Sentences with phrase «many lives of the world»

The Howard G. Buffett Foundation works to improve the lives of the world's most impoverished people, with a focus on providing access to food and water and ending conflicts.

According to the Patriarch, the Council «will address internal issues of the unity and administration of the Church, but also matters such as relations with other churches and faiths, in order to present a unified voice and credible witness for the life of the world.»

He also redeems Augustine at this point, pointing out that he affirmed the Lord's bodily ascension as well as gendered existence in the life of the world to come.

For the Life of the World by Alexander Schmemann Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer An Altar in the World by Barbara Brown Taylor The Story of Christianity, Volumes I & II by Justo Gonzalez Take This Bread by Sara Miles Remember Who You Are by Will Wilimon The Sacred Meal by Nora Gallagher Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail by Robert Weber

Jesus uses the identical word recorded later in John's Gospel for the Holy Eucharist: «The bread that I shall give is my flesh (sarx) for the life of the world.»

«The life of this world is no more than illusion and vanity, while the abode of the Hereafter is far better for the righteous.

We are your protecting friends in the life of the world and in the Hereafter.

The most influential book for me this year was probably Alexander Schmemann's For the Life of the World, which I read and mined and pondered several times over in researching and writing Searching for Sunday.

A non-religious interpretation would call men to participate in the suffering of God in his life of the world,» not in the first place thinking about one's own needs, problems, sins and fears, but allowing oneself to be caught up into the way of Jesus Christ, into the messianic event, thus fulfilling Isa.

He replaced it with an understanding of transcendence which is focused upon the humanity of Christ and the participation of the disciple, through Him, in the life of the world come of age.

Indeed, as a follower of Christ, and as one whose life is aligned with the purpose of God, he is inevitably involved in the life of this world.

In his Easter sermon, my beloved pastor, Daniel Meeter, encouraged us to imagine «the life of the world to come... Imagine always trusting other people, without having to be careful, always being open and candid about yourself without having your guard up, and even knowing yourself with clarity and honesty and peace,» he said.

We feel helpless and lack control over decisions that affect the life of our world.

• that the process of developing a sermon extends over enough time to allow for careful study of the text (s), theological reflection beyond the text (s), and direct influence from the life of the world and from the life of the congregation.

When the last things refer to the life of the world or history as a whole, they customarily include the second coming of Jesus, the resurrection of the dead, general judgment (eliminating an interim state and resulting in heaven or hell), and the consummation of the world.

Yet it is more than a stamp; it is a burden laid upon him which makes him wholly acceptable, vulnerable, disponible, and yet withdraws him to the task of «giving his flesh for the life of the world»: almost in the moment when an outburst of popular devotion would bestow upon him the splendor of kingship, a kingship of popular acclaim which he refused without seeming even to consider attempting to manage it.

Nothing less «rides upon the act of the assembly, determines its style, lays bare its service and mission for the life of the world.»

Grant rather that each day may do something so to strengthen my hold upon the unseen world, so to increase my sense of its reality, and so to attach my heart to its holy interests that, as the end of my earthly life draws ever nearer, I may not grow to be a part of these fleeting earthly surroundings, but rather grow more and more conformed to the life of the world to come.

Transfiguration is both an event in the life of Christ and a process in the life of the world.

It would be an intolerably evil contradiction of the Sixth Assembly's theme, «Jesus Christ — the Life of the World,» to support the nuclear weapons and doctrines which threaten the survival of the world...

The sheer economics of the situation suggests that drastic improvement in the lives of the world's poor can be made by using resources that amount to little more than the crumbs on our tables.

By virtue of this great privilege of pure relation there exists the unbroken world of Thou which binds up the isolated moments of relation in a life of world solidarity.

(63) Theirs are good tidings in the life of the world and in the Hereafter — There is no changing the Words of Allah — that is the Supreme Triumph.

The Talmud quotes a rabbi: «The end purpose of everything our Mishna has described is the life of the world to come.»

He replaced it with an understanding of transcendence which is focussed upon the humanity of Christ and the participation of the disciple through him in the life of the world come of age.

The radical identification of our suffering, the intense life of this world, with participation in Christ marks a major tenet of Bonhoeffr's notion of holy worldliness.

Most want to recite that phrase and still live of this world, on their judgmenet day, they will be sadly mistaken and sent to hell.

Allegory is a good way — an essential way to read the TNK — the allegory is Israel — an example for the life of the world.

It is work that anticipates the joyous life of the world yet to come.

Man's response to God takes place within a wider community and is expressed in the life of the world.

It is clear that the founders of the Hebrew nation and their heirs and successors for many generations brought with them and continued to live in the pervasive thought - life of the world of their times.

In John 6 Jesus promises to give the bread which is life itself: «This bread that I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.»

We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.

I look for the resurrection of the life of the world to come.

Yes, I look for the resurrection of my well - beloved who are already born for eternity I look for the birth for eternity of all humanity, of those who are called to eternal life with the death of my earthly body and the agony of my soul, attached to this earth... my theodicy is smile: I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.

As natural men, Paul is saying, we die; as members of the new community we share proleptically in the life of the world to come, the new and divine order which is indeed already breaking in upon us.

We shall see presently the place of our Lord Jesus Christ in this whole context, the utter necessity of the Church as the mystical Body of Christ, and the inescapable reality of «the resurrection of the body, and the life of the world to come.»

They also acquire a way of becoming acquainted with the life of the world outside the church as institution, with its structure, its dynamics, and its ways of operation.

Against that background, let me offer four observations on the character of Christian involvement in the life of the world, dimensions of the Christian ethic which are deeply rooted in our understanding of the death and resurrection of Jesus.

It was not a message about the interior life of the soul considered in abstraction from the public life of the world.»

We are reading about something which had never happened before in the life of this world, and we can hardly expect the writers of the first century A.D. fully to grasp the significance of what they are describing.

And then later «But history, and our own lives, and the life of the world around us, as well as the Bible, tell us another reality.»

But history, and our own lives, and the life of the world around us, as well as the Bible, tell us another reality.

We have apportioned among them their livelihood in the life of the world, and raised some of them above others in rank that some of them may take labour from others; and the mercy of thy Lord is better than (the wealth) that they amass.

Its scientific presentation, drawing more fully on the teaching of Holy Scripture, should highlight the lofty vocation of the Christian faithful and their obligation to bring forth fruit in charity for the life of the world.»

How appalling it is that significant events in the life of the world are ignored in the worship and preaching of the church.

Religion becomes irrelevant to the life of the world.

How has the life of our world today already reacted to, and to a large extent been moulded by, the new views of man and his world that we have just been considering?

Without a love that rose above their differences, those in the church would remain only a baptized version of the pluralistic life of the world.

(26) Allah confirmeth those who believe by a firm saying in the life of the world and in the Hereafter, and Allah sendeth wrong - doers astray.