Sentences with phrase «into redemptive»

Bible Baptist Church exists to lead people into a redemptive and growing relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Bible Baptist Church exists to lead people into a redemptive and growing relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

Bible Baptist Church exists to lead people into a redemptive and growing relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

If bearing a child in one's body is salvific, it is because the experience leads us into the redemptive mystery of the cross.

We have said that the Hebrew faith does not come to a clear resolution of the question of how the suffering either of God or the Servant enters into the redemptive work of love.

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If you are not talking to the dying about the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and His redemptive work on the cross, if you can not confess that you are a sinner and that you NEED Jesus, you WILL BE CAST INTO THE OUTER DARKNESS loved ones.

Similarly, mistranslation of the greek and quoting out of historical, cultural and topical context has turned Paul into a misogynist when in fact he, like his Messiah, were revolutionary in their teachings, establishing in the church God's original design for man (including the restoration of gender equality and proper relations) which was restored through the redemptive work of the cross.

God is a redeemer, and His redemptive nature extends into the deep caverns of our regrets and failures.

When we bring our failures and regrets into the light, we find God's redemptive love brings something beautiful out of the ashes.

On the other hand, because we are — in ways often hidden from our eyes — «preparing the way of the Lord,» the routine, often exhausting, seemingly mundane donkey - fetching details of our service are gathered into the great arc of Jesus» redemptive work in the world.

I believe that he is healing from his divorce just as I hope Julie is, that I believe he has learned and grown from both his divorce and early leadership days, and that God continues to breathe redemptive love and strength and talent into Tony's life.

that the task of the proletariat corresponds to the world - historical mission of the chosen people, that the redemptive and universal function of the most degraded class is conceived on the religious pattern of Cross and Resurrection, that the ultimate transformation of the realm of freedom corresponds to the transformation of the civitas Terrena into a civitas Dei, and that the whole process of history as outlined in the Communist Manifesto corresponds to the general scheme of the Jewish - Christian interpretation of history as providential advance toward a final goal.

Show us, Lord, how to contemplate the Sphinx: without being beguiled into error; how to grasp the mystery hidden here on earth in the womb of death, not by refinements of human learning but in the simple concrete act of your redemptive immersion in matter.

Let the contemporary Christian rejoice that Christianity has evolved the most alien, the most distant, and the most oppressive deity in history: it is precisely the self - alienation of God from his original redemptive form that has liberated humanity from the transcendent realm, and made possible the total descent of the Word into the fullness of human experience.

Can anything be done to reverse this slide into self - destruction of what has been a redemptive expression of Christian vitality in the past two decades?

In his service as missionary and later as director of the World Council's Theological Education Fund, he had encountered and dissented from the notion that redemptive Christian norms and ideas transform culture by being imported into or imposed on it.

That redemptive aspiration, certainly of the Grimms and often of Romanticism writ large, could burgeon into a millenarianism that would eventually fan the flames of a thousand - year Reich.

What the Church knows as the descent of Christ into Hell is not, according to Blake's vision, a descent apart from the body, but rather a descent into the very depths of bodily repression, a descent that is only consummated in the identification of Jesus» «Satanic Body of Holiness» with the totality of the cosmos, and its consequent presence as the redemptive fire of passion throughout the whole body of humanity.

As G. E. Bentley Jr.'s critical study of Vala demonstrates, Blake's frequent and disorderly revisions of this manuscript epic reveal his own movement into a Christian and redemptive understanding of history, an understanding that could not be reconciled with the initial direction of the poem.

Kraus's complaint about Hartshornean theology is that on this view «God would be compelled to perform successive redemptive acts» (p. 163) which would in turn be objectified back into the world.

The ultimate job and purpose of the Church must be to equip its members to be co-creators with this ongoing Generative and Redemptive Power of the Universe seeking to transform the world into a place of peace, justice and compassion — a world sustainable for all of its inhabitants.

The Nazis killed the Jews because they were panic - stricken before the redemptive future which God was calling them into.

The power of the resurrection was the establishment of the faith that in Jesus God's Messiah has appeared with redemptive power, and God's Holy Spirit is present to bring men into the new life for which Jesus has opened the way.

He puts into question all forms of taken - for - granted religion whether it is Buddhism, Hinduism, mysticism, or secular «eschatologies» such as Marxism that claims there is a deterministic linear redemptive course to history.

The myth of redemptive violence — the notion that we can kill our way to peace — is a powerful one, and I'm constantly amazed at how it sneaks into our culture, the Church, and even my own heart.

