourselves from our own estranging tendencies, we can welcome the community of non-believers in a common language, on a common ground and with the power of God's pursuit of each one of their lives.

«For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,» but the path to forgiveness and redemption is through truthful confession.

I agree to take this test or at least research the idea, for the glory of God, and I will not accept the payment for money, I will donate it to the charity or church of my choice.

Until God calls you out of singleness into marriage, you are called to steward your singleness as a Christian to the glory of God.

Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

He reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature, upholding the universe by his word of power.

When these newer forms of worship have reverence, dignity, and fitness, and when it is the greatness and glory of God that is celebrated rather than the worshiper's own exuberance, there is much to commend them.

In this sense, «all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God» (Rom.

We all have sinned n fallen short of the glory of God

Man was created for the glory of God, and he glorifies God by doing the work for which he was created and sent.23 We have been taught in the Lord's prayer to pray not «That will be glory for me», but «Thine is the glory for ever».

When we glimpse the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, we glimpse the future God has for us.

Note that the hymn is ultimately theocentric: «to the glory of God.»

The charter of the Society directs its members to pursue their work «to the glory of God the Creator and the advantage of the human race.»

Since all have sinned come short of the Glory of God; the main action of man which determines our relation with God is repentance.

What God addresses are those things that pertain to the glory of God and man's salvation.

As Christians, we believe that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

Bushman likens BYU's «The Glory of God Is Intelligence» to Columbia University's «For the Advancement of the Public Good and the Glory of Almighty God»; I would tend rather to distinguish the two mottos.

The comparison is great and I believe your post will reveal the Mightiness and Glory of God in truth of who HE is to us.

Ralph Hancock poses this question in «Keeping Faith in Provo» (March): Are Mormon scholars today promoting the glory of God?

There may only be the glory of God which is the reflection of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit.

This is the polar opposite of historic Christianity, which says guilt comes from inside — what we are and do that is short of the glory of God — and the solution is outside of us in Christ crucified for us and for what we have done.

Brigham Young University's version of that are the words from Mormon Scripture: «The Glory of God Is Intelligence.»

Whether you eat or drink, or go to a church service or a ball game, do it all for the glory of God!

She grants science its authority andundertakes the long, tiring work of understanding how revelation and science relate, to the glory of God and the betterment of man.

While it is vital that Christians hold one another accountable for working for the glory of God, we should be careful of using God's name carelessly or in vain in order to cover for our reluctance to promote our work....

The glory of God, he believed, gratuitously rings out through sunsets, stars, mountain peaks and music, bringing joy wherever it is appreciated.

Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Please never think He will forsake you for Sin, either past, current or future.

For there is no distinction, since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God; they are now justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a sacrifice of atonement by his blood, effective through faith.

He then begins to show us that each one of us is completely unique, and that these things that make us who we are were given to us by God, not so that we could cover them up and become like everyone else, but so that we could magnify the glory of God by living as only we can live.

The Bible says we are to go out to all the world and preach the good news of Jesus Christ so all my be saved and come to the glory of God.

The glory of God is disclosed on a cross: while we were yet sinners, disobedient to Authority, Christ died for us.

In that case matter would only be an adopted order, taken up into God for a secondary intention, not fundamentally orientated to the glory of God in Christ.

They belonged to God, but were given to Jesus by God (John 17:9) so that they might behold the glory of God in Jesus Christ (John 17:24).

Through his music he wanted to sound out the beauty and glory of God, so pleasing both God and people.

As you discover your strengths, abilities, talents, and desires, and as you live fully within those areas, you will be reflecting the glory of God and the gospel to the rest of the world.

The scriptural paradox, not acknowledged well in this post, but stated well by Ireneus, is «the glory of God is a man (fully) alive, and the glory of man is a vision of God.»

If this sounds wierd, the entire Atonement of Jesus Christ is a vicarious act for each of us who fall short of the glory of God.

The last time I felt this close to the glory of God was while I was giving birth to my tines; that collusion of pain and suffering and joy and release and life.

It can contain a representation of things which suggest the glory of this God in a parabolic fashion, but nothing else.

It needs no «physical location», has sacraments and depends on the Word of God mediated by the Spirit of God for the glory of God.

Adultery does come with consequences you're right because it nearly destroyed my marriage my husband, me as a Christian and as a person who has suffered anxiety and panic disorder all my life, but even that is being dealt with now and both me and my husband believe this is the glory of God turning a bad situation round for his glory as our marriage is better than it ever was and my health has improved, Jesus forgives.

If the humanists can find it meaningful to suffer for the sake of a finer society which they may never share, why can not theists suffer for «the glory of God» which they may never fully inherit?

A sight of the awesome greatness of God may overpower our strength and be more than we can endure; but if the moral beauty of God be hid, the enmity of the heart will remain in its full strength, no love can be enkindled, [our will] will not be effectual... but will remain inflexible; whereas the first glimpse of the moral and spiritual glory of God shining into the heart produces all these affects, as it were with omnipotent power, which nothing can withstand.

These parables concerning God have to do with what we can see in the world, with historical events, and with the heavens which «declare the glory of God.»

It is the tangible, historical manifestation of the grace in which God communicates himself as absolutely present, close and forgiving, of the grace which is at work everywhere, omits no one, offers God to each and gives to every reality in the world a secret purposeful orientation towards the intrinsic glory of God.

As far as attending the marriage ceremony of gay people i have two points of view the first is that that is there choice to live how they want to but to me that is clearly not Gods best and sin is sin and needs to be repented of but that is my standard not theres.As far as divorced people remarrying why shouldnt they if they have repented of there past God forgives them not condemns them.As he said to the women caught in adultery do they condemn you and she answers no and he says and neither do i.Go and sin no more.This was not just for the women causght in adultery this lesson was for every one of us he was addressing our sin publically for all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God that being his son Jesus Christ he is telling us that we must make the same decision to go and sin no more to repent in our hearts and the only way to do that is to give our hearts and lives totally to Jesus Christ other wise we are no better than the hypocrites in JESUS day.brentnz

For myself, I agree with what Whitehead remarked in the quotation at the end of this chapter: the question is reduced to a state of irrelevancy when we come to understand that the greater glory of God (which is God's continuing activity in love, not proud assertion of the divine self) is the goal giving its profound significance to what goes on in the world.

They want more than the transcendent glory of God in a neat package.