Sentences with phrase «life by the sacrifice»

In sharp contrast, the gospel message is that we are already significant, valuable and loved because we are created in the image of God and offered life by the sacrifice of his son.

Not exact matches

Regarding individuals like you and me, who can't directly influence governments and large institutions, I believe step 1 is to act, and to experience how living by your values improves your life, however much it looks like deprivation or sacrifice first.

The harsh personal sacrifices demanded by the creative life litter the biographies of great artists.

She was essentially putting her profit and loss statement on life support by directly sacrificing revenues.

This kind of «hustle porn,» as Ohanian put it, often establishes an unhealthy standard for entrepreneurs to live by, reinforcing the idea that they need to sacrifice their health to be successful.

«We all enter the program with busy careers and social lives, and then we inject 20 to 30 hours of homework and 16 hours of classroom time... and the only way we can accommodate the new demands is by making sacrifices in droves.»

When the expectation from the top down is that people's personal or family lives have to be sacrificed for the job as evidenced by 50 - hour - plus workweeks, little or no vacation time, and 24/7 availability for work communication, you've reached the height of a toxic workplace.

Her life after the Holocaust continued to be defined by hardship and sacrifice.

By leveraging some advantages that our college provides in terms of housing and healthcare as well as making some sacrifices (to live in the student housing which not have great location and accommodations), we are able to stay debt free and build our net worth.

A narrative by campaign organizer Mandy Goodman read: «A kind, caring hero sacrificed his life to save the lives of children.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

Death has been overcome by Christ's sacrifice on Calvary, and those who put their trust in Him will live again, «For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:16).

Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie can make you live forever if you accept a blood sacrifice and symbolically eat his flesh and drink his blood, and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a woman made from a rib was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree: makes perfect sense

God sacrificed his only son, the only innoce3nt human in history, he sufferd the shame of occupying a human body and then he lived his whole life without sin, and let himself be wrongly accused and executed that our sins may be traded and washed away by the blood of the lamb of God.

Beware the Mormon who smiles and will not answer — he has taken the oath of Blood Atonement — agreeing to sacrifice your life if secrets are revealed, okay to slit my throat if I am deemed a sinner by the church because that is the only way to save me.

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

The virtue of self - discipline features heavily in the New Testament; it's one of the fruits of the Spirit in Galatians 5, a key element of Paul's famous athletics metaphor in 1 Corinthians 9, and implicit in the idea of Christians as living sacrifices (Romans 12:1 - 2), «transformed by the renewal of your mind [s]» (ESV).

We should do whatever we can to alleviate the sufferings of others, but Jesus also invites us to «take up our cross» each day and follow him by making our lives a sacrifice of love to God's glory and in the service of others.For more information see our video on Suffering.

We should do whatever we can to alleviate the sufferings of others, but Jesus also invites us to «take up our cross» each day and follow him by making our lives a sacrifice of love to God's glory and in the service of others.

america is free by the hands of those willing to stand up for her, our willingness to sacrifice our lives to protect your rights to be ignorant.

«The Eucharist is the heart and the summit of the Church's life, for in it Christ associates his Church and all her members with his sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving offered once for all on the cross to his Father; by this sacrifice he pours out the graces of salvation on his Body which is the Church.»

10 By valuing comprehensively is meant that religious valuation is boundary - spanning; it has a domain of relevance that includes no less than the entire life of the one who holds it.11 By intensive valuation is meant that religious valuation «must rank among the last that the valuer would be disposed to sacrifice.

By being both genetically and behaviorally flawless, the Last Adam's life would be a sufficient sacrifice for the sin nature inherent in all men, as well as for all their sinful behavior in the future.

The sacrifices were confided in by good men as the outward symbols of forgiven sin and reestablished fellowship with God, but they were also confided in by evil men as an efficacious technique for placating God regardless of one's ethical life.

(I John 4:7 - 8) As for the sacrificial system, that had been displaced by a moral and universally applicable substitute — «Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.»

Richard III was the last English king to die in battle, and James II the last to mark Maundy Thursday by washing the feet of the poor; but the current Queen did in her day live out the monarchic ideals of service, vulnerability, and shared sacrifice.

