Sentences with phrase «grace of god which»

Well, the verse says that he was a steward of the grace of God which was given to me for you.

if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you,

In any case, it is clear that the aim of Paul's argument in Romans is not to exclude those who perform homosexual acts from the sphere of God's grace but rather to use the example of homosexual activity as an expression of the great need which all human beings have for the grace of God which justifies the «ungodly.»

The grace of God which justifies the ungodly can give us no vantage point from which we are in the right while others are in the wrong.

This belief springs from an awareness of being addressed by the grace of God which confronts us in Jesus Christ.

Throughout the book, Capon presents a view of grace, the universal forgiveness of all sins, and the presence of Christ in everybody at all times which is contrary to most of what is taught and believed in most churches today, but which seems to be closer to the radical grace of God which is presented in the both the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

It is the grace of God which has given him power, but he has worked harder than all the other apostles (I Cor.

If the human mind, enlightened by the grace of God which is offered to every man, will lift its eyes a little from the earth, it will see the mighty consummation in the human nature of Christ of the whole process of living development through evolution.

The goal is not only a deeper understanding of the truth of Scripture but also a more comprehensive experience of the grace of God which is revealed therein.

Not exact matches

Before the «Dispensation of Grace» of God, by which we are saved through «Faith in Jesus Christ» as Lord and our personal Savior, Jesus Christ fulfilled the «Law of God» on our behalf during His ministry on earth, died on the «Holy Cross» for the «Remission of Our Sins» once and for all, descended to hell and defeated death, then rose from the dead on the third day bringing us «Eternal Life» and «Reconciliation» with God the Father!

A gentler mercy followed in which pulse and breath joined in the kind of visceral, somatic prayer that felt upheld by the grace St Paul renders, «The Spirit intercedes for us in sighs too deep for words...» And, in awe, it occurred to me that my very breath proclaims the presence of the God who breathes me.

But until we come to the end of ourselves then we are going to do and say what we want, even as it was with me: It's one thing to be a heathen, even as I was, but a whole other ball game to set our hearts on God and His truth; yet, that can only come when we are sick and tired of being sick and tired of our own lives and we just give up, we know then who has given up by the one they advocate for, even has given place to: Paul said; with my heart I want to do what is right, but my flesh does what I hate: This is when God's grace is sufficient, because our hearts are right with God, but our flesh is not: There is a war going on within these temples, therefore; even as our flesh wins out to do what we hate, our hearts are set on God and His ways which has been established in the Word of Truth, which then causes us to stand and speak forth what we believe, even as this causes a rending to happen within us, for Christ to be formed in us this needs to be, as we come up in His glories even for a better resurrection for them who believe: The heart wars against our flesh, even as Christ wars against the man of sin within: For out of the abundance of our hearts our mouth doth speak, therefore; if we speak not the Wholesome Words of our Lord, Then our hearts are still wicked: But to advocate for wickedness instead of Christ, one has become a teacher of lawlessness, he then advocates for the man of sin: Many who have come out of religion has done this, as they went from one mountain top «from the extreme right» of self exaltation (Religion) to the other mountain top «to the extreme left» of the (Heathen) and missed the valley in - between that is takes to humble us: One extreme to the other, and missed Jesus: Jesus is taking ones through the valley's to strip us down of all who we are before exalting us to be just as He, even as the Christ in us overcomes that man of sin (Adam) through theses valleys of contrast that cause a rending to happen within; and when we are rent in two, we stand on His word of truth, so we too can become one with Him, even as Jesus is with our Father: This is how Christ is formed in us: Thank - you Father; in Jesus Name Alexandria

Where the critical point in his earlier theology of grace is God's crucifying contradiction of sinful human nature, here the point on which everything hinges is the authority of Christ the Savior, exercised concretely in the sacramental signs of the Church.

