Sentences with phrase «makes his confession in»

Almost immediately after Peter makes his confession in Matthew 16 about the identity of Jesus, Peter reveals that he doesn't have a clue about why Jesus came to be the Messiah.

We must be prepared to make our confession in those times, and part of the value of Hauerwas's work is to remind us how to do so.

Not exact matches

The legal dispute follows a confession from Uber CEO Travis Kalanick in a profile for Vanity Fair that when Lyft was making the rounds raising money from venture capitalists, Uber was unapologetically going back to the same VCs to pitch Uber.

Shkreli funded the Merrill Lynch settlement — and avoided the filing of the confessions of judgment — by causing a $ 900,000 investment in Retrophin equity securities made by MSMB Healthcare to be recharacterized as a «loan,» causing the «loan» to be repaid with interest, and using the «loan» proceeds together with other money taken from Retrophin to pay Merrill Lynch.

Strength in vulnerability will show up with statements like, «I have a confession to make» or «I'm really not sure where to go with this, what would you do in my situation?»

The Confessions do not in the first place talk about God; Marion makes a great point of saying that the second grammatical person prevails here over the third person.?

... I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He would always invite me to accept Christ and I never did so in front of him, but in my room that summer I made that confession.

One afternoon in the old dark church, 100 or so 7 - to 12 - year olds from the religious instruction classes known as «catecismo» were preparing to make their Lenten confession.

I've never recommended an eBook before, but I'll happily note that the glorious color in the eBook edition of Roman Pilgrimage may yet convert me to reading -(at - least - some - books)- on - a-tablet, a confession this veteran paper guy never expected to make.

♦ Carl Trueman argues that confessions establish constitutional restraints on church power: «In an age when words, especially words that make truth claims, are always suspected of being part of some manipulative power game, it is perhaps counterintuitive to think of confessions as delimiting the power of the church.

Any Christian poet caught blathering about «the innocence of childhood» should be forced to read St. Augustine's Confessions and made to work twenty hours in the church nursery.

This debate took place in the aftermath of the awful «Access Hollywood» tape, which revealed that Trump had made comments that could be described (charitably) as bragging that starstruck women had consented to being casually (and brutally) pawed by him, or (less charitably) as a confession of serial, unrepentant sexual assault.

The telephone number flashed at the bottom of the TV screen and the camera's occasional glance at three tiers of telephone operators might make you think you were watching a telethon, with the callers transmitting promises of gifts rather than the confessions of faith they are in fact making.

This process of release (aphēsis forgiveness) begins by agreeing with Him that we have sinned (confession), and then making the changes necessary in our lives (repentance) to get back onto the path of righteousness.

It was customary among the Reformers themselves to speak of a «valid» ministry as one in which «the pure Word of God is preached and the sacraments be duly administered according to Christ's ordinance» (to quote the Anglican Thirty - nine Articles, which are paralleled in other and similar «confessions»); and the history of the ministry in the Christian Church as a whole makes it abundantly clear that «authority to preach the Word of God,» or the right to «dispense the Word of God,» or the giving to the candidate of the Church's recognition and authority to be «preacher of the Gospel» — all these are more or less synonymous phrases — has been an integral part of ordination.

The churches in the early twentieth century that tried to hollow out their confessions to «make room» for fundamentally opposing notions of God and man are the same churches now being turned into museums.

Rather, it simply made, in the particular matter of confession, a rather obvious inference from the basic principle of religious freedom.

He should make public confession to God and man of past wrongdoing and be willing to ask God for guidance in the future.

Priests whose favorite past time involve making out with little boys, Celibacy in ministry, not biblical, confessions to priests; not biblical, praying to dead people; not biblical.

You say that your parents are church members and that you were christened in infancy, but that you never have made a personal confession of your faith and joined a Christian congregation.

In the United States, the Louisiana state Supreme Court ruled last year that state law does not require a priest to notify authorities after hearing evidence of child abuse from a child making a confession.

But even though we may have to endure a spiritual odyssey and may meet many unexpected obstacles, we ought to make a little more progress than those who have merely been indoctrinated with a little external Christianity which expressed itself merely in a bored attendance at Sunday Mass, perhaps an Easter confession and the receiving of the last sacraments.

