Sentences with phrase «midst of suffering»

The other answer is that Jesus boldly declares an intimate and unmediated access to the gift of divinely derived empowerment, in the very midst of suffering and oppression.

If you are in the midst of suffering, if you find your faith withering, if you are questioning whether God is at work — or even present — as you wait for something in your life to become beautiful, this book will be a welcome reminder that God never stops his redemptive work... and that there is a time for everything under heaven.

Yet as powerful as it is to preach about God's presence and enduring love, about looking forward in the midst of suffering, believers will hear this message differently depending on how quickly they are living through the succession of steps on their way to hope.

But in light of Jesus we also believe that in the midst of suffering, when a Ms. Job urges the sufferer to curse God and die, true praise may be silence.

In the midst of the suffering and despair of his people, Isaiah offered a radical new possibility.

But after having several stints in tombs, I wonder if those verses could be translated as, Would you consider choosing joy in the midst of your suffering because what you are going through has the potential to help you grow?

In the midst of suffering, we weave our redemption out of solidarity and compassion, struggle and hope.

As we move into the»90s with an economic structure that is killing poor people, a «war against drugs» that is a racist war against the urban poor, an unapologetic «post-feminist» contempt for women and girls and a mounting ecological crisis, we will need as much as ever to be able to create liberation in the midst of suffering.

The churches addressed at the beginning are seven, near Ephesus, but it is apparently written for the Church at large, as a message of warning but still more of encouragement in the midst of their sufferings.

Purcell has offered a profound reflection on the place of God in the midst of suffering, the illustrations from his own life and those of others giving helpful, concrete expression to the traditional identification of our sufferings with those of Christ on the cross.

I have experienced this first hand: the truth that transformed my mind yesterday in the midst of ease became even more true today in the midst of suffering.

It is imagined this way: In Jesus» passion God is present among us in the midst of our suffering as — in Alfred North Whitehead's fatuous phrase — «the fellow sufferer who understands.»

Even in the midst of his suffering, Christ is portrayed as patiently offering himself and his suffering to the beholder.

Saliers focuses on four basic Christian affections: gratitude, which is not obsequiousness but a willing and happy dependence upon another; holy fear and repentance, which is not terror, but respect and humility, and grief over one's sins; joy, which exists even in the midst of suffering; and love, from which spring all the Christian affections.

Jesus brings deep joy in the midst of our suffering.

He indeed, shared the reality of the kingdom of God, the presence of Jesus Christ, even in the midst of suffering.

And I am reminded that many resilient people have walked faithfully in the midst of suffering and persecution and injustice for generations.

Any adequate Christian response to evil and suffering (which is completely different from the comfort we would offer a person in the midst of suffering) almost certainly has to include aspects of all three: the intellectual, the emotional and the mysterious.

Even yesterday, I encouraged the community to begin to discern that meaningful life and true ministry is already happening in the midst of their suffering, that our community is being true and doing the work in the midst of the trials and tribulations.

May they find God's comforting presence, even in the midst of their suffering.

In the midst of that suffering Jesus cried out with tears, not for revenge and not in hate, but «with prayers and supplications... to the one who was able to save.»

I have noted great courage in the midst of suffering in friends whose days are filled with pain and heartbreak.

In the midst of a suffering, fighting, turbulent world caught in tumultuous struggle, there is this one man who grasps the great thought of peace and knows about redemption in the midst of the chaos of meaninglessness and despair — one man who has found a meaning.

That's pretty convenient for the church, because as long as they praise us for being strong in the midst of suffering, they're excused from having to do anything about our suffering.

It was during one of these recitations that, as I told you, Christ himself came down and took possession of me... [In] this sudden possession of me by Christ, neither my senses nor my imagination had any part; I only felt in the midst of my suffering the presence of a love, like that which one can read in the smile on a beloved face.

The trick is to be open to and embrace these new choices, to notice them even in the midst of suffering.

All insisted on the primacy of compassion even in the midst of suffering.

Those who understand God's sovereignty have joy even in the midst of suffering, a joy reflected on their very faces, for they see that their suffering is not without purpose.