The new center of Luther's theology of grace became the heart's confident assurance of the promised mercy of God in Christ, what he will later describe simply as «the faith which grasps Christ,» tides apprehensive Christi.

Evidently, you have never heard of John Newton — the former slave trader gave up that vocation upon coming to understand the Gospel of Jesus Christ, became a clergyman, and wrote the words of the great hymn «Amazing Grace» to celebrate and glorify God's unfathomable ability to FORGIVE — which hymn then became an anthem of the Christian anti-slavery movements in both Britain and the United States.

They might not use the word «mercy» as much as he wants, but they talk extensively about divine love, grace, the sacraments, and charity, all of which pertain to God's mercy, and which they develop into soteriology, the study of the saving action of God.)

The first thing his forty days in the wilderness teach us is that absence of the food we crave can become a place in which the grace of God shapes and forms us.

It reminds the believer that the vision of God unfolds amidst the splendor of holiness while also pointing toward the way in which the final movement to ecstatic wonder is always grace - filled and joy - laden.

****** Be it known unto all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people, unto whom this work shall come: That we, through the grace of God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, have seen the plates which contain this record, which is a record of the people of Nephi, and also of the Lamanites, their brethren, and also of the people of Jared, who came from the tower of which hath been spoken.

And as Cheever's confession to Hersey makes clear, the real stress lies more on the human choice between darkness and light than on the sovereignty of God's grace — the divine goodness which must redeem not only our grosser sins but our noblest aspirations as well.

By cherry - picking texts out of the Bible to reveal the goodness, and love, and mercy, and grace, and acceptance of God, while at the same time, soundly rejecting and denying the texts which talk about a bloodthirsty god of violence, we have seen that both Jesus and Paul are saying what we can loudly proclaim today as well: «God is not like thGod, while at the same time, soundly rejecting and denying the texts which talk about a bloodthirsty god of violence, we have seen that both Jesus and Paul are saying what we can loudly proclaim today as well: «God is not like thgod of violence, we have seen that both Jesus and Paul are saying what we can loudly proclaim today as well: «God is not like thGod is not like that!

If, as the Scriptures and experience tell us, all men are by nature in a state of guilt and depravity from which they are wholly unable to deliver themselves and have no claim whatever on God for deliverance, it follows that if any are saved God must choose out those who shall be the objects of His grace (Boettner, Predestination, 95).

And though some claim that the «gift» which Paul refers to in Ephesians 2:8 - 9 is faith, the Greek word «that» («that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God) is neuter and the Greek word for «faith» is feminine, which means the gift of God is not faith, but rather the entire «salvation package» which originated with God (i.e, «by grace you have been saved»).

«Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility.»

Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?&raquOf how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?&raquof God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?&raquof the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?&raquof grace?»

We may easily give up on each other and believe ourselves incapable of the call to holiness; but God never ceases to call us and to offer us his grace, which is «the free and undeserved help that God gives to those who respond to his call» (CCC 1996).

Since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, they are justified by his grace as a gift through the redemption which is in Jesus Christ, whom God put forward as an expiation by his blood, to be received by faith Martin Luther believed that the theology of this text was...

He modifies what he wrote in Ephesians 2:5 by pointing out four additional things about this life which we received by the grace of God: He says this life is also (1) through faith, (2) is not of yourselves, (4) it is a gift of God, and (3) is not by works.

The grace given to us in confirmation enables us to grow to Christian maturity»... so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.»

It is a way of loving in which nature works through grace to restore the love in human relationships to God's original intention.

Before we have been baptised Grace is the Gift which draws us into personal relationship with God, knowing Him more as our «Environer», preparing us to receive Faith, developing our natural need of him so that the Holy Spirit Himself may dwell within us.

It really means many - coloured; and the idea is that there is no colour in the human situation which the grace of God can not match.

Therefore, it is only in so far as we are, as Paul expresses it, «in Christ», united with him by faith which responds to God's grace reaching out to us in him, that we may hope to be raised to a share in his risen life of communion with the eternal God.

