Sentences with phrase «just death and resurrection»

It's just death and resurrection, over and over again, day after day, as God reaches down into our deepest graves and with the same power that raised Jesus from the dead wrests us from our pride, our apathy, our fear, our prejudice, our anger, our hurt, and our despair.

Not exact matches

I committed to rising just before dawn each day to pray, which not only broke my night - owl habits but also turned my heart and mind to the significance of the pre-dawn dark in the death and resurrection cycle.

Most are just enjoying a fun day with the family (a wonderful Christian practice), and many others of us are remembering the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ (the most important event in human history).

The Bible considers ALL Christians to be saints... not just a select few... Peter called all the followers saints in letter to the churches in Asia minor... Paul refers to all Christians as well to be saints... not because of what we do... but because of who we are... we are set aside by God... thru Jesus death and resurrection... those of us who have acceptd this are saints...

If a person must believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus, do they have to believe that it was by the shedding of blood of Jesus on the cross that sins are forgiven, or can they just believe that it was simply His death that was sufficient?

Jesus said that in the new world, people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; having passed beyond death into resurrection, with no prospect of death, there will be no need for reproduction and hence we may assume no desire for it, just as now as a 64 - year old I no longer have a desire to play rugby though there was a time when I lived for it.

However, just like it says in 1 Peter chapter 3 where during the time between Jesus's death and resurrection where he was preaching to the spirits who were in prison who once lived from days of Noah and the flood, that they were actually not lost souls after all.

The phrase «Paschal Mystery» presumably means everything involved in our Lord's passing over from this world and entering into his glory: his death, the descent of his soul to Limbo, his preaching to the spirits who were in prison, the freeing of the just souls, the Resurrection, the Ascension and perhaps also the sending of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.

Paul implies that it is just such experiences which have been made possible by the cataclysmic death and resurrection of Christ and which will be climaxed by that final renewal, the second coming.

The NT is the death and resurrection of Christ, why He came to earth, His sole purpose for living... Now, this is obviously an extremely short description, and while others could have been more literate in the description, I would suggest you go to any website for further clarification on why the NT was needed, prophesied, and Who it was all about... That is just a start... To be a «free - thinker» requires honest examination of both sides.

All of us in FG know that His Resurrection, and not just His Death, was necessary for our justification.

Just as Adam's and Eve's limitations constitute one aspect of their humanity, the life, death, and resurrection of Christ provide a portrait of humanity that includes vulnerability, weakness, and powerlessness.

Just as in the gospels the most important thing is the incarnation, death and resurrection, while the how of the incarnation, the virgin birth, lies in the hinterland; so also in respect to the doctrine of Scripture, while inspiration is as clearly taught as the virgin birth, it lies rather in the hinterland.»

Through His death and resurrection, Jesus announced loud and clear that God is not angry at sin, and that just as sin, death, and the devil have no hold on God, they have no hold on us either.

The «resurrection of Jesus» must not be understood as something which lessens the significance of the death of Jesus, and any interpretation which implies that the death of Jesus was unreal, or only temporary, does just this.

Sorry to tell ya, but the Jews succeded in the death of Jesus... what I don't understand is your use of that as a basis for hating Jews... You reveal your complete ignorance fo salvation... such as without the death and resurrection of Jesus -LCB- which ceretainly did happen as I am this day a witness of his resurrection -RCB-, there woudl be no asis for the gentiles for salvation... you see his blood was shed for the atoning sacrifice for the sins of all the world not just gentile but Jew as well..

The first thing to be emphasized here is that the very use of the idiom of resurrection implies that the phenomenon of death is real for the whole person and not just for his physical body.

If you ever doubt or wonder about Jesus» love for you, just remember these two words which tell us so much about our own sin, the heart of Jesus, and the complete forgiveness and love offered to us through His death and resurrection.

The history of Jesus, even as history, was of decisive importance for the tradition, just because in the Preaching the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus were held to be the climax of all history, the coming of the Kingdom of God.

To give just three examples, there would seem to be legitimate doubts about such passages as John the Baptist's recognition of Jesus as the Messiah, Jesus saying to Peter «on this rock I will build my church;» and Jesus» very specific predictions of his death and resurrection.

Just as Jesus» life and teaching are the model or paradigm of the new age, and the resurrection its seal, every moment in history which partakes of the new age — that is, of the overthrowing of death and the power of death — is an eschatological event which ends the old world and inaugurates a new one.

You could tell someone to believe in Jesus for everlasting life without ever mentioning sin, spiritual death, a substitutionary atonement since these are just fluff or evidences yet they might be a stumbling block so if you just harp on eternal life isn't that neglecting the death and resurrection.

In a recent book (After Death: Life in God, SCM Press) I have argued that what has just been said is a proper «demythologizing» of traditional Christian talk about death, judgment, resurrection, and eternal Death: Life in God, SCM Press) I have argued that what has just been said is a proper «demythologizing» of traditional Christian talk about death, judgment, resurrection, and eternal death, judgment, resurrection, and eternal life.

If you read Carl Jung, you can come to understand the images of Jesus» death and resurrection as iconic and as archetypes, as stories that simply «had to be told» because the world, in a cultural sense, just needed to give voice to this idea.

Other Christians, even if they are hesitant to affirm a physical resurrection, will surely balk, if they take the New Testament seriously, at following Kübler - Ross's chatty recommendation that «it might be helpful if more people would talk about death and dying as an intrinsic part of life, just as they do not hesitate to mention when someone is expecting a new baby.»

Below this are other scriptures that tell of Jesus and if you are interested and do the research you will find that indeed Jesus life, death and resurrection happened just as foretold.

In that old Gospel, both forgiveness and justification are the result of Christ's death only, and the resurrection (along with the other parts of Jesus» life past and future) are just «extras.»

Fisher quotes David Tracy: «To affirm the belief in Jesus Christ is... to affirm the faith that in the ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus the decisive token, manifestation, prolepsis of the future reign of God (and, thereby, Messianic time) is already here in a proleptic form and, just as really, not yet here.»

It is just that rather than seek to obey God, Jonah prefers death and resurrection so that he can worship God in heaven.

(For some «death» means physical death, such that there is the hope of resurrection and not just an «intimation of immortality.»)

Jesus» death and resurrection free us to acknowledge just how culturally relative and historically conditioned his teachings were.

The theological entailment of this is that the locus of revelation is not just the event of Jesus Christ or the word about him or, on the other hand, human experience, but is rather the intersection of the New Testament kerygma with the universal archetype of death and resurrection which underlies that fundamental human life rhythm of upset and recovery (Susanne Langer) and which generates comic narratives.

So just because someone claimed to be John, the beloved disciple, recounting an eyewitness account of the life, death, and supernatural resurrection of Jesus, should we take him at his word??

This installment includes pieces about the death and rebirth of Dance Dance Revolution, the resurrection of gorgeous vector arcade game Aztarac after its creator's death, and lots more, I'm just back from my 3 - week long -LRB-!)

Of course, the story of the crucifixion, death, burial, and resurrection of Christ is the central theme for Christians, there are other traditions we include in our family celebrations that are just that... family traditions.