Sentences with phrase «live by promise»

That biblical story is the bedrock of my faith and the faith of my church, and always I, with my church, am called to hear that history and respond to it, pass it on and live by its promise.

Another interpretation the text wants to make impossible is that the fulfillment of the prophetic promises means that Christians no longer live by promise, whereas the exact opposite is true: fulfillment implies that we live by promise more than ever.

We live by the promise that God will raise us too — not only some day when we die the big death, but today, in our dead - as - a-rock-in-the-wilderness despair, loneliness, fear or shame.

Another false interpretation of «fulfillment» is the claim that the people of the Old Testament era lived by promise, while Christians possess the reality itself.

The greatest scam ever is getting people to do what you want in this life by promising them crap in the next life that you don't have to deliver.

Through the Word of God Incarnate in Jesus Christ, as that word is preached and heard, and with the clarifying and renewing power of the Holy Spirit at work in man, the believer begins to live by the promises of God.

Not exact matches

With style cues from Europe and a line that suggests the J. Crew of old, Courage B has promise, but found itself hampered by the volatile family dynamic that gave it life.

Thurston points to Pukka's Promise, a recent best - selling book by outdoorsman Ted Kerasote, about his quest to extend his dogs» lives.

FedEx managers and employees live by what the company calls the Purple Promise: «Placing customers at the center of all we do.»

The memory - eating disease, expected to afflict 15 million Americans by 2060 (and tens of millions more around the world as life expectancy increases), has no cure; a new drug for the condition hasn't been approved in well over a decade; initially promising experimental treatments seem to be failing with clockwork regularity; and there's not even a definitive consensus on what, exactly, biopharma companies should focus on while developing Alzheimer's medicines.

As a recovering interruption addict myself, I promise you that when you change these behaviors and find yourself blessed with the precious gift of time that used to be stolen by old behaviors, your work and personal life will prosper.

As tax revenues have shrunk, the city's financial obligations have grown — mainly to an ever - expanding pool of 30,000 retirees, promised life - time pensions and health benefits by short - sighted government officials over decades who consistently failed to fund those future obligations.

Beer - maker Anheuser - Busch InBev (BUD) is hedging its bets for the future by recruiting promising leaders straight out of college, including foreign nationals while they are living outside their home countries.

Not even the chance to view a selection of outfits worn by the Queen of Country Pop and the promise of a «live concert simulation» could bring tourists to Timmins, Ont.

You can do this by buying income annuities, which promise to pay a set monthly amount for life, just like a pension.

The online game distributor made noise in 2013 with a promise to revolutionize the gaming market by jumping from PCs to the living room through open - source consoles featuring a touch - pad - equipped controller.

Headphones like Beats by Dr. Dre promise a life «Above the Noise»; Cadillac's «Quiet Cabin» claims it can protect people from «the silent horror film out there.»

Though the Moscow - Islamabad rapprochement is in its infancy, and it is neighbor China that is filling the growing void left by the United States in Pakistan, a slew of energy deals and growing military cooperation promise to spark life into the Russia - Pakistan relationship that was dead for many decades.

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We find these results highly promising, however we have not fully vetted the results and note that the strongest programs we have considered are backed by multiple studies, while there has only been one rigorous study of the Living Goods program.

The Labor Party's promise to ban live sheep exports is being slammed by the Federal Government.

By the end of the semester, he'd raised another $ 5 million and was standing in front of the Digital Life Design conference in Munich, promising a world in which education was nearly free, available to poor people in the developing world, and better than anything that had come before it.

Ohio TechAngel Funds (OTAF) is a group of for - profit angel investor funds, managed by Rev1 Ventures, that invests in highly promising, Ohio - based companies in IT, advanced materials, and life sciences.

(He promised the Spirit of Truth... NOT a book) And BTW — I live out my faith by loving those around me and helping those in need.

He's not exactly another philosopher - pope, but there are other ways of being an inspirational, evangelical, and poetically theological pope: For Augustine, the joy promised by the Lord to his followers is given and lives in spe, in hope.

In so doing, he has appeased His Holiness, Justice, and Wrath; He has conquered the enemy that we brought into the world by our rebellion, which is death itself, by rising from the dead and living and reigning as victorious King and Savior; and He has reconciled those who believe in Him to Himself that they may live life eternal with Him at the consummation of all perfection, for perfection will be restored as He has promised!

