Sentences with phrase «in sacrificial living»

The meaning and truth of God's self - revelation in Christ is known through identification with the incarnation, both in sacrificial living and in significant dying.

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Hello, Muneef, I hope and pray that you are doing fine, and that you are safe... I don't actualy know where you are, but I gather you live somewhere where there are many unrests... Today is the special day for all people who have put their faith in Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, who came to live among us, and who became a sacrificial Lamb, offeirng Himself to God for the sins of all mankind.

The greatest love known is to give (or risk) your life for a friend - Jesus didn't say that the greatest love known is to «turn the other cheek and forsake a friend» - you recieved sacrifical love from a complete stranger and willfully chose to withhold your sacrificial love in return.

We pledge to stand with you, our Christian brothers and sisters of the historic Black church, and to work arm in arm with you in Christ - like self - sacrificial love to build in America a true culture of life and of family life.

We live in a world that despises the sacrificial side of marriage and tries to wish it away.

Instead, God is to be found in the self - sacrificial death of a lamb, who pours out His blood for others, so that death and destruction, when it comes, passes over the house and can not touch those who live within.

As St Paul says in Ephesians 5, the more that the husband in his relationship with his wife reflects the sacrificial love of Christ for His bride the Church, and the more that the wife in her relationship with her husband reflects the self - giving love of the Church for her Bridegroom, the more they will be truly fulfilled and the more they will live up to what they are called to be.

Behind this sanctity of blood in sacrificial ceremonies stood a profoundly influential idea concerning the nature of life: «The blood is the life»; (Deuteronomy 12:23.)

In pouring himself out in the form of a servant, and in living his humanity as an offering up of everything to God in love, the shape of the eternal Son's life was already sacrificial in this special sense; and it was this absolute giving, as God and man, that was made complete on GolgothIn pouring himself out in the form of a servant, and in living his humanity as an offering up of everything to God in love, the shape of the eternal Son's life was already sacrificial in this special sense; and it was this absolute giving, as God and man, that was made complete on Golgothin the form of a servant, and in living his humanity as an offering up of everything to God in love, the shape of the eternal Son's life was already sacrificial in this special sense; and it was this absolute giving, as God and man, that was made complete on Golgothin living his humanity as an offering up of everything to God in love, the shape of the eternal Son's life was already sacrificial in this special sense; and it was this absolute giving, as God and man, that was made complete on Golgothin love, the shape of the eternal Son's life was already sacrificial in this special sense; and it was this absolute giving, as God and man, that was made complete on Golgothin this special sense; and it was this absolute giving, as God and man, that was made complete on Golgotha.

Here, for example, is what she said in her 1999 Christmas address: «I hope that, like me, you will be comforted by the example of Jesus of Nazareth who, often in circumstances of great adversity, managed to live an outgoing, unselfish and sacrificial life.

It truly will be the «highlights reel» from our life, so that all other believers can celebrate with us in the kind words we have spoken, the sacrificial love we have shown, the generosity we practiced.

By stating that no sacrifice for sin is left in Hebrews 10:26, the author of Hebrews is making a very similar point to that made in Hebrews 6, namely, that the Hebrew Christians came to recognize that the Levitical sacrificial system did not grant them eternal life or forgiveness of sins.

«The reason why disciples must follow in the way of sacrificial living is that there is a coming judgement» (Hill, p. 265).

In this work Niebuhr maintained that the agape of the Cross in its sacrificial heedlessness and universalism is the only final adequate norm of human lifIn this work Niebuhr maintained that the agape of the Cross in its sacrificial heedlessness and universalism is the only final adequate norm of human lifin its sacrificial heedlessness and universalism is the only final adequate norm of human life.

Secondly, as an action the Eucharist is sacrificial in quality, since it has to do with an oblation, offering, or self - giving which was the characteristic mark of the life of Jesus in obedience to what he took to be the vocation given him by his heavenly Father.

This is because her life radiates beauty: through her hospitality to friends and strangers alike, through her joyful laugh, through her care of those in need, through her passion for education, through her love of framing things on film through the lens of a camera, through her ability to be patient with her doofus husband, through her genuine love for God, through her sacrificial generosity to those with less than we have, and even through her stubborn refusal to let me get away with any of my trademark snark.

Only «over the long term,» Matthew Levering answers, and even then only with «bold Christian witness in leading sacrificial lives, lives of ecstatic love.»

The religious understanding of the conflict between good and evil, the fact of the stubborn resistance of the human heart to the love of God and its demands, the vision of the divine strategy of sacrificial love in the life and death of Jesus as the climax of history, all this is foreign to most of the philosophies of progress, but it was the heart of the great expressions of Christian liberalism.

As Dean Willard Sperry has said, «Christianity, thus interpreted, becomes not an added entity outside the major tasks of daily life,... but the sum of all particulars of unselfish and sacrificial service in the day's work, and an experience of actual community of sustaining spirit.

