Sentences with phrase «mighty acts»

lie pronounces divine judgement and blessing, and explains God's other mighty acts which he does (such as exorcism), on the basis of the nearness of the kingdom.

Yet if I say that it's just a happy coincidence, am I taking away from the miracle and the glory for God's mighty act for a seemingly small and ordinary woman and her unborn child?

The Trinity gives language to our strongest belief that our God is not merely a God of history, performing mighty acts only in Bible times, but a powerful, on - the - move God of the present and of the future.

Within the discipline of this poetic convention, virtually impossible to reflect in translation, the theme of praise for God's mighty acts unfolds.

It was to be one of God's final and mighty acts before the great judgment.

«Since the earthquake, God has done mighty acts.

And yet — though there is room for openness and even agnosticism on some of the details of the resurrection narrative — it seems certain that no qualification can be accepted of the actual, historical fact of the resurrection as a decisive and mighty act of God for man's salvation and eternal life.

He pronounces divine judgement and blessing, and explains God's other mighty acts (such as exorcism) which he does on the basis of the nearness of the kingdom.

4 One generation commends your works to another; they tell of your mighty acts.

God's mighty act of deliverance immediately called forth an ethical response from his people.

The descriptions of God's mighty acts of creation in the Oracle are retrieved from hymns of praise, the ones you're remembering now.

Whether we are speaking of the matter of the hills or the mind of humankind, the creation is open to the mighty acts of the Creator.

Neither is this the God of the mighty acts of intervention in human history, the crashing force from without.

Another scientific objection occurs in the judgment of many against the mighty acts of God recorded in the gospel.

In other words, God spoke through his mighty acts to call humankind to faith and conformity to his will.

But more than that, I have tried to bear witness to the mighty acts of God in my life.»

But in every crisis of her history she suffered what she inevitably read into the story of the near - sacrifice of Isaac: the only tangible means of the fulfillment of the promise, preposterously achieved (to be sure, only by the mighty acts of God), the only visible hope for ultimate fulfillment — in the case of Abraham, Isaac; in the case of Israel, her very historical existence — this she is asked to be willing to sacrifice.

Prophecy, in the sense of declaration of the mighty act of God in Christ for salvation, anchored the life of the people of God then as it does now.

The Church is (ideally at least) a community in which hope is kept alive by the retelling of the mighty acts of God.

Our baptismal covenant reminds us that to be incorporated into God's mighty acts of salvation is a gift from God, offered to us without price.

Evolutionary theory seems to think of the creative process as a prolonged, impersonal lottery rather than the «mighty act» of an omnipotent God.

Mary's «Magnificat,» beginning with verse 46, is a hymn, probably used in the early church, praising the mighty acts of God.

So the evangelist here invites us to look beyond the relief of human suffering to a mighty act of God's chosen Servant, bringing the kingdom into history and dethroning the rule of evil in the world.

This church was not interested in the person of Jesus but rather in the mighty act of God.

It is the manifestation of God's mighty acts in Judeo - Christian history which culminated in the once - for - all revelation of God in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

There is stirring nature poetry in certain psalms that acclaim God's creation and vivid description of God's mighty acts in the Book of Job.

To return to the primitive kerygma, we recall that in it the expectation of the Lord's return was held in close association with a definite valuation of His ministry, death, and resurrection as constituting in themselves an eschatological process, that is, as a decisive manifestation of the mighty acts of God for the salvation of man.

That question, standing between the biblical narrative of the mighty acts of God and the existing individuals who look up at us at the moment when, having read, we close the book and begin to preach, is the question.

The question we must now ask is this: Which of these depictions of our Lord speaks more nearly to our sense of the power and mystery of God's mighty act of Incarnation?

Its image of God is not the strong Father intruding into human affairs by his mighty acts, but is rather the nurturing Mother, Sophia, who embraces stability and enhances relationships (Wisd.

Remembering our past helps us to appreciate and not take for granted «the mighty acts of God through Christ Jesus.»

He was a god of power, who had previously shown himself in «mighty acts» but who now had crowned all these by a great deliverance for his chosen people.

My mostly neo-orthodox professors talked incessantly about the «mighty acts of God» in biblical history.

In any case, without being able to point to clear evidence of the progress of God's holy purpose in human history, the notion that God rules the world through his mighty acts becomes somewhat vacuous.

Jesus has already accomplished man's salvation through one mighty act of self - giving and obedience which outweighs in the scales of divine judgment all the sins of the human race through all of history.

The second book of the Bible, Exodus, describes vividly how Moses led his people out of captivity with the help of «mighty acts of God.»

Though Christian atheism may seem to most theologians an abandonment of the vital center of the faith, the fact remains that belief in the «mighty acts of God» is increasingly difficult to relate to modern experience.

Gilkey showed that for all of its condemnations of theological liberalism, neo-orthodoxy construed the meaning of the scriptural «mighty acts of God» in essentially liberal terms.