Sentences with phrase «life of the spirit on»

A complete legend usually includes an account of the two most significant events in a saint's life, his birth in the flesh, and his birth into the full life of the spirit on the day of his death, together with an account of the miracles performed by him during his life and posthumously at his tomb.

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«Get on the Shelf taps into the spirit of American innovation and gives our customers a voice in selecting the products that will help them live better,» says Joel Anderson, president and chief executive of Walmart.com, in a statement.

Samhain, a Celtic pagan festival, marked the beginning of winter and was believed to be a night on which spirits could roam among the living.

And whereas some psychologists find that high scores on certain cognitive tests correlate in older people with the ability to keep their spirits up, other researchers hypothesize that happiness in later life is an effect of cognitive losses — which force older people to concentrate on simpler, happier thoughts.

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Pure Life's curriculum relies heavily on Paul's Letter to the Galatians, which stresses that if one lives «by the Spirit,» he will not «gratify the desires of the flesh.»

However, the acceptance of His truths of Salvation and Holy Spirit living were and are always on a «whosoever will» basis.

To «live by the Spirit and walk by the Spirit» not to expirament for ourselves on our own because «we are not our own» we are possessed by the very Spirit of God and as such speak like Holy Spirit in us... think about possession for a second, what does it look like?

Everything for me as a pastor is about creating environments for the Holy Spirit to move people along in their journey so that they become dependent on the life of God and not the organization of the church.

So does that mean that I can whoop it up in this life on earth but repent in my spirit life because I was «taught» by the spirits of the righteous and then all will be okee dokey???? Sweet!

Those failures are no reason to lower the bar of expectation, to foreshorten our aspirations to the goodness needed for eternal life; they are a reason to get up, seek reconciliation, and continue on the journey into the life of blessedness the Holy Spirit, «the Counselor» who brings consolation, makes possible.

The Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled the Law on our behalf, died on the Holy Cross for the remission of our sins (became sin and curse for us) descended to hell and defeated death (keys of which were held by Satan,) rose from the dead on the third day bringing us eternal life and reconciliation with God the Father, then ascended to Heaven promising us the Holy Spirit and preparing the place for us.

The chances that your spirit for want of a better word will live on, is more likely going to be your the form of energy either in another dimension or with another life form from a distant planet who by most accounts from so many writings and drawings all across our earth has a higher probablity than some guy named jesus or his never caring ignorant father or a holly ghost (remember when that was the real name).

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

The German nation began as a metaphor of Schiller's ode to the spirit of human freedom and concluded with Hitler's spirit of life taking on a scale of unparalleled horror.

I am sure if his spirit has lived on, and he could look down at earth, and the way people are living today, he would be ashamed at most of his own people, the Jews, and to those who practice the religion created after him.

«It is as we feed on the Word and meditate on the message it contains that the Spirit of God can vitalize that which we have received, and bring forth through us the word of knowledge that will be as full of power and life as when He, the Spirit of God, moved upon holy men of old and gave them these inspired Scriptures.»

By focusing on the inner dynamic of God's eternal life as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Barth is able to avoid two errors: a static understanding of eternity, and one completely divorced from all temporality.

It also places it in continuity with the experiences of the early church, and within the continuing narrative of the development of Christian thought — as people have struggled to make sense of and articulate their lived experience of God — which produced the great ecumenical creeds (with their clear progression of understanding about God, Christ and the Holy Spirit)- and which continues on today.

Without engaging in supernaturalism, Borg believes that Jesus» grounding in the Spirit was the «source of everything that he was,» and that it was on this basis that the Fourth Gospel ascribes to him the words, «I am the bread of life.»

It is so easy to manipulate people and situations and give yourself standing in life when you can call on the reputation of the Holy Spirit.

2nd choice with your free will, love and follow satan's lies and your spirit dies while living on earth, go to paradise, still hate Jesus, Day of the Lord, and you get your wish, perish into the eternal flames, no eternity for you.

On the contrary, when someone receives the gift of salvation (accompanied by the Holy Spirit) we receive the enablement to live the life required of us.

The timing of what you post today goes with the section talking about «he will come again to judge the living and the dead» which is where I would guess that there'd be that change in the axis on your theory from things understood of Jesus to things understood of the Holy Spirit.

(Joel 2:28) This was fulfilled initially on the day of Pentecost 33 C.E. (Acts 2:4) Hence, it need be noted that God says «my spirit», denoting ownership of the «holy spirit», an active force that comes from Jehovah and in which he used to create the universe and all life.

«For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit....

But, in the biblical narrative, the spirit of the individual lives on in heaven in communion with God and others or eternally separated from the Creator.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

Joey Jesus came to set us free and wants us to live an abundant life if you are struggling with sin and feel tempted to sin just tell God you are weak our biggest stumbling block mine included was my pride i did nt want to admit i couldnt do it in my own strength and yet that is where the victory is knowing that we cant and knowing that in him we can.When we know that we then become overcomers in Christ thats who we are.We do nt have to fight the sin we just accept that Christ has overcome our sins on our behalf thats how i dealt with my sin and when i am tempted i say Lord you know i am weak but i am trusting in your strength to help through your holy spirit and he does.This is one of my favoriote verses may you be set free in Jesus name.Sin shall not have dominion over you brentnz

One of the things I love about the liturgical life of the church is the way that the Holy Spirit, quietly and gently, works on us.