Because I believe in the redemptive movement of God, moving the story of humanity further into God's purposes and heart for us, one story at a time.

But there is an illumination and we can know that there is a patient, redemptive reality in and through all of life which transmutes real evil, real loss, real threats to the growth of human good into the deeper, more sensitive and more enduring goods of love and humility?

If belief in the creative and the redemptive God makes sense at all, it must enable us to see more deeply and dearly into the whole of our experience, and to find what in the end of the day all honest thought must find there.

In all things, however, God was gracious — turning our personal tragedy into something redemptive and healing.

I'm going to create redemptive art and send it out into the world.

So, deep in the sixth century, on the very eve of the second exodus, the voice of prophetism, summoning into a single moment of time the act of creation and the first exodus, proclaims the now old prophetic faith in the redemptive purpose of Yahweh's judgment:

By his redemptive action God has brought a new people into being, the atonement is for all:

In true redemptive fashion, God pursues and restores Peter again, transforming him into an advocate for healthy relationships.

Divine judgment, historical judgment, consistent, on the one hand, in its punitive quality with the concept of God - as - Creator - Judge but, on the other hand, transcended in the main by the concept of God - as - Redeemer into judgment not merely punitive but ultimately itself redemptive in character and purpose.

Then, having used religion to convert God's messenger into a messenger of Satan, Satan used religious redemptive violence to kill and destroy God's messenger in the name of God.

Much has been made in the past decade or so of the historical - redemptive narrative: the belief that the story of God and His interactions with His people fit into four categories (or stages) we call Creation, Fall, Redemption, Consummation (or shalom).

It cd be said that the gospel gives the world a counter-arguement to the myth of «redemptive violence»... a myth that we all have been born into and raised on a steady diet of.

By «mythological» I refer to the suprahistorical elements in the story which came into being within the Christian community as the only possible way to express this transcendent and redemptive meaning of the event.

Thus I should say that if the story of Jesus» life had been told just as it seemed — and in a sense was — at the time it was occurring, that story would not have been adequately or truly told or that life was a part of a supremely significant, a divine event, the event through which God, the Creator and the Ruler of all nature as well as the Lord of history, was entering into man's life with new redemptive power; but that fact was not grasped clearly, if at all, till the event had reached its culmination in the resurrection, the coming of the Spirit, and the creation of the community.

Through Blake we can sense the theological significance of a poetic reversal of our mythical traditions, and become open to the possibility that the uniquely modern metamorphosis of the sacred into the profane is the culmination of a redemptive and kenotic movement of the Godhead.

Understood in this way, the tragic conflict between the Yehudi and the Seer is a part of that redemptive process whereby this very world with all its contradictions is hallowed and the kingdom of man transformed into the kingdom of God.

(9) Finally, it focuses on the praxis of mission; for we are sent into the world to bear a life - witness to God's redemptive concern for all people everywhere in the face of issues which affect their daily lives.Dubose, God Who Sends, pp159 - 160

Despite some excessive enthusiasm over this point by well - meaning Teilhardians of the «60s, no one can deny the central fact of Christianity: God enters into history and into matter in Christ, rendering relative all distinctions between matter and spirit, sacred and secular, before the primal fact of God's redemptive grace in all things.

In the total history of life on our planet he saw our time as the beginning of a great convergence of all men into a new and ultimate redemptive unity of mutual enrichment.

McKnight believes that the mutuality (or egalitarian) view taps into the «oneness - otherness - oneness» theme of the Bible's redemptive story that he introduced earlier in the book.

This type is the root of all Western philosophical theologies, and of all doctrines of love which seek to bring agape and the human loves into an ordered structure in which the being of God is reflected in all the loves while his redemptive love transforms the whole.

The denouement is particularly interesting and although Schrader himself has stated that the closing «could be spliced to the first frame, and the movie started all over again» suggesting that what we've witnessed falls more into the damnation element of Travis, there also exists a sequence that could arguably be claimed as redemptive which would leave Travis Bickle as on of cinema's most intriguing (and contradictory) anti-hero's.

I marvel at his Thomas Hardy adaptations — the devastating Jude and the redemptive The Claim (his take on The Mayor of Casterbridge)-- and I hadn't thought, before I actually saw him do it, that anyone but Charlie Kaufman would have a shot at turning Tristram Shandy into a viable film.

And Cooper, like Keaton, may have to make a superhero movie, fall into obscurity and return with a redemptive triumph to win in this category.