Sentences with phrase «lordship of»

Rather, Godâ $ ™ s Word presents only two categories of people, Christians and non-Christians, believers and unbelievers, those who have bowed to the Lordship of Christ and those who have not (see John 3:36; Romans 6:17 - 18; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 5:18 - 24; Ephesians 2:1 - 5; 1 John 1:5 - 7; 2:3 - 4).

How then do we go about bringing this volatile emotion under the Lordship of Jesus Christ?

It tells the story of Alina de Breos, heir to the Lordship of Gower in the early 14th century.

In this framework, issues like covenant marriage vows, home ownership, gun ownership, home birth, homeschooling, family business, family farming, hospitality, home - based healthcare and yes, even the debate over raw milk, can all be decided in the light of God's Word under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

He says that the Episcopal Church's «revisionary teachings on sexual behavior is unique in our church's development,» and that appeals to «justice» and «love» over the particular and defined words and actions of scripture suggest that a general principle has become more important than the lordship of Christ.

God cuts off man's access to him — sin naturally does this — and man assumes the lordship of a world that is mute and death - producing.

In his own life, he exemplified the effort to live out the lordship of Christ in every area of endeavor, including politics.

Read Lee Strobel's The Case for Christ to review the opinion of some actual experts regarding the reliability of the Bible, origins of Christianity and Lordship of Christ!

In the second century, Marcion saw creation's evils as sufficient reason to reject the lordship of the Creator God in favor of a heretofore unknown God, who through Christ mercifully intervenes and saves souls from the clutches of creation and its God.

What are the features of a homosexual pattern of relationships which point toward or bring to expression the lordship of Christ?

In the image that C. Kavin Rowe uses for the title of his brilliant explication of Acts, the public confession of the lordship of the risen Christ creates what the world thinks of as a «world upside down,» but what Christians understand to be the world seen truly.

Finally, there is one more reason why Christian sufferers turn from suicide, and that has to do with the Christian notion about what it means to claim something about the lordship of Jesus.

In these five essential respects the life and lordship of God are directly acknowledged in the life and service of Israel.

«If the idea of overcoming the lordship of human beings over human beings belongs to the Christian hope... then it is by no means thereby said that Christians must be socialists in the proper sense.

To proclaim the criteria by which the Coming King will judge persons and nations, to exemplify those standards in the church as the new society, and to work for their recognition by the world — these are irreducible aspects of the Christian summons to the forgiveness of sins and new life, and to the lordship of the risen and returning King.

Daniel Van Allmen of Switzerland in his paper, «The Kingdom of God and Human Struggles» asked the question: If we believe in the Lordship of God, and if we hope for the coming of His kingdom, what are we to think of the struggles and conflicts in our world?

Explicit confession of the Lordship of Jesus is not necessary for salvation, at least under certain circumstances» very wide circumstances, it turns out» says Rob Bell in his Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived.

Here we have the idea of the final lordship of Jesus Christ.

Rather our growing hermeneutical concern is evidence of evangelicalism's continuing commitment to the lordship of Christ and the authority of - Scripture.

This growing hermeneutical concern is not a capitulation to modernity, but rather is evidence of evangelicalism's continuing commitment to the lordship of Christ and the authority of Scripture.

The lordship of Christ in the present is already working toward the transformation of social structure.

Instead, they consistently appeal to the shared lordship of Jesus Christ, reminding the male head - of - house that he too has a Master in heaven.

Even after I had undergone a conversion and affirmed the Lordship of Christ, I had great problems with miracles.

For the resurrection was the moment when not only the spiritual lordship of Jesus began but when also the whole earthly life was «transfigured» before his disciples — the moment when the event they had witnessed and were still witnessing was realized to be one whole and to be in its wholeness an act of God.

It asserts the claim of Christ as the incarnate Word of God to the lordship of all human life.

Upon all of us who believe this, God lays the obligation to exalt the lordship of Christ and to justify our faith by our works.

And yet it may be that whatever the danger of the core - group concept, it must be courted in this generation if the church is not to surrender to the principalities and powers that have declared their absolute autonomy apart from the Lordship of Christ.

It is in this way that we witness to the lordship of Christ.

Such a community — or communion — is a human institution; but it is more than that, for it was established by the will and purpose of God, is sustained by the Holy Spirit, and seeks to exalt Christ «as the incarnate Word of God to the lordship of all human life.»

By the members of the Synod embracing their role as a band of joyful missionary disciples, we here in Southeast Michigan will be strengthened for our vocation «to be all in» with the New Evangelization, to have full confidence in the power of the Holy Spirit to heal and transform, to put uncompromising trust in the Lordship of Jesus over every time and place.

To know the Lordship of Jesus was to be involved in a saving relationship.

Eternal life does not require you to reform your life, repent of your sin, submit to the Lordship of Jesus, get baptized, seek God, or pray a prayer.

Baptism is for the repentance of sins and Lordship of your life to Jesus as the Christ.

This message flows through Barmen's movement between affirmations of the Lordship of Christ and denunciations of other claims to lordship.

Then there is this argument: «Eternal life is free, but before you can receive it, you have to fix up your life, seek after God, repent of your sin, submit to the Lordship of Jesus Christ, prepare your heart for faith, and pray the sinner's prayer.»

Just as the lordship of Christ made demands for public justice on office - holders in the New Testament (Luke 4:15), the same is true for those who rule as citizens.

5:23 - 33) is the head of the «one flesh» of man and wife, it is only because of the lordship of God over the flesh's vessel of reception unto 1ife for the Incarnation.

To really be saved, you need to repent of your sin and submit your life to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

Do we get into tricky territory when we start talking about the lordship of Christ, with His followers being, (as Wright puts it), «agents of that authority»?

May we attend to humanity again, and witness to the Lordship of God again, and know of His grace and mercy... may we go away from Christmas Eve with the consolation that we mean so much to God that no external distress can rob us of this ultimate consolation.

But to whom can we look for a challenge to the Lordship of Wealth?

Dying is no longer an expression of the absolute lordship of death, but only one of Death's last contentions for lordship.

Accordingly, that lifestyle would be engaged in service and ministry to, with, and for all humankind, but always out of the freedom and unobligedness of participating in the lordship of Jesus Christ.

I would insist, however, that the estimate is true even for those who do not recognize its truth; that the acceptance, even if not the acknowledgment, of the Lordship of Christ is implicit in the fact of membership in the Christian community; that Christ actually has for all of us the importance I have indicated, whether we know it or not.

We are called today to a similar integration of words and deeds... We repent that the narrowness of our concerns and vision has often kept us from proclaiming the lordship of Jesus Christ over all of life, private and public, local and global.

If we actually stand under the Lordship of Christ, there is every reason why we should acknowledge it.

Some of the responses to this excellent post really show us how divided hearts are, even those hearts that claim to be under the Lordship of Christ.

The Acts account of the primitive preaching (at least as regards the lordship of Jesus) is not so much a theological interpretation of Jesus as the affirmation of what the early church had found him to be.

Judgment is for Paul a function of the universal lordship of Christ, which He attained through death and resurrection, and His second advent as Judge is a part of the kerygma — as Judge, but also as Saviour, for in i Thess.

But they traced through the tragic life of their people the divine working of judgment, of healing, and of mercy, and they recognized the Lordship of the righteous God over all life.