I feel that all you could possibly need to know to lead a fruitful life concerning the Holy Spirit could easily fit on fewer than ten pages of text.

As someone living in Asia and connected to people that advocate for the persecuted Church in this region, much of the church is undergoing revival on many level, both explicitly Spirit - led and implicitly Spirit - led (Human effort).

Our public life is the better for his many decades of analysis, commentary, and spirited partisanship on behalf of higher religious, moral, and political truths.

When legalists look to the Bible to give them a clear outline on what to do in every facet of their lives, they are engaging in idolatry by worshiping the book and the letter rather than the Spirit which produced the book.

Conversion is a process that does not begin and end with the profession of faith in Christ, but begins with the Holy Spirit's prevenient grace on the person's life and continues through repentance for a lifetime — the Kingdom comes.

But if I am going to go on in the direction of what Jesus meant by «life» and «more abundantly,» then I have to avoid that duality of matter and spirit at all costs.

In spite of all the destructive forces man lets loose against life on this planet, the Spirit of Life is at work in ever new and unforeseeable ways, countering and circumventing the obstacles man puts in its plife on this planet, the Spirit of Life is at work in ever new and unforeseeable ways, countering and circumventing the obstacles man puts in its pLife is at work in ever new and unforeseeable ways, countering and circumventing the obstacles man puts in its path.

If the work of creation is seen as an evolutionary process, then existence of matter is the necessary precondition for the appearance, on earth, of spirit: elsewhere Pere Teilhard de Chardin speaks of matter in more exact language as the «matrix of spirit»: that in which life emerges and is supported, not the active principle from which it takes its rise.

Cobb goes on to say that in spite of one's tendencies to complacency and despair, it is possible to experience the Spirit in one's life, calling forth realistic hope.

There are royal psalms voicing the festival spirit of celebration at the court, praying for help in the king's need and for blessing on the king's rule, and there are psalms in which the common man poured out his hope and trust in God amid the ordinary happiness, suffering, and drudgery of daily life.

Hegel's narrative of the world Spirit presented it in such a linear form, and Teilhard's narrative of the development of life and humanity on this planet is also quite linear.

This, however, is to impoverish attempts to bring spiritual and moral values to bear on both national and world society, because practical action needs to flow from the life of the spirit.

But no one could seriously read the essential message of the gospels or study the lives of the early Christians without seeing that living according to the plan of God calls for the highest courage, and makes the most strenuous demands on the human spirit.

There is only one spirit that would say you are not forgiven and that is the antichrist spirit, the same spirit that led men to smash the face in of Jesus so that he no longer looked like a human being then stood back and watched his life drain away on a hot sunny day not realising that he was in fact watching the freedom of men in all its glory.

When Jesus said that to the disciples of his day of this generation he was talking figuratively i believe of born again believers born of the spirit not a physical generation.Because the holy spirit was prophetic of the spirit coming upon the nation or nations as spoken in Joel that occured at pentecost and that established the kingdom of God on the earth through believers so we have always been the last generation because we never know when the Lord will return but we live as if it was tomorrow.brentnz

Because I belong to him, Christ, by his Holy Spirit, assures me of eternal life and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for him.

For the spirit of the evangelical counsels, of the Sermon on the Mount, of the cross, the spirit of hope in the risen Christ and an eschatological attitude to life belong to all Christian existence and are binding on all.

We will here not discuss in detail in what sense and with what reservations the liturgy is to be called the first and neces - sary source of the Christian life and spirit (Decree on Priestly Formation, Optatam Totius, art. 16 Decree on the Appropriate Renewal of the Religious Life, Perfectae Caritatis, art. 6), of grace (Constitution on the Liturgy, art. 10) and the summit to which all the action of the Church is directed (ibid., art. 10), and how all other Christian activity and prayer has its origin and goal in the litulife and spirit (Decree on Priestly Formation, Optatam Totius, art. 16 Decree on the Appropriate Renewal of the Religious Life, Perfectae Caritatis, art. 6), of grace (Constitution on the Liturgy, art. 10) and the summit to which all the action of the Church is directed (ibid., art. 10), and how all other Christian activity and prayer has its origin and goal in the lituLife, Perfectae Caritatis, art. 6), of grace (Constitution on the Liturgy, art. 10) and the summit to which all the action of the Church is directed (ibid., art. 10), and how all other Christian activity and prayer has its origin and goal in the liturgy.

The Law society, in other words, has given «guidance» to its members as to how to draft wills in a way which circumvents English legal principles as they have always been accepted: and it envisages that this might even mean taking on the English law in court to see if their wily little legal tricks have been successful: a perfect example of an attempt to make the letter of the law prevail over its spirit: Christians will remember that, according to St Paul (2 Corinthians 3:6), «the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life».

Or was it only an event in the lives of the disciples — a change in their outlook as they came to realize through further reflection upon their dead and buried Teacher, that his influence still lived on, that his teaching had been true, that his life must be their example and his character a pattern for themselves to follow, that although he was dead he must still be revered in their memory as their Lord whose spirit could still be recreated in themselves in so far as they dedicated themselves to the aim of following in his footsteps?