Sentences with phrase «love seeing fathers»

We love seeing fathers step up and take initiative with their daughters!

Not exact matches

«I suddenly saw Maria not as a threat to my personal purity or professionalism, but as a little girl, greatly loved by her Father in heaven... [and that] evil had completely devoured and consumed [her life].

Matthew 6:5 - 6: «And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men... when thou prayest, enter into thy closet and when thou has shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret...»

I would like to see some real loving father get away with just leaving a book for his «children» to read and then never be heard from again.

I'm beginning to see what it looks like to come as a child to my Heavenly Father, heeding the wisdom of Solomon, «My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline, and do not resent his rebuke, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.&Father, heeding the wisdom of Solomon, «My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline, and do not resent his rebuke, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.&father the son he delights in.»

«If you want to love me [Father], then love the people you see; what you do for them, you do for me.

Ultimately it is through Jesus that those who love him will see God as he really is and become utterly like him, so we can live the life of heaven together with Jesus in the indescribable joy of the Holy Spirit, which is what God the Father wants for us.

If a basic rule of hermeneutics is that the simpler and clearer texts should override the more difficult and troubling texts, and if Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible God so that He can say «if you have seen Me, you have seen the Father,» why do we choose to let the more troubling, difficult, and violent texts override and trump the loving, merciful, and Christlike texts?

Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they may always see my glory which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world [John 17:24].

For our true Spiritual Father, God in heaven, waits patiently for us to see His love and care, and make the choice to follow Him.

When Jeremiah bade the exiles in the city of Babylon «pray unto Yahweh for it; for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace,» (Jeremiah 29:7) we see the dawning of a better day, whose full light, however, did not come before Christ — «Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you»; (Luke 6:27 - 28) «Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.»

The failure to see that the understanding of love in Christian faith is given in the Father - Son relationship in God himself has vitiated many Christian theologies of love.

As Christians, we believe our faith is founded in God's self - sacrificial love, a virtue we are commanded to emulate: «Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven» (Matt.

Both sons are prodicals what God is teaching us through the parable is revealing the intents of our hearts there sinful.The younger son wanted the worldly pleasures that was where his heart was at at least he is honest.The older brothers heart was no better because it was all about him it wasnt out of love for his father that he stayed on the farm but that by his works he would gain all that his father had.If he loved his father he would have known how his father would have responded to his brother and he himself would also have been happy to have seen his brother alive again.In the back of his mind he is worried that he may lose more of his inheritance and feels threatened and that is why he responds in the way he does.His heart hasnt changed at all even though his brother has come back from the dead.

It is also characteristic of the Fourth Evangelist to see love as promised to those who obey Christ: «If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him» 4 (John 14: 23).

It is only at this point that the son sees his father's love for him.

I saw that Joseph was like my adoptive father who showed an earthly fatherly love which pointed to the source of unconditional love....

If you can't look at a flower and see that only a loving heavenly Father could have created something that beautiful I feel sorry for you.

Jesus is the imago Dei uncorrupted, so that John's Gospel can insist that, for Jesus, «Whoever has seen me has seen the Father» (14:9).4 In light of this realization, three provocatively new foci will occupy our immediate attention: the proclamation of the impending arrival of the basileia tou theou; the significance of the crucifixion (and resurrection) of Jesus for understanding the nature of divine power; and the Johannine conviction that love characterizes the very essence of God.

Fighting what he sees as the vacuous definition of marriage as a purely private relationship of love, Blankenhorn urges readers to work toward resurrecting marriage as a public institution designed to uphold what he believes is the birthright of every child — to have a mother and a father.

The key, as I see it, is to pray that we would love the Father, and Son as we should.

I looked back on all of the willful sin that had still been in my life after crying out, and I could see that I had been loving that sin more than I loved the Father, and the Son.

It seems that in your view, Jesus didn't actually mean what He told the disciples in the Upper Room, for if there is a dark side to God, it was certainly hidden in Jesus during His ministry, which means that when Jesus tells Philip, «If you have seen me, you have seen the Father» what He really meant was «You haven't fully seen the Father, only the loving side.»

Sam: I wish you would see that God is Love, but just... just like a father is loving yet must discipline from that lLove, but just... just like a father is loving yet must discipline from that lovelove.

He writes: «The Fathers at the Council singled out religious freedom because they saw (accurately) that our religious convictions and practices bring to fruition, however imperfectly, our deepest purpose as human beings — to know and love God.