But in recent years I have come to appreciate the fact that many promising younger evangelical scholars got their start in a serious commitment to the life of the mind by responding positively to the LaHaye - type call to intellectual warfare.

-- you are being tested... what you are saying is part of the tests you were created to believe in One God and by using the free will you are denying the oneness of God... this is the biggest test... and so in your daily life... you will see everything on that day and its promise of the Almighty to the humanity... but we just have to be patient and wait till the day comes....

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.

What you have to lose is the genuine and profound meaning in THIS life that you are distracted from by religion with its dishonest promises of eternity, with its abundance of gifts that you are said to receive only after you die, when it is far TOO LATE to validate the claims.

It costs my dignity to believe in fairy tales created so that the elite can control the masses by promises of «heaven» and «eternal life».

Belief in myths and legends and a life filled with puerile wish thinking, ruled by threats and promises is an insult to us as a species.

If there is unfair treatment of women in the LDS church, it is by individuals who alone are not living the standards they promised to keep at baptism.

The curriculum of the seminary should be determined by and reflect the liturgical life of the church, for the most promising way to reclaim the integrity of theological language as the working language for a congregation is for seminaries to make liturgy the focus of their lives.

God never promised that Messianic prophecies in Scripture will be fulfilled in earthly life, only that they will be fulfilled by the Messiah.

This rest is only promised to them who not only accept him as their Lord but live by his laws and word.

Weigel stresses the importance of John Paul's consistent emphasis on the promise of the young and highlights the remarkable response to World Youth Day in Rome in 2000, when John Paul called the young to an unexpected heroism: «It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives... the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity.»

For example, books reviewed in the first months of 1910 included Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life; Education in the Far East, by Charles F. Thwing; a philosophical study titled Religion and the Modern Mind, by Frank Carleton Doan; Jane Addams's The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets; The Immigrant Tide, by Edward Steiner; Medical Inspectors of Schools (a Russel Sage Foundation study); A. Modern City (a scientific study of that phenomenon), by William Kirk; The Leading Facts of American History, by D. H. Montgomery; and Jack London's collection of short stories, Lost Face.

As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets, Who have been since the world began, That we should be saved from our enemies And from the hand of all who hate us, To perform the mercy promised to our fathers And to remember His holy covenant, The oath which He swore to our father Abraham: To grant us that we, Being delivered from the hand of our enemies, Might serve Him without fear, In holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.

9 By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.

But the self's vision of the promise of life is surrounded by an awareness of the many ways in which the future is being shaped by forces and circumstances that can neither be predicted nor controlled.

And by you saying he ruined your life, is very bad to say, he changed my life, I have lived through alot of this, all because I did ask, and I lived, I am getting through, and its thanks to God, he can get you through anything, all things are possible with him, and that is true, my anxiety and depression have gone down (I am still human), and I just am an all around better person because of him, and you should get rid of your Facebook as well, and devote every hour minute anything you can towards God and Christ, turn the tube off, and just devote it to him, I promise you won't be sorry, good luck and God bless!!!

If someone's life is not characterized by a heart change, then they do not really believe God or His promises.

It is because the biblical teaching about the kingdom of God promises joy, contentment, and significance to those who live under the rule and reign of God that the invitation to enter into the kingdom by faith in Jesus Christ has such persuasive power.

In one notebook he kept an unfortunately short - lived diary in which he recorded his strong feelings about Russian oppression of the Jews, feelings which had been triggered off by reading in a magazine article of the case of a «respectable young girl of honest parents» who had been seduced by a Christian who had promised to marry her.

As we in Madonna House follow the Divine Pauper in our promise of poverty, we rely on our Heavenly Father for all our needs; hence we live by begging.

You and others in the club are afraid so you've made up a god that soothes you by making decisions for you, helping you feel less alone in the universe, and promising you life everlasting.

This woman believed in Jesus for eternal life, and by Jesus» own promise, whosoever believes in Him, has everlasting life (John 3:16; 5:24; 6:47).

9 By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.

Is it possible that the reason that the Corinthians were so concerned about baptism is that they had been taught by the Apostle Paul and other Christian evangelists that salvation and the promise of the resurrection of the dead and eternal life are received in Baptism, just as orthodox Christians, including Lutherans, have been teaching for almost 2,000 years??