Sentences with phrase «life of obedience»

who lived lives of obedience and faith, but never received the fullness of God's blessing to them.

The book of Acts tells us that the first Christians referred to their own faith as «The Way» (9:2; 19:9; 22:4; 24:14, 22), indicating thereby that the faith is not merely a collection of dogmas but an active life of obedience to the God who has saved us through his Son.

Hope may be called the goal of faith, for it is that unseen destination in the future which gives direction to the present life of obedience of the man of faith.

Along this same line, Hartshorne's understanding of worship needs enlargement by the Pauline idea that one's entire life of obedience to God may be an act of spiritual worship and sacrifice.

But if we never forget that Calvary is the culmination of a whole life of obedience, self - surrender, and self - giving to God, and that the medieval sayings are right which speak of «the whole life of Christ as the mystery of the Cross» and of the sacrifice of Christ as «not the death but the willingness of him who dies,» we are delivered from this danger so far as our Lord's death is concerned.

The beggar becomes a disciple, committed to a new life of obedience.

He wants a life of obedience to him.

Christ alone lived a life of obedience that truly had God at its center.

For Christian Science, this spiritual reality is the Kingdom of God revealed through Jesus» life of obedience and sacrifice.

But we can at least predict with confidence that our life of obedience will surely have its impact on our methods of interpretation just as our earlier reading of Scripture had its impact on our lives.

He understood human excellence, including the excellence of radical discipleship, but was relentless in attributing every excellence in the life of obedience to the One obeyed.

In submitting himself to the life of obedience, in seeking to be used as an instrument in the renewal of the world, in shouldering the cross of Christ his Lord, the Christian shares in the life of that faith which genuinely outlives death.

The life of obedience is usually felt to be one involving a personal relationship.

It is the life of obedience which gives meaning and direction to his life.

The time has come when the priesthood means a life of obedience.

Jesus» life was a life of obedience.

Yet, like the state, the school, the business and the labor union, the institutional church has its own distinctive sphere and task — not to save us from the state, once again, but to mediate God's saving grace, to nurture its members in the faith and to support them in living the life of obedience before God in Christ.

To address it at all would require going on to make clear that grace is not alone but confirms human freedom, that living faith is not alone but issues in a life of obedience, that Christ is not alone but always to be found in the company of His Church.

Our esteem for Jesus» life of obedience to the Father and our desire to be «just like Jesus» does battle with the deep - seated notion that it is impossible to be like him.

The formation of a people, «a holy nation», was important because only a community could adopt a life of obedience and justice.

In submitting himself to the life of obedience, in seeking to be used as an instrument in the renewal of the world, in shouldering the cross of Christ his Lord, the Christian shares in the life of faith which genuinely outlives death.

Jesus does not want only verbal assent from his followers but a life of obedience where his disciples actually perform in deeds the will of God.

A century later the Deuteronomic scholars, living under the impact of prophets like Hosea, set love at the center of all that should mark the life of obedience to which YHWH called Israel.

That keeping their child close and loving them to the fullest extent possible would teach the child right from wrong, leading them to a life of obedience.

Our goal is to keep you and your fur baby together forever, creating a life of both obedience and happiness!