Hence, the whole hierarchy of evaluations based upon law and obedience was overturned as the initiative was seen to be in the hands of the loving Father rather than with the ethical striving of man.

She came to see this as a moment of genuine human doubt permitted by God the Father, in which Jesus shows the greatest love, faithfully commending his Spirit to the Father.

The formation of the planets and the evolution of life could be seen as God the Father «letting go»; a revelation of God's unselfish Love.

If you call this love, then yes...» your father is the devil» who do you assume is the father of spiritual darkness and scaled eyes, unable to see the clearness of truth?

Through this transparency we see not a loving Father, as tradition has asserted, but the awful mystery of being.

From the beginnings of the Bible to the end, the advance in the idea of God was extreme: Beginning with a territorial deity who loved his clansmen and hated the remainder of mankind, it ends with a great multitude out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, worshiping one universal Father; beginning with a god who walked in the garden in the cool of the day, it ends with the God whom «no man hath seen... at any time.»

«Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.»

In the events of Holy Week we have seen that in Jesus, God has been revealed as a Father who loves, and who desires to reconcile all human beings to Himself.

Her father told me that she would love to see a video of me drawing a cartoon.

His father didn't see any of that, he just dropped everything and raced out to embrace his son with a love that only a parent knows.

I'll remember the grace and mercy and loving - kindness in His character, and I'll pray to a Father who can give the blind eyes to see and who is working even now to create a world free of pain, suffering, crying or death, where many tribes worship as one, holy people.

No, Jesus wanted to show us that God loves us completely, and that the reason God doesn't want us to sin (especially not to sin religiously, which is how most Christians actually sin... but again, I digress), is because sin hurts us and as a loving Father, God does not want to see us get hurt.

What if the thing we need most to repent of isn't the sin we are committing in our daily lives, but the sinful way in which we see and portray the most loving of Fathers, who loves us more purely and completely than any other person this world has ever known.

When one adds this to the role of «father» as protector, guardian, and provider of the family and the life of the womb, it is easy to see the preference for father as the proper anthropomorphism for the role of God to mankind in care and love, rather than for a mother figure.

We see the truly human in Christ in the words spoken in the olive grove (cf. Lk 22, 42), and in the reminder to the apostles that if they loved him, they would put selfishness to one side, and would be glad that he was going to the Father, «for the Father is greater than I» (Jn 14, 28), which is but to say that the Father is the source of my origin and my joy.

No words were spoken to me; my soul seemed to see my Saviour in the spirit, and from that hour to this, nearly nine years now, there has never been in my life one doubt that the Lord Jesus Christ and God the Father both worked upon me that afternoon in July, both differently, and both in the most perfect love conceivable, and I rejoiced there and then in a conversion so astounding that the whole village heard of it in less than twenty - four hours.

Nature is usually seen as a system which can be studied, understood and controlled, whereas creation can only be understood as a gift from the outstretched hand of the Father of all, and as a reality illuminated by the love which calls us together into universal communion.

For we see IN HIS WORD (THE BIBLE) that every opportunity and encounter He had with Sinners, He let them know first He loved them, and that The Father loved them, BUT... Baby, they got ta STOP!

What is more, they can be greatly helped if they see that this is indeed the chief stress in public prayer or church worship, so that such social praying is undertaken by a family of God's children addressing a loving Father (who makes demands upon them, to be sure, but who is no hateful dictator nor absentee ruler nor moral tyrant, but genuinely concerned for their best development as his children), rather than a kind of law - court or imperial audience with a terrifying deity.

1 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.

As a Jew raised by a Turkish Jewish father, with an agnostic / atheist American mom who shared in all the religious practices out of respect and love I see immense beauty in this family and their tolerance, acceptance, and embracing of their heritages.

«See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us (believers).

Father, they are your gift to me, I wish that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

But if Jesus truly is the exact representation of God (Heb 1:3), and if it is true that if we see Jesus we see the Father (John 15:7 - 9), and since Jesus never behaved violently toward His enemies, but told us to love them and serve them instead, and indeed, rather than killing them, Jesus died for His enemies, then this must be what Good looks like as well!

Several times already we have quoted Wesley's fine words about «pure, unbounded love»: never was there a more apt description of the reality of God, although in Wesley's hymn the words are in fact applied to Christ — and appropriately, since in Christ (if Christian faith is right) the «pure, unbounded love» that is seen humanly expressed is the manifestation, reflection, and participation in human terms of the divine Lover whom Jesus called «my Father in heaven.»