Ireland introduced legislation in 2012 which made it a legal requirement to report knowledge of crimes against children, and made no exemption for priests who received information about crimes during confession.

When the novelist William Styron used his imagination to write The Confessions of Nat Turner, many voices were raised not only in disparagement of his novel but also against his even attempting to make the leap of races and conditions.

I don't have time to make all these corrections in this article here, so let me just provide the basic biblical teaching on confession and forgiveness.

Some of these women make a public confession, but others are ashamed to do this, and in silence, as if withdrawing from themselves the hope of the life of God, they either apostatize entirely or hesitate between the two courses» (Against Heresies 1:22 [A.D. 189]-RRB-.

The priest benefits practically from the policeman's civil authority (Clare gets to accompany Russ to crime scenes), while the detective draws on the priest's spiritual insight and her position in the community (when people have confessions to make, they naturally gravitate to priests).

The latter always remains a highly personal matter; the minister is fitted to exercise this authority by the personal crises through which God leads him It is conferred upon him only in the inner chamber where ordinary thanksgivings, intercessions, confessions and petitions are daily made and where the extraordinary humblings or clarifications take place.

You, dear friends, can't rely on some wandering, set - up - to - die goat to do your bidding - which is why you are commanded to make public confessions in synagogue during Yom Kippur.

Even to say «Our Father which art in Heaven» is to make a confession of faith which depends on a three - storied universe of heaven, earth, and hell.

What our churches are arguing over, therefore, is not the authority of Scripture or confessions but over those things to which reference must be made when authority is exercised, over their correct interpretation, and over their relative weight in settling disputes.

In any case, the High Priest construed it as a confession that he did make such a claim.

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In verses 18 - 19 the son rehearses the confession he will make to his father.

The authoritative word given by the Holy Spirit to the Church at the defining and pivotal moment of Vatican II nearly fifty years ago was especially «made incarnate» in Britain in September, 2010, during Benedict's apostolic visit: to seek unity with our separated brethren in the other Christian confessions, to affirm all that is good and true in secular culture without in any way watering down our witness to the truth of the fullness of the Christian faith, to declare without apology that the Catholic patrimony of faith and reason working in harmony remains a gift that the twenty - first century desperately needs if it is to avoid self - destruction, and which it neglects or dismisses at its own peril.

He would often quote from the Confessions, paraphrasing, sometimes somewhat earthily, in a way that made it completely contemporary.

It's a risky invitation to accept because it means living in the tension of hearing ourselves make the great confession «Jesus, you're the Messiah!»

If I have a mortal sin and it has been pardoned in confession why would one need to go to purgatory to be made perfect in preparation for heaven as one has had one's sins forgiven?

Our grounds for making this confession may arise from the Christ - like qualities of love, gentleness or selflessness, which we have encountered in certain Christians.

Thus understood, humor becomes for speaker and hearer a form of celebration, an expression of fellowship, a confession of trust in the Creator who made things as they are and who does not need the protection our humorless piety would afford.

I see the restlessness within us human beings, the sense of discontent with what we are and who we are, to be no less than the grip of God's grace upon us, echoing St. Augustine's cry in his Confessions: «Thou, o God, hast made us for thyself alone, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee.»

Living this way is naturally a private decision and something to be made known to a priest in confession.

When you stop to think of it, secret confession is a contradiction in term's — secrecy is what makes confession necessary.

Private confession to a priest at least once a year was made obligatory in the thirteenth century.

My own denomination (the Southern Baptist Convention) has repentantly recognized its sin in this area and made public confession.

Here it is shown clearly that the idea of sin is not radically conceived, so long as the idea of the possibility of good works persists along with it, so long as the confession of sin can be something which makes sin pardonable, so long as man is not seen as wholly and in everything a sinner before God.

It must clearly be noted that this was in essence far more a demonstration of political loyalty than of religious worship; and it must still more clearly be noted that Rome was the reverse of intolerant, and, if a man made this confession of political faith, he could then go away and worship any god he liked, so long as that worship did not conflict with public decency and order.

If confession and guidance are seen as sacraments, then the state's action in keeping people from making a free confession actually keeps them from receiving grace, and could arguably affect their very salvation.

As Augustine made his «heart» a dramatis persona in his Confessions, so must we consider the soul's motions, say these thinkers, if we are truly to embody the faith.