Sentences with phrase «loving lordship»

Though it grieves God to do so, God is willing, out of the profound love he has for people, to withdraw his protective hand and allow them to sink to ever - increasing depths of pain in order to eventually hope - fully come to the point where they finally realize it is in their own best interest to turn from their sin and submit to God's loving lordship.

Not exact matches

The mystery of creation and the history of salvation can then be shown anew to the world with great clarity and power as the one unfolding plan of Gods Wisdom and Love in which all things are ordered towards the incarnate Lordship of Jesus Christ in whom we are destined to be made co-sharers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4).

His lordship was the lordship of suffering love.

Our deepest longing is to see the day when the triumphant, sovereign lordship of you our loving God will no longer be a mere hope clung to desperately by faith, but a manifest reality in all human affairs.

Such love is the first evidence of obedience to the Gospel, the necessary expression of our submission to Christ's Lordship, and a potent engine of world mission.»

I have already read Cray Love but gave it away (Lordship Salvation — he confuses discipleship and salvation) but maybe the other two will be better?

We are a people who love Jesus first, whose Bible is their ultimate rule of faith and practice, who believe spreading the good news of Jesus» lordship and salvation in word and deed is our most important contribution to the common good.

It is precisely because the world can have no ultimate claim on human existence — no lordship — that Christians can love it deeply and yet feel homesick within it.

The God who is necessary in the world was understood as the almighty Lord whose love and mercy appear to be fundamentally secondary and subsidiary to his claim to lordship.

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.

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.

«A Million Pieces,» Hayworth, Los Angeles, CA, December 5, 2003 — January 16, 2004 «Lordship and Bondage,» Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, November 18 — December 2, 2003 «Three - dimetrical,» curated by Leo Koeing, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA, September 13 — October 18, 2003 «Retreat,» Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA, September 6 — October 11, 2003 «I am Human, and I Deserve to Be Loved,» Overtones, Los Angeles, CA, June 21 — July 19, 2003 «Manufactured Proximity,» Pedestrian Gallery, Jacksonville, FL, 2003 «Wall of Draw,» Sol Koffler Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 2003