The grace conveyed to the believer in sacraments is the presence of God symbolized by water, oil or food, from which the believer takes strength and comfort.

We have been seeking to understand the structure of human life as a history of personal relationships in which God's grace works as transforming power.

Entry into this relationship of grace and faith involves the imitation of Christ, but this does not mean an imitation of the individual pattern of life which was required of him by his unique vocation; it means the imitation of his total commitment to God, his obedience to God's will, and his attitude of unswerving love for others which was the fruit of his openness to God.

And you know what, after my revelation of GRACE last year which absolutely set me free from «performance Christianity» God told me that, regardless of what «scriptures» people threw at me, what He was telling me directly to my heart, that He has made me perfectly righteous by the blood of His son regardless of what I do or don't do, I must trust His voice in my heart, more than the printed «Word» which has been bended, bent, misterpreted and mistaught.

There is a word which the NT uses to describe the grace of God, the word poikilos (I Peter 4.10); the AV translates it manifold; the RSV and the NEB translate it varied.

«This does not yet make it clear why the Proclaimer necessarily became the Proclaimed, unless it could be shown that Jesus» preaching of the law was differentiated from every other preaching of the law by being at the same time the proclamation of God's grace, which not only assumes freedom, but also grants it» (253).

Only then can we hope to know those wonderful grace - filled moments; times when through prayer and song, listening to and reciting the familiar words of grace and the stories of redemption, our hearts soar; times when we are caught up in the stream of love — when we sing praise to God with all our hearts and minds and souls and strength — which flows from us to God through the ministry of Christ and his people and which we return to God with prayer and praise.

This was the Incarnation: Et Verbum caro factum est. 20 And from this first, basic contact of God with our human race, and precisely by virtue of this penetration of the divine into our human nature, a new life was born: that unforeseeable aggrandizement and «obediential ’21 extension of our natural capacities which we call «grace».

Naturally suspicious of Hollywood's motives, he wrote to insist that God's action on the soul is the key to the novel, which, he said, «deals with what is theologically termed «the operation of grace,» that is to say, the unmerited and unilateral act of love by which God continually calls souls to himself.»

So to answer your question... no, it is not just two verses that proclaim how the Church arrives at Truth... it is by Tradition and the Magisterium and the Bible which holds us all together by the grace of God.

* be guided and instructed by the Good News message, which is: ---- God is unconditional boundless grace and unlimited unrestrained love and always has been; ---- God wants to have a loving intimate relationship with each of us without exception and without qualification; ---- seek justice as healing and rehabilitation and restoration; ---- seek universal reconciliation and inclusion and participation; ---- in healthy partnership, compassionately serve all who are hurt or lost or oppressed; ---- be generous and hospitable to all; ---- live non-violently without vengeance and with a cheerful fearlessness of death and worldly powers; and ---- be — here and now — the Kingdom of God.

And there are ways in which God's actions upon us still leave us free, such as our acceptance or rejection of grace.

We have one purpose toward those who seek us out and grow and maintain our membership, (which is NOT documented anywhere) we pass on for free what has been freely given to us (this is a manifestation of God's Grace!)

The promise of God's grace made manifest through the symbol of baptism is that we will always belong to the body and no matter of works (which, in my mind, includes the work of attending a local congregation) can change that.

At most, the teacher «teaches» only indirectly by providing the context in which the student may be graced himself or herself to come to that combination of immediate self - knowledge and God - knowledge which is the aim of paideia.

He should also send us back to the infinite grace of God in Christ which changes every condemnation into pardon, or rather which sets every condemnation within the infinite love of God, who punishes to three generations but who pardons to a thousand generations.

«What is required for the Incarnation is that the vehicle of human nature should exist which can be determined directly by the Will of God, and that the individual concerned should be given the office in nature and in grace to co-operate with God in a unique manner for the doing of that work.»