At the Easter Vigil after the first reading from Genesis chapter 1, describing the creation of the universe by God, the prayer that follows says: «Almighty ever - living God, who are wonderful in the ordering of all your works, may those you have redeemed understand that there exists nothing more marvellous than the world's creation in the beginning except that, at the end of the ages, Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.»

Christ's life and sacrifice with which the Church started, its long history marred by failures but still contributing immeasurably to mankind's welfare, its prophets, saints, and martyrs — for all of this I am unpayably in debt.

It is instead a penitent approach to a God who gives life freely, and who not only does not profit from the holocaust of the particular, but who in fact fulfils the «sacrifice» simply by giving his gift again.

Not only is the mutable world separated from its divine principle — the One — by intervals of emanation that descend in ever greater alienation from their source, but because the highest truth is the secret identity between the human mind and the One, the labor of philosophy is one of escape: all multiplicity, change, particularity, every feature of the living world, is not only accidental to this formless identity, but a kind of falsehood, and to recover the truth that dwells within, one must detach oneself from what lies without, including the sundry incidentals of one's individual existence; truth is oblivion of the flesh, a pure nothingness, to attain which one must sacrifice the world.

The most powerful, self - sacrificing love is revealed in the Bible as God Himself became a man to die for the sins off the world.The Bible alone reveals the plan of salvation and the conditions that must be met by all to have immortality aand a life that measures with that of Gods.

We should all admire the sacrifice made by the team and the school where they both live by their convictions and live within the rules of the secular groups in which they participate.

The significance of the sacrifices was to see our sinfulness and turn our hearts back to God and that is made clear with the death of Christ.The animals though could not remove our sin that was only possible through Christ as God he could remove sin in the past present and future as he is outside of time and space not like us.So there sins in effect were covered by Jesus as well in the old testament as in the new by Gods we just did nt see it.The example of abraham able enoch they all were righteous they were justified before God.Enoch walked with God and was no more that sounds like the rapture to me so the holy spirit was present in that age just like us.We see that God has always been at work to bring life and to bring mankind to salvation.

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.

John Kirkby started CAP in Bradford in 1996, believing that God was calling him to sacrifice his career in the financial industry and use his experience to help the poor - people crippled by debt, living in fear and without hope.

Come on get real samson old testement its in there wilful sin my definition is walking away from the Lord and doing opur own thing knowing what you should do but still do what you want to do.In the life of Samson WE SEE Gods forgiveness and the sacrifice is the same as today repentence we are saved by the grace of God if we turn from our own way.He was disobedient to his parents and to the Lord his heart was no different from ours wilfully disobedient he chose sin over the Lord all the time sleeping with prostites and lying with foreign woman going his own way and yet God saves him not only that he was Gods chosen instrument to deliver his people.The sad part is his term was only 20 years if he had walking in the ways of the Lord he should have had that ministry for 40 years that is the term of completion.We cut ourselves short when we choose sin over the Lord which is an idol by the way.We all have those areas in our lives that we keep to ourselves thats wilful they are our demons and our comforters.Until we surrender all to the Lord we can not be overcomers and will be influenced by satan like samson it is clear warning to us wilful sin or making sin an idol in our lives has consequences better to serve the Lord with all our hearts even though samson did nt for much of his life God still showed him his grace and faithfullness.You can also see wilful sin in the Life of David yet God saves him but not all were saved in the life of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his fllife of Samson WE SEE Gods forgiveness and the sacrifice is the same as today repentence we are saved by the grace of God if we turn from our own way.He was disobedient to his parents and to the Lord his heart was no different from ours wilfully disobedient he chose sin over the Lord all the time sleeping with prostites and lying with foreign woman going his own way and yet God saves him not only that he was Gods chosen instrument to deliver his people.The sad part is his term was only 20 years if he had walking in the ways of the Lord he should have had that ministry for 40 years that is the term of completion.We cut ourselves short when we choose sin over the Lord which is an idol by the way.We all have those areas in our lives that we keep to ourselves thats wilful they are our demons and our comforters.Until we surrender all to the Lord we can not be overcomers and will be influenced by satan like samson it is clear warning to us wilful sin or making sin an idol in our lives has consequences better to serve the Lord with all our hearts even though samson did nt for much of his life God still showed him his grace and faithfullness.You can also see wilful sin in the Life of David yet God saves him but not all were saved in the life of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his fllife God still showed him his grace and faithfullness.You can also see wilful sin in the Life of David yet God saves him but not all were saved in the life of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his flLife of David yet God saves him but not all were saved in the life of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his fllife of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his flesh.

