Sentences with phrase «life upon the cross»

Being crucified with Christ is noble, but even He did not spend his life upon the cross.

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They have made me brave, and they have kept me humble, and they have made me white - knuckle cling to the cross because my very sanity and life flat out depended upon it, and the children we have made are always part of our own remaking.

Prayer of the Day: «O God, who before the passion of your only begotten Son revealed his glory upon the holy mountain: Grant to us that we, beholding by faith the light of his countenance, may be strengthened to bear our cross, and be changed into his likeness from glory to glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

It's that sense of worlds colliding, of unlikely paths crossing; your work life, home life, past life and present all mashing together, commented upon and decorated with photos from here and from there, from then and in the now.

His sacrifice upon the cross is our redemption, and His resurrection from the dead is our pledge of eternal life.

It was only when He took our sin upon Himself on the cross, it was only when the crushing despair of being separated from God came upon Him, that He finally felt what we humans have lived with since we were born.

The pain and anguish we feel every day, the suffering of being separated from God that has so numbed our souls, the despair and fear that drives us to live as we do, was felt for the very first time by Jesus on the cross when sin came upon Him.

It is based not upon their purity of heart and life but upon their faith in the cross and resurrection of Christ.

The resurrection of Christ is a way of affirming that God has received into his own life all that the historical event, designated when we say «Jesus Christ», has included: — his human existence as teacher and prophet, as crucified man upon his cross, in continuing relationship of others with him after that death, and also what has happened as a consequence of his presence and activity in the world.

If the fashion in which the basic New Testament proclamation has been interpreted in the preceding chapter has validity, then talk of the resurrection of Christ is a way of affirming that God has received into his own life all that the historical event, designated when we say «Jesus Christ», has included: his human existence as teacher and prophet, as crucified man upon his cross, in continuing relationship of others with him after that death, and along with this what has happened in consequence of his presence and activity in the world.

We do not find ourselves permitted by the Word of God, however, to advise a woman to leave her husband, except by force of necessity; and we do not understand this force to be operative when a husband behaves roughly and uses threats to his wife, nor even when he beats her, but when there is imminent peril to her life... [W] e... exhort her to bear with patience the cross which God has seen fit to place upon her; and meanwhile not to deviate from the duty which she has before God to please her husband, but to be faithful whatever happens [«Letter From Calvin to an Unknown Woman,» June 4, 1559, Calvini Opera, XVII, col. 539, in P. E. Hughes, editor, The Register of the Company of Pastors of Geneva in the Time of Calvin (Eerdmans, 1966), pp. 344 - 345].

I know that the burden of proof lies upon me to show how my thesis fits with Scripture, but I am beginning to think that the real burden of proof lies upon those who want to maintain that God is violent despite all the evidence to the contrary in the life, ministry, and teachings of Jesus Christ, and especially in what He did for the entire world on the cross.

The cross is a symbol of hope and new life to Christians, which is what we all wish upon the victims» families, friends, and those who were present that night.

One crosses from death to life instantly upon believing in the one who paid for my sins on the cross.

Just like God, we sit around with our arms crossed and a scowl upon our faces at all the sin in other people's lives.

But look at the victim dead upon the cross who, nonetheless, is strangely alive and life giving, and then observe the victors who gaze upon his lifeless body and do not seem to recognize that they are the ones who are dead.

(but even if it didn't that should be obvious) Therefore Gods groundwork for the spectacular future that God has in store for us is built upon love and the way to create that love is for God to forgive us and grant us eternal life which is made available to us by the grace of Jesus Christ and the death he took for us all on the cross.

These words are all about life and justice; their shared importance is part of that tenuous balancing between left and right» both sides of which Christ embraced, equally, upon the cross.

As we contemplate the work which Christ has laid upon his church, we who are met here on the Mount of Olives, in sight of Calvary, would take up for ourselves and summon those from whom we come, and to whom we return, to take up with us the cross of Christ, and all that for which it stands, and to go forth into the world to live in the fellowship of his sufferings and by the power of his resurrection.

Upon attempting to cross the border, Celia begins to get a taste of just how different life in Canada is when the border guards take possession of her registered firearm.

While all social and environmental factors affecting children's lives outside of school do not fall within our locus of control, every second of what happens upon crossing the threshold of the school can be clearly defined to support student learning and character development.

Our family has taken a year and a half off from» normal» living, crossed continents and embarked upon a 50 state, 150 + city tour around the US to raise money and awareness for animal rescues and to expose the benefits of animal adoption spreading the message: «Don't Shop... Adopt.»

Crossing Souls puts you in the shoes of Chris, Matt, Big Joe, Charlie, and Kevin; a gang of kids who see their lives change massively when they stumble upon a dead body.

You can cross in for pension plans as a way to provide the lump sum payout upon the retirement or loss of life of the individual, whichever takes place in advance.