Sentences with phrase «holy life»

But they want to be held accountable for living holy lives, not accountable for complying with a list of rules that are often culturally rooted.
When one is born again they should want to live a more holy life.
I would say that social reform at its best in a gospel setting needs to be accompanied by holy living.
When it functions as it should, the church offers us reasonable boundaries to help us live holy lives.
George Herbert, metaphysical poet of Easter Wings fame, penned only one prose work during his life: a short volume titled The Country Parson, His Character, and Rule of Holy Life.
People can change their ways and live holy lives in keeping with God's laws if they so choose.
In it he attacked those who did not emphasize the necessity of a regenerated or holy life for the ministry.
Or the throng of Christians who think that holy living doesn't matter so long as they have prayed the sinner's prayer?»
Christians are forgiven no matter how many times they sin, but at the same time Christians should live a progressively more holy life as they grow closer to Christ.
His point is simple: it's impossible to verify true faith apart from holy living because doctrine and deed are inseparable.
They may, for the moment, discount the claim that in him God is truly present for their wholeness; but at least they are willing to say that they find in him the highest and best manhood that any of us can know and that they will give him their hearts and seek to follow in the «blessed steps of his most holy life
At Oxford, he joined a society (founded by his brother Charles) whose members took vows to lead holy lives, take Communion once a week, pray daily, and visit prisons regularly.
Yes, we need to, as Christians, LIVE God's way, but we also need to be light and salt and not just stick our head in the sand and act like... or give the impression that... homosexual marriage, genocide, and abortion are ok, by our lack of speaking out because we're too busy living our own little holy lives.
They were supposed to be a shining beacon, bearing the name of Yahweh with obedience and distinctive holy living.
It offers instruction in the technology of the holy — instruction that will shape the divine service in the temple and the rhythm and content of Israel's holy life after it enters the land.
Though Jesus loves everyone He is not friends with everyone: He is only a friends to those people who have repented of all their sins and have followed his examply holy life of love and humility and obedience to the Father's will.
It would be very appropriate to entrust our young people to the intercession of St Maria Goretti, the 12 year old martyr for chastity, and ask Mary the Virgin Mother of God and her holy and chaste spouse St Joseph to help us all lead pure and holy lives worthy of our condition as disciples of Christ.
A non-Christian or sub-Christian understanding of sanctification defines it as physical separation from people who do not live holy lives.
Unlike death obsession, which seeks to control or deflect death, remembrance of death is a metaphysical discipline that transforms the mourning stirred by our certain demise into a positive prayer discipline to help us to live a fuller and more holy life.
Last weekend we were in OBX for a friends» wedding and I was introduced to Duck Donuts and holy life changing!
Shaq's book report revealed it had been less than transformative: «This is about a young man who has power, wealth, and women (much like me), and gives them all up to pursue a holy life (not so much like me).»
Sheep bleat and men scream as the chaos roars and the Lord Jesus Christ beats the holy living shit out of the bankers and their whores and livestock.
He is committed to the path of celibacy, commending it as an essential component of a holy life for those...
If we have to live a holy life to remain Christians, we are all in trouble.
Also, living a holy life is impossible.
Heaven is a place for peopeople that have accepted Jesus Christ as there savior and have been baptisted in holy water and living a holy life style according to the word of God in heven.
Therefore, you must do 4 things NOW: repent of your sins, be baptized in Jesus» Name, receive the Holy Ghost, and live a HOLY life (Acts 2:38 in your Bible).
Each wanted to live a holy life, but they disagreed as to what form that should take.
He lived a holy life.
He was made a BLESSED because of his holy life.
Catholics believe a saint is someone who lived a holy life and who's already in heaven.
For when they leave the land of avoiding misdeeds, the land of «you shall not,» the land of commandments, to enter the land of holy living, the land «you shall,» the disciples are in a different kind of theater.
In the drama of holy life, the stage is a locked room, the actor is the disciple and the audience is God.
The motivation for holy living has been a process of realizing the Greatness of God, the beauty of following his path in life, and the longing for His fame and glory in my life — the heart that loves motivates the actions... and yes I do get a bit afraid when I transgress His commands.
I keep writing it out here everyday, the words I am seeking to live — about this wondrously messy, everyday - holy life....
I think Jesus recommended the Samaritan's loving - kindness, what certain older writers called «holy living,» simply as a matter of propriety, for the Samaritan was living in what Jesus understood to be a holy world.
Instead, they are directed by God, whose call to live a holy life dedicated to the rescue of others is laid bare in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
My thought is that belief is all that is required for salvation, but that true belief will result in a holy life.
In one sense it's a democratic process, beginning with a grassroots conviction that a given person lived a holy life.
A Christian chooses a life that scrutinizes self and society through the Christian filters of the triune God who became incarnate, died on a cross and remains present to a community gathered for holy living.
Perhaps rather unfortunately, for those of us who are not so familiar with American culture, one runs the risk of getting a little lost in the references to past US TV programmes, or confused by metaphors comparing American football to the holy life.
Also, the Church teaches us that the subject of our earthly offerings can redirect them to where they are better needed (world peace, those who are not living a holy life here on Earth, etc.).
Of course it is the case that there are many priests, whose orientation is homosexual rather than heterosexual, who live chaste and holy lives.

Phrases with «holy life»

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