The purposes of the Law were brought to an end by the coming of our Life giver, who offered himself in place of the sacrifices in the Law, and was led like a lamb to the slaughter in place of the lamb of propitiation... He gave his blood for all mankind, so that the blood of animals should not be required of us.

Often preservers are motivated by the impulse to honor those who sacrificed, whose immigrant lives were ennobled by the devotion they gave to a structure in the new country or by their ability to create a space in which tenors of life, which came in abundance, could be controlled.

Unlike the Christian god that wouldn't ever change his mind or doctrine... except for cursing the world for eating an apple... except for telling Abraham to sacrifice his son, but then stopping him... and except for killing nearly all life on Earth and then because of the guilt says I'll never to do that ever again - in exactly that way... and except for deciding that 2 of himself (Father and Spirit) weren't enough any more, and creating / fathering / spiriting as Son... and except for forgiving all sin, when «In the beginning» he had cursed the universe for the eating of an apple, by having his creation torture and kill his only begotten Son... and except for having to repeat himself about the unchanging eternal rules, to Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Saul / Paul, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Bahá «u «lláh, David Koresh, and a whole host of others... and except for... and except for...

Indeed, already in 1913 the missionary scholar J N Farquhar noted that «the life of India is dominated by the future, by the vision of the brilliant happy India that is to rise as a result of the united toil and self - sacrifice of her sons.»

But there is no grave of Jesus Christ becaue s grave and death could not hold Him, for HE was a sinless lamb, who gave His life for sinners, so that by His sacrifice we would be reconciled to God.

Some examples: that «every single organic being around us may be said to be striving to the utmost to increase its numbers»; that «of the many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive»; that it is to a mother's «advantage» that her child should be adopted by another woman; that «no one is prepared to sacrifice his life for any single person, but... everyone will sacrifice it for more than two brothers, or four half - brothers or eight first cousins»; that «any variation in the least degree injurious [to a species] would be rigidly destroyed.»

It is by these mercies of God that we present our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God through Christ (Rom.

I appeal to you, brethren, by the mercies of God to present your bodies as living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God which is your spiritual worship.

When the Pentateuch is understood in its entirety, it appears that the message of the Pentateuch is that God was never angry at people and never wanted sacrifices and offerings, but wanted instead a people for Himself who lived by faith in God and with justice and mercy before a watching world.

My brother sacrificed a huge offering to a certain ministry and packed up and allowed his successful business to be ran by someone else to be part of that ministry and about lost his business; and his son to this day was so damaged by that «ministry» that he is not even living for Christ anymore, years later.

Christ sent the apostles to proclaim his death and resurrection to every creature so that, the document continues, «they might accomplish the work of salvation which they had proclaimed, by means of sacrifice and sacraments, around which the entire liturgical life revolves».

It tells us that live by faith in his love and sacrifice for us and best of all that being right with God does not happen because we quit sinning, but rather because Jesus died for our sins and gave us His righteousness!

Old testament practices of worship are some forms of worship Jesus did, and we should worship God in our actions, by giving, singing, etc (but Jesus has obviously replaced the need for burnt offerings, but instead we offer ourselves as a living sacrifice to God).

In his recent book, Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity, he offers «four benefits» of mortality: interest and engagement, suggesting that adding, say, twenty years to the human life span would not proportionately increase the pleasures of life; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy caLife, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity, he offers «four benefits» of mortality: interest and engagement, suggesting that adding, say, twenty years to the human life span would not proportionately increase the pleasures of life; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy calife span would not proportionately increase the pleasures of life; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy calife; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy calife is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy calife seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy calife for a worthy cause.