Sentences with phrase «live sacrifice»

The Amalekites as you recall offered live sacrifice of infants and children into the red hot bronze arms of their fertility god while they danced and had orgies.

If children and infants were killed it was quick and better than a life of live sacrifice in red hot arms or growing up blood thirsty and wicked.

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).

The perfect adoration of God is when we give our body as a living sacrifice, that means when we overcome our selfish nature through Jesus» love which he can give us.

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.

St. Paul said: «Present your bodies as a living sacrifice!»

Wars were fought, many American lives sacrificed, to eradicate slavery, fascism and liberate people from oppression.

Remember, we are called to be living sacrifices.

(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.»

We can choose to live our lives confident in a God who loves us completely and is worthy of our living sacrifice.

[57] St Paul says the same: «Present your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.»

We can only offer our lives to God as a living sacrifice through the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross, in which we participate in the sacrifice of the Mass..

No longer do we offer sacrifices to represent our commitment and contrition, rather as Paul says, we are living sacrifices.

But this «Therefore» doesn't make sense if you look a the end of chapter 11, where Paul has digressed in a lengthy doxology, which while it discusses intriguing mysteries of God and praises God, doesn't lead to the logical conclusion that we should present ourselves as living sacrifices to him, but if you read into that «οὖν» an «as I was saying earlier», you can see that before the doxology he issued an important warning in Romans 11:22 — if God is willing enough to be so severe as to cut of the natural branches (the Jews) he will certainly be willing to cut of the ones that have been grafted on (the Gentiles); Romans 12:1 - 2 is a very logical «therefore» to follow Romans 11:21 - 24.

For example Romans chapter 12 starts with a «Therefore» and implores the reader to present themselves as a living sacrifice.

It is not easy, nor without cost, but didn't He ask of us to lay down our lives as a living sacrifice.?

God was saying «present yourself a living sacrifice», «find the will of God along the race that you must run» and set aside every weight that would keep you from pursuing this.

«Present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

He took all of our sins and was the living sacrifice, and He told us our only debt is to love one another.

Here is exactly what one of the thanksgiving prayers in the Eucharist asks: that we «offer God our souls and bodies, to be a living sacrifice», which means that we know ourselves to be «sent out to live and work to God's praise and glory.»

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

Romans 12:1 - 3: ``... present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service....

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.

Transposed into an ethical mode, this contextual quality of the Christian notion of incarnation entails an adaptive self - giving, a presenting of our bodies as «living sacrifices.»

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).

«Therefore, brothers and sisters, in view of the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your true worship.

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

Romans 12 says «present your bodies DAILY as a living sacrifice...» living on yesterday's truth is like trying to live on yesterday's manna.

«I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service» (Romans 12:1).

After baptism you are no longer a slave of your sinful body, but your body becomes a slave of the Spirit (of course, this only takes place, if we daily invite the Spirit to rule our sinful body, which is the real faith, which means to present the body as a living sacrifice).

10:5), to present our minds and bodies as a living sacrifice to Christ (Rom.

Roman 12: 1 - 2 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God — this is your spiritual act of worship.

What did he mean with «present your bodies a living sacrifice»?

Your education or lack of it, your tastes and prejudices and fears and status or ambitions, your age or sex or color or height or marital status or income bracket are all things which may be offered to God, after you have presented your bodies as a living sacrifice.

«Such an approach seems foreign to the unconditional commitment that is demanded of authentic believers,» he writes, «a commitment that is described by the apostle Paul as one that involves becoming a living sacrifice.

As a friend of mine once said, «The problem with a living sacrifice is that it keeps crawling off of the altar.»

He loves us so much that He gave His son, Jesus, as a living sacrifice.

Romans 12:1 says, «Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God — this is your spiritual act of worship.»

That Paul expressed as «being transformed by the renewing of your minds», in order to know God's good and perfect will, in order to offer ourselves as living sacrifices.

What does it mean for me to present my body as a living sacrifice in worship of God?

Christ is the perfect, life - giving offering of Himself, on our behalf, a living sacrifice for sin.

Because of God's mercies, the only worship that makes sense (logikhn is inexplicably translated as «spiritual» by the NRSV and NIV) is, in Paul's view, to offer our very lives, our bodies — our physical being, our imagination, our skills, our possessions — as a «living sacrifice.»

«Worship» in the sense of ritual and tradition, or in the sense of lives as living sacrifices?

If the priest is to be shepherd he must also be bridegroom as well, living this sacrifice in his life.

It is the offering of ourselves, of our lives, of our bodies and our souls, «as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God» (Romans 12:1).

Have you wondered what being a living sacrifice actually looks like?

«For a standard that's supposed to protect health with an «adequate safety margin,» we don't think that's been done here with that many lives sacrificed and that many asthma attacks allowed,» John Walke, clean air director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, tells ScienceInsider.

With benefits, havertys speed commercial, its more a case of them having a few laughs and some fashioned woman who make our lives a sacrifice to the dating.

Ivy has a sense of a life sacrificed for her parents since she's the only daughter to have stayed close to home, giving up the opportunity to leave this dead - end, unhappy existence behind in order to help out where needed.