This rescue effort was not for him to toss some teaching our way and hope we would live better lives, but rather Gods rescue effort is that he came down himself to communicate in the most clear form possible his intentions and desires, and to make a sacrificial provision for pardon for mans crimes against God.

He believes that the self - sacrificial image of Jesus Christ is a vivid emblem of a humane orientation in life, and he claims that the chief responsibility of theology is to deal seriously and critically with the question of God.

So, while we can affirm the right to life as a noble political value, as Kingdom people we have to revolt against the temptation to this noble value above the value of self - sacrificial love in order to manifest the beauty of the Jesus - looking Kingdom (The Myth of a Christian Religion, 84 - 85).

Ross can not imagine what could be more egalitarian than «that sacrificial act of Jesus in giving his life for the salvation of humankind.

It includes both consciousness, or the embracing of suffering and the identifying with the needy of the world, and sacrificial love: the capacity to live with others in relationships of healing, sustaining, guidance and reconciliation, expressed in caring for the sick, the needy.

By letting us kill Him in such a violent and bloody way, Jesus unveiled the truth about humanity and the truth about sin, and in so doing, called us to abandon these scapegoating, sacrificial rituals in our own lives.

Their confidence in his continued life turned their dismay at Calvary into triumph, and without it some of the most characteristic elements in the New Testament — the radiant hope and joy of the whole Book, the Christ - mysticism of Paul, the shining reality of the eternal world in the Epistle to the Hebrews, and the enthusiastic acceptance of sacrificial hardship exhibited by the early church — are inexplicable.

We learned that in all likelihood Jesus did not speak as he does in John's Gospel; that even the synoptic Gospels are a complex mixture of historical memory and post-Easter interpretation; that the image of Jesus as one who deliberately gave his life for the sins of the world is the product of the church's sacrificial theology; and that Jesus probably did not proclaim his own exalted identity, or even think of himself in such terms.

One need not deny the value of martyrdom in certain instances, or the selflessness of sacrificial death that is sometimes involved in trying to live a life of love, or even at times of pacifism (as a strategy, without believing in it as an absolute principle).

The revelation of God in Jesus Christ indicates that the path of sacrificial love is the «law of life.»

In attempting to live the life of sacrificial love, we can not set limits to the degree of the brokenness of the old self that may be required of us.

Now that we have this redemptive revelation through the sacrificial death of Jesus, we are able to live in a new way with other human beings.

The disclosure of God in Jesus Christ revealed most fully that the qualities of mercy and sacrificial love are necessary if the living of life is to have its justification.

It means perhaps we would spend years of our lives giving to the world in sacrificial and beneficial ways before settling down with our sweetheart to raise children rather than diving into marriage for the wrong reasons.

The Gospel writers record that Jesus called his followers to a way of life in which violence and division are overcome by sacrificial love.

This throws a light on the inner existence of Socrates; one side of the master's life is profoundly characterized: the resignation in the highest sense, the sacrificial thought.

Abused women tend to be passive, putting up with their husbands» violent behavior in order to «keep» them, often thinking they deserve the abuse, and justifying their passivity and acceptance as their self - sacrificial duty and lot in life.

To the parish priest of today, Pope Francis issues a call: to a deeper faith and life of prayer, to purity and holiness of life, to a trust in the call of the Father, and above all to a life of ceaseless sacrificial love and preaching» a service that is in turn rooted in prayer and holiness.

Responsive parenting is truly a picture of God's sacrificial, unconditional love in that, as we respond to our children where they are, («This is how God showed His great love for us, that Christ died for us while we were still sinners [emphasis added]» Romans 5:8) comforting their cries, guiding their choices, providing for their needs, encouraging their individuality, we are, moment by moment, day by day, sacrificing our lives for them.

-- but may feel differently about in 10 years, having left their social lives on the sacrificial Ph.D. altar and wasted time they may never recover?

The ancient Mayan people who lived in the Yucatan believed cenotes were gateways to the underworld (they sometimes threw sacrificial victims and buried their dead in cenotes).

In ancient times, they used these sites for sacrificial offerings... and, they were believed to be entry points to the underworld — or the after - life.

In this retelling, the struggle for power is painted across a living Mesopotamian mural as players compete to fulfill the sacrificial rituals prescribed by heaven.

; Mike Watson on Living with the Maldives; Sam Jacob on the myths of primitivism and modernity; J.J. Charlesworth on how not to make public art; Hettie Judah on sauce for the sacrificial lamb; Jonathan Grossmalerman keeps visualising Hauser & Wirth; Laura McLean Ferris on off - space Castillo / Corrales, in Paris.

Haines and assistant curator Jackie von Treskow have written eloquently about how the exhibit's military setting «turns a spotlight on the often sacrificial role of soldiers [and] on the thin line between defense and attack» and the way in which the ocean directly below evokes images of «diaspora and displacement... lives adrift...»