Sentences with phrase «greater lordship»

Barth would never mitigate his affirmation of the utter majesty of God, but he came to see that there is a greater lordship than that of an imperious potentate — i.e., the sovereignty of a God who can even risk suffering at the hands of his creatures.

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The mystery of creation and the history of salvation can then be shown anew to the world with great clarity and power as the one unfolding plan of Gods Wisdom and Love in which all things are ordered towards the incarnate Lordship of Jesus Christ in whom we are destined to be made co-sharers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4).

In and through this experience, which becomes the illuminating event of our total everyday life, one finds himself in a great company, the Church: a member of a body that lives in the Christ - happening, dwells in this Word of the Lordship of Christ.

In other words, the more completely violence seems to be of the order of necessity, the greater is the obligation of believers in Christ's Lordship to overcome it by challenging necessity.

But Jesus called them [to him], and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.

Jesus» prayer in Gethsemane provides us great help in determining what we can think and ought to think about his lordship.

This hopeful vision of a land where all South Africans live together under the Lordship of Christ is the charismatics» greatest contribution to the nation's gloom and increasing political violence.

Even after I had undergone a conversion and affirmed the Lordship of Christ, I had great problems with miracles.

The great Peter Mandelson memoirs game is afoot, and you must mark off the hilarious reactions of his lordship's former colleagues one by one.